Home Movie Day News

Event Venue: University of Baltimore Langsdale Library Auditorium
Event time (screening): 2:00-4:00
Event time (inspection): 1:00-3:00
Total Audience: 25
Number of people bringing films: 8 individuals, as well as loans from archives

Films screened by Gauge:
8mm: 2
Super 8: 6
16mm: 6
9.5mm: 0
Video: 3

Volunteers:
Taylor McBride
Siobhan Hagan
Tim Wisniewski
Jeannette Lichtenwalner
Pat Doyen
Dwight Swanson

Special events/screenings: Tracey Melhuish. Peabody Institute (see below) and John Waters Home Movies (from DVD)

Press (pre-event and post-event): Primarily University of Baltimore Library and local online calendars.

Report submitted by Dwight Swanson

1. “Chemical Ballet” Peabody Institute’s Carroll Lynn Collection. Tracey Melhuish introduces how the film was acquired as well as 100th anniversary of Peabody in 2014. Colorlab did preservation work. Carroll Lynn dancer and director of Peabody in the 40s-60s and choreographer. She is a pioneer in the early filming of dance.

2. Super 8mm low light home movies of Greg Shearer’s family in the 70s in Baltimore (Hampden). Young son’s birthday party, playing in snow, Greg’s grandmother long since passed.

3. Pat Doyen’s “Niagara Falls/Kodak Sales Training Film”: Kodachrome. Filmed by an employee of Kodak in Rochester, NY in the late 1950s or early 1960s.

4. DVD Transfer of John Waters Home Movies 1946 and 1950

5. Jim Hagan’s college football highlights (and lowlights) from the mid-70s from University of Maryland. 43 yard touchdown pass, winning the game against Clemson. Followed immediately by the play where he injured his knee and that was the end of his career as a football player.

6. Megan McShea works as a film archivist. Brought her grandparent’s home movies. Catholic procession and town parade 1950s. Roland Park?

7. 1927 Fair of the Iron Horse film from the collections of the Maryland Historical Society Library. Donated to Baltimore City Life Museums by Bunny Siebert (little girl at the end of the film).

8. Megan McShea: Smedley Park Atlantic City, kids playing in water sprinkler (Megan’s parents)

9. Eric Krasner: filmmaker and film collector. 1950s Kodachrome of a young boy putting together/setting up a film projector: amazing Americana patriotic curtains in background. Boy threads the film through the projector; very instructional; with close-ups. RCA 400 film projector. “The Boy and His Projector” on youtube.

10. Tim Wisniewski: DVD transfers of collection of B&W 16mm film from Johns Hopkins Medical Archives; 1929 Hugh Hampton Young; Dinner party of tuxedo men smoking and talking. White people mimicking Native Americans wearing a feather headdress. (Microphone stopped working: ran out of batteries?)

11. Robert DiLutis’s 1960 film of his dad at the airport leaving family for military basic training. Walking through park; people mugging for the camera.

12. Eric Krasner: Rodell Film Studio: 16mm optical sound home movies; cut out a little water damage at the beginning: drunk people singing at piano: on youtube.com/cinegraphic Sound did not work, had to cut the screening short

13. Shelley Aloi: Karate exams when she was about 16 years old: breaking boards and things. Early 1970s. Private White House tour from the same time; when Carter was President.

14. Dwight Swanson eBay purchase. Pimlico Horse Races: women tearing up bet receipt. Sherwood Garden (Guilford, MD?)

City: Venlo
Event Venue: Limburgs Museum, Venlo
Event time (screening): Saturday October 27th 2012, 11PM – 5PM
Event time (inspection): same
Total Audience: 30
Number of people bringing film/video: 12
Number of films/video received: 27 video tapes

Films screened by Gauge:
VHS, HI8, Betamax, DVD.

Volunteers (No. and names):

LIMBURGS MUSEUM:

Frank Holthuizen
Eddy Tielemans
Frits van Aarssen
John Bongers
Kees Smit
Harrie Vaessen
Frans Janson

JANSSEN FILM & AUDIO SERVICES (VENRAY):
Hay Janssen
Ans Janssen
Jelle van der Meer

MISC volunteers
Tim van der Heijden (PhD candidate, connected to the NWO-project “Changing Platforms of Ritualized Memory Practices: The Cultural Dynamics of Home Movies”)
Special events/screenings:
- Nader tot Maxima, documentary by Albert Elings and Eugenie Janssen, compiled of footage by 120 people who were present at the royal wedding in Amsterdam, 2002.
- Pinkpop 1970-1974, amateur footage of the first years of this pop festival in Limburg, Holland.
- short fiction movies recorded in Venlo, 1959-1961 and 2011
- various documentary amateur productions on subjects concerning Limburg history and daily life, 1950s and 1960s
- Compilation of home movies shot by the photographer Werner Mantz between 1940 and 1960 in and around Maastricht.

Press (pre-event and post-event):

• Omroep Venlo, radio - interview
• Omroep Venlo, television - interview
• L1 Radio - interview
• Dagblad De Limburger - preview
• Free weekly papers – press release
• National media mentioned in the HMD report Amsterdam

Other publicity:

• Websites of filmclubs, museums, news-magazines etc
• Free cards and flyers
• Social media

Report submitted by Frank Holthuizen

The Home Movie Day at the Limburgs Museum, Venlo, was organised within the scope of the Amateur Film Platform project (www.amateurfilmplatform.nl). The aim of the project is to make a diverse and broad range of amateur films of four Dutch archives available online. Together with project leader The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision and the two other regional archive partners, four HMDs were organised within the scope of the project. Unique about these four days was that the focus lay exclusively with video, since one of the main project goals is to save amateur recordings from the video era (+/- 1980-2005) before it is too late. The target of the project is to acquire 100 hours of new material.

In Venlo, the effect of this one day was – in terms of quantity – modest.

Within a variety of some video formats, VHS, Hi8, Betamax and DVD, material was brought in on subjects in the region of Venlo / northern part of Limburg, specially dating from the 1990s. Some of the material was more or less unknown, like the first gig of a regionally famous band, or video recorded during the dramatic flood of the river Maas in Venlo, 1994. Also family topics in the early ’90s, and videos on communal life and music or carnaval associations.

Some visitors mentioned their 8mm film material they didn’t bring, but looking at the subjects of this material, we were not surprised very much, because our film collection still exists of a wide range of professional and amateur film, which can be divided in broad themes. There were also owners who contacted us to tell us they have interesting material at home, which we can pick up to go through.

A selection of this material will be made ready for access on the Amateur Film Platform in 2013.

It is our aim to try and acquire more video on themes that are somewhat underexposed. This will be done the coming months by contacting the makers / owners directly, instead of waiting for the next Home Movie Day. The effect of this first Home Movie Day in Venlo was positive in terms of publicity and profile, and a good kick-start for the Amateur Film project.

See also the event reports of the other Home Movie Days of the Amateur Film Project:
• 13 October, Groningen, GAVA
• 14 October, Rotterdam, Stadsarchief
• 20 October, Amsterdam, Sound and Vision

Project URL: www.amateurfilmplatform.nl

City: Rotterdam
Event Venue: Kriterion, Groothandelsgebouw, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Event time (screening): Sunday October 14th 2012, 12PM – 4PM
Event time (inspection): same
Total Audience: 60
Number of people bringing film/video: 12
Number of films/video received: 130

Films screened by Gauge:
VHS, HI8, dvd’s, umatic, 8mm film.

Volunteers (No. and names):

ROTTERDAM CITY ARCHIVES:
Anouk de Haas
Guus van Veldhuizen
Hans Brouwer
Gwenny van Hasselt
Peter Berghout

SUPERSENS:
Peter Dekker
Bernard
André Guido Bruin
Also, 4 members of the Rotterdam Video and Smallfilm Liga were present.

Special events/screenings:

- Marriage film Ridderkerk early 90ies
- DIY-documentaries about city of Rotterdam from 1980-2010
- Extensive documentation of Pink Saturday Rotterdam 2001
- Personal videoarchive of abuse activist 1980-2010
- 8mm’s: homemovies and documentaries from 1960-1980

Press (pre-event and post-event):
Radio Rijnmond – interview Radio Schiedam - interview Algemeen Dagblad Stadskrant Rijnmond.nl
Report submitted by Anouk de Haas

The Home Movie Day by the Rotterdam City Archives was organised within the scope of the Amateur Film Platform project (www.amateurfilmplatform.nl). The aim of the project is to make a diverse and broad range of amateur films of four Dutch archives available online. Together with project lead The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision and the two other regional archive partners, four HMDs were organised within the scope of the project. Unique about these four days was that the focus lay exclusively with video, since one of the main project goals is to save amateur recordings from the video era (+/- 1980-2005) before it is too late. The target of the project is to acquire 100 hours of new material.

A wide variety of formats and films were brought in, from VHS, to Hi8, and from Umatic to 8mm films, ranging from the 70s to 2010. The topics were also very broad, many videos contained family material (marriage), but also the demolition of a historical railway, a ‘Pink Saturday’ gay pride parade from 2011 and a report on the festivities of the jubilee of the ‘Red Woman’ group in 1980.

Many visitors indicated that they also had more materials at home, so we expect to receive more contributions after the Home Movie Day. Viewing and selection is expected to be completed before Christmas, at which time a selection of material will be officially acquired by the Rotterdam City Archives, digitized and made available online in the context of Amateurfilmplatform.nl.

See also the event reports of the other Home Movie Days of the Amateur Film Project: • 13 October, Groningen, GAVA
• 20 October, Amsterdam, Sound and Vision
• 27 October, Venlo, Limburgs Museum

Project URL: www.amateurfilmplatform

2012 Event Report City: Groningen

Event Venue: Groningen City and Province Archives (RHC Groninger Archieven), Cascadeplein 4, 9726 AD, Groningen, the Netherlands

Event time (screening): Saturday October 13th 2012, 11 AM – 5 PM

Event time (inspection): same as above. Also, inspections are done throughout the year at the archives.

Total Audience: HMD was part of a bigger event: the annual Groningen History Day, attended by approximately 3,000 visitors.

Number of people bringing films: 5

Films screened by Gauge:

8mm: - Super 8: - 16mm: - 9.5mm: - Video: 10

Volunteers:
Gert Plas (staff)
René Duursma (staff)
Marij Kloosterhof (staff)
Tjerk Bekius (volunteer)
Ferdie Wielstra (volunteer)
Henk Doeve (volunteer)
Sebastiaan Vos (staff)

Press (pre-event and post-event):

The information about the HMD appeared on websites and was broadcasted on two local radio shows. Also we had a commercial for local television stations.

Report submitted by Sebastiaan Vos

The Home Movie Day by the Groningen City and Province Archives was organized within the scope of the Amateur Film Platform project (www.amateurfilmplatform.nl). The aim of the project is to make a diverse and broad range of amateur films of four Dutch archives available online. Together with project lead The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision and the two other regional archive partners, four HMDs were organized within the scope of the project. Unique about these four days was that the focus lay exclusively with video, since one of the main project goals is to save amateur recordings from the video era (+/- 1980-2005) before it is too late. The target of the project is to acquire 100 hours of new material. The Groningen HMD (also covering the other two northern provinces of the Netherlands, namely Friesland and Drenthe) was a success. A lot of people showed up (mostly for the Groningen History Day, but still a great attendance) and many of them walked by in the reading room where we had our wall of screens on which we played the home videos that people brought with them, along with a compilation of home videos from our own collection.

The yield of videos wasn’t that big on the day: 10 tapes. However, a lot of tapes were sent after the event, after people had been stimulated to dig up videos from their personal archives. Watching some home movie footage of children playing etc, people that walked by during the day, reacted: “Well, if you’re looking for this kind of footage, I have tapes like these at home as well!” So there is a lot more stuff out there at home. And off course we know there is. The question is how to get these tapes into the archives. We’re glad to report that since the HMD, we have received approximately 200 videotapes (by several people), with amateur footage, with (hopefully) many more to come. We are working hard on getting the contributions we’ve gotten so far into our archives now The day before the HMD I was in a radiobroadcast of the local radio station to which many people in Groningen tune in, to talk about the HMD.

In a couple of minutes four people made a telephone call to the radio, made clear what kind of videos they had and asked me, directly into the broadcast, if that is what we were looking for. Sure! For example, an older woman told that her late husband had filmed all the bridges in the city of Groningen around 25 years ago. The next day she came along and showed us the tape. Indeed, almost 50 local bridges came by, very interesting stuff. Not only because of the bridges themselves, but also because of the traffic and people passing by, buildings on the background etc. A magnificent time image altogether. It’s hard to say how many people exactly have been at our placing and to how many we talked during the day. In any case, there were always at least some people around. To summarize: For us this HMD has been a great starting point to collect amateur home movies for our audiovisual collection in the near future, and for the Amateur Film Platform Project as well.

See also the event reports of the other Home Movie Days of the Amateur Film Project:
• 14 October, Rotterdam, Stadsarchief
• 20 October, Amsterdam, Sound and Vision
• 27 October, Venlo, Limburgs Museum

Project URL: www.amateurfilmplatform.nl

2012 Event Report

City: Amsterdam

Event Venue: Artis Zoo (Parkzalen, Plantage Middenlaan 41A, Amsterdam). Event time (screening): 11:00 – 16:00

Event time (inspection): 11:00 – 17:00

Total Audience: 50

Number of people bringing films: 19

Films screened by Gauge:

We focussed on video-only, so no films were screened.

8mm: 0 Super 8: 0 16mm: 0 9.5mm: 0 VHS: 6 MiniDV: 3 Hi8: 1 DVD: 7 Digital file: 2

Volunteers (No. and names): 28

SOUND AND VISION: Lotte Belice Baltussen
Valentine Kuypers
Heleen Ririassa Tom De Smet
Hans van der Windt
Lisette Graswinckel
Eva Hielscher Gijs Kimenai
Maartje Jansma
Hanneke Vroegindeweij
Agnes van Veen

MISC AWESOME VOLUNTEERS: Tom Slootweg
Ronny Temme
Tim van der Heijden
Rixt Jonkman
Suzan Crommelin
Mart van der Wiel
Hay Kranen
Jesse de Vos
Danuta Zoledziewska
Harry van Biessum

SUPERSENS: Rutger van der Meer
Peter Dekker
Jean-Pierre Sens
Jaap Rieuwerts
Nico Kaal
Mario Vrugt

NOVA:
Emile de Gruijter
Margot de Jonge

Special events/screenings:
Screening of films in a separate room (about ten minutes per film):
1 Benefit by Hikmet Ulger (MiniDV)
2 Proposal of marriage to Emilia by Jan van der Meer (VHS)
3 World record chickengrill by Aart van Amerongen (DVD)
4 Tour at the Smalfilmmuseum by Femke Harmsen (VHS)
5 PH-EZK by Ivo de Jongh (MiniDV)
6 Material Girl – Julia Goes America (1995) (VHS)
7 Big City by Mr. F.J. Vogel (DVD, original Video8)
8 Amsterdam by Mr. W. Knop (VHS)
9 (no programme)
10A Michel with computer by Taco Bakker (Hi8)
10B 50th marriage anniversary Van Leuveren / Rob & Syl, 30 year marriage by Rob Swart (Digital file)
11 Village in a city (Nieuwendam) by Mr Rammers (DVD)
12 Light & Air by Mr. Rammers (DVD)
13 Various films by Mr. Rammers (DVD)
14 Oranje Museum by Aart van Amerongen (VHS)
15 Irish Pub by Hikmet Ulger (MiniDV)
16 Oh Yeah & One Vision by Cor Lievendag (Digital file)
17 Artis films from the archive of the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (DVD, original 8mm, 16mm)
18 Dekave Drukkerij by Helen Delachaux (VHS)
19 Various films by Mr. Rammers (DVD)
When they were present during the screening, the makers were interviewed by Tim van der Heijden and Tom Slootweg.

Press (pre-event and post-event):
Pre-event press:

MEDIA TYPE / SOURCE / CONTENT / DATE
● Internet, Stichting Amateurfilm, Announcement Dag van de Amateurfilm - email, September 4, 2012.
● Print, Dag van de Rotterdamse geschiedenis, Folder, September 14, 2012.
● Video, 24UurCultuur, Promo video Rotterdam, September 15, 2012.
● Internet, Changing Platforms, Event notification, September 20, 2012
● Internet, Changing Platforms, Event report (Dag van de Amateurfilm), October 1, 2012
 ● Internet, EYE, Event notification HMD, October 2, 2012
● Internet, Artis, Notification HMD, October 9, 2012
● Internet, Parool.nl, Press release, October 10, 2012
● Internet, Volkskrant.nl, Press release, October 10, 2012
● Internet, Italie.nl, Blog post, October 10, 2012
● Internet, Informatie Professional, Editorial, October 10, 2012
● Internet, Spreekbuis, Short version of press release, October 10, 2012
● Internet, Trouw.nl, Press release, October 10, 2012
● Internet, ImagineIC, Newsletter, October 11, 2012
● Radio (regional), RTV Rijnmond, Interview, October 11, 2012
● Magazine, Broadcast Magazine, Article, October 11, 2012
● Internet, SuperSens, Newsletter, October 12, 2012
● Radio (national), Radio1 Lunch, Interview, October 12, 2012
● Televisie (national), RTL EditieNL, Item about the project, October 12, 2012
● Radio (national), BNR Nieuwsradio - Nieuwsupdate, Interview, October 13, 2012
● Televisie (national), Hart van Nederland - SBS6, Item HMD Rotterdam, October 15, 2012
● Internet, Sound and Vision newsletter, Announcement HMDs, October 16, 2012
● Internet, Vuurwerkcrew.nl forum, “Filmarchivarissen op omroep Max.”, October 16, 2012
● Newspaper (national), Volkskrant, Article “Verstofte video’s”, October 16, 2012
● Internet, De Gooi- en Eemlander, Short press release, October 16, 2012
● Television (national), Omroep MAX Live, Interview, October 16, 2012
● Newspaper (regional), Ijmuider Crt; Haarlems Dagblad 2 ed.; Leidsch Dagblad 3 ed.; Noordholl.Dagblad 8 ed.; Gooi en Eemlander 2 ed., Article “Beeld en Geluid is ook blij met verjaardagsfilmpje tante Greet”, October 17, 2012
● Radio (regional), RTV NH, Arjan Burggraaf op Radio N-H - interview, October 17, 2012
● Newspaper(national), NRC Handelsblad, Article (full page) “Amateurfilm blijkt cultuurdrager”, October 18, 2012

Post-event press:

MEDIA TYPE / SOURCE / CONTENT / DATE

● Radio (regional), FunX, Interview during HMD, programme Sound of the city, October 20,
● Internet, Totaaltv.nl, Instituut Beeld en Geluid wil oude videobanden inzamelen October 25, 2012
● Magazine, Spreekbuis (magazine for mediaprofessionals), Interview, October 26, 2012 Report submitted by Lotte Belice Baltussen and Harry van Biessum (The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision)

The Home Movie Day by Sound and Vision was organised within the scope of the Amateur Film Platform project (www.amateurfilmplatform.nl). The aim of the project is to make a diverse and broad range of amateur films of four Dutch archives available online. Sound and Vision and its three regional archive partners all organised a Home Movie Day. Unique about these four days was that the focus lay exclusively with video, since one of the main project goals is to save amateur recordings from the video era (+/- 1980-2005) before it is too late. The target of the project is to acquire 100 hours of new material.

The Home Movie Day in Artis brought together amateur film enthusiasts from all over the Netherlands: Sound and Vision, SuperSens, EYE Film Institute Netherlands, the amateur film research project Changing Platforms and the Dutch Organisation of Audio Visual Amateurs.

So, in collaboration with technical partner and Home Movie Day sponsor SuperSens six viewing stations, each with a broad variety of video players were set up. People were asked to bring any type of format with them, from Hi8 to VHS, and from MiniDV to Video2000. Even then, two people managed to bring with them some tapes that we were not able to play: an NTSC Betamax tape from 1986 containing footage of a trip through the jungle of Panama and a VCR V60 from 1979 with a amateurfilm tv programme made in a professional studio. We decided to take them with us, in order to view them at a later stage. A very wide and surprising range of videos were brought in. One person brought in VHS-material from the early days of prolific Dutch filmmaker Jiska Rickels, who was her class mate at the Dutch Film Academy.

There was also a remarkable VHS-tape from 2005 on which the 55th birthday of a woman was recorded, the late mother of the man who brought us the tape. The party included a rather large band, an amazing banquet food, beautiful dresses of the woman who changed into three different ones as the evening progressed, and the tradition of honoring the guarding angel of the woman (the honor was fulfilled by putting a large cup on her head with many red roses in it). Her son told that it was a typical, traditional birthday party for people from Suriname, the party itself was held in Amsterdam.  Furthermore there was interesting material shot at the anniversary of a restaurant in Baarn in 1989, where the world record of grilling chicken was set. The video showed a skewer with no less than 353 chickens on them.

At the end of the day, a total of 34 tapes from 14 different people were selected to be acquired by Sound and Vision and thus to be included in the Amateur Film project. A report of the day can also be found on the blog of the Dutch project Changing Platforms

See also the event reports of the other Home Movie Days of the Amateur Film Project:
● 13 October, Groningen, GAVA
● 14 October, Rotterdam, Stadsarchief
● 27 October, Venlo, Limburgs Museum

Project URL: www.amateurfilmplatform.nl

Venue: Cinefamily at the Silent Movie Theatre
Event time (screening): Noon-4:00
Event time (inspection): 11:00-3:00
Total Audience: 50+
Number of people bringing films: 10

Films screened by Gauge:

8mm: 7
Super 8: 6
16mm: 6
9.5mm: 1
28mm: 1
VHS: 1

Volunteers: 25

Kelle Anzalone, Snowden Becker, Cassie Blake, Shay Cornelius, Jovita Dominguez, Brian Drischell, Donna Ellithorpe, Dino Everett, Jere Guldin, Fritz Herzog, Tessa Idlewine, Sean Kilcoyne, Kim Luperi, Brian Meacham, Sadie Menchen Schwartz, Esther Nam, Cliff Retallick, Charles Rogers, Sean Savage, Amanda Smith, Jessica Storm, Rhonda Vigeant, Leah Wagner, Rachel Wilson, Tim Wilson, Steve Wright

Special events/screenings: Finger-food potluck to coincide with screenings

Prize sponsors: Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, American Cinematheque, Cinefamily, Film Technology Co., Laemmle Theatres, Los Angeles Conservancy, Masa Pizzeria, Outfest, Pro8mm, Skylight Books, UCLA Film & Television Archive + purchased CafePress HMD logo gear

Press (pre-event and post-event): Made some calendar listings, but no feature stories. Trisha appeared on KUCI Irvine radio show, discussing archival issues.

Report submitted by: Trisha Lendo, Sean Savage

“Being able to view films I hadn’t seen in over forty years with my daughters by my side far exceeded my expectations for the day. And the friendliness and enthusiasm of everyone there made it just that much more enjoyable. I fully intend to be there next year, hopefully with more films in hand.” –HMD-LA participant Debbie Ringo

As people were filling their plates from the finger food goodies and settling in, we ran a 16mm Kodachrome reel preserved by the Academy Film Archive. Newcomb Condee was a Los Angeles Superior Court Judge and dedicated documenter of his family and travels. This intertitled reel featured the high school graduation of (grand-?)daughter Marie, Grace Condee playing “Air Raid Warden” and horsing around with the younger kids and a glimpse of Charlie Chaplin on the tennis court.

The show proper began with HMD-LA regular Bill Jenkins, a collector of home movies, with early-to-mid-40s 8mm Kodachrome he purchased at a garage sale. The family and location were unknown, but their hijinks – including sack races, Halloween and quaint old rotary phones – were enlivened considerably by our volunteer (but still pro) pianist Cliff Rettalick.

UCLA MIAS student Robert Vaszari brought two Super-reels from 1980s, in which he appears with his twin brother on summer trips in Lake Tahoe and elsewhere. Another featured roll was shot by his grandparents in Palos Verdes.

Debbie Ringo came with reels shot by her father in the late 50s-early 60s. She hadn’t viewed them in 40 years, and simple math would tell you her daughters had never seen them. Slumber parties, go karts, brother on skateboard, and her dog Penny are all featured.

The ever-reliable Charles Rogers appeared again this year with S-8 rolls of Chicago White Sox games loyally captured by his Aunt Pat, c. 1976-7.

HMD-LA co-organizer Trisha Lendo shared an eBay find – “Garden Party” (1961) on 8mm Kodachrome.

Nicholas Spark (not The Notebook guy) has been collecting home movies for about a decade, and shared some L.A views from the 1960s. Believing he was in the clear for repurposing in his own documentary work, emcee Snowden set him straight by emphatically saying that home movies are NOT in the public domain.

Fred Kulberg was up next, making his fourth HMD appearance. From home movies he shot 1945-99, he compiled a thematic roll of Las Vegas and Reno marquees at night, with classic entertainers like Jerry Lewis, Shirley Bassey, Jimmy Durante and Buddy Hackett all appearing (well, their names in lights anyway). Also some San Francisco views and some ringside shots of a 1983 Larry Holmes fight (vs. ????).

Ziba Zehbar thought she had her VHS cued up – her father worked for Boeing and recorded over a McDonnell Douglas shareholder video and we scanned through much of it. Back to her later.

Rachel Wilson, another UCLA MIAS student, brought some 8mm & 16mm and her grandmother! The films were shot by her great grandfather, and highlights included 1940s fun in black and white – a three-legged sack race, kids blowing bubble gum bubbles, and canine shenanigans – as well as the Seattle 1962 World’s Fair in color, and Disneyland in the 70s.

Ziba’s VHS was now ready to roll, and some awkward comedy ensues as her adorable 2-year old sister tries to figure how to mount a bike with training wheels. Ziba also brought films she thought might be from pre-revolution Cuba, courtesy her ex-boyfriend’s mother, but the Super-8 turned out to be shot in Southern California.

HMD projectionist and purveyor of obscure amateur format gear and films, Dino Everett demoed an English family’s 1921 Christmas morning on 28mm and another’s visit to Stonehenge in color 9.5mm.

Debbie Ringo was up again with rolls of two different sets of Christmas festivities, 1950 in black and white starring her brother, and 1959 in color when she was about 7 years old. The films gave us a glimpse into an integrated Leimert Park of the 50’s as her and her brother played outside with neighbors. Also a family trip to Vegas, Hoover Dam, and the Ubehebe Crater in Death Valley.

Trisha wraps up the afternoon with some 16mm she acquired in a thrift store just last month – waves crashing in Redondo Beach and snow-covered trees in Yosemite.

Event Venue: L’Espace Saint Michel / 7 place Saint Michel / 75005 Paris

Event time (screening): From 2pm to midnight

Event time (inspection): From 2pm to 6pm

Total Audience: about 120 persons

Number of people bringing films: 15

Films screened by Gauge:

8mm: 1
Super 8: 28
16mm: 1
9.5mm: 0
Video: 2 DVD (1 from 8mm film)

Volunteers:

12 total (Bruno G., Katerina Kampoli, Samantha Leroy, Carla Mancini, Sylvia Nicolas, Hervé Pichard, Sébastien Ronceray, Céline Ruivo, Jérémie Tate, Fanny Tziovaridis, Francesca Veneziano, Delphine Voiry-Humbert)

Special events/screenings:

14h: Program for children

16h: Special Program about Portrait

• Algérie 1960, Francis Lemaitre, excerpt (1960, 8mm, silent, 7’) from ECPAD
The military Francis Lemaitre used his Brownie Kodak 8mm camera to shoot several moments of his service activities in the area of Constantine.

• Gaël et Kiel, Leïla Gharbi (2010, Super 8, silent, 6’) Portrait directed in two times. The first one is the portrait of Gaël pregnant during the shower in May 2010. The second one is the portrait of the new family: Gaël, Joachim the father and baby Kiel, in June 2010.

• L’échec total, Christophe Guérin (2010, video projection, 3’) From Super 8 films of the same unknown family, Christophe Guérin kept the images of the mother, which are represented the idea of the happiness. Then he thought about his own mother who raised two children alone and he associated the pictures to this sentence: “I didn’t see life like that; I saw it like a dream”.

• Babàs, Consuelo Lins (2012, video projection, 20’) Inspired by a photograph from the 19th century represented a baba (a nurse) with child, this film tells the story of these women in Brazil.

• Le voleur, Heinz Brockmann, (1940-1945, 8mm, B&W, 4’ 12’’), from ECPAD
Fiction filmed by an amateur: a thief tries to steal money from a German soldier (playing by the film director).

• Images de l’eau, Philippe Cote (2012, Super8/Video, B&W and color, silent, 11’)
Different forms and manifestations taken by water, experiences of the director’s body underwater. A poetic essay about imaginary of the material.

18h : Open Screen (7 films brought by the audience)

[Cérès Franco]
Director unknown
1948, 8mm (video projection), black and white
Brought by Clémence, Cérès Franco’s granddaughter

Movie about Cérès Franco, a contemporary art collector, shot by friends in 1948 in Brazil (Rio de Janeiro, to the beach of Ipanema) and in USA (during a dance show to the Casa Internacional in New York and in Salt Lake City).

[Film without title]
Directed by Wilfried Histi and Nadia Chalom
2007, Super 8, Colors
Brought by Wilfried Histi

Animation film directed without editing (“tourné-monté”), within the framework of Les ateliers du Rodéo Club. This funny and creative film tells the adventures of a penguin.

Les Halles
Directed by Louis Aimé Fraschini
Circa 1970-1973, 8mm, Colors
Brought by Béatrice Fraschini Rey, daughter of the director

Documentary film about Les Halles in Paris, during the great renovation: empty markets, manifestation against the renovation, destruction of the Pavillons Baltard, huge hole waiting for the new building… This film tells one of the great urban transformations in Paris during the 20th century.

[Films without titles]
Directed by Michel Chalot
Circa 1970, Super 8, Colors
Brought by Maxime Bouillon, son of the director

Two family movies: travel by car and Christmas night.

Salon de l’agriculture
Directed by Yves Dimet
Circa 1971-72, 16mm, black and white
Brought by Yves Dimet

Cows and activities during the agriculture show. An amazing film, a “will to do a film about imprisonment” (Yves Dimet)

Obsèques de Pompidou
Directed by Yves Dimet
1974, Super 8, Colors
Brought by Yves Dimet

A crowd of people is present at Georges Pompidou funeral. The director scratched little drawings on the film.

21h : Ciné – concert 40 minutes of excerpts of family movies from the Österreichisches Filmmuseum Pathé-Baby collection. These films come from four families; they show leisure of the middle-class from Wien in the thirties. The films have been accompanied by the performance of music band Les Ongles noirs and guest. The director Gaëlle Rouard edited 8 minutes of these films and presented a very special work called Loisible aventureux.

Press (pre-event and post-event): The program was published on our web site (homemoviedayparis.fr), articles and adverts were published in revues and cultural programs.

City: PAMPLONA

Event Venue: Filmoteca de Navarra
Paseo Antonio Pérez Goyena, 3
31008 Pamplona (Navarra) Spain
www.filmotecanavarra.com

Event time (screening): Friday 26th of October, 6pm

Event time (inspection): during the year

Total Audience: 80

Number of people bringing films: Projection from 19 different people

29 Films screened by Gauge:
8mm: 3
Super 8: 20
16mm: 6

Special events/screenings: The projection has been accompanied by a performance of the musician Javier Asín at the piano. During the week we organized a small exposition with cameras, moviolas, splicers, books and projectors.

Press (pre-event and post-event): The informations about the HMD appeared in our web site (with Sean Savage’s trailer), in the hand program of the filmoteca, in local newspapers and thanks to filmoteca’s newsletter. The day after the projection an article appeared in the local newspaper.

Report submitted by Silvia Casagrande

Like last year, we decided to project films stored in the archive of the Filmoteca. All the films are home movies from the 30’s to the 80’s in which we can see landscapes of the region and its traditions.

We screened 29 short films: some traditional fiestas and events such San Fermín, the “Tributo de las 3 vacas”, fiestas in Olite, Tafalla, Tudela and classical encierros and corridas. Besides that, we projected some rural works such grape harvest and bread preparation, some private religious event such Holy Communions, some family events and fragments of amateur’s films: the traditional fiesta of Santa Águeda, in the village of Alsasua, and a documentary about the village of Ujué.

List of all the films projected: - Fiestas de San Fermín 1945 (16mm, b/w silent),
- Tributo de las 3 vacas 70’s (S8mm, color, silent),
- Jugando en un columpio 40’s (16mm, b/w, silent),
- Carnaval de Lanz 70’s (S8mm, color, silent),
- Vendimia en Tafalla 1956 (8mm, color, silent),
- Fiestas de Tafalla 1957 (8mm, b/w, silent),
- Fiestas de San Fermín 1970 (S8mm, color, silent),
- Encierro, vaquillas, deporte rural y feria de ganados 40’s (16mm, b/w, silent),
- Funes: voladura del puente, 1975 (S8mm, color, silent),
- El volatín de Tudela 1970 (S8mm, color, silent),
- Fiestas de Olite 40’s (16mm, b/w, silent),
- Corrida en San Fermín 70’s (S8mm, color, silent),
- 1ª Comunión 70’s (S8mm, color, silent),
- Toros en San Fermín 1975 (S8mm, color, silent),
- En bici en Ermitagaña 80’s (S8mm, color, magnetic sound),
- Noticiario beratarra 1952 (16mm, b/w, silent),
- Bajada del ángel de Tudela 1983 (S8mm, color, silent),
- 1ª Comunión 70’s (S8mm, color, silent),
- Pic-nic en el campo 1987 (S8mm, color, silent),
- Corrida en San Fermín 70’s (S8mm, color, silent),
- Preparación del pan casero 70’s (S8mm, color, silent),
- 1ª Comunión 1968 (S8mm, color, silent),
- Fiestas de cumpleaños 1954 (8mm, b/w, silent),
- Gimnasia en la sierra de Urbasa 1971 (S8mm, color, silent),
- Alsasua: Santa Águeda 1975 (S8mm, color, magnetic sound),
- Niña y gallinas 80’s (S8mm, color, silent),
- Navidad en casa en Barañain 1982 (S8mm, color, silent),
- Gran Gira anual de la peña Los Iruñshemes 1934 (16mm, b/w, silent),
- Ujué, piedras vivas 1980 (S8mm, color, magnetic sound).

2012 Event Report City: Washington D.C.
Event Venue: National Building Museum
Event time (screening): 11-2 Event time (inspection): same Total Audience: 38 Number of people bringing films: 10 Films screened by Gauge:

8mm: 6
Super 8: 4
16mm: 4

Video: We had a TV on one side of the room showing a compilation of amateur films from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, showing films from before WWII, during occupation, and then during the liberation.

Volunteers: 11 total

Laura Major, Osheen Keshishian, Rebecca Reynolds, and Scott Mueller (ColorLab), Andrew Cassidy-Amstutz, Christina Meninger, Ameena Mohammed (MARAC), Lindsay Zarwell (USHMM), Deborah Sorensen (NBM), Brian Real (UMD, College Park)

Special events/screenings: (just the screening on the monitor of the USHMM material)

Press (pre-event and post-event): Beforehand we were mentioned in The Washingtonian and afterward we got a write-up in the MD student writer’s blog

Report submitted by Caitlin McGrath

We had a great selection of films this year, including footage of our very own Dwight Swanson! (there was a big cheer when he appeared on screen!)

We started with a 16mm b/w film Laura brought of the 2004 Orphans Film Festival, where Dwight was spotted, along with a whole host of other film folks. It was a great way to kick off the event – to see all these people responsible for making Home Movie Day happen, as if they were joining us.

Then we watched a snippet of a film by H. Lee Waters (Laura)

I brought three home movies from 1975 of my parents before they were parents and my great-grandparents. We just recently got these transferred, not knowing what was on them, and I got to share them with my grandmother last month. It was the first time she’d ever seen her parents on film.

Eli brought some fantastic films his father had made, from the 1950s, including a great cruise to San Juan, Martinique, and Grenada. The cruise was taken by his parents, Morton and Lila Savada.

2nd reel was thanksgiving dinner, Nov. 22, 1973 at his family home in Harrison NY, followed by the Dec. 19, 1973 50th wedding anniversary of his grandparents, David and Celia Perless, at Keen’s Restaurant, NYC.

Osheen’s parents’ wedding in 1956 in Beirut, Lebanon. Very cool – she had an amazingly wide-skirted gorgeous wedding dress!

Pam Wintle brought some 8mm (in 9.5 cans, curiously) that she’d never seen projected before. They turned out to be some beautiful snowy scenes from Skowhegan, Maine.

Lindsay Zarwell shared some great amateur films from the USHMM as well as one of her own – a 1975 family film with her baby brother wearing a cute IZOD outfit that her mother (Lindsay’s) had just passed on to Lindsay for her own kids to wear. (Which she didn’t realize until seeing the film! She says the outfit is a bit more faded now than on the film J)

There was a trip on the Silver Meteor train from Philadelphia to Sarasota. (Caitlin)

Osheen shared some screen tests he made on B/W reversal in 2011 of some friends. Great to have some “newer” home movies in the mix.

One of our visitors from last year brought his films again, including the fantastic Guitar at the Bottom of the Sea, about a possessed guitar that attacks a hapless youth on the beach.

Then we finished up with a real treat – a 16mmof the 1939 San Francisco World’s Fair. Rebecca brought it, and wasn’t sure if we should screen it, but Deborah Sorensen (who curated a show at the National Building Museum last year on the 30s world’s fairs) and I jumped up and down when it started. Deborah was able to narrate the whole thing, which was fantastic and the color was amazing – especially in the night sequences. Complete with fireworks – couldn’t have asked for a better ending.

Thanks so much to everyone who volunteered! We were thrilled with such a great turn-out and such fabulous films!

2012 Event Report - HMD New York City

Event Venue: Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)

Event time (screening): 1-5pm

Event time (inspection): 1-5pm

Total audience: 35 throughout the 1-5 time frame

Number of people bringing films: 12 (Ashley, Walter, Emily, Erik, Robert, Andrea, Greg, Katie/MoMA, Marie, Sylvia, Sue, Ashley S.)

No. of films screened by gauge: 14 media total

8mm: 4
Super8: 4
16mm: 4
9.5mm: 0
Video: 0
Other: 2 carousel trays of 35mm (still) slides

Volunteers: 21 total (Katie Trainor, Walter Forsberg, John Klacsmann, Greg Sargent (projectionist), Erik Piil, Shira Peltzman, Kathryn Gronsbell, Dewitt Davis, Ashley Swinnerton, Justin LaLiberty, Dan Finn, Kristen MacDonough, Rebecca Fraimow, Erica Titkemeyer, Rebecca Hernandez-Gerber, Athena Holbrook, Emily Natsany, Juana Suarez, Pamela Vizner, Benjamin Peeples, Dan Erdman)

Short description of films screened:

1. An 8mm film of St. Louis Zoo, March 13th, 1960. Includes Forest Park, St. Louis, the Webster Groves neighborhood, and Father’s Day 1960 (Ashley).

2. Super8 footage shot in 2011 in Mexico featuring Torre Americano and old movie theatres (Walter).

3. 16mm footage of various landmarks in Washington DC: White House, Washington Monument, etc.

4. An 8mm film of an aunt’s birthday and Easter in Westfield, NJ ca. 1959 (Emily).

5. 16mm B/W footage of pre-WWII family life in Providence, RI. This mailer was lost in transit for 70 years and was re-discovered by an NYC lab in 2011 (Erik/DuArt).

6. 16mm footage of 1939 World’s Fair in Kodachrome. Titles were spliced in around 1964 (Robert Martins). Robert remarks of the filming of the World’s Fair flower gardens by his grandfather, “you have to film the flower gardens so as to not upset the wife.”

7. Super8 footage of canoeing with a friend in the Gowanus canal ca. 2011 (Walter).

8. 8mm footage of College Point, Queens ca. 1931 - The first reformed Church on Easter Sunday heads to campgrounds on Bellmont Park, Long Island (Robert). Also includes footage of an underdeveloped East River waterfront, as well as a relative “born in 1868.”

9. Super8mm footage (with sound) of travels on Route 60 in Florida ca. 1970 (Andrea Callard).

10. A 35mm slide show of family moments set to a chorus of rural school children singing tunes by the Beach Boys (Greg Sargent).

11. 8mm footage of San Francisco Wharf and various SF sites, ca. 1970 (Katie/MoMA).

12. Super8 footage of a Romanian civil ceremony shot in 1981 (Marie).

13. 16mm footage of a Venezuelan movie maker traveling through Europe ca. 1960’s (Sylvia). Includes footage of Buckingham Palace, as well as a bullfight in Spain ca. 1969 (Sylvia).

14. A 35mm slide show of orphaned assorted still slides found in an antique store in Brooklyn, NY in 2012 (Ashley S.).

Total Audience: around 75 & 14 volunteers—89
Number of people bringing films: 19
Number of films screened by Gauge: 36 total
8mm: 15
Super 8: 15
16mm: 6
9.5mm: 0
Video: 0

Press (pre-event and post-event):
*Small mention in Independent Weekly (free weekly) by Chris Vitiello.
*Small mentions the previous week in daily newspaper, Raleigh N&O.
*Marsha Orgeron and Skip Elsheimer on NPR’s The State of Things on Friday 10/21
*Hit the blogs, Facebook, and email lists.

Our event started off with a bang: a woman brought in her family films (which she could not remember ever having seen) and one of the reels was labeled “Spacewalk” on the box. It begins with some family footage in Kinston, NC and then some footage of all of these people in a field with cars. You see glimpses of a big cross and a man in a hood. The woman who brought the film, somewhat mortified, told us that her parents always talked about going on a road trip and seeing all of these folks on the side of the road in Smithfield, NC, and stopping to see what fun was being had—it turned out to be a Klan rally, and they were too afraid to just drive away, so they stayed a while and filmed a very short segment while they were there. The next shot is of a television broadcast of the first ever spacewalk, Alexi Leonov (March 18, 1965)—Soveit, comrades! Not much American historical memory of that one. An amazing time capsule and testament to the value of home movies—we couldn’t have planned it better ourselves.

Other highlights:

• Awesome 16mm film from the 1960s of an astronaut in a “total body exerciser,” intended to be used by astronauts in space. Film was donated by William Thornton.

• An 8mm amateur educational film brought by a woman who worked for the Toledo, Ohio, library, shot in 1972. “I made this movie when I worked at the Toledo, Ohio, public library (in the Young Adult division) and wanted to show how things have changed”—it was shown to library staff all over Ohio. The film starts in black and white, with unfriendly libraries, all reading a book titled “Revolting Librarians.” Greaser comes up to one librarian, looking for “anything on Motorcycles,” but can’t find anything on the subject in the card catalog. The film switches to color, showing how libraries have become more open (they roll out the red carpet). Young adults rush the library, checking out hundreds of books. The film ends by showing how books can be practical, showing people how to do everything from Yoga to auto repair to playing the guitar. A poster reads: “We’re more than a library, we’re ideas.”

• Incredible Super 8 film shot in 1972 at the Republican convention in Miami Beach. Footage of camp Nixon, protestors, people in big Nixon masks, barricades, followed by footage of his grandmother, glass bottom boat with snorklers.

• Great 1947 8mm footage shot at 1323 Canterbury Road, Raleigh—the woman who brought it described it as feeling like it was out in the country back then. The home is now engulfed by a mansion and is very much in the heart of Raleigh.

• Neat 1970s 16mm footage shot in New Jersey of a family owned factory, accompanied by stories by the son of the family about the mob.

• Super 8 footage from November 1982 of a trip the woman who brought the film took with her two sons to New York City: shots from the Ferry, Battery Park, Twin Towers, Statue of Liberty, accompanied by a great story of how she sent one of her sons down to the hotel restaurant to get her a coke and he ended up getting lost and the chaos that ensued.

• 8mm reel from 1963 shot in Great Falls Montana at a Kennedy Speech a few days before he was killed: gathering people, different angles. The woman who brought it described an extra sense of personal devastation at the Kennedy assassination because they saw him just a few days before. Part 2 is backyard with husband, wife and son, son riding tricycle.

• Lots of nudie shots of baby Katrina Lamberto as she was either eating her own feet or learning to walk—and using a black lab to help hold herself up—worth the price of admission, folks!

• 8mm reel purchased from a thrift store of a beauty queen parade in California—ca. 1950s—amazing stuff! Beauty queens in dresses in cars, beauty queens in bathing suits walking and posing. People commented on the fact that their bodies looked normal!!!! Different times…

• Several different movies with babies eating grass and pine needles!

• Super 8 footage of a St. Patrick’s Day parade in Savannah Georgia, with Shriners-o- plenty!

• Two different experimental films shot by two of our volunteers in the 1980s—Skip Elsheimer and Grant Samuelson

Lots of folks won HMD Bingo, with prizes courtesy of volunteer Charlotte Walton, Merge Records, the State Archives, A/V Geeks, and Cameron’s gift shop in Chapel Hill. Our HMD runs almost on autopilot now thanks to a pretty well-oiled protocol and seasoned volunteers—we’re happy to share tips and resources with anyone wanting to start a HMD of their own and we hope to have more up and running in the state next year. Thanks to all of our amazing volunteers!