REMINDER: Connecticut's first Home Movie Day! To be held in New Haven.

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Connecticut’s First Home Movie Day!

NEWS RELEASE 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CONTACT: MOLLY WHEELER

203.430.4157

Bring-your-own-film event puts the spotlight on historic

amateur works and home film preservation.

On Saturday, August 12th, 2006, local archivists, librarians, filmmakers and film enthusiasts will help the public learn about, enjoy, and rescue films so often forgotten about.  Home Movie Day shows how home movies offer a unique “you are here” view of decades past, often in gorgeous living color, and are an important part of personal, community, and cultural history.

“Saving our film heritage should not be limited only to commercially produced films,” says legendary director and film preservation advocate Martin Scorsese.  Filmmaker John Waters echoes that sentiment saying, “There’s no such thing as a bad home movie…Home Movie Day is an orgy of self-discovery, a chance for family memories to suddenly become show business. If you’ve got one, whip it out and show it now.”

Connecticut’s very first Home Movie Day is free and open to public and will be held in New Haven on Saturday, August 12 at the Whitney Humanities Center on the Yale Campus (53 Wall Street, corner of Wall and Church). Film drop-off time is 10am to noon; home movie screening is from noon to 4pm (including local filmmaker, Robbin Barstow's 1956 production "Disneyland Dream); and there will be a special screening of James Ivory’s “Autobiography of a Princess” from 5 to 6pm. Film and video assessment and preservation tips will be provided throughout the event, prizes will be given away and continuous screenings of home movies will be enjoyed! Damaged films cannot be screened, but participants whose films are at risk can learn more about how to rescue those precious images before it’s too late. No films? Come and watch the show!

Accepted movie types are 8mm, Super 8, 16mm, VHS video and DVD. Participants are urged to introduce and even narrate their movies. Participants are urged to contact organizers in advance to drop-off film for inspection and projection preparation or arrive at 10am on the event day. Drop-off contacts: New Haven area: Molly Wheeler ([log in to unmask]) 203.430.4157; Hartford area: George Odell, TFG Film & Tape ([log in to unmask]) 860.529.1877 or 800.773.2753; and Norwalk area: Susan Luchars ([log in to unmask]) 203.451.0333.

Home Movie Day is an internationally organized event that began in 2003, when a small group of film archivists decided to go beyond traditional preservation methods to try and save the countless reels of home movies shot on film during the 20th century. The first Home Movie Day on August 16, 2003 was an unexpected success, with over twenty cities in four countries participating. In each following year, Home Movie Day grew bigger still, with as many as four dozen venues taking part from Australia to Arkansas.  

Don’t throw your films away—take them to Home Movie Day!

Information: www.homemovieday.com/newhaven, www.myspace.com/newhavenhomemovieday

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Phone: Molly Wheeler 203.430.4157



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