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International
Home Movie Day is October 19th, so get your home movies together and come by
all this month to get them transferred to DVD early. Your family's home movies to DVD make a unique and memorable
Holiday Gift! The following is from the Home Movie Day website:
What Is Home
Movie Day?
Home
Movie Day is a celebration of amateur films and filmmaking held annually at many local venues worldwide.
Home Movie Day events provide the opportunity for individuals and
families to see and share their own home movies with an audience
of their community, and to see their neighbors' in turn. It's a
chance to discover why to care about these films and to learn how best
to care for them.
"There's
no such thing as a bad home movie. These mini-underground opuses are
revealing, scary, joyous, always flawed, filled with accidental art and
shout out from attics and closets all over the world to be seen again.
Home Movie Day is an orgy of self-discovery, a chance for family
memories to suddenly become show business. If you've got one, whip it
out and show it now."
-- John Waters
"Home
Movie Day is the perfect opportunity for people to connect with our
past and to move the conversation about preserving our cultural heritage
into the future."
-- Ken Burns
"The
films you'll see at Home Movie Day enable those of us who weren't
around at the time to visit moments like the New York World's Fair of
1939-1940, and I for one can't get enough of those. Documentary
filmmakers build whole features around such footage, and I'm sure
historians will continue to rely on amateur movies to tell them what
life was like in 20th century America."
-- Leonard Maltin
"Home Movie Day is important because our lives,
our recollections, and our truth is recorded in home movies. One day,
what the heck, c'mon!”
-- Steve Martin
"Home Movie Day! What a fantastic idea -- culture isn't just the
stuff that the studios make, it's what we make of it. Content isn't
king, conversation is -- and what better conversation-starters than the
significant moments of your neighbours' lives?"
-- Cory Doctorow
"Saving our film heritage should not be limited only to
commercially produced films. Home movies do not just capture the
important private moments of our family's lives, but they are
historical and cultural documents as well. Consider Abraham
Zapruder's 8mm film that recorded the assassination of President
Kennedy or Nickolas Muray's famously vibrant color footage of Frida
Kahlo and Diego Rivera shot with his 16mm camera. Imagine how
different our view of history would be without these precious films.
Home Movie Day is a celebration of these films and the people who shot
them. I urge anyone with an interest in learning more about how to
care for and preserve their own personal memories to join in the
festivities being offered in their community..."
-- Martin Scorsese
Did You Know?
- Home
movies have been named to the Library of Congress's National
Film Registry, alongside popular and esteemed classics such as Citizen
Kane, Star Wars, and King Kong.
- While your
home movies may be easier to watch in a digital or
video copy, the original films, with proper care and storage, can
last DECADES longer than new media formats.
- A
growing number of local archives, museums, and historical
societies are interested in collecting home movies of regular
people--not just celebrities and major events.
Show Your Home Movies
Your
home movies are probably a lot more interesting than you remember!
Most Home Movie Day events are free and open to the public,
and offer expert evaluation of films brought in by participants,
as well as an opportunity to see your very own films in
an open screening. If you have home movies on film that
you've never seen, or haven't watched since you inherited
them from your grandparents--don't let your films decay!
Take them to Home Movie Day! Click here
to find the Home Movie Day event nearest you.
