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Topic: www.homemovieday.com - it's for reel!!!
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Chip Gelmini
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1733
From: Brooksville, FL
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted August 13, 2007 11:01 PM
Hello to all.
I received this letter from Germain Fodor, as it suggests they are two people who run the event.....
I have copied and pasted mail below as follows:
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Hi Chip--
I was excited to read your post about Home Movie Day! My boyfriend and I and 2 of our film-prof friends organize HMD-Raleigh, NC. And yes!- it's totally an international event now - started in 2002 by 2 folks from the Association of Moving Image Archivists (read: Cataloging Geeks).
Which article did you read?...You're in CT?
I have a friend Molly Wheeler who runs HMD in New Haven...
anyway, I'm kicking myself because I thought of posting an announcement to this newsgroup about Home Movie Day last week, but then I thought- naw, that crowd is more into commercial-film collecting. Well, now I know! - and so next year I will definitely plug this!
It really is a fun event...it enables lots of people to finally watch all their home-shot reels which have been stored away for years and years.
And really, looking at other people's home-movies is way more interesting than you'd think!
Anyway, I'm glad you mentioned this - it'll at least get people thinking about it for next year!
Cheers,
-Germaine
(www.avgeeks.com)
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Stephen Kent Jusick
Junior
Posts: 18
From: New York, NY, USA
Registered: Jan 2004
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posted August 14, 2007 03:28 AM
This was the 5th year of Home Movie Day. I attended the event at Anthology Film Archives in New York City, and it was great. The Maya Deren Theater was packed (people standing and sitting on floor). Films were shown on 16mm, S8, R8 and possibly 35mm. We also screened some Polavision (instant developing S8 from Polaroid) films from Hawaii and elsewhere. The event ran from 1-6 PM, and I got there after 3 PM, in the middle of some films from 1973, shot by a school teacher in NJ, whose class made a rather long color, silent film about the 9 planets. It was great, and the crowd loved it! A hard act to follow for the more standard home movies afterwards, although those were well received too! Pretty good were some 16mm home movies from the late 40s/early 500s of guy's grandparents in Massachusetts. The wife was actually very playful and happily vamped for the camera while shoveling snow and at the beach. There was a segment where they played charades at a dinner party.
Jeanne Liotta showed a B&W hunting film from the 1920s, which I found too long but it got good at the end.
Chad Hunter from Witness was there, as was (I think) Katie Trainor from IFC and Andy Lampert from Anthology was the main projectionist. Also seen: Steve Polta from the SF Cinematheque.
Chad handed out cartridges of Ektachrome 64 to eager hands, and a Eumig projector was given out as a trivia prize.
All in all a a great time, I wish I had arrived sooner.
There was talk about 9.5 films next year (Anthology doesn't have a working projector...)
So while August might not be good for those in Europe, one can always find a bad time for an event, and the world is too crowded. Here in NY choosing one thing to do always means missing something else interesting!
In 2005 there was Global Super8 Day, that took place in early May, but it seems not to have continued.... Home Movie Day is carried out by archivists, so it seems assured to continue.
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