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Chicago Home Movie Day

101608reels.jpgIf you've got any old or new home movies, the annual Chicago Home Movie Day held at the Chicago Cultural Center sounds like great motivation for digging out the best and bringing them to life if they've been stored away. This Saturday, October 18, bring your movies and memories downtown for review and possible screening. We'd love to hear about your favorite home movie below (details for the event below, too):

 
 

101608hmdlogo.jpgChicago Home Movie Day, sponsored by Chicago Film Archives
The Chicago Cultural Center
78 East Washington
Chicago, Illinois 60602

3:00pm - 6:00pm
Home Movie Inspection (Walk in or call 773 478-3799 to reserve time for CFA archivists to inspect your
home movies that day.)

6:00pm - 10:00pm
Home Movie Program - screenings

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haha, there is a video my mother took of my little brother crawling around on a large round ottoman playing with some brightly colored childrens toy. He's probably 2 or 3. In the background you see my father sprawled out on the sofa watching television. At one point my brother takes a spill off the ottoman head first, to which you hear a gasp from my mother behind the camera, but nothing else.... she keeps filming while the kid stars to cry. Im assuming she thought that because my father was 3 feet away would react..... well she was wrong, he dosent even blink. so for about a soild 30 seconds, my brother is crying holding his Noggen, my father watches television and my mother tapes my brother crying waiting for my father to do something.... It ends with her screaming his name, to no responce and the camera shuts off! So funny... poor kid :)

posted by E.M.H on October 16th 2008 at 8:43am
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there is also a great one of a toddlers birthday party, i think for a cousin of mine.... there are about 60 people crammed in our living room and my father is video taping from the opposite side of the room than most people. At one point you get a gimpse of 8 other people video taping the same think, standing in a tight cluster, ALL yielding HUGE early 80's camcoarders on thier sholders like bazookas!

we joke that it was the original suburban TMZ report!

posted by E.M.H on October 16th 2008 at 8:52am
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posted by E.M.H on October 16th 2008 at 8:57am
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There is also a home movie day this Saturday in Raleigh NC (on the campus on NC State) its put on by AV Geeks and I think some film professors. See more here:
http://www.avgeeks.com/

posted by salley on October 16th 2008 at 10:08am
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