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What
is HOME MOVIE DAY?
Home Movie Day was started in 2002 by a small group of film archivists concerned about what would happen to all the home movies shot on film during the 20th century. They knew many people out there have boxes full of family memories that they've never seen for lack of a projector, or fears that the films were too fragile to be viewed again. They also knew that many people were having their amateur films transferred to videotape or DVD, with the mistaken idea that their new digital copies would last forever and the "obsolete" films could be discarded. Original films can long outlast any film or video transfer and are an important part of our cultural history!
The Home Movie Day founders envisioned a worldwide celebration of these amateur films, during which people in cities and towns all over would get to meet local film archivists, find out about the long-term benefits of film versus video and digital media, and-most importantly-get to watch those old family films! The first Home Movie Day took place on August 16, 2003, and was a terrific success. On August 14, 2004, even more moving image archivists hosted events worldwide for the second annual Home Movie Day. Read HMD News to find out how it went. Stay tuned for more information on Home Movie Day III - which will take place on August 13, 2005!
To find out more about Home Movie Day in your area, see our list of local coordinators and venues. To become a local host yourself, send an email with your information to Chad Hunter.
What Can I Do? Where?
It's simple: rifle through your attics, dig through
your closets, call up Grandma, and search out your family's
home movies. Next, contact your regional
representative, and bring an 8mm, Super8mm, or 16mm
home movie to the nearest HOME MOVIE DAY event on 8/14
to see it projected. Will you bring "Christmas 1979?"
Footage of your home town's July 4th parade? Did you
ever make your own Indiana Jones sequel? Or want to
find out what a normal family did on their vacation
to Mexico?
WHY?
Because they will happen in communities across the globe,
HOME MOVIE DAY events and screenings can focus on local
and family histories, taking us back to a time when
Main Street was bustling and the beehive hair-do was
all the rage, with images of people we may know or resemble.
Home movies are the essential record of our past, and
they are among the most authoritative documents of times
gone by.
Did you know that your original films can long outlast
any video OR digital transfer?
HOME MOVIE DAY will also provide the opportunity for
people to learn about the long-term benefits of film
versus video. Motion picture archivists will be on hand
to tell you how to properly store your films and plan
for their future.
Don't throw your film away!
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Learn
how to care for your home movies properly
Visit the Home Film Preservation Guide
www.filmforever.org
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 Want
to transfer your film to video?
click here to find a transfer
house near you
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Home Movie Day 2004
Diversity was the operative word for the second annual Home Movie Day. More cities (forty), more countries (Italy, England and Wales were added to the mix), and more formats (16mm scope and a fair amount of 9.5mm were brought in). Films from the 1920s were shown alongside home movies shot just weeks before the event. Venues included historic theaters, public libraries, rock & roll clubs and even a restaurant. The films themselves showed a spectacular range of styles and forms, giving lie to the misconception that home movies only depict family events.
Although open screenings were the mainstay of the day, several cities also incorporated special events into the festivities, such as a talk by cine club members in Toronto, screenings of home movie-related films (such as Karen Shopsowitzs My Fathers Camera), and even live musical accompaniment (by Rochesters Eastman Submarine Band).
The day accomplished the primary goals of bringing film preservation information to the general public as well as promoting AMIA in the extensive press coverage. Additionally, connections were made between the public, local cinema communities and regional archives. The Welsh event, for example, was a collaborative effort by the owner of a film transfer company (as well as a film collector himself) and the Welsh Film Archive.
The true accomplishment of the day, though, was in the connections re-established between the films owners and the films themselves, often in very emotional ways. At the screening at Anthology Film Archives in New York, a couple in their seventies brought three big reels of 8mm they hadn't seen it in over thirty years. They held hands in the dark as images of themselves as young newlyweds visited San Francisco.
The organizers of Home Movie Day would like to thank AMIA and all of the generous sponsors for their assistance and all of the local representatives for their tireless work. A compilation DVD is in the works and plans are already underway for Home Movie Day 2005.
Read an article on Home Movie Day 2004 from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Click Here
The Athens Messenger (Ohio):
Click Here
And The Guardian Weekly
Click Here
Read about the tremendous success of Home Movie Day 2003:
"Lost and Found Sound" Home Movie Day segment, featured on NPR's "All Things Considered"
HMD in Baltimore, MD
HMD in Pittsburgh, PA
HMD in NYC
HMD in Miami, Florida
HMD in Durham, NC
Home Movie FAQs
Why are home movies important? How can I safely store my family films at home? What can I do to get my old projector running again? For nearly thirty years, these and other frequently asked questions about small-gauge film have been asked most frequently of Bob Brodsky and Toni Treadway, co-founders of Brodsky & Treadway, the International Center for 8mm Film, and the website LittleFilm.org, an invaluable resource for the small-gauge aficionado. Start your LittleFilm visit with Home Movies: A Basic Primer on Care, Handling, and Storage, Restoring Hardware, and the filmmakers' fundamentals excerpted from their book Super 8 in the Video Age.
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Home
Movie Day has representatives all over
America and across the World. From New
York to Nebraska and From Mexico to
Japan Home Movie Day is spreading the
word about home movie fantasticness.
To find out about reps in your area
or to become a Regional Representative
yourself, please click
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Please donate to Home Movie Day
All procees go directly toward our events
Now Available
Official Home Movie Day Shirts and Stuff
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