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. This home movie from the Society of Folk Dance Historians Collection includes a variety of scenes of children playing in a yard outside of a house and family members gathering outside.
The Society of Folk Dance Historians is a non-profit educational organization with a mission to collect and preserve information related to international folk dance. The organization, which started in 1987 and is based in Austin, Texas, collects a variety of materials including documents, sound and moving image recordings, costumes, and other artifacts related to folk dancing from cultures around the world.
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