Amateur Night: Home Movies from American Archives from howe vi Watch Video

⏲ Duration: 50 min 19 sec
✓ Published: 21-Apr-2017

Description:
Blown-up from the original reels to 35mm, Amateur Night is a feature-length big screen journey into the eclectic past of small-gauge filmmaking. The films chosen highlight some of the preservation efforts that have been undertaken by America’s film archives.The past decade, in particular, has seen a flourishing of collecting, studying and viewing of home movies, particularly by archives that focus on regional media collections. Scholars and filmmakers, in particular, have increasingly gone i