I bet these people would have never imagined that 50 years later tens of thousands of people would be watching them opening gifts in their living room!

How the world has changed. Missing those times.

1 wish I could go home again.and be with everyone I loved

Where did it all go......to have it back for just 5 minutes.... a 70's child myself. Those were the days my friend!

The sweet life. The mom was so happy when she got the silver coffee pot. I grew up in the '70s. My sister had that red haired Chrissy doll and I had Velvet (she had blonde hair). The hair pulled out of their heads to make it longer.

So warm and cosy. I was born in 1961 so would have been 10 at the time of this home movie. I feel so lucky to have enjoyed the innocence of the 1960’s and early 1970’s as a younger child where everything felt so safe and society was so much more polite. Then came the 1970’s, with all the great music and changing fashions and hairstyles. Things were just not the same from about the mid 1980’s onwards. ☹️ I do not like the world of today. What a shame! Unfortunately, nothing stays the same forever.

My parents passed away this year dad 1/15/22 & mom 7/22/22 Christmas will never be the same.

In 1971 I was 13. This is such a lovely reminder of simpler, more peaceful times. Thank you very much for sharing.

Wonderful! In these sad and scary times, this video is what I need for my reality check. I was 21 in 1971 and these pictures took me home again. Love and family values. Thank you!

Seeing theses makes me happy, but also sad, I've never had that experience of a Christmas with a wife & kids, or with close friends. My Christmas's are spent alone. I feel envenoms of those who are lucky to spend a Christmas like this.

This reminds me of my home as a child during the late 60's/early 70's. My mom also loved all the "Colonial Williamsburg" furniture and decor, especially that apple tree! Each year, I'd see her pull out that wooden thing and make her masterpiece. RIP mom.

PERFECT!!! It brought me such PEACE and a warm fuzzy feeling within!!! Secured safe warm happy feelings!! depressed and anxiety people should watch this often what a GREAT cure or at the least to survive another day!!! GOD bless you for sharing this treasure!! She was so HAPPY opening the silver adorable tea pot!!!!

I was born in 71. Thank you for the lovely memories ❤

Oh my!!! The opening of the Chrissy Doll!!! Brought back such wonderful memories!

WOW IT WOULD BE GREAT TO GO BACK TO THOSE DAYS GREAT MEMORIES. THANKS FOR SHARING

I find myself watching these nostalgic videos more and more these days. I really wish things didn’t get so twisted as they are now and we could go back to the basic family values and common sense.

A military family. Thanks to you all for your sacrifices...

I miss family holidays together everyone looks so happy here reminds me of happier times

I’m 58 years old and I loved watching your video….my sister and I often talk about the 70’s and how we feel blessed to have grown up during those times, we have a truck load of great memories and watching your video reminded me of how great we had it…. My dad also filmed many home movies when we were growing up, this July he passed away at the age of 91 this will be our first Christmas without him, but all our great memories will help us get through it and watching our old videos will bring a smile to our faces as your video did today… thank you for sharing 😊

Thank you for sharing this video and serving. I'm honorably discharged US Army veteran and was born on November 29 1963. Your wonderful video that I saw appear on my KZfaq front page takes me back to the 1970s when life was much simpler. I have moved back to the area in Texas where I was born and lived until 1980. I ride my road bicycles past the house I lived in as a kid, my grandmother's, aunt's and uncle's, uncle's and cousins' houses. It causes my mind to travel back in time to the 1960s and 1970s with my parents and brothers, my local relatives and close friends plus different life events. I'd love to go back for at least a little while. You have a great looking family there.

So lovely! Glad to know the Rood parents are still with us! Thank you so very much for posting this little slice of heaven.

A beautiful family and 100% perfection . The true spirit of Christmas.

I love the Centrepiece made of apples & pineapple! So beautiful! Never saw that done before

Seriously needed to see this today. Music was perfect and life was kinder, gentler and sweeter.

I love this!!! Beautiful times. Thank you for posting.

This is back in the day when the company was the most important! Sharing and caring! Well done Mr. Rood.

I was born in 75. Christmas was so magical back in those days. The family always gathered at my grandparents, I sure do miss them.

Love the apple/pineapple centerpiece. Awesome. Thanks for sharing

I was 7 and i can remember that xmas. 💟💟💟

I loved the 1970s this bought back happy memories so much so it bought a tear to my eyes 😢❤thank you for sharing 💖

Life go's by so fast. Looks alot like ny old Christmas's 56yr ago!

The picture quality is amazing to me! Then there's mom writing a check and dad shoving the tree in the trunk. Yes, the really good ole days.

lol. A great tribute to 1971. These video's cannot be replaced or duplicated. One of a kind. THANK YOU.

Love this lady's sense of order. Even MONK would approve. Nice, nice family. And the lovingness of the dad made him all the more handsome.

Wow!!! Thank you Mr. Rood and Family, for sharing your wonderful movie video! I love the fact you show a lot too, from buying the tree, to decorating it *(LOVE the strung popcorn, we did that too!!!)* and the outside of your home, and even the dinner! I was 8 that Christmas, and remember it well! Your Family movie reflects *everything* I remember about Christmas back then, THANK YOU!!!! I'm 59 now, and life did not turn out like I EVER imagined it would (It's my fault, mostly), so these old movies HELP people like me!!! :) ...

I was 1. I don’t remember that Christmas, but I remember the one when I was three. Our three flat in Niles Illinois. Just outside of Chicago. I used to sit at the picture window and watch the cars go by. I remember how nice it was to feel warm and happy while it snowed and the wind blew. The Christmas tree was lit up and time life’s Christmas record was playing.

Mr Rood, I cam across this home video of Christmas a few days ago and I love it! I love Christmas and especially past family home movies. I grew up very poor and a lot of times we didn't have money for much of anything and this makes me fell better when I watch it. I also love the Christmas center piece of the apples and the pineapple! I really want to try it myself this Christmas and when I do I will be thinking of your family. Thank you!

Thank you for sharing this .. I was born Jan 1971, my parents did not have a video camera back then. This is beautiful. Merry Christmas 2022 to all of you .

In 1971 I was only 3, but in the late 70's I so remember that god awful strands of tinsel that got everywhere!!! It really was a more magical time because kids just didn't get every toy they wanted thru the year, so when it came time for Santa, it was special opening that toy that we wanted for so long. My family opened gifts Christmas Eve for some reason, and I would remember sitting in church for the xmas eve service just thinking about the gifts awaiting me. But mom and dad would make sure that there was a special gifts waiting for me and my older sisters xmas morning.

This woman certainly knows her way around a Kitchen! A more simpler time. I miss that sooooooo MUCH!!!! Thank-You for uploading this!!!!

Beautiful memories! Thank you for sharing.

This video was done very well, and I love the music in the background that lent itself to the holiday. Season on the video! Thank you for having us available on KZfaq.❣️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Wright-Patterson AFB! I grew up in Marietta, on the other side of the state. At Christmas, 1971, I was halfway through my freshman year in college. A great time. Thank you!

I wish Chirstmas could be like that again. Brings back so many good memories. Nowadays Christmas just any fun anymore. Thankyou for the beautiful vedios.

The furniture and chandelier looks like my house did around that year. We never had a tree that pretty and full though. That's a really awesome video!!! Makes me wanna pull out the super 8 film and projector. But you know that's a lot of work....and I'd probably cry a lot seeing family members long gone. It's easier to see other people's families.

made me remember the best moments of my life.

Love it, I grew up in the late 60s and early 70s, first thing I noticed was the good ole checkbook, rarely seen these days!! Oh to go back for just a minute!!! Thank you!!

Oh my gosh. Thanks so much for posting this. I grew up in Miamisburg so we are almost neighbors! I could feel the excitement and anticipation with the decorating going on. It seems we have lost that family time these days. I so long for the days when life was like this. Getting a little melancholy in my old age. 🫤

I remember the Christmas of 1971 as one of the best ever. Thank you for sharing your lovely family! 😊

That looked like a great Christmas 🎄

What a beautiful centerpiece that she created out of fruit and foliage.

This is great I was 12 in 71-very cool

I LOVE THIS SO MUCH. You're so awesome for sharing your home videos. What a beautiful family. I love the centerpiece on table with apples and pineapple. I got very emotional . Have a beautiful day.

Larry, thanks so much for sharing these wonderful memories of the family and this most special time of the year. Hope you and the family are doing well.

Wonderful family movies! I was 6 (born in '65) in 1971 and have no memories of this year, but I remember the the 1970's as a fun decade. Thank you for sharing these.

Wow..I was 7 & this brought tears to my eyes❤

What a loving family! TFS! That apple centerpiece is stunning! Such a glorious light coming from the people in this film! ✨❤️✨💚✨🎄🙏🕊️

Geez... this really takes me back. Seems like, back then... Christmas & the time surrounding it actually meant something. I was your average lower-income kid. I didn't have much, but I never went without. Always got something kinda close to what I was hoping for. Christmas tv specials were KING (for me). And if you missed them... you waited a whole year to see them again (You didn't miss them.). Loved the music, and today... they're all considered golden-oldies. We never had an artificial tree. The smell of it was intoxicating. We always had the BIG bulbs, plain chromed-colored ornaments, and tinsel. And even though we didn't get a lot... it was just the time of the year that, when you looked out of a window... the snow completed it. Man... I really miss those days. Being a kid back then was really special. I really consider myself lucky to have been a part of it. The memories are priceless.

I was 7 in 1971 . Love these videos!

Please get me a time I definitely want to go back to thse lovely times ❤

Un verdadero y maravilloso recuerdo familiar!! Qué hermoso tesoro!!!❤❤

Chrissy was a great gift. My little sis got her & Velvet, the blond. I love the centerpiece 🍎

Your wife loved the Williamsburg Pewter teapot!! So nice to see this...brought back memories with me being 70!!

I made it almost to the end before the tears started to fall. I had Chrissy also. I actually still have her and she is going grey right along with me. (Subsequently, my hair is down to the backs of my knees...lol ) Wonderful moment in time preserved.

I was just six (6) but now you can’t keep me from this Christmas. My whole family love Christmas ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🎄🌲🎄🌲

Back then I was 20 yrs.old, life was much easier and simple, thank you for the memories of a happy ,naive world, I miss it very much.

Looks like a nice, loving family, and the music was tops... charmed, some of the best, memories.

Thank you for this, just thank you.

Thank you so much for sharing ! ❤

I was a young teenager. Then and people were so different than? They are now and I'm in my sixties now. Everyone dressed up for Christmas people just hung lights under bushes and windows. A didn't matter that was crooked and you always had a big Dinner and getting the perfect Christmas tree which by the way that tree was perfect And it was a scotch pint. You. Go to the places now to buy trees and they're all short needles. I missed those days thank you for sharing

Thank you for sharing. I grew up in the seventies and would love to see home movies of my childhood. This was amazing to watch.

I was 9 in 1971 and I got Chrissy that year too! What a beautiful memory you just shared with us all. Brought back my own memories and how wonderful life really was back then as a child

Aaaaah the good ol days ☺️ lovely 🥰

I was 10 in '71. All but the last 5 days of it. According to this, I was almost 11. Those were the days.

This is Christmas in July in my Apt right now. I am playing all the old 40s and 50s. Christmas music for the whole month of July. My American Flyer trains will run as well! I have the same set in like new condition with all the boxes and set box too!

Thank you for digitizing the home film ! We also celebrated a similar holiday, only a little later on December 31 - January 1. There were also gifts under the tree... The most remarkable thing about the filming of those years was that people were genuinely happy with simple gifts. Now everything is much more complicated...

Wow these are the Christmas’s I remember.

Such a sweet family ❤️

Such a beautiful family sharing the joy of Christmas. Thanks for these precious memories. Loved your Manger under the tree.

I love the 70's

Molto bello complimenti tempi passati che non tornano più ❤

Your video put a huge smile on my face. Thank you.

What a sweet video. I was raised in the 70s and 80s and it was such a simpler time.

1971 was my first Christmas as I was born on July 28 of that year.

I always wanted permanent joy and satisfaction for Christmas and I never got it. I was a greedy kid.

I was 11 years old in 1971. Such a beautiful video. Thank you for sharing your family with us.

very enjoyable.Brings back memories of the Golden years!Missing my beloved family.Merry Christmas in Sept.

Very nice! My sister worked most of her career in fashion at Wright-Patterson AFB.

kudos to mom that tree and table settings was perfect

Ahhh yes. Back when mom didn't mind getting a griddle or sweeper for xmas.

What memories! I was 9 in 1971 and this is what I remember very well. My grandmother made that apple & pineapple centerpiece every year and let me “help”. Now I have to make one this year. What fun!

I was 8 months old during the Christmas of 1971. My birth father, who I never knew, was in Vietnam, getting addicted to Heroin, after living through a rocket attack and seeing his colleagues and friends blown apart. I had been adopted by a really good family and lived in Dale City, Virginia. My Dad worked at the Pentagon, and we had a great life. The pictures my family took back then look very similar. Makes me nostalgic - it really is a wonderful life!

What a beautiful, happy family! I grew up in the 60s and 70s, then served in the Air Force in the 80s. This video really hits home for me. I miss those days. Thanks for sharing.

What fun! Love mom's apple/pineapple centerpiece. And your sis got a Crissy doll!

The car brings back memories

I loved this. I grew up on or around Air Force bases so the plane flying over was just like I remembered. Thank you!

I was 4 years old that Christmas What a beautiful and excellent video Exceptional quality for its time. What a beautiful tree you chose !!! Thank you for sharing this Time Machine. Take me back MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU AND YOURS 🎄🔔❄️

Family really cherish that time the little girl even like the jump rope kids today would throw it aside .So sad how family's are today and children .

I love a good teapot myself.

My first christmas, i was 7 months old that year