Home and Amateur is a blog about home movies, amateur film, home video and vernacular media of all types.

It is sponsored by the Center for Home Movies and International Home Movie Day.

Contact us at film@homemovieday.com

Contributors:

Chad Hunter is a moving image and sound archivist for WITNESS in Brooklyn, NY and the Appalshop Archive in Whitesburg, KY. He is a co-founder of Home Movie Day and a Board Member of the Center for Home Movies.

Molly Wheeler is an archivist for the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University. She is a Board Member of the Center for Home Movies and organizes the Connecticut Home Movie Day.

Dwight Swanson works at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.  He has helped organize Home Movie Day events in Portland ME, Washington DC, Whitesburg KY, New Orleans and Philadelphia.