SUNDAY PICK | At the Walker Art Center, a rare glimpse into Depression-era Minnesota life

By Jay Gabler, TC Daily Planet
July 31, 2012

Courtesy Walker Art Center

Today, making a movie is as easy as pulling out your phone—but in the 1920s, moviemaking equipment wasn't something the average person carried around in his pocket. That's what makes the James Dimond Home Movie Collection so valuable: the Dimond family captured life in the Midwest between 1927 and 1935, including visits to Minnehaha Falls and Camden State Park. The movies are now in the collection of the Walker Art Center, where they are screening daily until September 16.

©2012 Jay Gabler

SUNDAY PICK | The James Dimond Home Movie Collection at the Walker Art Center

07/10/2012 (All day) - 09/16/2012 (All day)

Donated to the Walker in 1989, these rare amateur home movies captured the life of the Dimond Family in Minnesota and Illinois through such footage as a double-decker bus ride through downtow

Walker Art Center

1750 Hennepin Ave.
Minneapolis, MN 55403
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