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About 13,000 Christmas clips sit in the archive, split almost evenly between the 1950s and 1960s with a strong 1970s tail. This is the holiday people filmed more than any other, partly because it often came with a new camera under the tree and a good reason to use it the same morning.
The footage is domestic and indoor: trees half-buried in tinsel, kids tearing into wrapping paper before anyone's ready, living rooms lit by the camera's own lamp. It runs mostly American, with New York and California leading, nearly all of it on 8mm and 16mm.
12,913 archival clips matching “Christmas & Holiday Celebrations” — page 148 of 216
Christmas reels carry holiday campaigns, year-end montages, nostalgia spots, and any period scene that needs a tree and a pile of presents that look genuinely of their decade. The unwrapping shot and the lit-tree pan are the two editors pull most.
The 1950s trees are flocked and formal, shot in early color that skews warm. The 1960s are the peak of the collection and the brightest, once Super 8 and Kodachrome took over. By the 1970s the rooms get more cluttered and lived-in, the color a little softer, the toys plastic and loud.
