# \[Home Movie: William Schmidt Collection, 1949, shot of Bill Schmidt\]

Synopsis Single shot of Bill Schmidt Collection Description This film (Schmidt_0004) is part of the Bill Lewis & Schmidt Family collection. This collection encompasses the personal and professional life of “Bill Lewis” and the Schmidt family. It is the family joke that Schmidts are collectors and savers--but not the most apt organizers or record keepers. The family has always been vaguely aware their old family film reels, most often captured by Bill, existed in a box “somewhere.” When the family matriarch, Margaret “Proxie” made the decision to downsize from her condo, her and Bill’s children--James “Jim”, Karen, and Karla-- and eldest granddaughter, Kayla Schmidt, gathered to help clear out her storage. Bill was a diligent photographer and videographer. His work on the radio as “Bill Lewis” allowed him to capture sound as well. Proxie’s family had been in the Minot, North Dakota area for several generations. Photo albums were located with pictures dating back a century. The reels discovered in her basement aren't as clear as to what they contain. Proxie is in her 90s and Bill would have turned 100 this year. Proxie is as sharp as ever, but sentimentality was never her style, thus, the items in this collection are all “best guesses.” The film reels most likely contain footage of their family in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Proxie and her mother, Ida Rudbeck, both worked as telephone operators and lived in downtown Minot. Ida, Proxie, and Bill lived together in a house…

- Kind: Home movie
- Year: 1949
- By: William Louis "Bill" Schmidt
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/alcf_-schmidt_0004)
- Licence or status: [CC BY-NC-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

Not offered: what its record states (its uploader's public-domain mark, or a licence not shown to be its rights holder's) leaves its US term to decide, and it is dated 1949; under US law a work of that year is free only on facts the site does not hold for it (its US renewal records, or its own country's term on 1 January 1996 for a work published abroad), and otherwise its US term runs to the end of 2044. Unclear is not offered.