The Old Family Album Goes Modern (1930)
1930 · Ephemeral film · 8 min
Synopsis
A promotional film for a home-movie service, following a baby boy from birth to eighteen months; 1930s.
Synopsis, reviewed
Details
- Running time
- 8 minutes
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★ · baby movies · cashel · 2003-10-13
made to promote home cinema, this film in b/w, consists of cute movies of a baby at the age of 3 months and then older at 10 months
★★ · Old Family album disappears · jafran · 2005-09-15
The film isn't too convincing. Marquee's idea didn't work too well. Most people preferred to take their own motion pictures-although at that time I think most people still took stills. What happened to the customers when the company went out of business...it was taking a gamble.
