Exhibition ‘A century of home cinema: from projector to smartphone’ in Venlo
27 May-30 October, 2016 Limburgs Museum, Venlo From the first home movies to vlogs on YouTube: since the advent of portable movie cameras (from 1910 onwards) people have tended to film the first steps and stumbles of a baby, parties,…
Upcoming: two exhibitions on ‘home movies’
This year, two museum exhibitions will be organized around the theme of ‘home movies’ in the Netherlands and Belgium. From May 27 till October 30, 2016 the Limburgs Museum, based in Venlo, organizes an exhibition on a century of ‘home cinema:…
Found: unique Kodacolor home movie from 1929
Film historian Louis Pelletier has found a rare Quebec home movie from 1929. The film, which Pelletier bought on a flea market in 2014 for $25, could actually be one of the earliest home movies in colour (Kodacolor) ever made….
Exposing the Film Apparatus
International seminar to celebrate the launch of Exposing the Film Apparatus – The Film Archive as a Research Laboratory. Edited by Giovanna Fossati and Annie van den Oever, this volume offers a range of essays on historical and contemporary film apparatus…
Hands On History: Exploring New Methodologies for Media History Research
8-10 February 2016 Geological Society, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BD “Media Scholars and Amateurs of All Countries and Disciplines, Hands-on!” * Recent years have witnessed a growing turn to experimental historical research in the history of media technologies. In addition…
