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Join us for a celebration of home movies and cultural heritage — featuring home movie bingo and light refreshments! Bring your friends, family, and most importantly your home movies. If this activity is sold out, canceled, or otherwise needs alteration, email so we can update it immediately.
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. It’s a chance to discover why these films are important and to learn how best to care for them. Artists’ Television Access is a San Francisco-based, artist-run, non-profit organization that cultivates and promotes culturally-aware, underground media and experimental art. We provide an accessible screening venue and gallery for the presentation of programmed and guest-curated screenings, exhibitions, performances, workshops and events. We believe in fostering a supportive community for the exhibition of innovative art and the exchange of non-conformist ideas. Bring your Video, Super 8, 8mm, and 16mm films to screen or just come to behold the vast array of fascinating amateur movies in the Rochester area!
Home Movie Day 2019
Among the films are some shot using Kodak’s Kodacolor film, an early lenticular film color technology. The films shot by Christoffers likely contain some of the earliest color footage of Alaska’s islands and the Bering Sea. The following reel (ca. 1933) contains color footage shot from a boat passing through Seattle’s Hiram M. Chittenden Locks, a sea voyage to Alaska, an encounter with a whaling ship, and, of course, seals. There is also a sequence showing Christoffers and his family picking flowers, which was a common subject for amateur filmmakers shooting color film.
Just remember that the original film will probably last longer than any format you transfer to, so continue to protect it for the future. You will also need to migrate the copy to newer formats from time to time. Several years ago, NARA’s Motion Picture Preservation Lab was inundated with seals. More specifically, we received a large collection of films showing rocky coastline covered with fur seals as far as the eye could see.
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Viewing material together as a community is both very informative and very entertaining. They reveal commonalities that we have across culture and unlock little time machines into the past. Cleveland Arts Events connects you to Cuyahoga County’s vibrant arts and culture scene. Cleveland Arts Events is supported by Cuyahoga Arts & Culture, in collaboration with Assembly for the Arts. Please check with the presenting organization or venue to confirm start times and duration.
But how did the National Archives end up with his home movies? For my research into Christoffers, I relied on a history of the U.S. presence in the Pribilof Islands written by Betty and John Lindsay. When the Lindsays were researching their book, they contacted Harry J. Christoffers Jr., who was in possession of his father’s film collection from the family’s years in the Pribilofs. This spurred the son to donate all of the films to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration . The collection of films was shot by Harry J. Christoffers Sr. in the 1930s.
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First and most important when it comes to preservation is proper storage. At NARA, we store film in climate-controlled vaults that were specifically designed for film. Typical storage places in your home, like basements and attics, are terrible for film. The heat and humidity common in these spaces cause film to deteriorate more rapidly than if they are stored in a climate-controlled space.
While it is still possible to view home movies with a projector and screen, the way they were originally seen, you should approach this with caution. Be sure that your films are not highly shrunken or damaged, and that your projector is clean and in good working order. Finding a Home Movie Day event in your area is a good way to get a quick assessment of your films and perhaps see one screened.
NYU provides reasonable accommodations to people with disabilities. Please submit your request for accommodations for events and services at least two weeks before the date of your accommodation need. Although we can't guarantee accommodation requests received less than two weeks before the event, you should still contact us and we will do our best to meet your accommodation needs. Watch other films that are archived and cleaned by the Philippine Film Archive. A celebration of amateur film and film making and reviving the art of Film Archiving. Some of the film and video donors will be on hand to share their behind-the-scenes stories about the bands and performances featured.
Footage shot from a boat transiting the Hiram M. Chittenden Locks from Lake Washington toward Puget Sound. Please don't scroll past this—the Internet Archive is growing rapidly, and we need your help. As an independent nonprofit, we build and maintain all our own systems, but we don’t charge for access, sell user information, or run ads. We'd be deeply grateful if you'd join the one in a thousand users that support us financially.
Worse, if your basement floods, the films may be unrecoverable. This video took care to honor all "no photographs" requests. If we made a mistake please reach out to via social media. Home Movie Day is a worldwide event that invites you to see and share your own home movies with an audience of your community.
Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Fisheries as the Superintendent of the Pribilof Islands, made up of 75 square miles of land located about 200 miles off the coast of Alaska. ATA is looking for volunteers to help with our Gallery and our Screenings. Volunteers run screenings, organize events, curate shows, and get stuff done. We need people who are creative, reliable, and willing to commit to 4 hours a week. If you have any other oddball formats (28mm, 9.5mm, etc.), we can’t project the films for you, but we can help you find a safe, cost-effective way to view these prints.
If you have a question about the activity itself, please contact the organization administrator listed below. We will be screening 16mm, 8mm, Super 8mm, CHS, 8mm Video, MiniDV, DVD, and digital video files. Join us for a celebration of home movies and cultural heritage -- featuring home movie bingo and light refreshments! Digitize those now or you won’t be able to view them much longer—VCRs are officially obsolete.
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