This home movie footage includes Wilhelmina Leigh’s 1966 graduation from McKinley Technical High School in Washington, DC; visits with friends in Roxbury, MA; a family trip to upstate New York and Cornell University during Wilhelmina’s freshman year in college, and scenes from their family home in northwest Washington. NMAAHC Study Collection: SC_0001_20171213_Leigh_R8 (TRT: 7:12)

This collection of home movies from Highland Beach, Maryland dates from the early 1950s through the 1960s and is narrated by Margot Pinson. Her father Dr. Pinson shot much of the footage included in this heartwarming compilation. NMAAHC Study Collection: SC_0001_20180425_Lathan ; SC_0001_20180524_Lathan ; SC_0001_20180614_Lathan ; SC_0001_20180713_Lathan (TRT: 7:31)

This clip features local celebrities like Iron Jaw Sampson along with family parties, birthdays, weddings, and holiday celebrations. Highlighted are dozens of 16mm films from the late 1940s through the late 1950s of D.C.’s Elder Lightfoot Solomon Michaux and The Church of God, the first broadcast radio and television preacher; home movie clips from Cab Calloway’s family films, and activities from the 1968 community organization, Bedford-Stuyvesant Youth in Action. (TRT 8:58)

This 16mm black and white film, “Ariel,” was one of several short experimental films shot and directed by Zora Lathan in 1975, when she was a student at University of Illinois-Chicago Campus. NMAAHC Study Collection: SC_0001_20180524_Lathan_16mm_01 (TRT: 2:31)

This Kodachrome and black and white compilation reel of 16mm home movies filmed by Cab Calloway was recorded from 1950 through 1955 during a tour of South America. NMAAHC Collection Object ID: 2015.273.2.4.1a (TRT 16:03)