The Palin Bree Collection, no. 2 - Halloween Celebrations

Duration: 0:02:43

Year Published: c. 1940-1949

Format: 16mm

Sound: silent

Description: School-age children celebrate the Halloween season by modeling homemade masks, bobbing for apples and playing an elaborate game of chase. Home movies occupy an enormous part of our Texas film heritage. Since the 1920s, popular formats like 16mm, 8mm, Super 8 and video have captured our private events and public moments and helped us channel our creative impulses as amateur filmmakers. But they do more than just document our lives: our home movies continually reveal what we consider to be valuable, significant and worth sharing with others.