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For close to 90 years, enthusiasts have been making and screening their own relentlessly imaginative no-budget films in the same building – a former hayloft that was converted into a private ...
Founded in 1932, Bradford Movie Makers is one of the oldest groups for fans of amateur cinema in the UK. Now, after 90 years, its productions are finally being seen on the big screen.
Home movies are intimate catalogues of everyday life: birthdays and holidays, childhoods and neighbourhoods. Each reel is a private scrapbook - memories of cherished people, places and times committed to film.
Private Lives Public Spaces, the Museum’s first gallery installation of home movies and amateur films drawn exclusively from its collection, shines a light on a seldom-recognized cinematic revolution.
In this post, Sarah examines some of the books and journals in our collection that deal with amateur film-making. Here at the National Science and Media Museum we have an amazing library of books and journals, most of which have been catalogued by a dedicated team of volunteers. When I asked our Associate Curator of Film, Toni Booth, about book ...
There are several amateur film festivals held annually in the United States, Canada and Europe. The Cinema Museum in London holds a large collection of amateur films whose details can be accessed on-line.
The show is divided into three categories, displaying “hardcore amateur” home movies, films by “artful amateurs,” and ones by artists who “honor the amateur aesthetic.”
