BUFFALO, N.Y. - Nothing brings the Kimaid siblings back to their mid-century South Buffalo upbringing like their father's homemade films.

“Every birthday every graduation we knew the camera was coming with us," said Betty Romeo, Paul Kimaid's middle child. "We took it as a way of life. I mean it wasn’t anything special it was just something that our family did.”

What You Need To Know

  • Bob, Betty and Ron have remained close all their lives thanks to their filmmaking, family-man father, Paul Kimaid

  • The three say they often get together at Christmas to watch their father's home-directed films that feature mid-century downtown Buffalo

  • Thanks to Betty's son John, the films have been digitized and are available for anyone to watch at the channel called "Paul Kimaid Presents"

In one movie, Paul brought his Cine Kodak 16mm camera to downtown Buffalo at Christmastime, where the siblings said they were mesmerized by the window displays. Sitting together at the dining room table today, they seemed just as excited to see them again, only this time on a YouTube channel filled with hundreds of their childhood memories, digitized by Betty's son John.

“It keeps us all together, really close together, remembering all the memories that we had," said Bob Kimaid, the eldest. "You know, every Christmas you think back to the way it was.”

(Courtesy of John Romeo)

The trio said holidays look different now with family living in different parts of the country, but these moments can be passed down to generations so the Kimaid family can always experience the magic of a 1950s Christmas.