Happy faces, happy people, simple times....great times...great childhood memories!

I still say life was better back then.

Made me tear up again ... such beautiful times for most of us that is. I notice the children are playing games instead of playing on computer games,, how lovely. Everyone looks so happy and I see the men are all dressed in nice white shirts in those days, so refreshing. Excellent video and so many thanks for sharing ( I was 13 in 1956) Shared to my FB.😁

Back then people dressed up when they attended an event at a friend's or family member's house.

Wow the baby in the film is nearly 70 if still alive! Amazing to view the past in its glory

I was born a year later. This reminded me of Christmas at my grandmother's house. Everyone was dressed-up. Great memories. Thanks for posting.

Love home videos like this. Thanks for sharing 😍

Schultz tall boy beers. Love it!

I was 8 that year. Now I am 74. Those were golden days.

How wonderful to have this living time capsule of your family !

This popped up in my recs. I'm happy to find it. It didn't matter how small your house was back then when it was holiday time we'd pack them in and have the greatest time. Everyone was together and sharing the holiday. Good times. You have a lovely family. :)Thanks for sharing!

Great video, looks like fun times!

That's a good Christmas day if ever I saw one!

A family with a 16mm camera was rare. They were either pretty well off or seriously into photography and films. The footage looks so much better than the more common (and lower resolution) 8mm film.

This is so wonderful. Thank you for sharing it with us. Love the song.

I am 90, I miss that time so much!

Thank you Mike and Harriette for inviting us into your home...we had a great time...Merry Christmas!

Love it! Could have been my family. Love when so much family was around. Now people move away. Everyone dressed up. Many times the women wore Christmas corsages they got at the 5 & 10.

I needed this, thanks......

One of the most Beautiful, Wonderful videos I have ever seen...

yes beautiful times. I too was 3 months old that year. it also seems this was a Greek family . what beautiful times. people then new what life was all about.

Great clip.Brings back a lot of memories.

I'm only here because I typed Christmas 1956.....my husband was born the next day

What a treasure this footage must be to the surviving members of this family… How awesome to be able to see your Grandpa & Grandma, your Mom & Dad having such a great time….

Boy. Did that bring back memories😺. Thanks for showing this. And , yes people, it really was like that❤️💚

I miss the old days…..enjoyed🥰

Great video. I was 15 years old Xmas 1956..

That little girl is destined to be Queen of the Hop! Looks like everyone had a good time!

I was 3 months old on this Xmas. It was a good time to grow up. We have had a good life thanx to the greatest generation!

Born in 1961. In Montreal. We’d re enact the nativity scene after Christmas Eve dinner the go to church and come home put cookies and milk out for Santa and apples and carrots for the reindeer. Good times.

Those GIANT Tim cans of Schlitz beer! Awesome!

The art deco In the 1950's was full of human imagination and creativity, 👍👍👍‼️

Love these types of videos. Thanks for sharing!

what,s lost is gone and whats gone is forever,so thakfully we have films like this to remind us how it was,how we were as a family,films like this are treasurs that should be seen by school kids so they would have an idea of traditions and family life during the Holidays in the middle of the 20 th century was like- to realize how far we.ve come is staggeringly sad-what first strikes me is how we all dressed nicely to celebrate and come together,it is special (christmas) and we dressed for it.looks like a nice family i just wonder what happened to them thru the decades.Thanks for this film its wonderful and i won't lie makes me a little tearful.👍🇺🇸🌻🌲

Great memories of much better times!!

wow thoses little kids are in the 70s and the older teens are in there 80s now

Thank you so much for sharing this, my aunt and uncle, who just finished restoring my grandfathers home, hope to host a real Christmas like this one day. My cousins, and whoever else can come, will give it our best effort. As a family, we dressed up right up until the early 90s, and then it all just kind of stopped. When people die, traditions are lost, sometimes forever. Christmas just isn’t the same anymore.

We could call it the golden age of the modern era. The mankind was recovering from WW2, building each day a better world for everyone. People were exactly like this, nice, simple, elegant: no roughness, sanity.

If only they knew what was coming

The little girl with the plaid jumper brings back memories.

love these videos//so very nice thank you for sharing/

pretty fantastic!!!!

I was 2 years old

I was 13yrs old & getting Lionel trains for Christmas.

I KNEW they were Greek!!💃🏻🕺🏻 The dancing confirmed it. This was just like my family in 1956! Our children and grandchildren can only wonder!

Watching in 0,75x makes the frame rate looking better

This was wonderful, great times. Where’s this family now?

Reminds me of happier times I miss having family Christmases together my family is mostly gone now I live far away from the ones alive

Everyone was happier back then.

All you had to do back then was live, beautiful.

Love how everybody dressed in their best clothes such a sign of respect for each other

I wish we could go back intime.😞

Thanks for sharing Loved it back then! Everyone dressed up and actually visited eachother No phones or tvs blaring, we would sing carols and play games like sherades

This is a beautiful thing! I really should upload my 8 MM films from Christmas back in 1964. These were the true American celebrations that are sort of gone now. Each year it gets worse with spend spend spend rather then why we celebrate!

That was a fun watch. Thanks for sharing.

Happy People!!! Great Memories!!!

I hope they keep they forever To be able share these years from now Mnay are just a memory

Thank you.

Loved every minute of this!!! Thank you for sharing.

I am watching this video on Christmas Eve of 2023

Fabulous the year I was born

I would have been about 7 weeks old! Great video!

When i was a kid the extended family would gather at my grandparents, starting Christmas eve. 30 people in the house. Went on until the day after Christmas.

When America was great, unlike now.

Today is awful. Just watch this video and tell me the good old days are not truly gone. Sadly they are.

Everyone's so happy! It makes you just want to be there celebrating with them!! 🎄

Fascinating video. Hello from Moscow.

I love this channel!!! Wish I had a wonderful family as this one… 💜

I was 1 year old. Much better times! Much better.

Thanks.

The good old days. Before blondes were everywhere.

Either they had a large family, or they invited some of their neighbors over to open Christmas presents with them.

Schlitz on the table

I'm pretty sure I saw a high 5.

Merry Christmas 2022

Magnum sized beers.👍

Watching someone else’s memories is like second hand nostalgia

I was one month old at Christmas 1956.

Nobody was on their phone or watching football on the TV.

I was born 13 days earlier. 😃 The best of times.

Lovely 🥰

You can almost smell the Old Spice and mothballs

Tunes by Dean Martin, sets the mood right away. Very nice

The Harriet name is in my family way back.Harriette is the French spelling.

Good 'ole Dean Marin track.......

I have this weird hypothesis that all "time" happened at once during the Big Bang. And if time were something that simply advances to the present moment and the past just disappeared, then these old films would not be possible to exist. If the past just vanished, how could it be possible to record it? I posit that time travel to the past is possible based on this feeling I have.

With flood lights (Hot)

A High Five at 1:19!

What s happen to mike and harriet?

Holiday cool back 50and 6owith Family s

Are they iranian

I bet one of those gals is named Gladys or Judy

“Schlitz”…..

Christmas?…I don’t think so. Not a single decoration, no tree, no presents.