WE LOVE
6 mins.
In the era before smartphones and video cameras, "home movies" were shot with film cameras, projected on to living room walls, then stored away in boxes as family treasures, rarely to be viewed again.
The Chicago Film Archives began a project to collect and preserve these films, dating from the 1920s to the 1970s.
Pulling from hundreds of hours of film footage in the CFA’s collection, we love examines the power of the home movie camera to reveal similarities in human behavior across time and place, suggesting we are all more alike than different.