From Julie Lofthouse:
Toronto - Home Movie Day presented by Homemade Movies
This year we held our Home Movie Day in the Roncesvalles neighbourhood of Toronto at the historic Revue Cinema. The Revue is an old deco movie house that is now run by the non-profit Revue Film Society. The event was co-presented with the Revue Film Society as well as the nearby Swansea Historical Society.
Being invited to present Home Movie Day at the Revue grew out of Homemade Movies’ series of ongoing neighbourhood b.y.o.h.m. or “bring your own home movies” events, several of which have been held in surrounding neighbourhoods.
Our Home Movie Day had both a repair clinic - where people were able to look through their collections, get help repairing films and select a reel to show - and a screening.
We had a lot of 16mm films brought out this time, including work from two large collections. Some highlights included films of: an early Caribana parade from 1970 (now the world’s largest ex-pat Caribbean carnival - a million plus participants come to Toronto each year), family life from Washington DC and Toronto in the 40’s and the Weeki Wachee mermaid show from a trip to Florida.
This year we would like to thank K Raudoja, P Reddick, J Culp, R Cruickshank, R Miyanishi, S Moffat, P Hamiwka, T Bourgette, Images, Pleasure Dome and especially John Porter for all their help.