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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“The film showed the everyday activities of a middle-class family in Shanghai, which is unusual because shooting home movies in the 1920s and 1930s was popular only among the rich, said Wang Min, a department director for the Shanghai Audiovisual Archive.”
Archive screens home movie from 1930s – NZweek
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The Shanghai Audiovisual Archive Sunday screened the first piece of film ever found showing the live
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An amateur drama shot by King Rama VII has been named to Thailand’s Registry of Films as National Heritage.
“1929’s “Magic Ring”, a home movie the monarch made on a trip to Koh Pha-ngan. The 25-minute short with silent-film intertitles is about a cruel stepfather who abandons his children on the island. One of them meets a nymph who gives him a magic ring that can grant wishes. “All the actors are the royal family and King Rama VII shot the film himself,” says Chalida Uabumrungjit, the Film Archive’s deputy director.”
A Cannes contender, Oscar hopefuls and Royal home movies – The Nation
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A Cannes contender, Oscar hopefuls and Royal home movies The Nation ‘Tears of the Black Tiger’, ‘The Tin Mine’ and films by King Rama VII added to national heritage registry
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Crowdsourcing home movie identification in Portland.
Mystery film: Who are these people?
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Decades-old movies were found at a thrift store and now they’re taking on a life of their own on the Internet after some amateur sleuths posted them online looking for clues.
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Now available, this collection of essays on amateur fiction films, edited by Ryan Shand and Ian Craven.
Small-Gauge Storytelling: Discovering the Amateur Fiction Film
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What do you understand by the term ‘home movie’? Do you imagine images of babies-on-the lawn, sandcastles on the beach, or travels with the family? Did you know that amateur filmmakers have also explored fictional genres as diverse and fascinating as their professional counterparts, that specific…
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