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Digital Resources for Film & Media Studies: Home Movies & Amateur Media

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The Center for Home Movies is a good place to begin learning more about the movements to preserve home movies.  Amateur Cinema and The Amateur Movie Database are good starting points for learning more about the international history of amateur movie making, amateur filmmakers, genres, and movie clubs.

UCSB Library Catalog Search Tip:
Subject: "amateur films"

 

Other Digital Collections

Alan Lewis Collection (Indiana University Bloomington) - Photographs of equipment (movie cameras, projectors, editing and viewing equipment) as well as scanned instructional manuals provide insight into the technological aspects of creating, editing, and exhibiting home movies and amateur film.

Media History Digital Library - Scanned trade magazines provide insight into the technological aspects of creating, editing, and exhibiting home movies and amateur film.

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