NFR Project: Bohulano family film collection (1950s-1970s)

NFR Project: Bohulano family film collection

Recorded 1950s – 1970s

An admirable compendium of the joys of family life in a Filipinx immigrant community in Stockton, California, from the 1950s through the 1970s. These are truly home movies, and they document the life of an extended family and a segregated community in America. It includes the usual content of home movies – records of community events, family gatherings, and vacation trips. What elevates this collection above normal home-movie fare is that it gives the viewer a sense of family and how it endures, even in discriminated populations.

The NFR is one writer’s attempt to review all the films listed in the National Film Registry in chronological order. Next time: Cyrano de Bergerac.