From Britt Kootstra:
City: Malax, Finland
Event Venue: Malakta
Event time (screening): 13:00-17:00
Event time (inspection): Thursday 14:00-16:00, Friday : 14:00-16:00, Saturday: 10:00-13:00
Total Audience: 30
Number of people bringing films: 8
Films screened by Gauge: 8mm: 2, Super 8: 11, 16mm: 3 (submitted by Malakta and Filmcentrum Botnia)
Volunteers: 8 :Jukka Rajala-Granstubb, Maja Granstubb, Britt Kootstra, Arvid van der Rijt, Klas Fransberg, Axel Fransberg, Sarah Nelson, Erika Sillander
Special events/screenings: - screening of educational 16mm films (upplysningsfilms) + 16mm films about Malakta, showing the history of Malakta which used to be a dairy factory - exhibition of projectors and camera’s from the collection of Klas Fransberg (Filmcentrum Botnia-Elokuvakeskus Botnia) - live marathon super8-filmscanning Press (pre-event and post-event):
Pre - Radio Pohjanmaa - Webarticle ÖP ; (international home movie day for the first time in Finland) - announcements in newspapers Vasabladet and Pohjalainen
Post - frontpage + article in Vasabladet - report on Malax TV
super8 - 1 reel (15m.) found film showing a family having fun in the snow - 1 reel (60m.) showing the harvest time in Österbotten ‘73-’76 - 1 reel (60m.) of travels to Scotland and Norway 1978 - 1 reel (60m.) of travels to Germany and Austria, and family in the summer - 1 reel (15m.) of family celebrating christmas - 2 reels (2 x 15m.) of family in Finland - 1 reel (60m.) of a choir travelling - 1 reel (60m.) of summertime in Finland - 1 reel (60m.) of holiday in Italy - 1 reel (70m) of travels to Germany
regular8 - 1 reel (60m.) about every member of the Skinnar family and all their daily activities 1963 - 1 amateur short film of 15 min. about… 1961
16mm - 2 reels of dairy factory Malakta - 1 ‘uplyssningsfilm’, educational film
All in all, it was a very successful day. We had a nice amount of films handed in. We couldn’t screen all of them, as we had some very active amateur filmmakers in the audience. At home they still had 2,5 km of film waiting to be screened… We had some films on 16 mm to show, just in case we didn’t have enough films brought in. We only had time to watch 3 short films in the beginning. At the end we almost ran out of time to be able to show all the films. All the visitors left saying, ‘See you next year!’ We are putting HMD in our calendar for next year, and hope for the same amount of enthusiasm, we encountered this year.