[Quiles Film 1]
name: label: Collection Donor
content: Wood, Priscilla
label: Collection Donor
content: Quilles, Mario
label: Collection Creator
content: Quiles, Manuel, 1908-1989
setName: label: See more items in
content: Manuel Quiles Films
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Film reel (8mm, black & white, camera original reversal, silent, 160 ft)
unitdate: label: Date
content: [1938?]
container: label: Container
content: Reel OF 765.1
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Moving Images [31983000001149]
label: Type
content: Film reels
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Creator: Manuel Quiles

Content Description: This film, shot at a Christmas celebration, includes footage of the Christmas tree and presents, dancing, the dinner table, a panning shot of the guests, and additional footage of the guests with their gifts.  This is followed by film of a young girl's birthday party and her birthday cake.  

Note: The edge codes on the film place the film in 1938, but the Quiles family states that the films were created between 1944 and 1947.