Home Movies
Posted: August 6th, 2007, 11:29 am
Saturday, August 11, 2007 has been designated as International Home Move Day. Endorsed by such luminaries as Martin Scorsese and John Waters. Events around the world are planned. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will screen Alfred Hitchcock's and Steve McQueen's home movies. In San Francisco there will be a 12-hour event at the San Francisco Media Archive, showing home movies.
90% of amateur movies shot before 1930 have vanished. Efforts to save these treasures of personal and social history are being raised. Home movies are among the only films made without financial incentive, so we get a different perspective than Hollywood fare. There's a fellow in San Francisco who'd joined a Cinema Club in the 1950's. They shot home movies in CinemaScope! He shot downtown and Nob Hill in 1961; street scenes showing men in hats and women wearing gloves -- no one wearing shorts or sandals.
How many of you still have home movies?
90% of amateur movies shot before 1930 have vanished. Efforts to save these treasures of personal and social history are being raised. Home movies are among the only films made without financial incentive, so we get a different perspective than Hollywood fare. There's a fellow in San Francisco who'd joined a Cinema Club in the 1950's. They shot home movies in CinemaScope! He shot downtown and Nob Hill in 1961; street scenes showing men in hats and women wearing gloves -- no one wearing shorts or sandals.
How many of you still have home movies?