Coming Soon: Home Movie Day Saturday, October 17 2009 @ The Cinema Museum

"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

For the seventh international Home Movie Day on Saturday, October 17 2009, film archivists will take time out of the film vaults to help the public enjoy and save their home movies. We encourage people to share their home movie collections, whether they are scenes of family holidays, birthday parties, or films made about local communities or specific topics of interest. More importantly, it's a chance to see the films once again - possibly on a cinema screen! Find out more at the website: www.homemovieday.com

Home Movie Day will be held at two locations in the UK this year, one at the Cinema Museum in Kennington, London and the other at the National Media Museum in Bradford.

Events in London include a Film Clinic, staffed by volunteer film archivists from the BBC, BFI and Wellcome Library, to which members of the public may bring their films (on standard 8mm, super 8, 9.5mm and 16mm) for examination. The archivists will give feedback about the condition of the films, and advice on how to store them properly in the home. Information will also be available on donating films to archives and how to transfer films to DVD for easy home viewing.

Films will be projected by expert projectionists, who will be continuously screening home movies throughout the day. This is often the most enjoyable part of the day, as often people will have inherited films but no equipment to watch them on.

While in Bradford, there will be opportunities to look behind the scenes at the Museum and see some great examples of home movies from the Yorkshire Film Archive's collections. Staff from the NMM and the YFA will also be on hand to advise you on the preservation of your films.

The day's events will also include three sessions with Michael Harvey, Curator of Cinematography at the NMeM, focusing on the technology used to create home movies and highlighting pieces from the Museum's collection. There will also two presentations by YFA's Binny Baker and series producer Andrew Knight taking a closer look at the highly successful television series "The Way We Were", a series completely designed around home movies and amateur filmmakers. Plus there will be screenings throughout the day of home movies, and an afternoon screening of films made during the Family Filmmaking Workshop.

As Steve Martin says, come on! Don't deprive your future descendants by letting your films rot in the loft, bring them to Home Movie Day!

Event details:

Home Movie Day London

www.homemovieday.com/london
Saturday, October 17 2009
11am - 5pm
The Cinema Museum, Kennington
2 Dugard Way, London SE11 4TH

2pm: Talk by film archiving expert David Cleveland on the history of amateur film

Also: Screening of some of actress Phyllis Calvert's home movies presented by her grandson Thomas Dyton.

Nearest tube: Kennington. Free parking, access via Renfrew Road. Tea and cake will be available. Music by DJ Fanny Foxtrot of the Shellac Sisters.

Contact: Lucy Smee, dearoldsmee@gmail.com, 07515 888465 and Lisa Kerrigan, lisa.kerrigan@gmail.com, 07817503001