"Home Movie Day," An International Celebration,
comes to South Florida on Saturday, October 18, 2008 at 4pm
Miami-Dade Public Library, 101 West Flagler Street, Downtown Miami
Admission FREE
The Lynn and Louis Wolfson II Florida Moving Image Archives joins other organizations around the country and abroad in taking part in International Home Movie Day, a celebration of 8mm and 16mm home movies and amateur film. Initially founded in 2002 by a small group of film archivists, Home Movie Day was first celebrated in globally 2003. In just a few years the event has grown to encompass events in the United Kingdom, Australia, Brazil, Italy, Japan, Canada and Singapore, as well as the United States.
"Home movies have increasingly become valued as primary source materials for historians," says Don Chauncey, director for the Lynn and Louis Wolfson II Florida Moving Image Archives. "These films, like diaries of ordinary people, provide a unique view of family and society. In addition, they often are the only remaining images of people, events, and objects long gone. "
"Wolfson Archive has hosted Home Movie Day locally since it's inception," says Barron Sherer, curator at the archive. "While small gauge films are a fixture of our preservation efforts and screenings year round, Home Movie Day acknowledges the international interest in intimate, personal films that document our history and culture."
At the screening of recently acquired home movies, the archive welcomes donors - the people who shot the film and their families -to share reminiscences about the people and places shown.
Wolfson Archive has been collecting home movies since 1986 and its collection of amateur film is recognized as one of the most significant in the country, containing one of the largest home movie and amateur film collections in the country, with the oldest images dating from 1910. Chauncey continues, "If you have a box of old 8mm or 16mm home movies that includes scenes of Florida, please donate them to Wolfson so we can save them for the future. If they are in good enough condition, we can make a DVD copy for your family to enjoy."
DATE: Saturday, October 18, 2008
TIME: 4:00pm-5:30pm
LOCATION: Auditorium, Miami-Dade Public Library, 101 West Flagler ST, Miami, FL, 33130
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Link: Miami Herald Article on Home Movie Day
