The DeLateur family films were created or otherwise collected by the Conrad DeLateur family from the 1930s through the 1960s. The home movies in the collection feature various locations throughout the American West, particularly the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.
Individual film titles have been derived from canister and box labels, if present at the time of donation.
The original films are not accessible due to preservation concerns. Arrangements can be made to view the film by contacting the Visual Materials Curator.
Restrictions may exist on reproduction, quotation, or publication. Contact the Special Collections division of the University of Washington Libraries for details.
Gift of Ryan Oftebro, December 2014.
Collection processed by Hannah Palin, 2015; Kelly Burton, 2016.
Young people play on a beach. A woman holds an infant. Man and woman pose with two young girls outside in a backyard. A couple, wearing dress clothes, stand in a backyard, fixing each other's attire, talking, posing for the camera. Two couples sit on a porch with a dog, laughing and talking. Couple stands by a stream. Man feeds an infant with a bottle. Children, wearing cowboy hats and gun holsters with toy guns, play in a backyard.
Locations for these films are presumably Tokeland, Washington and Bend, Oregon.
1 reel (300 feet): silent, black and white and color ; 16mm
A puppy and a grown dog play in a backyard while it is snowing. A young boy makes snowballs and a snowman during a snowfall. Children go sledding. House and an orchard covered in snow. Large herd of deer on a hillside.
1 reel (150 feet): silent, black and white and color ; 16mm
Children riding bicycles, playing in a yard, riding on a tractor, feeding chickens, preparing and having a birthday party. Attending a fair with stockyards, horse races, and rides.
1 reel (300 feet): silent, black and white and color ; 16mm
Washingtonian newspaper cover: "Grizzlies Tackle Bobcats Today." Footage of a football game. Thanksgiving dinner. Children rollerskating and performing gymnastics. Preparing for and celebrating Christmas.
1 reel (350 feet): silent, black and white and color ; 16mm
Adults and children packing a station wagon. Children playing on a snowy slope, and in the water. Children digging holes in the beach during low tide. Children playing on a swingset, swimming in the water, building a raft, visiting Westport Dock, farming, and playing with a dog.
1 reel (300 feet): silent, black and white and color ; 16mm
Family on a sheep farm,and dyeing Easter eggs. Children in western costumes dancing. Adults in novelty glasses mugging for the camera. Children with Easter baskets, and all wearing nice clothes.
1 reel (350 feet): silent, black and white and color ; 16mm
People leaving an establishment called "Thunderbird," and getting into a car.
1 reel (50 feet): silent, black and white ; 16mm
A costumed Halloween party for children. A Christmas parade. Children with a white horse. Children at a beach and a harbor. Ducks along the water.
1 reel (300 feet): silent, color ; 16mm
Ice skating. Children and adults playing with a litter of puppies.
1 reel (200 feet): silent, color ; 16mm
Adults and children ice skating.
1 reel (400 feet): silent, black and white and color ; 16mm
Children and adults playing in water, and visiting a rural setting. Views of a helicopter, from below. Children going to school. Men holding ducks after a hunt. A costumed Halloween party. Fishing a raging river.
Celilo was the oldest continuously inhabited community on the North American continent until 1957, when the falls and nearby settlements were submerged by the construction of The Dalles Dam.
1 reel (400 feet): silent, color ; 16mm
Ice skating. Children in international dress. A large parade from above. An event with international dress and dancing. Swimming in a public pool. Shoeing a horse. Views of an airport. A funeral for a salamander.
1 reel (400 feet): silent, color ; 16mm
Children playing in a body of water.
1 reel (50 feet): silent, color ; 16mm
Dressed up, presumably for Easter. Christening, launching, and riding in a small boat. Boating scenery. Another boat christening. A surburban home, a runway, and aerial footage. Gardening, and various cut timber scenes. A bird hunt with dogs.
1 reel (400 feet): silent, color ; 16mm
Autumn activities, such as raking leaves and carving pumpkins. A costumed Halloween party. Men and dogs hunting birds.
1 reel (200 feet): silent, color ; 16mm
Children playing in a small pool in the yard. Mountains from the window of a plane. Outdoor scenes: mountains, snow field, log cabin, fishing. Exterior of a small plane.
1 reel (150 feet): silent, color ; 16mm
Digging up land with machinery. Exteriors of various buildings. A fishing trip. Unknown skyline, and various city scenes. An old country graveyard. A baseball game. A log cabin. A construction site.
1 reel (350 feet): silent, color ; 16mm
A landing strip with airplanes. Woman in a field of colorful flowers. A subdivision. Boarding a plane. Dogs in kennels and cradled in people's arms. Poolside panoramas with palm trees. A baseball game viewed from the stands. Driving in nature. Horses in a groomed training ground. Various people posing in front of various homes.
1 reel (350 feet): silent, color ; 16mm
1 reel (300 feet): silent, black and white ; 16mm
A Castle Films cartoon from 1936 that brings together several traditional fairy tales.
This short was originally titled
1 reel (250 feet): silent, black and white ; 16mm
Title card: "Excerpts from the Feature Film Production
1 reel (300 feet): silent, black and white ; 16mm
Released in 1949, the short film involves the apprehension of bandits in a western scenario. A shootout concludes the narrative.
1 reel (300 feet): silent, black and white ; 16mm