Seattle Home Movie Day

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Home Movie Day is a celebration of amateur films and filmmaking held annually at numerous local venues worldwide. The event is free and open to the public.

Join Phil Borgnes, of Sidewalk Cinema, and Hannah Palin, Film Archives Specialist at the University of Washington Libraries Special Collections, for the twelfth annual Home Movie Day, on Saturday, October 18, 10:00am-1:00pm at the Northwest Film Forum in Seattle. Home Movie Day is a celebration of amateur films and filmmaking held annually at numerous local venues worldwide, providing the opportun

ity for individuals and families to discover how best to care for their films and get a rare chance to view examples of home movies. Home Movie Day, Seattle, will feature information about preserving home movies, a display of film equipment, magazines and ephemera, screenings of home movies from the University of Washington Libraries Special Collections and from Philip Borgnes’ orphan film collection. Visitors to Home Movie Day are invited to bring in a several reels from their family collections for preservation information and advice. Depending on the condition of the films, attendees will have the chance to view their own reels of 8mm, Super 8mm and 16mm on viewers or projectors provided by Palin and Borgnes. For more information about the Seattle Home Movie Day event, please contact Hannah Palin, [email protected] or visit the Center for Home Movies, http://www.centerforhomemovies.org/hmd/, for the latest information and links to film preservation information. For more information about National Home Movie Day go to http://www.centerforhomemovies.org/hmd/

Northwest Film Forum is located at 1515 12th Ave, Seattle, WA 98103. For directions and information go to:http://nwfilmforum.org/

What Is Home Movie Day? "Home Movie Day is important because our lives, our recollections, and our truth is recorded in home movies. One day, what the heck, c'mon!” Steve Martin

Home Movie Day is a celebration of amateur films and filmmaking held annually at numerous local venues worldwide. Home Movie Day events provide the opportunity for individuals and families to see and share their own home movies with an audience of their community, and to see their neighbors' in turn. It's a chance to discover why to care about these films and to learn how best to care for them. Home Movie Day was started in 2002 by a group of film archivists concerned about what would happen to all the home movies shot on film during the 20th century. They knew many people have boxes full of family memories that they've never seen for lack of a projector, or out of fear that the films were too fragile to be viewed. They also knew that many people were having their amateur films transferred to videotape or DVD, with the mistaken idea that their new digital copies would last forever and the "obsolete" films could be discarded. Original films (and the equipment required to view them) can long outlast any version on VHS tape, DVDs, or other digital media. Not only that, but contrary to the stereotype of the faded, scratched, and shaky home movie image, the original films are often carefully shot in beautiful, vibrant color—which may not be captured in a lower-resolution video transfer. Home Movie Day has grown into a worldwide celebration of these amateur films, during which people in cities and towns all over meet their local film archivists, find out about the archival advantages of film over video and digital media, and—most importantly—get to watch those old family films! Because they are local events, Home Movie Day screenings can focus on family and community histories in a meaningful way. They also present education and outreach opportunities for local archivists, who can share information about the proper storage and care of personal films, and how to plan for their future. The first Home Movie Day took place on August 16, 2002, and has been followed each year with successful events hosted by an increasing number of volunteers worldwide.

10/18/2024

Hey y'all! Don't forget that Saturday, October 19th, is Home Movie Day! If you're in the Seattle Area, join us at the King County Library in Federal Way or check out the Center for Home Movies for events near you!

https://kcls.bibliocommons.com/events/66d13e2e6023b72f00be85d1

https://www.centerforhomemovies.org/

Center for Home Movies Announcing Home Movie Day 2024! Posted by The Center for Home Movies April 24th, 2024 Hello everyone, and happy Solar New Year! The Center for Home Movies is excited to announce that this year’s “official” Home Movie Day will take place on October 19th–the customary third Saturday in Octob...

Weird and Wonderful: The Satirical Films of Tim Smith [In-Person Only] - Northwest Film Forum

01/18/2024

For folks in the Seattle area there's a great screening coming up on Sunday, January 21st, 7pm, at the Northwest Film Forum. Here's the scoop:

Looking forward to this rare chance to watch Tim Smith's films on the big screen this weekend! MIPoPS - Moving Image Preservation of Puget Sound was first introduced to Tim's clever, kooky childhood reels by a fellow moving image archivist, Matthew Cowan of Oregon Historical Society, who will also be there to introduce this program at Northwest Film Forum.

The Forum's post says it all: Tim's films express a wily charisma that makes our inner teenager green with envy, wishing we had that spark of basement brilliance when we were shooting off-the-cuff oddities as students. (The cameos are the icing on the cake, but trust us – the cake itself is aaall Tim Smith! 🎥🎂) Get tickets for this Sunday at 7pm and join us on Capitol Hill at NWFF – you'll be glad you did. 🎟

Weird and Wonderful: The Satirical Films of Tim Smith [In-Person Only] - Northwest Film Forum Off-beat PDX humorist Tim Smith began making films with a 16mm Bolex in 1968, casting family and friends, including future Simpsons creator Matt Groening.

AMIA Archival Screening Night Roadshow - The Grand Illusion Cinema

11/10/2021

Archival Screening Night
Thursday, November 18, 2021, 7:30 pm
Grand Illusion Cinema, Seattle
Archival Screening Night is a highlight of the annual Association of Moving Image Archivists conference. This year, the ASN will try something new, screening online for AMIA Conference attendees, but also at local venues worldwide. See films curated by AMIA members, showcasing materials from the United States, Mexico, Thailand, Hungary, and New Zealand, an appearance by Louis Jordan and the Tympany Five, a dancing Bobcat (it's not what you expect), Baltimore Breakdancing including the Chocolate Boogie, an Oscar®-winning animator and esteemed film historian now revealed as a comic actor in legendary commercials from the 1960s, Jack Lemon's first screening appearance as a helpless soldier, and much more.

Join Hannah Palin, Moving Image Curator from UW Libraries, Special Collections and members of the Sprocket Society at the best movie event of the year for the low, low admission price of only $5.

AMIA Archival Screening Night Roadshow - The Grand Illusion Cinema A veritable cornucopia of treasures from the world's archives and archivists, ASN Roadshow is 20+ astonishing films and videos in 100 minutes! Archival Screening Night has been the centerpiece of every AMIA conference since 1991. What makes Archival Roadshow Edition special is that this members-only...

Virtual Moving History IV – Breaking News [Online] - Northwest Film Forum

04/13/2020

Breaking News!
Join Moving Image Preservation of Puget Sound and Northwest Film Forum for a pay-what-you-can online screening, Sunday, April 19th from 4:30-5:30 p.m. (EDT). This week's installment features archival news stories and programming from regional archives. MIPoPS explores local news, starting with On Cue, a program aired on the first anniversary of KIRO-TV’s inaugural broadcast on February 12, 1959. This “day in the life” of local television news is part of the KIRO-TV Special Programs videotape collection held by the UW Libraries, Special Collections.

Mark your calendars and tune in!

Virtual Moving History IV – Breaking News [Online] - Northwest Film Forum The MIPoPS archivists explore media accountability with a presentation of local news history featuring KIRO-TV, MOHAI, SAM, Wing Luke, KOMO, KCTS, and more.

03/27/2020

Virtual Moving History I – Poetry in Motion [Online] - Northwest Film Forum In a late celebration of Black History Month, this screening is dedicated to honoring local African-American leaders, activists, writers and performers.

09/22/2016

Wednesday, October 5th is an archival screening night presented by Moving Image Preservation of Puget Sound. Archives from the Seattle area are coming together to share rarely seen gems from their moving image collections. Can't Wait!

10/06/2015

Dear Home Movie Day friends. We are going to have to postpone our event this year. Keep posted for news of a future Seattle Home Movie Day event!

09/08/2015

Home Movie Day was featured on CBS News Sunday Morning. Check it out!!

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/bringing-the-importance-of-home-movies-into-focus/

Bringing the importance of home movies into focus The Center for Home Movies is devoted to helping preserve and project important artifacts of American life

Rare footage captures Charles Lindbergh's Seattle visit

06/01/2015

Check out this mention of a recent UW Libraries, Special Collections acquisition of Charles Lindbergh in Seattle in September, 1927. It's Huge!!http://www.komonews.com/news/local/Rare-footage-captures-Charles-Lindberghs-Seattle-visit--305612971.html?tab=video&c=y

Rare footage captures Charles Lindbergh's Seattle visit The public is getting its first look at a long lost piece of Seattle history.

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