Backyard Dreams: Building a Family Pool (silent, 1956)
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✎ Suggest a correctionThis 1956 home movie, "Building the Pool," captures the process of constructing a backyard swimming pool, likely in suburban St. Louis, Missouri. Filmed in Kodachrome and black-and-white, it showcases the efforts of workers and the family's interaction with the project. A young boy observes the construction, and the mother and children play in the partially completed pool, adding a personal and charming touch to this slice-of-life depiction. The film ends with the pool still partially filled, leaving its final state a bit of a mystery.
We digitized and uploaded this film from the A/V Geeks 16mm Archive.
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