Home Movie (1975)

In 1974 as part of the Family Folklore Program of the Festival of American Folklife the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC put out a call for families to bring in their home movies and have portions of them copied for a documentary film More than 100 families responded to the call bringing in 16 mm and 8mm home movies as well as photo albums The result was the documentary Home Movie An American Folk Art by Ernst Star then a student in the film department at Temple University and Steve Zeitlin a student in the Department of Folklore and Folklife at the University of Pennsylvania