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Projects
A DVD compendium of twenty-two films from the first two years of Home Movie Day, revealing a range of amateur films as varied as the filmmakers behind the cameras. "A must-have for anyone who's ever been captivated by the wordless draw of moving images, or the common intimacies of other people's live."--Film Comment Amateur Night: Home Movies from American Archives
A feature-length 35mm compilation of 16 home movies and amateur films from American film archives,including home movies by Alfred Hitchcock, National Film Registry title OUR DAY, and home movies from the Heart Mountain Japanese internment camp, New Orleans's Lower 9th Ward following Hurricane Katrina (by filmmaker Helen Hill), the rescue of Smokey Bear, an atomic bomb test in the Nevada Desert, and many more. Preservation
Think of Me First as a Person In conjunction with the Orphan Film Symposium, CHM oversaw the digital preservation of the National Film Registry title, Think of Me First as a Person. www.thinkofmefirstasaperson.com Home & Amateur blog post on the preservation of Think of Me First as a Person
Helen Hill Home Movies In conjunction with the Harvard Film Archive, with funding from the Women's Film Preservation Foundation, nine reels of super 8 home movies by the late filmmaker Helen Hill have been preserved by Colorlab, Inc. The reels were shot by Hill in New Orleans and were partially destroyed when her Mid-City home was flooded following Hurricane Katrina.
Wallace Kelly Home Movies The Orphan Film Symposium and the National Film Preservation Foundation have supported the preservation of five reels of home movies and amateur films by the Kentucky filmmaker Wallace Kelly, including the National Film Registry title Our Day. The following Wallace Kelly films are available for viewing online at Archive.org:
Wallace Kelly Goes to New York
Arthur H. Smith's The Mirror
The National Film Preservation Foundation supported the preservation of "The Mirror," an amateur thriller by the California filmmaker Arthur H. Smith. The Center for Home Movies holds Smith's complete collection, including home movies and amateur dramas. The Mirror is available online at Archive.org:
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