Society of American Archivists

Bored of the same old Hollywood productions? Just interested in the weird and amateur? Then check out "Home Movies" Night this February!

The SAA-UW is hosting "Home Movies" Night to give UW Information School students a chance to exhibit home movies and watch their fellow colleagues' movies. UW Special Collections Film Archivist, Hannah Palin, will introduce the program and provide an overview of important things to know about preserving and caring for film and other moving image media. UW iSchool students will show and comment on personal films. SAA-UW welcomes a special guest, UW Information School alumnus Michael Rene Wood, who will show examples of home movies from his collection of 8mm films.

Rarely-seen selections from UW Special Collections will also be featured:

1. /Kerry Collection- Red Riding Hood:/ Members and friends of an old Seattle family perform a magic trick and stage a whimsical retelling of the fairy tale with the aid of a Model T and a fur coat.
2. /Bob Waffenschmidt Home Movies:/ Beautiful images of a family visit to a location somewhere in the Pacific Northwest coast; and the town of Yakima packs the world’s biggest box of apples, 1934.
3. /William F. Lagen Home Movies:/ Bear cubs, whaling, and images from a settlement in Alaska in the 1920s.
4. /(Filmmaker Unknown):/ 1950s color film of a Native American gathering with dances and canoe races.

Date: Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Time: 5:00-7:00pm
Location: Allen Auditorium, UW Seattle campus (Suzzallo ground floor)

Unable to make it to the Student's Working in Archives panel in October? Still interested in what our fantastic speakers had to say? Check out the audio from the event. You will need a UWnet ID in order to listen to it.