What are your plans for Saturday,October 17th?
If your answer was anything other than “of course I’ll be celebrating Home Movie Day!”you have plenty of time to change your mind. Rake the leaves during the week,set up Tivo to capture the college football games,grab the popcorn and head over to your local Home Movie Day.
What is Home Movie Day? Started in 2002 by a film-loving bunch of archivists and moving image folks,HMD is a sort of ad-hoc amateur film fest,and a celebration of home movies at the local level. You can read more about it here.
Coincidentally,October is also Archives Month. Have you thought about hosting,or perhaps providing film-friendly expertise for your local Home Movie Day? This could be a great opportunity for outreach,and for connecting with your community. Do you have any home movies in your collection that would be of interest during HMD? (Incidentally,this could also serve as a yearly reminder to check the home movies and other films in your collection for any new deterioration or issues).
Anyway,you have almost three weeks until HMD. That could be enough time to secure a projector and a room,haul out the A-D strips,get the word out to the community,and start on the popcorn. Or you could start planning ahead for next year.
Related links:
Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) and Film Forever (the AMIA Home Film Preservation Guide)