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I’ve been collecting a lot of old Kodachrome slides from the 1950s and 1960s the past two months. Recently, I managed to get my hands on a couple of old 400ft reels of various home movies of events such as vacations, events, parades, sports games, races, weddings, parties, etc--things of that nature, shot on Kodachrome. It got me thinking: how many people back then shot home movies on 35mm motion picture film? Obviously, I am not insinuating that anyone would have had a giant, 1,000ft mag, 90lb, blimped Mitchell camera ready in their backyard to shoot Dale’s high school graduation party. However, small, light, little MOS cams like the Arriflex 35 IIB were widely available at the time. I imagine Kodachrome was by far the most commonly used consumer film stock in that era, so I suppose most of any home movies would've been shot using it. Unless I have my facts crossed (feel free to correct me if I do), I believe Kodak briefly sold canisters of 35mm Kodachrome intended for motion picture use in the 1940s. The stock was called Kodak 5267, and was introduced in 1942. I know next to nothing about how the market for motion picture film worked back in the day. At the time, did Kodak also sell the 35mm variants of their color negative motion picture films—such as Kodak 5250—to consumers via mail order like they do for their VISION3 stocks today? To be direct, if old home movie reels on 35mm such as these do exist, they’re something I would definitely be extremely motivated to get my hands on. Let me know if anyone has any leads.

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