1. The Center for Home Movies: A brief introduction Snowden Becker Co-founder, Home Movie Day/Center for Home Movies PhD Candidate – UT Austin School of Information 2/16/2010Personal Archiving 2010 – Internet Archive – San Francisco, CA

2. Our mission: To collect, preserve, provide access to, and promote the multidisciplinary use and understanding of amateur film and video

3. Our projects: International Home Movie Day: Annual bring- your-own-film, education and outreach event – Community-based – Archivally heretical (now echoing in digital files) – “We’re not anti-video; we’re pro-preservation.” Living Room Cinema: Films from Home Movie Day DVD; preservation of individual works; partnerships with local groups/organizations

4. Home Movie Day

5. What we’re learning This stuff is nowhere & everywhere “If you build it…” People are keen to digitize It’s not as bad as we thought, but… It’s worse than we thought (+ video/digital) There’s too much for “real archives” to take on If we take on any more, we have to change how we do it – we’re not good enough now

6. Implications for future The records lifecycle is shortening; preservation must be a recognized need Archivists are still inadequately prepared to work with people’s “papers” Many mousetraps may be improved: technical and technological, managing inheritance and ownership transitions, rights documentation and assignment, accessibility for research/use

7. Tomorrow’s projects? September summit meeting at LOC Culpeper Home Movie Day  Home Media Day Establishing a “godparent” role for archives – Kits for preparing a preservation plan – “Wills” for disposition of media materials Creating a larger corpus of accessible material, enabling and encouraging virtual collections

8. Thanks! http://www.homemovieday.com http://www.centerforhomemovies.org info@centerforhomemovies.org Snowden Becker snowdenbecker@gmail.com (323) 365-9263