City: Toronto (Host: TIFF‚’s Film Reference Library)
Event Venue: TIFF Bell Lightbox
Event time (screening): 12pm ˆ 4:30pm (12 to 3 - local; 3 to 4:30 - celebrity)
Event time (inspection): 12pm ˆ 3pm (concurrent with local screening program)
Total Audience: 17 (inspection & projection clinic); 25 (celebrity home movie screening)
Number of people bringing films: 3
Films screened by Gauge: 8mm: 2
Super 8: 1
16mm: 2
TOTAL: 5
Volunteers (# and names˜will be acknowledged in CHM annual report unless otherwise indicated):
Volunteers & staff who assisted on the day: Christina Stewart; Asen Ivanov; Alex Rogalski; Kelley Gorman; Eve Goldin; Rachel Beattie; Riz Ansari; Anderas Erne; Winston Hosin; Daniel Bell & Victoria Kucher
Special events/screenings:
3pm - 4:30pm ˆ Celebrity home screening program (material for this program provided courtesy of both the Academy Film Archive and George Eastman House). Footage included:
Academy Film Archive
James Telfer Collection: Hollywood and Environs (1947); Hollywood and Environs - Ten Years Later (1957 - 1960); Fred Guiol Collection: Ginger Rogers at Home (ca. 1940); Jean Negulesco Collection: Beach House Bonhomie (ca. 1940); Behind the Scenes with Sophia Loren (1956)
George Eatman House
George Eastman Home Movies: Kodacolor Party (1928); Joan Crawford Home Movies: Compilation Reel (c. 1940)
Press (pre-event and post-event):
Globe & Mail Newspaper article: Home Movie Day puts amateurs on the silver screen (Author: Eric Veillette; published Saturday October 15, 2011)
Report submitted by:
Julie Lofthouse, Archivist Film Reference Library, TIFF
Highlights
16mm:
Family Group 1926 New York City, moderately wealthy Jewish family. Footage includes the neighbourhood, party on the roof “The Flop Sisters” and other family members. Film included intertitles.
1930 Gramps & Uncle Vic on the Boat New York City harbour including Statue of Liberty, passenger boat (from shore and on the boat), footage of the USS California (B- 44). Film included intertitles.
8mm:
Family vacation at Sauble Beach [1955] Kids swimming in the water.
Knights of Columbus little league baseball game [1962]
Footage of little league baseball game.
Super8:
- [untitled; c. late 1970s - early 1980s]. A Winnipeg Bluebombers (CFL football) game at Winnipeg Stadium, possibly playing the Hamilton Tigercats; family footage of gatherings, kids playing table tennis, a trip to the Yukon (very brief), waterskiing, and a bit of farm life.