[snca-list] Home Movie Day Raleigh, Saturday, October 17, 2009

[Katie Nash]

HOME MOVIE DAY RALEIGH
Saturday, October 17, 2009, 1-4pm
North Carolina State Archives Auditorium


This year's Home Movie Day will be taking place on October 17, 2009 at a

new venue, The NC Archives on Jones Street, which has plenty of free 
parking! Dig around for films and ask family members--people often don't

even realize that their parents or grandparents or great uncles shot 
footage until they ask!

If you've got home movies in your family on 8mm, super8, or 16mm, think 
about bringing them out any time between 1-4 pm. We'll inspect them, 
talk to you about how best to preserve and access them, and we'll even 
project them for you!

Home Movie Day is a worldwide celebration of a part of our culture we 
need to work to preserve, and the Raleigh team is proud to be a part of 
this effort.

No films? No problem! Come have fun and watch! You can even play Home 
Movie Day Bingo (yes, we always play bingo!).

For more information (and a map!!!), http://www.avgeeks.com/hmd.html

Feel free to forward this to anyone who you think might be interested.

And here's a good example of what surprises rest in those tiny film 
cannisters:

Chapel Hill resident Galen Black actively seeks out old 35mm slides and 
cans of home movies at estate and yard sales. Like some attendees at 
Home Movie Day, he is interested in looking at how we lived. At one 
point, he had purchased some vacation films from a well-to-do Chapel 
Hill family at the beach and in Europe. The family apparently took a 
trip to Europe in the early 1930s. So along with footage of the Alps and

picturesque little villages, the family also captured a Nazi rally - 
complete with Nazi banners, brown shirted Nazi supporters and Hitler 
giving a speech. Galen admits that the Hitler footage probably isn't 
worth a lot to the serious collector, but it does show that home movies 
can be important cultural and historical records. The HMD Raleigh Crew 
will be screening these materials this year.

-- 
Devin Orgeron
Co-Editor: The Moving Image
http://www.upress.umn.edu/journals/movingimage/default.html

Associate Professor and Director of Film Studies
North Carolina State University
Department of English
Campus Box 8105
Raleigh, NC 27695-8105
Office: Tompkins 202 A 
	   919.515.4138
	   devin_orgeron at ncsu.edu

Kim Andersen Cumber
Non-Textual Materials Archivist
North Carolina State Archives
4614 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, NC  27699-4614
Ph: (919) 807-7311 | Fx: (919) 733-1354
kim.cumber at ncdcr.gov 
 
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