Home Movie Day 2007
On Saturday, Tim and I went to Home Movie Day. We never realized it was part of a national event going on all over the country. The point of the day is acknowledge a dying art and media form. It was really interesting. People could bring in their old 8mm or 16mm films in order to have them shown to an audience. People could narrate the films as they went or just allow us to watch.
We had quite a few older people bringing films of their family that they had never seen or footage of their child’s first steps. One guy had a film he bought at a tag sale from his landlord. He paid $2 for a family film because no one in their family wanted it. Here is where I have to ask who would ever think of selling their old family films…and who would buy them?! It is like buying a filled photo album.
During the day we played Movie Day Bingo checking off squares whenever we saw what was written on the page. I never thought I would get a police officer until the last film was shown, thanks to the guy who brought in the random film from the strange family. He helped me get $10 at a great coffee shop around the corner! Yeah for the guy who buys weird things from garage sales.
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That’s so interesting and something I have never heard of. Who puts on this event? I actually grew up in a family who had no video camera and thus no home movies of my childhood. But,there are some great pictures of two nerdy sisters to make up for it!
The group that put it on for us kept calling themselves grassroots. They seemed like maybe they were film students at Yale or something. They knew what they were doing, but I the web site I linked to seemed to imply that anyone could sponsor the event. You should do it!