Posted by Skip November 6th, 2013
An article on Home Movie Day (from 2011) by Becca Hall and Kyle Westphal of the Northwest Chicago Film Society.
Other People’s Lives: The Politics of Home Movie Day | Northwest Chicago Film Society
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Twenty years ago, or even ten, the place of home movies within film history and film culture was contested and precarious. Thinking about them was uncomfortable. You remembered posing for the camera, mom rushing into the shot to fix your hair, dad barking directions, your sister rolling her eyes whi…
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Posted by Skip November 6th, 2013
Call for Papers.
Thinking Amateur Cinema
REVISTA LAIKA is an academic journal produced by the Laboratory of Audiovisual Research and Critique (LAICA) of the Department of Film, Radio and Television, located at the School of Arts and Communications of the University of São Paulo, in Brazil. We invite contributions in Portuguese, English, Spanish and French for the special issue dedicated to Amateur Cinema.
Como colaborar | Revista Laika
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A Revista Laika é aberta à submissão de trabalhos inéditos (de autoria individual ou coletiva) de pesquisadores, realizadores, professores e estudantes de Audiovisual e áreas conexas, em sistema de fluxo contínuo para contribuições em forma de resenhas, artigos, ensaios fotográficos, vídeos e podcas…
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Posted by Skip November 6th, 2013
Emma Hurst's ever-evolving Tumblr of stills from home movies from the Prelinger Collection.
*stills
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Emma Hurst // FWT&summer 2013 // Prelinger Archives
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Posted by Skip November 6th, 2013
“The project will re-create the traveling outdoor cinema of the 1930s, and the “KinoVan,” which will tour shopping areas, festivals and schools to gather and screen local footage, will offer expert assessment of residents’ home movies.”
London Film Archive Plan Gets $785,000 in Financing
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LONDON – Film London, the British capital's government backed movie agency, has corralled $785,000 (£500,000) to push a heritage movie drive across 15 London boroughs. The cash, pumped into London's Screen Archives (LSA) network, will fuel a “major” three-year project beginning in January of 2014, c…
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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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Posted by Skip November 6th, 2013
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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