The days when people weren't used to being filmed and felt they needed to tell a joke or sing a song. I wish I had movies from the this era of my family. They're priceless.
I only have a homevideo from my great grandmas wedding vow renewals in 1990. Back when Austria still looked like the 60s. Even a Yugoslavic Lada passes by. (Was somewhere close along the border to Yugoslavia/Hungary.) All the women wear scarf. Men dressed in Tux. The Volvo 240 was just a ten year old used car. The golf III was brand new. Gotta love old Austria.
@@languagemix2727 there was this weird phenomenon in the late 80s/early 90s when video cameras started to become more popular. Many of my grandparent's generation felt like they needed to do something for the camera. They'd sing, tell jokes or do impressions.
@@Robert.Deeeee It was because whoever had the camera on you would usually tell you, I'm filming you, do something for the camera. It just made you feel uncomfortable and put on the spot. Sometimes the person would be asking them what should I do? what should I do? and then they'd end up getting that on camera, or the person would hide their face and try to get away from them.
@GlitterGirl 2015 a lot of people in the 70s were already middle-aged or older. The vast majority of them are dead. That's what I meant. Btw life expectancy is in the 70s for now, not 80-100.
@juan diego pena valenzuela yes, but right now you have your whole life in front of you. And the more time you have left, the better as far as I'm concerned. No use being nostalgic for the past to this degree. Live in the moment.
@@chandlerlewis3309 well, my grandpa was born in 1934, he is gonna be 87 in the late 2021, he lived in the 70s in his 30s/40s with his 7 children. He’s alive and still works, the old man love his own job.
I would give almost anything to have videos like this of those childhood family get togethers we had back in the 70s....As I get older, it is fading from my memory at a quickening pace.....
It's interesting to see a family interacting back then just being themselves. Most of the videos I've seen from the 70s or older have been from TV programs so they don't really capture people interacting naturally in everyday life. Cool video.
Very rare to see home movies with sound before like 1983. Just people being normal. No over saturation of disco, porno mustaches and bell bottoms that people make the 70s out to be. (Not saying there was none just not as much).
I had big glasses back in the 80's and I remember one company got clever and came out with a pair of lenses that had 3 different lines of tint on them to make it look like you were wearing makeup. The frames were kind of flesh toned to blend in with your skin. I'm sure women were loving those, I almost got a pair. They had them in 3 different colors, I think. The top of the lenses had peach, blue, or brown to look like you were wearing eyeshadow over your eyes. The middle part was clear to let your eyes show thru. The bottom part was rose tinted to look like you were wearing blush. I thought it was genius. It was also a testament to how large the style had become where they covered almost half your face. The first pair of eyeglass frames I got in the 70's were designed by the famous artist Peter Max. They were small, wire rimmed in pastels. Each part of the frame from the earpieces, nose piece and eye part were a different color. When I wore them to school for the first time, I had about 5 or 6 girls fascinated by them and begging to try them on. It made me a little nervous, I was afraid someone was going to drop them or they'd get broken, but what fun it was, too. Amazingly, I still have those glasses in good shape today. I checked on Ebay for the frames a few years ago, there was 1 or 2 of them on there and they were going for a small fortune, so few of them around, I guess.
I love how this video shows the reality of how people were back then. I can tell people sure did socialize way better than these days. They knew how to keep a conversation going.
These were very entertaining and funny for sure. You know one thing that gets me is how fast you forget what people sounded like after they died. My ex husband died 11 years ago and about 3 years ago I heard his voice again on an old video I have and didn’t even recognize it was him for a while. I guess having these videos takes you back to what is now unfamiliar
More like it looks like it was filmed in the 1990s when it was actually FROM the 1970s of all times! Man, I can't help but feel very... fascinated by these home videos from so many years ago, even before the Internet and RUclips even existed! 😋😁
Wow, like being in a time capsule. I just went trough a bunch of old 70's photos from my dad's estate, wish I had live pictures like this. I grew up in the 70's and miss it alot.
I grew up in the late 60's and early 70's. Great times! Looking at our family photo albums from back then takes me right back there mentally. I can almost feel it.
Wow I remember the curly wigs, men's butterfly wing collars, the good ole disco look. It brought back pleasant memories of that time. Thanks for sharing your delightful family.
@@FilmTalkNow I said "her childhood and growing up in the early 1900s", I didn't mean that her childhood was in the 1900s. I should have said "about her childhood in the late 1800s and then life as a young adult in the 1900s" to be more clear I guess.
@H Man I'm 28 years old bruh. My comment still makes sense. I said her childhood *and* growing up in the early 1900s. You're still growing up when you're in your early 20s. I didn't mean she was a child in the 1900s.
Very good quality equipment in those days of the 1970's. Wish my dad's movie cameras had sound, let alone good close-ups of the people. A steady tripod and lighting makes these family films so precious!
A movie camera that also recorded sound was high dollar back then. My Dad had a regular 8mm movie camera he bought in '75. We would try to time the beginning of our home movie with turning on a cassette recorder. Worked out pretty well with some practice.
@@ClassicHomeMovies ->It is a film shot on what was called a "Super 8 Sound Camera.. I don't believe you. 8 or 8S film is a same size. Different is film perforation size. At the expense of perforation, the frame is slightly larger. But it does not significantly improve the image quality. Here we see a good quality image. It looks like it was filmed with a 35mm film camera.
I’m an 80s baby so I unfortunately missed the 70s but wow..the times seemed great. Cars were beautiful and people did not have the worries we have now. Covid wasn’t even a thought. I love that people really seem authentic. “I came here for your welfare and not your underwear”.
Born in 1969, I remember the mid to late 1970s pretty well. Definitely more actual socializing. 1:20, I love the 1950s something VW Bug and early 1970s VW Bug in the same shot, nice.
@@IanKirklandVlogs I love those sofas, they were so much less ostentatious than they are now, and still pretty comfy even with their smaller size. Now the sofas are massively overstuffed, no shape to them, and so large they look like they want to eat your living room. They definitely leave no room for dancing, something we did a lot more of in the 70's with all the great music spinning on the turntables.
@@nancy9478 Men are barely men nowadays, all the career women and liberated women kicked them to the curb or something. Young guys not only wax, they shave half the hair off their heads and grow a bushy beard instead. They seem to think they just need a fringe of thick hair around the top, what the heck is that about? I guess it gives them more time to wax their chest? The older men are walking around with man boobs and their belly's hanging over their shorts. Beneath the shorts that are hanging half off their ass, they're sporting hairy bare legs instead of a sexy hairy chest, lol. It reminds me of one of the bubble bath commercials I used to watch in the 70's - I want to say Calgon, take me away! Anybody remember those? The lady in her bathtub looking for an escape?
They look exactly like my old apartment complex. I assume a lot of apartments that were built I'm the 70s are still in use though so maybe my old complex was built back then.
Yes, they do, except for all the crack heads and other trash that live in old apartments these days. Back then, it was just regular working people living there. Now it's nothing but government funded druggie trash living there. I'm talking about those specific apartments in Dallas.
Something we don’t see anymore. Families being families. I live with my kid in the same house and we txt in the house 😔. Everybody so proper and nice dressed and hair made.
I remember exactly what I was doing on this day, October 1st 1976. I was in college and I was coming home for the weekend. I was living in an apartment complex similar to the one these guys are in.
It looks like the filmmaker was using the bell and Howell audio cassette recorder sync process, at the time, in which you would sync the audio when playing the projector later on
Is that an Irish accent? It reminds me of my family. Back when families we get together, have good manners, and actually liked each other (or as a child, at least you thought they did). I was 11 in 1970 and I can still remember the previous few years of the sad Christmas commercials where a little girl my age was crying because all she wanted for Christmas was her brother to come home from Vietnam. In 1971 there were war and racial protests going on during so our school cancelled our sixth grade class yearly visit to Washington DC.
That is a Scottish accent, tempered by many decades in southeastern Michigan. I was 17 in 1970. I don't remember any commercials like the ones to which you refer. What were they selling? It's hard to imagine a corporation trying to capitalize on a national nightmare. Yes, it is certainly too bad that you were denied that sixth grade class trip due to protests. I think it is important to note, though, that is was not necessarily those who protested who are to blame for your loss, but rather those in power who so egregiously failed to properly represent the people of this country that folks were driven to the streets to make their voices heard.
@@EYE_GOTCHA People didn't see it that way back then, and a lot of people don't see it that way, now. It was used to bring a touch of nature and old fashioned warmth into the home. A lot of country inspired decorating in homes still use it. I think it's a lot easier on the eyes than some of the garish and gaudy paint colors used now, things like bright mustard yellow and bright royal blue.
When I was a kid in the 1990s my dad always had the video camera out and got us in great candid moments like this. Even though we all have access to video cameras now on our phones do any of us actually take the time to record moments like this?
People are more interested in capturing something shocking nowadays - a miserable car crash, someone lighting up a doob, or the mailman taking a leak behind a hedge. Basically, something they think might go viral on RUclips. All the young people seem to want their 15 minutes of fame.
I looooove absolutely LOVE how Super 8 film looks like, even more than VHS. If only I was around when super 8 film was popular.. I only got to experience VHS, not that I'm complaining about it though:)
Yes, after the binge in war toys from WW2 up through Vietnam, we had finally had enough of war as of the early '70s. Christmas without war under the tree. Wow, peace. Yes, it didn't last long. By 1977 with Star Wars we had found a way to rehabilitate war and make its swag a suitable gift to celebrate the birth of the Prince of Peace once again.
Shot on Super 8mm (or possibly 8mm) film. Kodak still makes Super 8 film believe it or not. Some Super 8 cameras have sound. Some don't. Kodak doesn't make film with the audio soundstripe anymore though.
The camera used (a "Chinon") was a "Super 8 With Sound" camera. There was a magnetic stripe along the edge of the film and this stripe recorded the sound along with the picture. Being magnetic, it recorded the sound the same way a tape recorder does/did. And there was indeed a little sound recording head in the camera just like you'd find in a tape recorder. All this in addition to the regular shutter and exposure mechanisms for capturing the picture.
@@dangerdan2592 My Grandmother was my age (28) when the first video two videos were recorded. She'll be 73 this year! Makes me realize how short life really is and how much we take our time here for granted.
Found some slide of my grandparents. On a motorcycle trip with their friend couple. I looked at my fat self and my Honda and said even my grandparents where cooler than me
Wow, I haven't heard a Polack joke since the late 80s myself. Back then I didn't even realize it was about Polish people, just thought it was a word for a dummy.
My grandma had my mom with a black man in ‘74. She was called a nigger love more than once but they got along fine. I don’t know if anyone ever said anything to her when he was present. Probably not haha.
At the 4:42 mark, a guy I'll 'Uncle Harvey" starts a speech, which I can't finish... Good evening ladies and gentlemen. I came for your welfare, not your underwear. I came to address you, not undress you. ~~~ then something about feet on the floor, and the next verse ended in door. I want to make this speech next Xmas. Google didn't help, I'll bet RUclips can.
That's my Uncle George. He says, "Good evening ladies and gentlemen. I came for your welfare, not your underwear. I came to address you, not undress you. Plenty of seats if you sit on the floor, free admission if you pay at the door." I'm sure he could have gone on further with this. This is his version of an old nonsense poem.
Oh, this is the real deal alright. I was THERE and shot these films. You bring up an interesting point. What is your reference for what the time period--and people's faces--looked like in the 1970s? I'm guessing movies and TV? And those are "real?" Those are the standard? And this, then, is the point your comment brings to light: that these "standards" by which we judge reality are hardly "real" themselves.
What you say may or may not be so, generally speaking, but this film is no proof. These people were all (extended) family who enjoyed each other's company and felt safe to be themselves. What you identify as socialization and confidence is really here more love than anything else.
The days when people weren't used to being filmed and felt they needed to tell a joke or sing a song.
I wish I had movies from the this era of my family. They're priceless.
I only have a homevideo from my great grandmas wedding vow renewals in 1990. Back when Austria still looked like the 60s. Even a Yugoslavic Lada passes by. (Was somewhere close along the border to Yugoslavia/Hungary.)
All the women wear scarf. Men dressed in Tux. The Volvo 240 was just a ten year old used car. The golf III was brand new. Gotta love old Austria.
@@languagemix2727 there was this weird phenomenon in the late 80s/early 90s when video cameras started to become more popular. Many of my grandparent's generation felt like they needed to do something for the camera. They'd sing, tell jokes or do impressions.
@@Robert.Deeeee It was because whoever had the camera on you would usually tell you, I'm filming you, do something for the camera. It just made you feel uncomfortable and put on the spot. Sometimes the person would be asking them what should I do? what should I do? and then they'd end up getting that on camera, or the person would hide their face and try to get away from them.
RUclips is the closest thing we have to a time machine
Unfortunately...
6:33 - If that guy is 87 years old, and this was filmed in 1976, that means he was born in 1888... jesus christ...
He stuttered when asked his birth date- so he most likely had it wrong. Don’t blaspheme.
holy shir
@@pibly674 Yes please don't blaspheme, seriously. We get enough of that on TV already.
@@trevorjameson3213 I NEVER use the Lord’s name in vain. You’ve mixed up your comments.
@@trevorjameson3213 absolutely goddamn not
I think it's so cool how you can hear the TV in the background.
Even the atmosphere looks different, so magical, I wish I lived in the 70s, if at least I had a time machine😔
Well if you lived in the 70s you’d probably be dead now, so there’s a positive
@GlitterGirl 2015 a lot of people in the 70s were already middle-aged or older. The vast majority of them are dead. That's what I meant. Btw life expectancy is in the 70s for now, not 80-100.
@juan diego pena valenzuela yes, but right now you have your whole life in front of you. And the more time you have left, the better as far as I'm concerned. No use being nostalgic for the past to this degree. Live in the moment.
Fuck that
@@chandlerlewis3309 well, my grandpa was born in 1934, he is gonna be 87 in the late 2021, he lived in the 70s in his 30s/40s with his 7 children. He’s alive and still works, the old man love his own job.
I would give almost anything to have videos like this of those childhood family get togethers we had back in the 70s....As I get older, it is fading from my memory at a quickening pace.....
It's interesting to see a family interacting back then just being themselves. Most of the videos I've seen from the 70s or older have been from TV programs so they don't really capture people interacting naturally in everyday life. Cool video.
That's why I love home videos. Real people in real life.
Don’t even know these people but can’t help to feel love for them it takes me back to my family when I was a kid
What a wonderful comment. Thank you very much for that!
Very rare to see home movies with sound before like 1983. Just people being normal. No over saturation of disco, porno mustaches and bell bottoms that people make the 70s out to be. (Not saying there was none just not as much).
You where alive during the 70s?
@@peanutbutterjelly5861 My dad said it wasn't too much of a difference today. The only difference is that we just have more technology
@@SidVacant69 The only problem with that, is that more technology has changed literally everything, even how we do grocery shopping and drive a car.
Unpopular opinion (I assume): I love the glasses people wore in this decade and the 80’s!
I wore them, but hated those huge plastic glasses that were fashionable in the ‘80s lol.
I love big glasses
I had big glasses back in the 80's and I remember one company got clever and came out with a pair of lenses that had 3 different lines of tint on them to make it look like you were wearing makeup. The frames were kind of flesh toned to blend in with your skin. I'm sure women were loving those, I almost got a pair. They had them in 3 different colors, I think. The top of the lenses had peach, blue, or brown to look like you were wearing eyeshadow over your eyes. The middle part was clear to let your eyes show thru. The bottom part was rose tinted to look like you were wearing blush. I thought it was genius. It was also a testament to how large the style had become where they covered almost half your face. The first pair of eyeglass frames I got in the 70's were designed by the famous artist Peter Max. They were small, wire rimmed in pastels. Each part of the frame from the earpieces, nose piece and eye part were a different color. When I wore them to school for the first time, I had about 5 or 6 girls fascinated by them and begging to try them on. It made me a little nervous, I was afraid someone was going to drop them or they'd get broken, but what fun it was, too. Amazingly, I still have those glasses in good shape today. I checked on Ebay for the frames a few years ago, there was 1 or 2 of them on there and they were going for a small fortune, so few of them around, I guess.
I love how this video shows the reality of how people were back then. I can tell people sure did socialize way better than these days. They knew how to keep a conversation going.
These were very entertaining and funny for sure. You know one thing that gets me is how fast you forget what people sounded like after they died. My ex husband died 11 years ago and about 3 years ago I heard his voice again on an old video I have and didn’t even recognize it was him for a while. I guess having these videos takes you back to what is now unfamiliar
I doubt ive ever seen video quality from the 70s that was this clear dude. Feels like this was filmed yesterday!
Thanks! I appreciate you saying that.
More like it looks like it was filmed in the 1990s when it was actually FROM the 1970s of all times!
Man, I can't help but feel very... fascinated by these home videos from so many years ago, even before the Internet and RUclips even existed! 😋😁
Wow, like being in a time capsule. I just went trough a bunch of old 70's photos from my dad's estate, wish I had live pictures like this. I grew up in the 70's and miss it alot.
I grew up in the late 60's and early 70's. Great times! Looking at our family photo albums from back then takes me right back there mentally. I can almost feel it.
Cars from those decades are so beautiful. People will stop what they're doing to look at one now. Was it like that then too?
Oh man I am very nostalgic and these videos are a Time Machine!!! I can watch them all day!!!!
Wow I remember the curly wigs, men's butterfly wing collars, the good ole disco look. It brought back pleasant memories of that time. Thanks for sharing your delightful family.
I'm absolutely thrilled watching this. I love these old home videos. This is as closest as we have to a time machine!!
That old woman was probably born in the 1880s
Would have been interesting to be able to ask her questions about her childhood and growing up I'm the early 1900s.
So you just ignore the old man who said he's 87?
@@dangerdan2592 lol if she was born in the 1880s she was teens to 20 something in the 1900s.
@@FilmTalkNow I said "her childhood and growing up in the early 1900s", I didn't mean that her childhood was in the 1900s. I should have said "about her childhood in the late 1800s and then life as a young adult in the 1900s" to be more clear I guess.
@H Man I'm 28 years old bruh. My comment still makes sense. I said her childhood *and* growing up in the early 1900s. You're still growing up when you're in your early 20s. I didn't mean she was a child in the 1900s.
Jeez everyone was like 10x happier back then. Makes me sad. Also the old 87 year old man is so cute! So friendly
They probably were just happy to be filmed since it might not have been a common occurrence
Very good quality equipment in those days of the 1970's. Wish my dad's movie cameras had sound, let alone good close-ups of the people. A steady tripod and lighting makes these family films so precious!
A movie camera that also recorded sound was high dollar back then. My Dad had a regular 8mm movie camera he bought in '75. We would try to time the beginning of our home movie with turning on a cassette recorder. Worked out pretty well with some practice.
I love the way that camera films. Looks very cinematic. I want one!
This video is even before VHS coming out.
Yes, this isn't technically "video" at all, it is a film shot on what was called a "Super 8 Sound Camera."
VHS came out in 1977, so yes and no.
@@ClassicHomeMovies ->It is a film shot on what was called a "Super 8 Sound Camera..
I don't believe you. 8 or 8S film is a same size. Different is film perforation size. At the expense of perforation, the frame is slightly larger. But it does not significantly improve the image quality.
Here we see a good quality image. It looks like it was filmed with a 35mm film camera.
You don't believe me? What a thing to say!
I’m an 80s baby so I unfortunately missed the 70s but wow..the times seemed great. Cars were beautiful and people did not have the worries we have now. Covid wasn’t even a thought. I love that people really seem authentic. “I came here for your welfare and not your underwear”.
Many were pissing their pants about the commies with nukes pointed towards them. Each decade has their own distinct worries
Born in 1969, I remember the mid to late 1970s pretty well. Definitely more actual socializing. 1:20, I love the 1950s something VW Bug and early 1970s VW Bug in the same shot, nice.
Oh my, i'm crying. this is pure GOLD. thank you. 1972 baby here, with SEVEN older siblings. i remember these days well
Glad I found this, makes me smile and reminds me of my childhood in the 70s😁
I bet those apartments are still there. Serving their purpose.
There's definitely some in Houston that are that old
Ahhh yes the 70s. Wood panels on the wall, bell bottom pants, big hair, floral patterned sofas, and thick glasses.
Oh god NOT THE SOFAS. Youd be surprised how many elderly ppl still have them
And the guys with thier hairy chests hanging out. Very manly, now they get waxed!
@@IanKirklandVlogs I love those sofas, they were so much less ostentatious than they are now, and still pretty comfy even with their smaller size. Now the sofas are massively overstuffed, no shape to them, and so large they look like they want to eat your living room. They definitely leave no room for dancing, something we did a lot more of in the 70's with all the great music spinning on the turntables.
@@nancy9478 Men are barely men nowadays, all the career women and liberated women kicked them to the curb or something. Young guys not only wax, they shave half the hair off their heads and grow a bushy beard instead. They seem to think they just need a fringe of thick hair around the top, what the heck is that about? I guess it gives them more time to wax their chest? The older men are walking around with man boobs and their belly's hanging over their shorts. Beneath the shorts that are hanging half off their ass, they're sporting hairy bare legs instead of a sexy hairy chest, lol. It reminds me of one of the bubble bath commercials I used to watch in the 70's - I want to say Calgon, take me away! Anybody remember those? The lady in her bathtub looking for an escape?
Yes, the mid to late 1970s and all of my older sisters friends wearing short shorts and tube tops.
Man that takes me back, it's almost like being there. I remember those years like they were yesterday. So nice!
maybe i was born in 2000, but seeing real vlog footage from the 70s is just surreal.
lol "vlog"
@@jzen1455 home videos? U fucking boomer
It’s weird to think people exist and made memories and stories to look back at before I was born.
Those apartments look just like modern today apartments.
They look exactly like my old apartment complex. I assume a lot of apartments that were built I'm the 70s are still in use though so maybe my old complex was built back then.
Yes, they do, except for all the crack heads and other trash that live in old apartments these days. Back then, it was just regular working people living there. Now it's nothing but government funded druggie trash living there. I'm talking about those specific apartments in Dallas.
Nice footage...days gone by.... the sound really adds alot...
Something we don’t see anymore. Families being families. I live with my kid in the same house and we txt in the house 😔. Everybody so proper and nice dressed and hair made.
Just start normal communication with your kid? Ive never heard of that before
You text in ur house? Why dont you just talk to them?
@@NationalismDjazair They might have to walk to another room to do that. This is why people have to exercise to keep the weight off nowadays.
Your channel is a hidden gem! That first video is great.
Honestly though, this camera in the 70s filmed better then my iPhone 6. That’s a bit sad 😅
The equipment was pretty huge, though. The novelty with the iPhone is that something that small and convenient can film anything at all.
It’s so cool because this was what it was like then as a completely normal family
Wood paneling. Gotta love the 70's. A great time to grow up. Music was the best!!!
Beautiful! I grew up in the 1970s and this reminds me of many a Christmas at my grandparents home
I remember exactly what I was doing on this day, October 1st 1976. I was in college and I was coming home for the weekend. I was living in an apartment complex similar to the one these guys are in.
No cell phones, those were great days.
It looks like the filmmaker was using the bell and Howell audio cassette recorder sync process, at the time, in which you would sync the audio when playing the projector later on
Is that an Irish accent? It reminds me of my family. Back when families we get together, have good manners, and actually liked each other (or as a child, at least you thought they did).
I was 11 in 1970 and I can still remember the previous few years of the sad Christmas commercials where a little girl my age was crying because all she wanted for Christmas was her brother to come home from Vietnam.
In 1971 there were war and racial protests going on during so our school cancelled our sixth grade class yearly visit to Washington DC.
That is a Scottish accent, tempered by many decades in southeastern Michigan. I was 17 in 1970. I don't remember any commercials like the ones to which you refer. What were they selling? It's hard to imagine a corporation trying to capitalize on a national nightmare. Yes, it is certainly too bad that you were denied that sixth grade class trip due to protests. I think it is important to note, though, that is was not necessarily those who protested who are to blame for your loss, but rather those in power who so egregiously failed to properly represent the people of this country that folks were driven to the streets to make their voices heard.
Pristine images & sound for a super 8. And to think I asked Dad for a Kodak instamatic camera in 1975... I'm kicking myself !
This video need to be on youtube forever
RUclips 40 years ago
Yea that's how we vlogged back then....
This is priceless, keep posting☺️
this is incredible footage , thank you
There must've been some law that you HAD to use that cheap wood paneling for walls at some point back then. We had them too.
Ugh, that dark paneling was everywhere and was so depressing, too.
@@EYE_GOTCHA People didn't see it that way back then, and a lot of people don't see it that way, now. It was used to bring a touch of nature and old fashioned warmth into the home. A lot of country inspired decorating in homes still use it. I think it's a lot easier on the eyes than some of the garish and gaudy paint colors used now, things like bright mustard yellow and bright royal blue.
Wow, what a great find. :) Quality is great, better than some home movies I've seen that are much older!
The Olivia Newton John reference at 6:06.
When I was a kid in the 1990s my dad always had the video camera out and got us in great candid moments like this. Even though we all have access to video cameras now on our phones do any of us actually take the time to record moments like this?
People are more interested in capturing something shocking nowadays - a miserable car crash, someone lighting up a doob, or the mailman taking a leak behind a hedge. Basically, something they think might go viral on RUclips. All the young people seem to want their 15 minutes of fame.
I looooove absolutely LOVE how Super 8 film looks like, even more than VHS. If only I was around when super 8 film was popular.. I only got to experience VHS, not that I'm complaining about it though:)
This isn't even my family, but I miss them.
I know! I hereby confer upon you official membership in the family. Now I miss YOU.
Christmas 1976, the last Christmas before Star Wars toys would come out.
Yes, after the binge in war toys from WW2 up through Vietnam, we had finally had enough of war as of the early '70s. Christmas without war under the tree. Wow, peace. Yes, it didn't last long. By 1977 with Star Wars we had found a way to rehabilitate war and make its swag a suitable gift to celebrate the birth of the Prince of Peace once again.
Hi I'm a college filmmaker and I was just wondering if I could use some of this footage in a film I'm working on. I'll give you credit of course.
Yes you may, with credit. What scenes do you intend to use?
bill_murray you should give more details on that film of yours, I’d really like to know more about it
Details at www.classichomemovies.com
When did home camcorders start having audio sound? I watch many home movies from people in the 60s and 70s and they don’t have audio why is that ?
I think the early 80's is when you first started seeing video cameras with built in microphones.
My wife grew up in St. Clair Shores on Lange St. in the 60s.
The quality of the film is great.
my mom was a child and i wasn't even thought of
Must have been expensive back then to film in Colour/Color and sound... Roughly how much did that equipment cost?
At the 8:00 mark, that sofa, the wood panneling, just like my parents housr.
This looks just like my grandma’s house in the 70s…Like I remember it
Like looking in a time machine 🤔😫😢
i’m wondering what these videos were filmed on, I have been wanting to buy an old camera.
Shot on Super 8mm (or possibly 8mm) film. Kodak still makes Super 8 film believe it or not. Some Super 8 cameras have sound. Some don't. Kodak doesn't make film with the audio soundstripe anymore though.
That old man is long gone 😢
U have any from 1975?
This video is TOO wholesome for me lol
How were you able to capture audio and sync it up to the video
The camera used (a "Chinon") was a "Super 8 With Sound" camera. There was a magnetic stripe along the edge of the film and this stripe recorded the sound along with the picture. Being magnetic, it recorded the sound the same way a tape recorder does/did. And there was indeed a little sound recording head in the camera just like you'd find in a tape recorder. All this in addition to the regular shutter and exposure mechanisms for capturing the picture.
It's just plain weird to see camera footage like this of the 1970s. Feels like you're just watching some iphone footage of it or something...
With Sound!
Those Videos are as old as my mother. Wow.
My mom was in her 20s, younger than I am now (I'm 27) when they videos were made. Weird to think about.
@@dangerdan2592 My Grandmother was my age (28) when the first video two videos were recorded. She'll be 73 this year! Makes me realize how short life really is and how much we take our time here for granted.
Found some slide of my grandparents. On a motorcycle trip with their friend couple. I looked at my fat self and my Honda and said even my grandparents where cooler than me
Perhaps. But remember that your grandparent's generation wrote the definition of "cool" and that that is changing.
This is fantastic.
How I remember those days 🤔
The floral sofa 8:07 oh how I remember the velour feeling
back in good times
Look at that dinky microphone...I was 21...good times...I wonder how many are dead ?
Imagine the kids watching this today?
0:43 looks like Steven from the 70s show! ❤
I love Mamie’s Voice
WOW, what a treasure ❤️
A bit of Jack Nicholson on eggnog at the end. Classic.
5:22 my favorite fast food is very certain
Because I heard him saying McDonald’s
The people in this viedo have no clue how important this footage is today
Wow. Thanks.
Oct 3 2021 how time flys
4:14 isn’t it the wheels on the bus?
It looks like super 8 sound! movies.
Wow, I haven't heard a Polack joke since the late 80s myself. Back then I didn't even realize it was about Polish people, just thought it was a word for a dummy.
Still?
2:12 we were doing cat vids even before the internet lmao
7:46 Was that an interracial couple or something. 😲😲😲😲 in that day and age.
Publius Maximus Manlius yes even I those days
My grandma had my mom with a black man in ‘74. She was called a nigger love more than once but they got along fine. I don’t know if anyone ever said anything to her when he was present. Probably not haha.
I don't think it was THAT socially unacceptable by the mid-late 1970s. It was a whole decade after the Civil Rights movement.
CherryFrog321 I mean interracial marriage was made LEGAL in 1967...
Interracial was invented to cause discourse for an agenda, there was always some sort of made up bias,whether ethnicity,religion,or ancestry🙄
WAY BEFORE CELL PHONE VIDEOS !
Those kids midway through the video would be in their early 50s now at least if there still alive
Actually more like late 50s or early 60s.
One girl there in the living room looks like Jodie Foster.
Basically how we act now with different accents... kinda at least
Why am I watching this? I do not know these people
This is so cooool
Whats corey feldman doing there at 6:50??? 🤣🤣🤣
At the 4:42 mark, a guy I'll 'Uncle Harvey" starts a speech, which I can't finish...
Good evening ladies and gentlemen. I came for your welfare, not your underwear.
I came to address you, not undress you.
~~~ then something about feet on the floor, and the next verse ended in door.
I want to make this speech next Xmas. Google didn't help, I'll bet RUclips can.
That's my Uncle George. He says, "Good evening ladies and gentlemen. I came for your welfare, not your underwear. I came to address you, not undress you. Plenty of seats if you sit on the floor, free admission if you pay at the door." I'm sure he could have gone on further with this. This is his version of an old nonsense poem.
I'd bet there's more too, but thanks for the snippet of your family. I'm making that speech next Xmas.
@@ClassicHomeMovies
This does not seem like its really from the time period. I don't know why. Their faces
Oh, this is the real deal alright. I was THERE and shot these films. You bring up an interesting point. What is your reference for what the time period--and people's faces--looked like in the 1970s? I'm guessing movies and TV? And those are "real?" Those are the standard? And this, then, is the point your comment brings to light: that these "standards" by which we judge reality are hardly "real" themselves.
@@ClassicHomeMovies Also just the way it was shot, it looks so new. Good job! I'm really impressed with the quality of these.
People were far better socialized and confident.
What you say may or may not be so, generally speaking, but this film is no proof. These people were all (extended) family who enjoyed each other's company and felt safe to be themselves. What you identify as socialization and confidence is really here more love than anything else.