Date Filmed: Home Movies from the 1950s
This category page features all the films on Vintage Home Movies which were shot in the 1950s. This could be films which have markings to prove they were shot between 1950 and 1959, but it also includes films where I’ve made that categorization based on the content of the film.
The 1950s and the 1960s were the ‘Golden Age’ of home movies when many people started to be able to afford to purchase the equipment necessary to take and show this form of home entertainment. I’m fairly confident therefore that as Vintage Home Movies grows, the films from the 1950s (and the equivalent 1960s page) will end up with the most content.
This vintage 8mm film captures life at the Ipoh Swimming Club and a school sports day at Anderson School in Ipoh, Malaysia, before June 1956. Restored from a home movie collection, the Kodachrome film was digitally processed to correct a greenish tint and enhance quality, and the final version includes an introductory title and tidied edges. The film offers a nostalgic glimpse into the past, showing activities and techniques that precede modern practices.
A Standard 8 vintage home movie taken in France in about 1958 which starts with a movie being filmed at Versailles.
A black & white film from the 1950s of two men on a rocky seafront somewhere in the UK
A Short film taken in St Andrews in Scotland which shows an NHS mobile X-Ray unit visiting the town
A vintage home movie of a Summer Holiday on the Scilly Isles taken sometime in the late 1950s
A standard 8 vintage home movie taken at a beach party in what is probably the early 1950s or the late 1940s
A Vintage home movie showing a family taking a countryside walk in the spring of 1958
This post features a standard 8 vintage home movie which was taken during a holiday in or visit to scotland in the summer of 1957.
A standard 8 vintage home movie in which the householder gives a tour of their 1950s family house.
A vintage home movie taken on a beach holiday at Broadstairs in Kent one summer day in 1958.
A standard 8mm vintage home movie which shows the town and countryside around Oban in Scotland in the summer of 1958
A rather strange, but amusing vintage home movie of a group on a business trip in the spring of 1956
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