Family Movies

You may be surprised to learn that William J. Dumes started filming the family in the 1930s, and every branch of the family is represented in his collection. His films make the basis of what is presented here.

Early reels were 8mm black & white, with occasional splurges on color stock. In the 1950s he moved to 16mm, and some of those clips are remarkably sharp. These movies are a vivid record of the Sadie Silk Dumes family in America.

For me, this completes an assignment my father gave me over 50 years ago: to find a way to share these films with the whole family.

Meet the ancestors: Sarah, Louis, Rebecca, Fannie, Anna, William (1937)

8MM · Black & White

This is quite a movie! Every branch of the Dumes family is represented. I don't think Arthur Dumes is in the film, but there are two men I can't identify. I think one might be Max Fishman, but I'm not sure who the other might be. I was told that Abe Schultz rarely attended family events because he was always working. Arthur's daughters are here, though I don't see his son Bill I.

This clip is really an astonishing bit of family history. Enjoy!

This clip is 6m 8s long.

Blanche Schultz Katz
Stanley Dumes
Freda Fialco Dumes
Anna Dumes Schultz
Dora Lieberman Lasky
Hy Dumes
Bill Dumes
Becky Dumes Lieberman
Norma Dumes Bear
Rebecca Stein Dumes
Heiman Lieberman
Libby Dumes Gluck
Fannie Dumes Fishman
Sarah Dumes Kaplan
Ben Karp
J. Benjamin Lieberman
Sol Karp
Nathan Lieberman
Harry Lieberman
Abraham Lieberman
Jacob Kaplan
Mildred Dumes Dansker
Jeannette Dumes Karp
Louis Dumes

Ben Lieberman family (1945)

8mm · Color

In this wonderful clip, we have Abe and Rebecca Dumes Lieberman, with their son Ben and wife Elizabeth with their children Jethro and Lina. They are at the home of William J. Dumes.

This clip is 3m 7s long.

Abraham Lieberman
Sarah Lieberman Haddon
Becky Dumes Lieberman
Elizabeth Koller Lieberman
J. Benjamin Lieberman
Jethro Lieberman

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