Home Movie Day Oct 17: Show your home movies to your neighbors

Molly sez, "Home Movie Day (Oct 17) 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. Check out www.homemovieday.com for a location near you! '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 2009 (Thanks, Molly!)

[thequickbrownfox October 15, 2009 11:39 AM]

Anyone else notice how a lot of indie films begin with about 5 minutes of Super 8?

[JG October 15, 2009 8:35 PM]

Home Movies

My Father bought a Bell & Howell movie camera and projector around 1960. He used it to document our annual circuitous pilgrimages, driving from Pennsylvania to visit relatives in Southern California.
Over the years we took several different routes and always documented the activities along the way.
Subsequently, I have a lively collection of footage from almost every tourist trap, national park, steak house, Route66 attraction, reptile farm, gem shop, motel or amusement park between Greensburg, PA, and Oxnard CA..
It's perhaps the most precious documentation I have of times and places that became such an important part of my personal history.
I've had them restored and transferred to DVD.
I encourage everyone with these priceless heirlooms to do the same.
The process is reasonable inexpensive and causes little stress to the original media.
You can not imagine the value of 'Home Movies' to future generations.