Dylan Skolnick’s report from the premiere of Home Movie Day on Long Island:
Our first-ever Home Movie Day went pretty well. Everyone seemed to have a good time, and amazingly, despite some last minute scares, all of the equipment worked. Like Skip, I had a problem with splicing regular 8mm film. I had to improvise a splice (which came out beautifully) with Super 8 splicing tape, a pair of scissors, some painter’s tape to hold the film in place, and a knife.
Event venue: Cinema Arts Centre
Event Time: 2-4pm (screening)
Event Time: 12noon - 2pm (inpection)
Total audience: 25
People bringing in Films: 10
Numbers of films screened by Gauge:
8mm: 5
Super 8mm: 4
16mm: 5
Press: Articles in Newsday and the Huntington News.
I am not a good record keeper, so I will have to summarize a few of the best films shown.
Highlights among the films were: Amazing black and white 16mm film shot in 1928 of Atlantic City by a man who was evidently part of a group called the Amateur Cinema League, lovely 16mm color film of a young woman’s 1952 trip on the Queen Mary to make a pilgrimage to Lourdes, a great color super 8mm film of a Greek-American girl’s 7th birthday, and a cool super 8mm color film of a family vacation in Florida that included a show of trained monkeys.