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Snowden Becker, founding Board Member of the Center for Home Movies is also a knitter extraordinaire. Her creation, the Billington Bag (named after the Librarian of Congress, a home movie supporter, is now for sale through Ravelry, and 50% of all proceeds go to the Center for Home Movies.
Source: TT820: Classy Knitting
From the new issue of Jump Cut, “How it was then”: home movies as history in Péter Forgács’ Meanwhile Somewhere…” an article by William C. Wees (McGill University, Montreal) on uses of home movies in experimental and documentary films.
ETonline.com has posted home video of Mary Hart’s family’s trip to the Middle East.
Source: ETonline.com
The intrepid Bradley Reeves and Louisa Trott from the Tennessee Archive of Moving Image and Sound report a new 9.5mm discovery from the Knoxville Amateur Cinema Club.
One of the best existing Knoxville-based films they’ve ever found was one in the collection of the Thompson family. Shot mostly at and around the University of Tennessee in 1931, it was called “College Life.” It shows a snowball fight, students mugging for the camera, some track and field events, a parade with student-made floats. TAMIS showed it at one of their home-movie nights at the East Tennessee History Center.
Brad says the cinematography—not a word usually associated with home movies—suggests professional skill. It impressed him and Louisa so much they set out to find as much as they could about the guy that made the film. At first it wasn’t much. His name was Robert J. Clements, and he was a UT student. He’d attended Boyd Junior High, and Knoxville High, and lived in apparently modest rental accommodations on Saxton Street in East Knoxville.
Source: Knoxville Metropulse
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