7th Annual Home Movie Day! Drop by from 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Saturday, October 17, 2009, in the Seuss Room of Geisel Library at UCSD. Free refreshments! For more information, call: (858) 822-2784.

Bring your Super-8, 8mm & 16mm reels (the ones gathering dust in your garage!) and we will put them on the screen for all to enjoy, along with fascinating home movies from the UCSD Film & Video collection.

San Diego Home Movie Day is free and open to the public. We will offer assessment of older films, information about how to care for family films, delicious snacks and continuous screenings of home movies brought by participants like you! Archivists will show examples of historic amateur films preserved in our collections, and preservation specialists will explain why transferring films to video or digital media does not mean these new copies will last forever.

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For the seventh year in a row, nationally and internationally, film lovers and archivists around the world will get out of the vaults to help the public learn about, enjoy, and rescue films forgotten with the advent of home video. Home Movie Day shows how home movies offer a unique view of decades past, and are an essential part of personal, community, and cultural history.