# 0769 Halloween Party 18 35 20 00 3mb

A short film about Halloween from the 1950s. 18:35:37:07 Shot looking into living room of house from outside, disembodied arm enters frame and knocks on window, dog stands by window, mother inside helping children with their Halloween costumes; camera pans over to father coming through front door with pumpkins and straw.

18:36:33:05 CU boy wearing brown paper bag mask creeps up on family dug; CU dog growls; father spreads out newspaper over coffee table and carves pumpkin; CU disembodied hand holding knife carves face out of pumpkin; CU father with moustache says “sad” then laughs, CU cute little girl with bangs and hands on check says “sorry” then smiles, CU red-head freckled boy says “spooky” and laughs; father places pumpkin in window, signals lights to be turned off, turns pumpkin toward camera outside of house, jack-o-lantern glows on window sill inside house; dog growls at the Jack-o-lantern, family laughs together.

18:39:45:22 VS mother makes boy’s costume, turns boy into “lady scarecrow”; CU mother puts lipstick on boy’s cheeks and nose; mother puts the “Mexican hat” on boy.

18:40:38:29 Kids dancing in circle showing off their Halloween costumes; VS children in Halloween costumes blowing up various colored balloons in schoolyard.

- Kind: Short
- Year: 1953
- Runtime: 6 min
- By: Encyclopaedia Britannica Films
- Archive: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:0769_Halloween_Party_18_35_20_00_3mb.webm)
- Licence or status: [Public Domain](https://web.archive.org/web/20230926203737/https://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/) (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Encyclopaedia Britannica Films
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/commons/74121900?play=1)