I love this thank you and I’m jewish ..it was wonderful to see the family all together enjoying the day ,,oh it made my day. I love the Andrews sisters. Lovely film..I,love all the music and seeing the families enjoying themselves and the spirit of the holidays...made my heart very happy ,,,,Mazel Tov and thank you
The little boy is 75..alive and well, and the great old house...a lot of the items..and many of the tree ornaments are still in the family. Unfortunately, the trains were all sold in the 80s.
mcspomptplains ..I love seeing this film.I saw the one from 1940 then found this one. I enjoyed them both..Mind if I ask..are you related to this family..? Also someone commented on the other video that there was a Factory/Plant with ‘Edwards’ name on it in the City they lived in back then, and wondered if they were this family..
Although you posted the above message 10 years. I do hope that Boy in the Home movie is still alive. If so, he must be 85 or so now. Great old movie shots, by the way. It must hold so many happy memories for you.
Wow talk about money. Lionel 752W M10000 set, full town of very detailed Skyline model structures (I have the church un-built), 8976 scale B6 switcher with 2800 freight cars...and 072 track...WOW!
What a wonderful look back into a true old fashioned American family Christmas! HAHAHA! The music is so festive and wonderful! I love how the little boy on the toy rocking horse bobs up and down in perfect time with the music! Such a beautiful Christmas treasure! Thanks for sharing this post!
Oh man, we had our tree in the dining room one Christmas. Had a train set at the bottom as well. My Grandpa had several different train sets and he would come and set it up for us. One year when I was older I was allowed to have a train set in my room. So much fun....
lovely wee film, in the end life is just moments, in many ways its wonderful to catch these moments of Christmas morning all those years ago, i wonder where this family is now.
@@mcspomptplains incredible that it's still in the family! my aunts still live in the house my great grandfather bought in 1947, not too many families keep a place that long anymore
That sure is a nice and detailed train layout for the late 1930's. I'll bet that Pinocchio doll that kid got must be worth a mint now, especially if he kept the original box it came in.
@@SnepperStepTV And every girl wanting to look edgy and fearless these days, the clothes resemble this also. And to top it off, you have the pink/purple/blue hair, nose bolts and tattoos, that doesn't help either. They think they look fresh and unique, but they are as dull as F--uck. Not enough classiness in today's society. It makes me cringe seeing girls with everything hanging out, and thinking they look cool.
Nice to see pre-war color footage! Kodachrome 8mm / 16mm had only been available for three years when this was shot. Not every family could afford it or the tungsten lighting to get an exposure with such slow film.
"The Little Boy that Santa Claus Forgot" is sung by Vera Lynn. I love the Lionel train set. In 1954 I was given an American Flyer train set. I wish I still had it. Wonderful video.
Look how controlled this little boy was - so many gifts but he still controlled himself when opening all the gifts - so much better mannered back then. Very loved little boy.
Neither branch of our family would have had the money to make movies back in 39! Thanks for sharing the old films with the rest of us before they decayed! The neat old music is so cool too.
Should show a family Christmas of a poor family during the depression...but they wouldn’t have a movie camera 🤦🏻♀️. Probably pencils and socks and an orange. 😢
That is what I was thinking. I was born after that but I had three older brothers and I know what their Christmas was like that year--not that gift laden for sure.
those were the good Ole days..the depression was just about over and 2 years before pearl harbor..thank goodness that little boy was still a child during ww2
I wonder if the child kept that brown and yellow Union Pacific streamliner. That was a top of the line Lionel scale model. It only ran on wife radius O 72 track. That piece is worth a pretty penny today. It retailed in 1939 for $75. A huge amount for toy purchase back then.
It was a wealthy family that could afford such toys and color film, clearly they doted on the boy, at least on Christmas, probably the rest of the year, too. What they were really like, one never knows, but that looks like a fun household on Christmas Day...
I love the fact the little fellow wore short pants. I only thought little boys in England wore them until I started watching the old Blondie movies, Alexander Bumstead wore them too. And even though this is color, some people made good money back then, so maybe they were a well off middle class family
I grew up in the 60's and 70's and I loved the no electronics age. I'm glad my childhood was fun without electronics. I still live my life as if it's the 60's and 70's
The family who made this movie was pretty well off having color film. Meanwhile in Europe it was a much different Christmas with the movement of the third Reich march through Europe. It was sad times over there back in those days.
"Great Depression?"....What Depression? After watching all the RUclips videos recorded during the thirties from around the U.S.,I'm beginning to think the "Great Depression" wasn't as bad as we were all led to believe.
I was trying to make out if those are C-9 string lights on that tree - they sure look like it. I didn't think they existed yet in 1939. Very interesting. This family appears wealthy, at least comparatively so. The country was starting to come out of the Depression by 1939, but millions of Americans were still very poor, and would not have had a Christmas anything like what you see here. ETA: Okay I poked around on the web, and found out that C-9 string lights most certainly did exist in 1939.
If he was 5 years old in this Christmas film then was born in 1934 . He would be 89 years old if he is still alive. Chances are he's a elderly man laying in a grave somewhere. This film proves one thing at one time everyone was cute.
Quite a haul for 1939. This family was doing well. The second song seems quite inappropriate, seeing as how this little boy was apparently NOT forgotten.
Yup, yer stupidity. The 1st Technicolor film was Disney's Flowers and Trees in 1932. Throughout the 1930s Technicolor had only 6 cameras, and most of what they did was Disney. You can watch movies like Tom Sawyer from 1938 in Technicolor. In 1939 there were 6 Technicolor cameras in existence, and they were all being used on one set, and then they moved on to the next set.
I love this thank you and I’m jewish ..it was wonderful to see the family all together enjoying the day ,,oh it made my day. I love the Andrews sisters. Lovely film..I,love all the music and seeing the families enjoying themselves and the spirit of the holidays...made my heart very happy ,,,,Mazel Tov and thank you
For 1939 this little man had quite the Christmas!
Little?
I agree that little guy got lots of presents1
Just think of color home movie film. This was an affluent family with influence
His birthday is in Feb (b. 1937) so by Christmas 1939, he was a year and 8 months old. He just turned 80 in 2017.
Wow
That would be *2* years and *10* months old, and this little fellow is at least that old.
God bless him.
Hello god bless!
Do you know him like.
The little boy is 75..alive and well, and the great old house...a lot of the items..and many of the tree ornaments are still in the family. Unfortunately, the trains were all sold in the 80s.
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mcspomptplains ..I love seeing this film.I saw the one from 1940 then found this one.
I enjoyed them both..Mind if I ask..are you related to this family..? Also someone commented on the other video that there was a Factory/Plant with ‘Edwards’ name on it in the City they lived in back then, and wondered if they were this family..
I hope he's alive and 85 today.
Although you posted the above message 10 years. I do hope that Boy in the Home movie is still alive. If so, he must be 85 or so now. Great old movie shots, by the way. It must hold so many happy memories for you.
That little boy had a sister in 1942. I hope both of them are alive and well.
Those Lionel toy trains are just magnificent. I wish Lionel could re-issue the M10000 and others.
Wow talk about money. Lionel 752W M10000 set, full town of very detailed Skyline model structures (I have the church un-built), 8976 scale B6 switcher with 2800 freight cars...and 072 track...WOW!
What a wonderful look back into a true old fashioned American family Christmas! HAHAHA! The music is so festive and wonderful! I love how the little boy on the toy rocking horse bobs up and down in perfect time with the music! Such a beautiful Christmas treasure! Thanks for sharing this post!
Oh man, we had our tree in the dining room one Christmas. Had a train set at the bottom as well. My Grandpa had several different train sets and he would come and set it up for us. One year when I was older I was allowed to have a train set in my room. So much fun....
Sounds like a blast.
Look at that awesome train set around the tree!! I have a 1939 Marx Mercury train set, I LOVE it so cool! This is great!!
lovely wee film, in the end life is just moments, in many ways its wonderful to catch these moments of Christmas morning all those years ago, i wonder where this family is now.
The little boy is alive and in his early 80s. The rest have unfortunately passed on, but the great old home is still in the family.
Thank you for that, my god in his 80s, for its time this film was well ahead of its time, truely remarkable.
@@mcspomptplains incredible that it's still in the family! my aunts still live in the house my great grandfather bought in 1947, not too many families keep a place that long anymore
You could see the women saying as they opened their gifts... " Daaaaamn...! a pair of oversized drawers...! " ……!
That sure is a nice and detailed train layout for the late 1930's. I'll bet that Pinocchio doll that kid got must be worth a mint now, especially if he kept the original box it came in.
I wish we can Go Back in time I was Born 1963 And I loved to go back look @ Christmas again....
Did people dress up for opening presents in 1939, i remember the days when people dressed up just to go on a plane, and that was the 80's
We still would if the clothes in the stores weren't trash these days.
@@SnepperStepTV And every girl wanting to look edgy and fearless these days, the clothes resemble this also. And to top it off, you have the pink/purple/blue hair, nose bolts and tattoos, that doesn't help either. They think they look fresh and unique, but they are as dull as F--uck. Not enough classiness in today's society. It makes me cringe seeing girls with everything hanging out, and thinking they look cool.
Nice to see pre-war color footage! Kodachrome 8mm / 16mm had only been available for three years when this was shot. Not every family could afford it or the tungsten lighting to get an exposure with such slow film.
What a beautiful family , God bless you all! fr.Canada
This family had money. My Dad live through the depression and my mother born 1938 was poor.
"The Little Boy that Santa Claus Forgot" is sung by Vera Lynn. I love the Lionel train set. In 1954 I was given an American Flyer train set. I wish I still had it. Wonderful video.
Look how controlled this little boy was - so many gifts but he still controlled himself when opening all the gifts - so much better mannered back then. Very loved little boy.
@@princessinlove14 or more respect, dignity, civility, manners, morality and right behavior back then.
Totally a different world in today. It was a lovely time by all I surely remember merry Christmas to everyone.
Neither branch of our family would have had the money to make movies back in 39! Thanks for sharing the old films with the rest of us before they decayed! The neat old music is so cool too.
Santa clearly didn't forget this little boy, as a matter of fact I think he forgot a lot of others and wen't straight to his house lol
What a great Christmas time capsule, with sound too !
How fun! Thanks for sharing
Should show a family Christmas of a poor family during the depression...but they wouldn’t have a movie camera 🤦🏻♀️. Probably pencils and socks and an orange. 😢
Yes, we do. The young boy is still living (an uncle) at 75.
2020 august
82 now. How is he? Thatd absolutely crazy how fast people grow.
@@doodoo8044 unfortunately, he passed this year a few days after turning 83.
@@johnhellyer4998 aw that sucks ☹. are you apart of the family?
I was a kid in the 70s and even then Christmas was wonderful..❤️
I was a kid then, too, and Christmases back then were unique and beautiful.
man that family had some money for 1939
That is what I was thinking. I was born after that but I had three older brothers and I know what their Christmas was like that year--not that gift laden for sure.
those were the good Ole days..the depression was just about over and 2 years before pearl harbor..thank goodness that little boy was still a child during ww2
Hey , this family must of had money. Color film , toys and the U S was still in the Depression in 1939.
I am totally mesmerized with this amazing video!! Thank you so much for sharing it!! Merry Christmas 2020!! Hope you all stay safe from Covid ! 💙
I wonder if the child kept that brown and yellow Union Pacific streamliner. That was a top of the line Lionel scale model. It only ran on wife radius O 72 track. That piece is worth a pretty penny today. It retailed in 1939 for $75. A huge amount for toy purchase back then.
Unfortunately, the trains were sold in the 1980s.
That is so awesome that you have home movies from back then. That must have been very early for people to have home movie cameras/pretty unusual?
It was a wealthy family that could afford such toys and color film, clearly they doted on the boy, at least on Christmas, probably the rest of the year, too. What they were really like, one never knows, but that looks like a fun household on Christmas Day...
I love the fact the little fellow wore short pants. I only thought little boys in England wore them until I started watching the old Blondie movies, Alexander Bumstead wore them too. And even though this is color, some people made good money back then, so maybe they were a well off middle class family
Sheri451
For the end of the great depression they were pretty wealthy. Even in that time frame they were rich.
Thank you for posting. Fantastic!
Hey this was the Depression- this kid racked up!
Rick Sells
Toward the end of the depression but still even if it was the 20's that family is RICH
Lovely video Thanks for sharing
Great video and story, best wishes to you.
I'm happy to be a 2000s kid but I would like to experience a time with no technology. I'm 22 now which is crazy!
Hazard
You mean 90's kid
I grew up in the 60's and 70's and I loved the no electronics age. I'm glad my childhood was fun without electronics. I still live my life as if it's the 60's and 70's
Hello! Can I get your permission to use an excerpt of this video for a school project?
Great Christmas memories growing up in the 60's and 70's
Thank you! Nice to see. Priceless really.
We first discovered these wonderful Christmas home movies in December 2020. Was sad to see the little boy, Carl, had died earlier that year.
I have 8mm reels(early 50's) I've converted to mp4 and they're in color.Good Job mcspomptains.
Thank you!
The little boy is so cute! I wonder if there were two generations sharing the same home, would explain a lot.
it musta been great being the only child on christmas..all them present
Awesome video of Christmas in 1939.
the elderly man in the video who is sitting in the corner looks like my old Uncle John
RIP, Vera Lynn. She was 103 years old. 😭😭😭
The family who made this movie was pretty well off having color film. Meanwhile in Europe it was a much different Christmas with the movement of the third Reich march through Europe. It was sad times over there back in those days.
the little boy is cute wow hes the same age as my grandpa
That tie-clip tho... too cute.
Sherman Ave. Wash DC?
"Great Depression?"....What Depression?
After watching all the RUclips videos recorded during the thirties from
around the U.S.,I'm beginning to think the "Great Depression" wasn't as
bad as we were all led to believe.
25% unemployment...meant 75% were still working...thinking positive
great , you have a big treausre....congratulations
Thank you for sharing this....
Very blessed!
wow i seen a Piniccio doll like that sell on Ebay a few months ago and it was way into 3 figures
2023lovely❤️🥰🤔🇹🇹💕
Very lovely post, thanks for sharing :)
Woowza. Beautiful. Can I ask?. This wasn't during the war. Where were the men ?
This is great ty!!! 2020
That boy is tearing through those presents and doesn't seem to be too thrilled with any of them!
I forgot a extra present. WW2! ENJOY WAR AND STRUGGLE IN EUROPE!
That was just wonderful 😀merry Christmas everyone lolx. 😀
Do you have any of the stuff shown in this video?
The house, and some of the furnishings, but the trains were all sold off by family members in the 1980s.
oh.
What a day that was in 39' awesome favoured wee boy is he as spoilt this Christmas day?. I hope so with the gift of love
Two years before my grandmother was born! Amazing quality!
loved it!!!!
this is the same time my grandparents were little, i wonder what that Christmas was like for them
We got dozens, it took us all day to open.
IS THIS SHERMON AVE IN NEWHAVEN CT>?
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️😘😘😘😘😘😘
Too cute.
woooowww
That was cute.
This was probably the last happy holiday for a while as world war 2 started in 1939 that year
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1939 -- my dad would've been about 1 year old at the time, and my mother wouldn't be born for another 2 years.
Must be a only child Getting a bit spoiled lol
I went from Halo videos, to J.F.K Videos, to this. I don't even know how.
great to see children so happy without playstations or x-boxs to go to then
I agree
Lucky kid!
I was trying to make out if those are C-9 string lights on that tree - they sure look like it. I didn't think they existed yet in 1939. Very interesting. This family appears wealthy, at least comparatively so. The country was starting to come out of the Depression by 1939, but millions of Americans were still very poor, and would not have had a Christmas anything like what you see here. ETA: Okay I poked around on the web, and found out that C-9 string lights most certainly did exist in 1939.
i know that but that was years later.
My Step great great great grandfather died the day after this
This was a very wealthy family. Most people didn't have a pot to pi$$ in back in 1939.
cool
I'll take those trains and he can keep that ugly gold hat.
En 1939 no vestian asi y tampoco habia imágenes de color
how is it in colour???? o.o
A rich family
1939? Nearly out of the depression.
Almost 90 now
ELVIS PRESLEY WAS 4 YEARS OLD.
It's obvious the little boy is the center of attention. Or was!
If he was 5 years old in this Christmas film then was born in 1934 . He would be 89 years old if he is still alive. Chances are he's a elderly man laying in a grave somewhere. This film proves one thing at one time everyone was cute.
Quite a haul for 1939. This family was doing well.
The second song seems quite inappropriate, seeing as how this little boy was apparently NOT forgotten.
Apparently I am mistaken. I wouldn't have imagined color video until the 60's. My stupidity. My apology.
+jenny1158 Oh yea, wasn't widely used yet, but it was there. very expensive before the 50's.
+jenny1158 there was color movie "film" back then but it was expensive to buy and expensive to have developed
Yup, yer stupidity. The 1st Technicolor film was Disney's Flowers and Trees in 1932. Throughout the 1930s Technicolor had only 6 cameras, and most of what they did was Disney. You can watch movies like Tom Sawyer from 1938 in Technicolor. In 1939 there were 6 Technicolor cameras in existence, and they were all being used on one set, and then they moved on to the next set.
if they just knew they would become the largest drugs abusers in mankind haha.
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