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.

I was one month old at Christmas 1956.

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

I am watching this video on Christmas Eve of 2023

It's a greek family of course! From the name Demas and from their smile. Greek people have the best smile in the world! RIP your mother and kisses from Athens, Greece.

What s happen to mike and harriet?

Is that Ellie Golinar (0:40s)?

This is nice Dean!

“Schlitz”…..

That was a fun watch. Thanks for sharing.

Family sitting together laughing dancing and just being good human beings 😊

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

thank u so very much!!!

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

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.

thank u so very much for your great video!!

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.😁

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

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….

Great memories of much better times!!

Love it! I was born in 1964 and also have films like these. We really did grow up in the last of the best decades in America! So glad to see these posted. Thank you !

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!

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

Lovely memories, thanks for sharing

When a family that parties, plays, works, and go to churches, and goes on vacations together, stays together. By comparison my family didn't do all that but we stayed together. We were New Yorkers who were born in a foreign country but came to America legally in NYC during the Mad Men era.

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

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.

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

Happy People!!! Great Memories!!!

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

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

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

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

My husbands grandfather was Greek and now my son is dating a Greek girl❤ love the Greek culture. Beautiful family, thank you for sharing.

When America was great, unlike now.

It's all GREEK to me!

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

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

I bet one of those gals is named Gladys or Judy

Great work!

Excellent video. Excellent music.

Fascinating video. Hello from Moscow.

Thank you.

I love the music. It is so nice to see families together. Absolutely beautiful. I love the baptism thankyou 🙏🙏🙏🙏

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

I just found your videos on my feed. Just love them! How well I remember those wonderful times with family celebrating a precious event. Looooove the music especially the Greek!🇬🇷

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

Questo "cameraman" ti fa venire il capogiro...

Holiday cool back 50and 6owith Family s

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.