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Center for Home Movies and The Library of Congress host a
CFA has been invited to attend and participate in a summit to discuss the historical and cultural value of home movies and ways we can save them. CFA will join other organizations and moving image archivists to discuss how to encourage people throughout the world to value, save, and preserve their home movies. We will also explore ways to make home movies more accessible for research by scholars and others who hold a stake in family backgrounds.
Library of Congress, Culpepper, VA
Chicago Film Archives Presents
Chicago Film Archives welcomes you to a day of feasting on home movies and the many stories they contain. Dig out those 8mm, Super 8mm and 16mm films that you stashed away in shoeboxes years ago, and bring them on down to the Home Movie Day event!
Make an appointment with CFA archivists who will inspect your home movies, talk about ways to care for them, and project them on the big screen. Win prizes by playing the world acclaimed Home Movie Bingo! Bring the whole family!
Home movies capture family legacies, firmly plant our lives in history, and sometimes just set the record straight. They offer moving documentation of what we otherwise can never retrieve – ourselves, our families, and our friends as we lived our lives in the tumultuous and ever-changing twentieth century.
Chicago Film Archives firmly believes that the public presentation of these family legacies builds and strengthens communities. This event is not only a celebration of lives well lived, it is an opportunity to reconsider these home movies as historical records that have value to our culture, reaching far beyond the family.
Come join us at Chicago Home Movie Day 2010!!
Chicago Cultural Center, 78 East Washington Street, Chicago, IL 60602
12:00 5:00pm (Screenings all afternoon); 12:00 4:00pm (make an appointment with an archivist or just walk in); 4:00 5:00pm (Screening of yours and others' films)
Free
Want to make an appointment or just ask questions?
Please contact us at:
Chicago Film Archives
329 W. 18th Street #3A
Chicago, IL 60616
info@chicagofilmarchives.org
312.243.1808
Can't make it that day, but want to see your films on DVD? Call CFA about our home movie transfer service.
December 2010
Chicago Film Archives presents the Annual Christmas Program
CFA Road Trip
Guest programmer RJ Mohr puts together a sight and sound experience at the Gene Siskel Film Center. We'll travel to the far ends of the earth during times long past.
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