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, Jeannette and family (1944)

8MM · Color

The Ben and Jeannette Dumes Karp Family.

This clip is 4m 1s long.

Karen Karp Finkelstein
Ben Karp
Jeannette Dumes Karp
Beverly Karp Mahone
Sol Karp

A treasured photo brought to life! (1947)

8MM · Color

This clip brings to life a Louis Dumes family picture taken in 1947 by allowing us to see the picture being taken.

This clip is 3m 8s long.

Sam Zoll
Karen Karp Finkelstein
Mike Dumes
Hy Dumes
Irene Melcher Dumes
Elaine Cohen Dumes
Cyril-Ann Zoll Rosenberg
Sol Dumes
Rebecca Stein Dumes
Lillian Dumes Zoll
Ben Karp
Denise Dumes Conrad
Sol Karp
Jeannette Dumes Karp
Evelyn Swimmer Dumes
Beverly Karp Mahone
William Dumes
Louis Dumes

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