Home Movie Day in New York

Last weekend, on October 15th, I had the pleasure of volunteering at the Queens Museum of Art for Home Movie Day in New York. I had helped out with projection at last year's event (held at Light Industry in Brooklyn), and was glad to be a part of it again this year.


I always look forward to volunteering for Home Movie Day, as it greatly helps to increase awareness of the importance of film preservation. This year's theme - appropriately enough, given the location - was the 1939-40 World's Fair. A number of really interesting films about the World's Fair were screened, including some of the Museum's collection.

Home Movie Day is a great reminder of how fragile our film history is, and the importance of preserving not only the physical film itself, but the memories and records of ourselves that these films hold.