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The Center for Digital Storytelling leads workshops that teach people how to…

Posted by November 6th, 2013

The Center for Digital Storytelling leads workshops that teach people how to develop first person narratives into short videos. This storyteller centers his around his family's home movies and the scene that they repeat year after year.


Home Movies – a digital story by Dana Atchley
Kids turning for the camera, a kiss, and the Colorado Spaceman. This story was made by the grandfather of the digital storytelling movement and is an outtake…

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An article on Home Movie Day (from 2011) by Becca Hall and Kyle Westphal

Posted by 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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The film showed the everyday activities of a middle-class family in Shanghai…

Posted by November 6th, 2013

“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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An amateur drama shot by King Rama VII has been named to Thailand’s Registry of Films

Posted by 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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