UCF Film Hosts Sequel to Home Movie Day

By Tom Hurter April 20, 2009

The event will be held Saturday, April 25, at the Center for Emerging Media in downtown Orlando.

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What’s hiding in your old home movies? Find out Saturday, April 25, at the “Home Movie Extravaganza!” hosted by the UCF Film Department.

The department’s second home movie event is open to the public, and people are encouraged to bring their old films for free viewings. The event will be held from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Center for Emerging Media, 500 W. Livingston St., in downtown Orlando. Refreshments will be served.

Film lovers and historians of all ages are encouraged to attend and bring home movie reels or simply watch the historic, and often funny, world of amateur filmmaking. Provided equipment will accommodate 8mm, Super 8 and 16mm films.

The UCF-led “Home Movie Extravaganza!” is a follow-up to national Home Movie Day, which was celebrated Oct. 18. Home Movie Day is the world’s leading effort to honor and preserve small-format films. As in October, guests will learn how to preserve their movies and how to transfer the films to DVDs.

The UCF Film Department continues to collect these old films as it strives to become the pivotal institution in the Southeast for archiving, studying and restoring small-format films. The department has already received footage of some of NASA’s earliest launches and video of the construction of Walt Disney World.

"Preserving and cataloging these precious pieces of history is a major step in achieving a local archive of images from the past," said Stephen Schlow, interim chair of UCF's Film Department.

The UCF film archival project is a collaboration among the Film, History and Library Special Collections departments and the UCF Cultural Heritage Alliance, all within the UCF College of Arts and Humanities.

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