The five-part series Home Movie Roadshow will be televised in the UK on BBC beginning on August 6th.
The BFI National Archive – whose head curator Robin Baker appears in the BBC series – focuses its collecting of amateur films in several key areas. The home movies of figures from the film industry can provide us with a compelling insight into the life and work of stars and directors and include the collections of David Lean, Michael Powell, John Schlesinger, Anna Neagle, John Gielgud, Laurence Olivier and Peter Sellers.
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August 6, 2010 at 3:09 pm
Margaret O'Mara
I have cini films taken by my father in 1952/53 of Army life in Malaya We lived at 7 Skeloh Arab, Johore Bahou. Pictures taken through the port hole of the troop ship “Empire Clyde in possibly December 1953, or early 1954, and the Gulli-Gulli man bringing a day old chick out of my sisters ear. Plus items in the UK and Germany 1953 onwards. If you are interested in them please get in touch.
August 12, 2010 at 4:06 am
Rev.Peter Abrahms
If interested I have following own home movies Super 8 available;
Life as Curate in Bittene Park, Southampton 1978-82 ( 2 films approx45min)
Family Holiday in Madrid 1980 (approx 40 min)
American Journey 1981 (1 hour) Sequences in Kentucky,Kansas,Maine, NY – including airial views of Manhattan and shots from top of late Trade Center
Various shorter sequences of Salisbury, Scareborough, Whitby.
All film originally shot in Super 8 Sound/Colour has recently been professionally converted to tape.
If interested I can be contacted on 0118 9893072
September 3, 2010 at 3:42 pm
rick cooke
I hold 40 or so 9.5mm films of holidays and commercial promotinal films from the 1930s.
I also have a 16mm film of my parents wedding taken in 1949. Whilest these films have been kept dry and in the dark I am sure they are deteriating and would like advice on their preservation.
I live in Stockport Grt. Manchester and would be please to show these to interested parties. Is your roadshow traveling around the North West?