The box that contained the slides in the last post also contained reels of 8 mm film that appeared to hold some home movies from around the same period as the slides: roughly 1961, plus or minus a year or two. I shipped them off to be digitized by the company that scanned the photos, and you can watch them here.

The reels contained three distinct movies. The first captured scenes from the Halloween party discussed in the last post; I don’t think there’s much more to say about it than I already have. The second shows my Uncle Jimmy and my grandfather on a summer fishing and boating trip, presumably somewhere in Wisconsin. And the third shows Uncle Jimmy swimming with a friend at a lake; I’m guessing this was in Wisconsin as well, perhaps as part of the same trip, but I have no way to know for sure. Unfortunately, it appears that none of the movies feature my mother, which was a bit of a disappointment. Nevertheless, I’m happy to have seen these and saved them, as it’s probably been 60 years or so since they were last watched.

Gallery: Moravec Movies ca. 1961