This year, as part of worldwide Home Movie Day the archivists at the The Cinema Museum in London will be on hand to examine, evaluate and if ok, project your home movies on 9.5mm, Standard 8 and super 8mm. If you’ve home movies sitting in your attic or under your floorboards and you don’t know what’s on them.
Running at the Museum on Sunday 20th October at The Cinema Museum, 2 Dugard Way (off Renfrew Road) London SE11 4TH from 10:30am until 4pm, this is a free, family friendly event and you don’t even need a film to attend.
They say: To tie in to this year’s BFI London Film Festival Gala film, SteveMcQueen’s “Blitz” at 1pm, we’ll be showing a very special home movie kindly lent from our friends at the Imperial War Museum London. Shot in 1941, Rosie Newman’s film catalogues the devastation wrought on London’s streets during the Blitz in April of that year. To bring some light and glamour to the day, we’ll also be showing some exclusive home movies from the archive of ranconteur, actor, playwright and film director Noël Coward This specially curated programme will be accompanied by film composer and pianist, Neil Brand. …Plus, there’ll be tea and homemade cakes!