Major Family Archive

collection Major Family Archive
authors Lech Szumigaj
starring Anna Szumigaj; Alicja Szumigaj; Agnieszka Szumigaj; Bartłomiej Szumigaj; Elżbieta Szumigaj; Ewa Szumigaj; Helena Szumigaj; Jadwiga Szumigaj; Piotr Szumigaj; Aleksandra Walczak; Lidia Walczak; Witold Walczak
length 04'38
country Poland
locations Sępólno Krajeńskie, Poland 
year 1985
format 8 mm
color black and white
signature PAFD 0028 012
description

The author of the film is Bogdan Major (born in 1945), who, after graduating from the Faculty of Electronics at the Warsaw University of Technology, worked professionally as an electronics engineer in semiconductor technology in Toruń. From an early age he was interested in photography, and during his studies he was involved with the “Stodoła” Film Production Club, the “Kwant” Film Discussion Club, student radio broadcasters and, together with his wife Maria, the Literary Section of Radio Maryja. Bogdan bought his first camera after university to document family and social life. Maria’s brother-in-law Lech Szumigaj is also the author of some of the films or parts of them.

A film made in Sępólno Krajeńskie in 1985. The Szumigaj and Walczak families introduce their recently born daughters to each other. Elżbieta Szumigaj is lying Ala in a cot, next to Ola. Lech and Ela, Witek and Lidia Walczak (Ela’s brother and wife) and the rest of the family are watching the lying girls – Bartek and Ania Szumigaj (Ala’s siblings), Łucja Walczak, grandmother of both girls, Piotr (Lech’s brother) with his wife Jadwiga and daughters Ewa and Agnieszka, and Helena Szumigaj (Lech and Piotr’s mother). Family members are carrying the girls in their arms and posing to the camera. Ewa and Agnieszka are playing and dancing in the room. The family spends time in the garden between vegetable beds and on a wooden bench. 

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keywords child  cot  family  family life  parents  parenting  play  doll  garden  vegetables  bench 
source of funding Ministry of Culture and National Heritage