Mining the Home Movie - Excavations in Histories and Memories

List of Illustrations xi Foreword xiii Karen L. Ishizuka Acknowledgments xvii Karen L. Ishizuka and Patricia R. Zimmermann Introduction. The Home Movie Movement: Excavations, Artifacts, Minings 1 Patricia R. Zimmermann 1. Remaking Home Movies 29 Richard Fung 2. The Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution 41 John Homiak and Pamela Wintle 3. Wittgenstein Tractatus: Personal Reflections on Home Movies 47 P r Forg 4. La Filmoteca de la Universidad Nacional Autenoma de Mexico 57 Iv Trujillo 5. Ordinary Film: Peter Forgees's The Maelstrom 62 Michael S. Roth 6. The Imperial War Museum Film and Video Archive 73 Kay Gladstone 7. 90 Miles: The Politics and Aesthetics of Personal Documentary 78 Amy Villarejo 8. The Florida Moving Image Archive 92 Steven Davidson 9. Something Strong Within: A Visual Essay 98 Karen L. Ishizuka and Robert A. Nakamura 10. Something Strong Within as Historical Memory 107 Robert Rosen 11. The Moving Image Archive of the Japanese American National Museum 122 Karen L. Ishizuka 12. The Home Movie and the National Film Registry: The Story of Topaz 126 Karen L. Ishizuka and Patricia R. Zimmermann 13. The Nederlands Archive/Museum Institute 142 Nico de Klerk 14. Home Away from Home: Private Films from the Dutch East Indies 148 Nico de Klerk 15. The Library of Congress 163 Brian Taves 16. Deteriorating Memories: Blurring Fact and Fiction in Home Movies in India 168 Ayisha Abraham 17. The Movie Queen: Northeast Historic Film 185 Karan Sheldon and Dwight Swanson 18. The WPA Film Library 191 Carolyn Faber 19. Mule Racing in the Mississippi Delta 195 Karen Glynn 20. The Academy Film Archive 209 Lynne Kirste 21. "As If by Magic": Authority, Aesthetics, and Visions of the Workplace in Home Movies, circa 1931-1949 214 Heather Norris Nicholson 22. The New Zealand Film Archive/Nga Kaitiaki o Nga Taonga Whitiahua 231 Virginia Callanan 23. Working People, Topical Films, and Home Movies: The Case of the North West Film Archive 235 Maryann Gomes 24. The Oregon State Historical Society's Moving Image Archives 249 Michele Kribs 25. Reflections on the Family Home Movie as Document: A Semio-Pragmatic Approach 255 Roger Odin 26. The Stephen Lighthill Collection at the UCLA Film & Television Archive 272 Ross Lipman 27. Morphing History into Histories: From Amateur Film to the Archive of the Future 275 Patricia R. Zimmermann Selected Filmography and Videography 289 Liz Czach Selected Bibliography 299 Liz Czach List of Contributors 309 Index 315