Home Movie Day San Francisco gets a lengthy piece in the San Francisco Chronicle with the head line “Family memories in reel time,” featuring words from organizer Stephen Parr as well as the owners and creators of some interesting home movies.
“People like to think that home movies are just family picnics and that their value is mostly camp,” said archive Director Steven Parr. “But really they are the only moving images made without a financial incentive. While they’re usually of joyous events, I have seen movies from the 1940s of wakes in homes where the body was still there. That had been pretty much an American tradition. People documented the social, cultural and political environment of their time.” The most famous home movie, he points out, is Abraham Zapruder’s 8mm film of President Kennedy’s assassination.
The article is accompanied by video clips of some home movies as well as still images.