Why home movies? Because these little films, yours, or your grandma's, or the ones you found at the junkyard, are unique and personal, potentially interesting, funny, pretty, fascinating and strange, and certainly worth a watch. Be the star of the show!
We provide the screen, projectors, projectionists, film inspectors, music, and information about film preservation and home movies in general, you provide the films.
The films you bring can be new or old (but don't bring films we've shown at Home Movie Days past), they can belong to you or someone else. They should be amateur (not mass-produced), but those are the only guidelines.
Free Event
Saturday October 17 at 1pm
Check in with your films at 11am
Films will screen 1-4pm
In room B-04 in the lower level of the Carpenter Center
24 Quincy Street, Cambridge
Bring out your home movies on super 8, 8mm, 16mm, VHS, DVD, or other video format (bring a player or camera). Video is limited to 5 minutes. Local
film archivists will be on hand to discuss home movie preservation.
Each film must be inspected for damage before being run on a projector, so please drop off your film as early as you can. If possible, drop off your film at the HFA office the week prior to the event.
Harvard Film Archive is a division of Fine Arts Library of the Harvard College Library.
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