Posted by Skip November 6th, 2013
From the local club news section of the March 1928 issue of “Movie Makers” (called “Amateur Movie Makers” at the time), an article on J.S. Watson and Melville Webber’s “Fall of the House of Usher.” “An amateur group in Rochester, N.Y., seeking true cinematic values…” It was named to the National Film Registry in 2000.
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Posted by Skip November 6th, 2013
The Center for Asian American Media has unveiled its Memories to Light web collection of Asian American home movies.
Timeline Photos
It’s finally here! Our new website, Memories to Light: Asian American Home Movies is now live.
http://www.caamedia.org/memoriestolight
See how everyday Asian American grandparents, mothers, fathers, aunts and uncles lived and let loose through home movies spanning six decades in the USA. We invite you to watch and join in sharing our history!
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Posted by Skip November 6th, 2013
A 1995 essay on making and watching home movies from the Chicago Reader.
Home Movies
www.chicagoreader.com
It took time to use an 8-millimeter home movie camera effectively. Time and experience.
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Posted by Skip November 6th, 2013
At the EYE Film Institute in Amsterdam: “Looming Fire, the latest work by filmmaker and artist Péter Forgács. Based on EYE’s extensive collection of home movies, Forgács (Budapest, 1950) takes us through everyday life in the Netherlands East Indies at the height of the colonial period.”
Péter Forgács – Looming Fire | EYE, het nieuwe filmmuseum
www.eyefilm.nl
From 5 October to 1 December 2013 EYE’s main exhibition space will be exclusively devoted to Looming Fire, the latest work by filmmaker and artist Péter Forgács. Based on EYE’s extensive collection of home movies, Forgács (Budapest, 1950) takes us through everyday life in the Netherlands East Indies…
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Posted by Skip November 6th, 2013
From the Criterion Collection, 8mm home movies of Ingrid Bergman.
Ingrid Bergman's Home Movies
8mm home movies of Ingrid Bergman around the filming of 1950's STROMBOLI. 3 Films by Roberto Rossellini Starring Ingrid Bergman is out now on Blu-ray and DVD…
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Posted by Skip November 6th, 2013
The Center for Digital Storytelling leads workshops that teach people how to develop first person narratives into short videos. This storyteller centers his around his family's home movies and the scene that they repeat year after year.
Home Movies – a digital story by Dana Atchley
Kids turning for the camera, a kiss, and the Colorado Spaceman. This story was made by the grandfather of the digital storytelling movement and is an outtake…
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