Holidays on Film: Christmas Home Movies

The CALS Butler Center for Arkansas Studies has a wonderful collection of home movies. The collection started with movies donated during Home Movie Days in 2006, 2007, and 2008. The videos depict holidays, graduations, historical events, vacations, parades, and other events. The collection spans a variety of audio/video formats, the majority of which are now obsolete.

Here are a couple of our home movies showing Christmas activities.

Video description: This clip without sound shows the Cruse Family Christmas with Santa holding a ‘Merry Christmas’ sign over a record player and a child playing with a doll they received as a present

Video description: This video without sound shows a sign reading ‘Santa was here’ and a family of four passing around a brown puppy wearing a red bow in front of their Christmas tree. There is also footage of the puppy chewing on present boxes, and a pan view of a tinsel covered Christmas tree with many presents underneath.

Explore more of our Home Movie Collection.

And for a complete listing of our processed home movies, check out the Home Movie collection finding aid.