Home Movie Day
October 13th, 2009
The 7th annual Home Movie Day will be held at the HFA on Saturday October 17th.
Over the years we have seen a wide variety of films at Home Movie Day, from an amateur Tarzan re-enactment by kids in the 1930s to film taken on an oceanliner in the 1920s. Last year a teenage spy film hit the screen to great acclaim. Classic home movies of barbecues and family vacations are our bread and butter, and they never cease to surprise and delight the crowd.
Why home movies? Because these little films, yours, or your grandma’s, or the ones you found at the junkyard, are unique and personal, potentially interesting, funny, pretty, fascinating and strange, and certainly worth a watch. Be the star of the show!
We provide the screen, projectors, projectionists, film inspectors, music, and information about film preservation and home movies in general, you provide the films.
The films you bring can be new or old (but don’t bring films we’ve shown at Home Movie Days past), they can belong to you or someone else. They should be amateur (not mass-produced), but those are the only guidelines.
Free Event
Saturday October 17 at 1pm
Home Movie Day
Check in with your films at 11am
Films will screen 1-4pm
In room B-04 in the lower level of the Carpenter Center
24 Quincy Street, Cambridge
Bring out your home movies on super 8, 8mm, 16mm, VHS, DVD, or other video format (bring a player or camera). Video is limited to 5 minutes. Local film archivists will be on hand to discuss home movie preservation.
Each film must be inspected for damage before being run on a projector, so please drop off your film as early as you can. If possible, drop off your film at the HFA office the week prior to the event.
For more information about Home Movie Day and locations around the country, visit the Home Movie Day website, homemovieday.org.