Category: Home Movies

Fleet Problem XVII took place off the west coast of the U.S., Central America, and the Panama Canal Zone in the spring of 1936. It was a five-phase exercise devoted to preparing the fleet for anti-submarine operations, testing communications systems, and training of aircraft patrol squadrons for extended fleet operations, and pitted the Battle Force against the submarine-augmented Scouting Force.

This home movie has a family on the farm in the 1940s taking shots of plowing the ground, feeding the pigs, and much more.

Grandma rough housing with the little girl, made me chuckle. I also love the color the Kodak Kodachrome film has, it make everything look magical!

This home movie of a Navy family as it travels through the Panama Canal is from the 1930s. The footage shows the canal as it was in the 1930s. The film has a couple of shots where the footage is washed out, but it was just to cool not to share!

This is an 8mm home movie film from the Fort Mills Corregidor Philippines US Army Base. This black and white footage is from the 1930s. This film show soldiers training and working on the base. It is a time machine of life in the 1930s at Fort Mills for the American and Philippino soldiers.

This is an 8mm home movie of a Navy family stationed in Panama at Fort Amador in 1936. The box says “The 1st film of Baby 6 months 1936”. What a life to be born into, traveling across the world. Not many people in the 1930’s traveled more than a few hundred miles from where they were born. This little baby traveled halfway around the globe before its first birthday.

This home movie of a group of men playing golf at Camp John Hay Par 69 Golf Course in Baguio, Philippines was shot in the 1940s. It looks like a good time was had by all. The color is great on the film and sets the right mood.