Home Movie Day News

Legislation to preserve and restore American’s rich heritage in film and sound will be presented to the President to be signed into law after the Senate completed action on the legislation Tuesday night. Championed by Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), the bill would renew and expand original legislation enacted in 1996 to preserve some of the nation’s most valuable treasures—which include home movies.

Sen. Leahy’s press release is here, and the full text of the (surprisingly readable) bill in PDF form is available from the GPO, too.

So, big thanks to Sen. Leahy for shepherding this through the House! The bill makes provisions for funding the National Film Preservation Foundation through 2016—for those of you counting at home, that’s two presidential terms from now. Here’s hoping for a speedy signature from the guy in the Oval Office…

Tired of your old Home Movie Day shirt? Looking for a new way to express your love of home movies and unflagging support for our international amateur film preservation-and-outreach effort? Well, it’s your lucky day—because we just posted new HMD merchandise in our online store. They all feature our colorful and adorable 2008 promo image, which came to us courtesy of our friend Kae Ishihara of Japan’s Film Preservation Society.

We’ll be retiring several of our older designs soon, ‘cause we like to keep things fresh around here in Home Movie Land. So if you’ve always liked how that projector with “Home Movie Day” beaming out of the lens looks on a classic white t-shirt, or wanted to show your spouse or domestic partner how much you love them by serving them coffee in a cup with kittens watching a home movie on it, well, carpe diem, my friend. Your time is running out.