Thanks to Skip Elsheimer for this report on HMD 2009 in Raleigh:
Event Venue: North Carolina State Archives
Event time (screening): 1-4pm
Event time (inspection): 1-4pm
Total Audience: approx. 85-95
Number of people bringing films: 14
Films screened by Gauge: Not sure of the total but it was predominantly 8mm, 16mm with some super 8. We showed some films that had been transferred to Quicktime files.
Volunteers: Skip Elsheimer (A/V Geeks), Kate Kluttz, Paul Shackleton (A/V Geeks intern), Dave Zahn, Charlotte Walton, Karen Glynn, Anna Bigelow, Z Hobert Thompson (A/V Geeks intern), Stephanie Stewart, Kim Cumber, Marsha Orgeron (NC State Film Dept), Devin Orgeron (NC State Film Dept), Jerry Pemberton
Press (pre-event and post-event): Local NPR radio interview before the event, mention in the News Observer weekend section, article in News and Observer after the event.
Slow motion family, trip to Hershey gardens, Christmas (x3), trip to Europe 1952, Halloween, fire at the KY State Fair, living in France, couple visiting Italy - seeing Mussolini, couple visiting Germany, Autobahn, Hitler in a village. Lots of Italian and German military training, Visiting Paris, big Hitler rally, Johnny Tramaine class project, Raleigh’s Pullen Park, Smithsonian Air and Space Museum, Korean war films - submarine, Ohio State footage, Vietnam USO footage…
One family (“Gou” I think) who brought the Vietnam footage, aerial ftg and ftg of soldier playing with dog. I think it was shot by the woman’s late husband and she was there with her adult children - I don’t think they had seen the ftg before (Stephanie Stewart).