Kathleen Fairweather, Chris Stewart, Cary Cox, JaJuan Johnson, “and all the fine staff at the Butler Center and Central Arkansas Library System” write in to report on Home Movie Day in Little Rock, Arkansas:
Greetings From The Natural State!
What A HMD turnout we had today! More than 80 people showed up on a sunny Saturday afternoon in downtown Little Rock to watch a full two and one half hours of Arkansas’ finest home movies. Most of the footage was from the 30s, 40s and 50s and we even had a few celebrities on screen as Ellie May, Jethro and Granny from the Beverly Hillbillies were caught on camera in Batesville, Arkansas, sometime in the 1960s.
I gave a talk on home movie care and preservation and the importance of donating to your friendly, neighborhood archive and the whole thing was picked up by two television stations, our local channels and affiliates for ABC and CBS, as well as NPR. A Few print reporters were there as well, so there should be some good coverage tomorrow.
The folks at the Butler Center and Encyclopedia of Arkansas at the Central Arkansas Library have decided to build a Home Movie Archive from this collection, and will carry the preservation torch forward to Home Movie Day 2007.
And we couldn’t have done it without your support! You’re creating a lasting legacy of movies that folks here really care about.
Thanks Home Movie Day People!