The present doctoral thesis' research object is home movies created in Brazil between years1920 to 1965. This research developped itself into two branches of work and is focused onhome movies produced by five families. In a first branch we explore the origins and laterdevelopment of home-moviemaking since 1920 in Brazil. For such study, we evoke analisyson the commercial dispute that followed the commercial debut of domestic use purposed exclusive equipment, on the propaganda prints from the 1920's and 30's which where destined to amateur film-making public, and also by the understanding of this image production context that constitutes our work's core purpose. In this first part, we also debate expressionssuch as "family film" and "amateur cinema" as an introductive dialogue for the theorist RogerOdin. As a second part of our work, we follow the home movies migratiory path, to theirentry in the cinemathèques and their use in contemporary documental film-making. To retrace this migration course, we inspired on a research method proposed by historian SylvieLindeperg. The present work's main purpose is to discuss the publication procedures ofdomestic films. By understanding the migratory course of the images in our interest, weaffirm the thesis that films made in a family context only gain on a public and political dimention after being submitted to an "montage" process; it is a concept that we develop on the trails of art-historian Didi-Huberman's propositions.