Christmas day 1988 home movie (NOT MY VIDEO)

NOT MY VIDEO! Another 8mm cassette I obtained from a sale on Ebay. Found this among other old home movies from the 80's and 90's.

[@ThePlagueTND]

It's surreal that these people are wishing all of us a Merry Christmas over 30 years later!

[@reyarqueza7627]

when the likes hit 88, keep it for 1988!

[@greciaruiz9803]

I love how I see no phones in the Christmas gathering just enjoying each other’s company

[@luvsthose8230s]

Cause there wasn’t any. No internet, smartphones, Amazon, WiFi, or streaming movies on a smart tv. The 1980s were happier times.

[@shoregirl4733]

The phones were hanging on a wall or sitting on a coffee table. I used to do anything NOT to answer it. Those were the days. Oh to be able to board a time capsule for a little while...

[@mr.fahrenheit7009]

@@luvsthose8230s phones existed pol

[@mamadoom9724]

There was nothing better than Christmas in the 80s! I was a kid so I really loved it and sometimes wish I could just go back to those days

[@shadowweaver3693]

This is one of the best filmed 80s home movies. So well lit and stable footage with nice slow controlled movements. Well done to them

[@Loudhousefarms]

Man I really wish it was the 80s again. Things just aren't the same anymore..

[@kristineholcroft9163]

So true

[@jclancy8246]

I've been watching these video since last year's quarantine. They have given me the nostalgia I long for since my parents passed and was jobless last year. Thank you for making them.

[@johnj5726]

The world just isn’t the same anymore. We lost our way and kindness to our fellow humans

[@kristineholcroft9163]

So true i wish it could go back to how it was like this its so different now it very sad

[@lucy-eq3ts]

the nostalgia that'd coming from this is insane omg. unmatchable feeling. it gives you comfort knowing other people had regular lives and you think of the 1900s as so different but it really wasnt

[@alishaferrisx3803]

no one was on phones!! people were talking to each other

[@Mastermindpirate]

1900’s was different fym. No phones not a lot of degenerative behavior just vibes. Now days it’s bad especially with the internet.

[@Boblib1970]

The unborn baby in the video will soon be 31. Yikes!

[@nathanmcdonald610]

Can confirm, I was six months old when this video was taken.

[@BobSmith-jf6qr]

@@nathanmcdonald610 Seriously?

[@nathanmcdonald610]

@@BobSmith-jf6qr Yep. I was born in June of 88.

[@lamujermaslinda]

@@nathanmcdonald610 BS you would have been claiming this video and you just happen to randomly come across it?

[@nathanmcdonald610]

@@lamujermaslinda How dense are you? Are you under the impression I'm trying to claim this video as mine? I'm not... I have no idea who these people are, it just so happens that 1988 is my birth year. Is it really that impossible to believe that someone born in June of 1988 might POSSIBLY have decided to look up home videos from their birth year? What could I possibly gain from telling people I was born 6 months before this video was filmed, I hope to god this is a misunderstanding and you aren't actually that fucking dumb.

[@kaylaleave]

How can anyone leave behind homevideos

[@kristineholcroft9163]

This brings me back so many happy wonderful and comforting memories of the 80 it was a wonderful happy time had all my childhood family Christmases at my grandmas some of my happiest memories miss them soo much

[@FreakDaMIghet]

Watching this makes me feel close with people I've never met.

[@mychalab3]

This quality doesn’t look bad considering how old this video is.

[@christinad4432]

@꧁Hugo Rosas꧂ is that true? Omg I had no idea

[@Onneff69]

@@christinad4432 It's HUGELY exaggerated (usually by people who don't know any better) -- to the point of being meaningless, especially for the amount of times people actually play their home videos. Regardless, this video wasn't shot on VHS anyway.

[@MancstaSam]

They look and sound pretty wealthy so I'm sure it was a top of the range camcorder for that time

[@44.caliberbrainsurgery63]

@@MancstaSam I dunno, we weren’t that wealthy but the film quality is on par with our home movies. Especially now after I spent weeks upscaling them.

[@LaurenRichardi]

This home movie is awesome! I am absolutely obsessed with the 1980s. Thanks for sharing your cherished memories!

[@mrgrey361]

I was 7. Man I wish I could go back to those days, being an adult sucks.

[@error_v19]

Are you 39

[@dixienormous6969]

I wasn't even born until 11 years later!

[@johnj5726]

Everything in this world sucks anymore , the world has turned to shit

[@Squishyring]

Hard to believe this was 40 years ago. Best decade ever

[@chrislynn5227]

That would be mean I’m 40 and ya right no thanks try 33

[@antred11]

Damn, 1988. More than 30 years ago. As someone who was born in the former GDR, at that time we were all still behind the Iron Curtain!

[@christinad4432]

Aww I love this! I have no family let alone home videos, and I was born in 86 so this is so cool to see.

[@shoregirl4733]

Wall to wall rose colored carpeting. Soooo 80's. Love it.

[@playkma]

I was 3 weeks old when this tape was made. I was born Dec. 4th, 1988

[@erowry22]

I was born December 17, 1988. 🥰

[@averagegalaxygamer4430]

That’s some damn good quality for a home video from ‘88

[@thejdogcool]

These people have no idea that their 1988 home video is on KZbin.

[@planetX15]

Unless they know Gill, they probably would, but I highly doubt that.

[@_ketosucks1355]

awesome tape of history Gil , Im sure the family that finds this will be happy to view this memory

[@StephanieSxo]

I was 6 months old!

[@nickw22689]

“To be determined” is about my age now!

[@nathanbinns6345]

It's hard to believe I was also alive on Christmas Day in 1988. I had just turned 2 so I don't remember much of it lol, but I was there. I feel old now.

[@reyarqueza7627]

Fast forward, the baby is now a 30 year old techie in Silicon Valley.

[@johnq.random1496]

I was 15 when they filmed this. I will turn 50 in sixteen months. Wow.

[@Ljosi]

How fast did life fly by for you? Does it feel too fast?

[@ajworden]

I was 16 when this was filmed and I turn 50 in 26 days! I enjoyed watching this much more than I should have.

[@jannydots3870]

Wow, we had that same rose colored carpet in our house in the late 80s. I miss the 80s. My dad was still alive. I remember the magic of the malls around this time. No Walmart Black Friday sales. An amazing time to be a young adult just starting out

[@ANOSINCRIVEIS1973]

i love old school videos......thanks for sharing!!!1

[@rodrigoproenca906]

olha quem está por aqui hahahaha

[@ANOSINCRIVEIS1973]

@@rodrigoproenca906 falaaaaaaaaaaa rodrigo.........kkkkkkkkkkk

[@rodrigoproenca906]

@@ANOSINCRIVEIS1973 tmj meu querido amigo kkkkkkkkk

[@b.roz92]

I was -4 years old. 😁😁😁 dob 1992 !!

[@tdan3478]

I was around their age at the time.Seems like I’m watching one of my video’s.I can’t believe we are all in our 60’s or older.Time really goes by fast…!

[@AlkebulanQueen1027]

I love how they are in San Jose California! Lol (that’s where I’m from, ha!) “as the world turns” wasn’t that a show in the 80s? This is golden, little did they know they would be watched 30 years later on the internet lmao I’m assuming this was for their family on a later date…wonder what got someone to sell it on eBay 😟

[@Joefest99]

The self consciousness these people would have felt had they only had know that tens of thousands of people in the future, from around the world would be watching this!

[@tinatinabobenasales5053]

I love seeing all the things I've forgotten about over the years.

[@nancyk5203]

I hope this family comes across their video here!!

[@brandondowning7262]

The cats were the real stars of this home video.

[@mamabear909]

I was a year old! Wow 😳

[@dynajay4106]

I miss the 80s Jeopardy tune!

[@briannanicholegarcia6938]

This made me happy

[@ace-x6m]

Unbelievable the very first Christmas I can remember is Christmas 1998. Ten years after this. Xmas 1998 already seems like an ancient time ago...

[@jeffmercer3891]

Good times, I miss it. People actually engaged in conversation with each other rather than having a phone in their face 24/7.

[@Djay_B]

I'm thankful to be in a family that still converses with each other often. (extended family too)

[@DiscipleOfHeavyMeta1]

The quality is amazing.

[@alison2649]

That street looks like a typical California neighborhood.

[@CCucumber]

What a wonderful video. I really hope they have a DVD copy or a copy of the tape so perhaps that is why it was with a sale on eBay. Maybe they wanted it for some reason to share with others life of back then, and they were okay with sharing their lives? I hope this isn't lost forever to them. I love home videos and old camcorders have amazing quality. I hope all is well to those in home videos all over that we view. Perhaps putting them on here can get someone to find this for themselves again! If you can't upload on here, perhaps try looking for clues in videos to track them down and to see if it was a mistake that they lost the video. It is rare to find someone to just throw it away without trying to convert it if they don't have a VCR. Or DVD player if they have one of those modern camcorders. I am sure people still create home movies. Have a wonderful day everyone! :D.

[@bargainhunter2404]

A lot of them old tapes are stuff sellers have bought from estate sells, auction houses, yard sells and ect. Those old tapes have some value even if they been recorded on cause you can record over them.

[@CCucumber]

@@bargainhunter2404 Very true. I have a home video of a girl and her family and from hints from the video, I found where she is. I tried getting ahold of her but she hasn't responded yet. It was in a free bin on the side of the road. It may have been a relative's home it was at because it was a few towns over from where I found it. Thank you for the information :). Have a wonderful day! :D.

[@pressureflipin1992]

I love videos like this

[@bigelvis1485]

This was the era of the Minivans 🤣

[@ultimatemagic2125]

I hope those little kitties lived a long and happy life.

[@sunofmylife3191]

😔

[@PearlFirexx]

Aww cute kittens.

[@dixienormous6969]

Do you think they're dead now?

[@youtubingbabs]

As an old person there's a little party of my brain that is always looking for this world and my house that I thought I'd have that looks like this.

[@ahsenochka]

Gilbert, I have some old videos like these but I don't know how to convert them. can you help me with it?

[@nathanbinns6345]

There are services that do it for you. I don't know where you live but there are companies that you can mail your old home videos to and they convert them to digital files for you and send them back.

[@IrishRose]

Imagine if they saw this video here over 30 years later! 😂😂😂😂😂

[@heatherscancerjourney]

I enjoyed this but Christmas with Gilbert’s family seems so much more fun .

[@robintst]

This is what you show the kids today who think everyone walked around in the 80s dressed like the walked off the set for Olivia Newton-John's Physical. No, most of us were dorks.

[@b.roz92]

Them cats are long gone !

[@heatherscancerjourney]

88 was one of my favorite Christmas’

[@johnj5726]

I remember in the 80’s between my uncles and my dad this camcorders where at every family event

[@schmootheonly]

My Nanna and granddads home was decorated just like this

[@rexviper8]

I was barely a month old on that day. 😮

[@StefanFragrance]

I would've been -3 years old wow!! I'm 28 years old now!! Time is a beautiful thing!

[@imaginationworld1957]

Stefan Fragrance why you lying you like 35 if the math right 😂

[@Boblib1970]

@@imaginationworld1957 Your math is wrong. 2019-1991=28

[@nonyabizz1484]

She said negative 3

[@rudyiraheta80]

in 25 years she be

[@rutter1ify]

??? Wtf, I was born in 1990 and I'm 29 nearly 30 Lol

[@wrestlingwithjay3770]

80's

[@chrislynn5227]

Hard to believe I was only 3 months old when this was filmed.

[@ceooflonelinessinc.267]

Hi

[@mohamedameen4245]

My mother was born in 1988

[@sperm8141]

This is probably the most polite family in America

[@N.E.U.R.O]

Could I use this for a short film? Just a solo personal project about a space man that misses his family

[@cecelialenore5576]

those cats are so adorable!

[@videogameerrors5943]

They have been dead for 20 years

[@cecelialenore5576]

@@videogameerrors5943 but they are immortalized by this video

[@PearlFirexx]

Fluffy

[@planetx1595]

@@PearlFirexx Snowball II

[@CampingDad247]

weird to think home alone wasn't made yet lol :)

[@marquitashiver6141]

I just turned 5 that Oct.

[@mpa1931]

Human's change a lot but cats will always remain the same silly creatures! Gil do you recognize those parts of California?

[@MusicBoxVinyl]

If you put some clips of this tape on tik tok I’m pretty sure it would be a easier way to find the people who made it.

[@SusieSynth]

I was 11 when this came out. Jeez lol.

[@rutter1ify]

Your past it now then!

[@teccash3507]

I was 8

[@dixienormous6969]

I wasn't born until 11 years later! 🗿

[@huskergiant9827]

I was born 10 years later

[@RK-li4sw]

Forgot about the mauve Color carpet of the 80s

[@leescott2069]

Gee weez that was golly jeepers good gosh darn it

[@thepolacek]

O, Steve-O, always by the food.

[@tango-bravo]

Fuggin’ hot!!!

[@theac8308]

Hey Gilbert - this is really interesting and I love it. Do you know the legalities of posting other people's videos for public viewing? Are you interested in finding the families who made the videos or was it the families that sold them to you? Just curious.

[@planetx1595]

I'm not Gilbert sorry, but I have read in his past comment where found a camcorder in a thrift store with a video tape still inside and decided to digitise, I'm glad he did because they VERY interesting, as a viewer from Australia

[@thadtuiol1717]

Hey, isn't Chevy Chase in this one?

[@stevengallant6363]

I was 14 years old thinking I knew it all

[@ariacero9312]

The unborn baby is now 32 even though this year hasn't ended yet and I say 32 because that's December and she looked no less than four months pregnant and rn the month of August is about to start now in 2021 which is eights months from the start of the year to now

[@bethglenmaddie]

How weird would it be if you were watching this and recognized yourself and family???

[@robadams4807]

I was 6 months old dang

[@TheDopalgangr]

Hi Gilbert, have you ever tried to track these people down to see if they had a copy or wanted a copy of the video?

[@HumanoidMachine]

That baby is just a year younger than me.

[@JohnSmithZen]

What format is an "8mm cassette"?

[@MyNameIsPops]

Can we all start a public domain site to preserve old home videos? I mean, these family memories hold voices of loved ones that we'll never hear or see again. I think we should take the time to preserve them. I don't know, but I feel like we could benefit, as we are now, from preserving these. From my faded, woke mind, To yours. Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas

[@yoli5779]

Archive.org

[@planetx1595]

@@yoli5779 Wouldn't KZbin still be enough? It's not like KZbin is going to go anywhere anytime soon

[@yoli5779]

@@planetx1595 yeah but they restrict a lot and they start deleting videos and whatnot, archive.org is more about preserving records and have been doing it since 1996. It's not a bad alternative.

[@planetx1595]

@@yoli5779 I thought restrictions and video deletions were up to the uploader not KZbin themselves, as long as the channel is still active, the posted videos on the channel will remain on there "forever" or until KZbin goes out of business, which of course we don't want that to happen

[@purplefreax]

I wasn't born yet 😩

[@thefoxdoctor1072]

That looks like Northern California possibly Sacramento.

[@JBroughton2]

Anyone know who this family is?

[@EXW3]

Lol when I see animals in these videos I’m like yea that animal is now dead. The people there’s a chance they’re still around

[@LittleOzzyLand]

Would like to see more videos from the 80s and very early 90s.

[@fueledbymusic3]

I have tons of them up on KZbin!

[@heatherscancerjourney]

Slight Of Mind just go to Gilbert’s channel. I watch his all of the time. He’s been recording since the late 80’s. I don’t know if he recorded every day since then but at least weekly . I feel like I know his family and watch them age. A fun bunch

[@fueledbymusic3]

@@heatherscancerjourney haha. Yes almost every day since 1988. Sort of

[@duane_313]

So quiet…no music playing? 😅

[@captainknuckles6421]

KZbin isn't really going to remove channels like they said are they. Because I love watching your videos.

[@michaelmcgee8543]

Who ever owned the video should have thought to donate it to the Kodak home movie library.

[@rtcp2020]

These cats might be dead now :(

[@mrgrey361]

They absolutely are dead, 1988 was 32 years ago.

[@rtcp2020]

@@mrgrey361 it’s sad that cats have a very short life :(

[@ethereall187]

i wonder why this was lost or sold

[@rockkstrettt4751]

jajaja Yo naci en 1988

[@lonniemcguire1343]

Where's the Christmas music?!

[@antik.44yearsago11]

I was negative -16