3rd Annual Home Movie Day Events

Sat, Aug 13
12-Midnight
Free

3rd Annual Home Movie Day Events at the San Francosco Media
Archive


ABOUT HOME MOVIE DAY
The first annual Home Movie Day, in August 2003 celebrated the
celluloid history of families and communities across the United
States and around the world. It was a major international success
with hundreds of attendees across the United States and the world.
Home Movie Day events received major press coverage in the New York
Times, The Los Angeles Times, The San Francisco Chronicle and NPR's
All Things Considered radio program. This year promises to be even
more widely received.

Mayor Gavin Newsom is issuing a proclamation making August 13th
officially San Francisco Home Movie Day!


SAN FRANCISCO HOME MOVIE DAY EVENTS
On Saturday, August 13th, San Francisco Home Movie Day we invite all
San Franciscans to bring in their personal, family or home movies
they may have lurking in their closets or under their beds for us to
clean and screen in our facility.
The San Francisco Media Archive will present a host of events from
12:00-12:00. All events are free and held at the archive at 275 Capp
St in San Francisco. Email us at or call 415.558.8117
for information. Email RSVPs are preferred.


Bring Us Your Home Movies!
HOME MOVIE FILM CLINIC
12:00-6:00PM the San Francisco Media archive will examine, inspect,
repair and clean any films brought in to our facility by the public.
We will also screen your films for you. Qualified films donated to
the archive will be transferred free of charge and video copies given
to donors at a later date. RSVP PLEASE as space is limited.



SAN FRANCISCO STORIES
6:00-8:00PM The San Francisco Media Archive will host San Francisco
Stories, a program featuring selections from donor home movies. This
event will showcase rare family home movies with a narration and oral
history of San Francisco by long time SF and Bay Area residents and
home movie donors. Confirmed to speak at press time will be SFMA
donor Reg Hick. Hick will give a brief oral history of his family
films, compiled and preserved by SFMA archivist Lauren Sorenson. The
Hick Family Collection, over 100 reels of 16mm film filmed from the
1940s through the 1970s were shot in the Philippines while the Hick
family owned a coconut plantation supplying the Peter Paul candy
company(makers of Almond Joy and Mounds). If you would like to
participate please contact the archive directly at 415.558.8117.





SAN FRANCISCO HOME MOVIE SCREENING
"The American Eye: From San Francisco to Samoa"

8:00-10:00PM "The American Eye: From San Francisco to Samoa" is a
very special screening of archival American home movies shot at home
and abroad, from the collection of the San Francisco Media Archive
curated by Director Stephen Parr. Watch Sierra snow dogs in
California, moving a house in Oakland, a double wedding in Michigan,
a swingin' vacation in Matzatlan, hugging the natives in darkest
Africa, an idyllic village in Nazi Germany, the red city of Jaipur,
snake charmers of India, and a whale vanishing in New Zealand.

In addition Bay Area archivists and collectors will be on hand to
present and discuss a collection of some of their most rare, unique
and entertaining San Francisco home movies from their collections.
Featured curators and archivists (to be confirmed) will screen works
from their collections. SFMA director Stephen Parr will screen the
National Film Preservation Foundation's preserved films "San
Francisco in Cinemascope"(Color, 1958) featuring footage of the
Fillmore, the Mission district and many other panoramic views of San
Francisco. Other films may include home movies of the building of the
Golden Gate Bridge, the Jefferson Airplane performing in Golden Gate
Park and rare footage of Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers in San
Francisco.


HOME MOVIE DAY RECEPTION
10:00-12:00PM The San Francisco Media Archive will host a Home Movie
Day Reception. Meet the staff of SFMA, curators and other film
collectors and enjoy the cinematic experience of selected silent home
movies playing in our screening room. RSVP only for the reception.
Please bring something to drink or share!



Why Home Movies?

"Saving our film heritage should not be limited only to
commercially produced films. Home movies do not just capture the
important private moments of our family's lives, but they are
historical and cultural documents as well. Consider Abraham
Zapruder's 8mm film that recorded the assassination of President
Kennedy or Nickolas Muray's famously vibrant color footage of Frida
Kahlo and Diego Rivera shot with his 16mm camera. Imagine how
different our view of history would be without these precious films.
Home Movie Day is a celebration of these films and the people who shot
them. I urge anyone with an interest in learning more about how to
care for and preserve their own personal memories to join in the
festivities being offered in their community on August 13th."
Martin Scorsese



ABOUT THE SAN FRANCISCO MEDIA ARCHIVE
The San Francisco Media Archive is a non profit institution dedicated
to the acquisition, preservation and accessibility of culturally
significant films and related media. The archive presents public
screenings, seminars and has a home movie program offering free film
to video transfers. In 2003 the SF Weekly called the San Francisco
Media Archive "The Best Film Preserve in the Bay Area". Visit our
website at www.sfm.org or email us at

Venue:

San Francisco Media Archive
275 Capp Street
San Francisco
415.558.8117
www.sfm.org

Between 17th and 18th Streets, Mission and South Van Ness, closer to
18th Street

Additional Info:

415.558.8117
www.sfm.org