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Home Movie Day 2008
It's the biggest family film night of all - Home Movie Day celebrates the 8mm, the camcorder and the Super-8.
Since the earliest days of film, manufacturers recognised that amateurs would want to roll camera too - with the earliest home movie camera onsale in the early 20s. Alongside the commercial movie business, a worldwide film record has grown, of picnics, bike rides, beach games, backyard cricket matches, birthdays, dress-ups, practical jokes - even major, world-changing events.
As Martin Scorcese said: "Consider Abraham Zapruder's 8mm film that recorded the assassination of President Kennedy or Nickolas Muray's famously vibrant color footage of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera shot with his 16mm camera. Imagine how different our view of history would be without these precious films."
Just as precious are the millions of movies made of family and community life - intimate and essential records of our recent past. In 2002 a group of film archivists based in the USA decided to hold a festival which would encourage people to dust off the canisters and boxes of tapes stacked in their attics and garden sheds, and share them with their communities, and the world.
The first Home Movie Day was held in 2003. Seven years later, it's a worldwide event, with screenings and workshops held from Argentina to Japan; from Mexico to the Netherlands.
This year, ACMI is celebrating Home Movie Day with a special day-long screening of our extensive archive of films and videos from around Australia, and across the years. Drop in to the ACMI Function Space any time between 10am and 6pm on Saturday 18 October to see our home-grown, homemade moving history. Find out more here
Published Tuesday, 23 September 2008
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