11 MAR 2016 · Interview with the engineers who designed the Logmar digichanical Super 8 Camera. The first new camera in 30 years.

11 MAR 2016 · Rhonda Vigeant discusses the emotional value of home movies and how they can help you in your journey to transformation and empowerment

11 MAR 2016 · Rhonda interview the very talented David Dibble about what it takes to be a successful indie filmmaker and why he shoot on analog Super 8 film with simply stunning results http://daviddibbleland.com/

11 MAR 2016 · This is an interview that discusses the 50th birthday of Super 8 film and it's introduction at the 1964 New York City Worlds Fair

11 MAR 2016 · This is a fascinating interview with filmmaker Penny Lane about the documentary "OUR NIXON" she made with home movies shot by John Haldeman. The films had become the property of the FBI for many years.

5 JAN 2016

5 JAN 2016 · What if you found out that not only were your home movies some of the oldest 16mm home movies shot…ever, but that the footage originated from a family member that ended up to be someone famous? Our guest this week was Rob Hummel, President of Group 47, a company formed to acquire and license the technology behind DOTS; the advanced digital archival storage media originally developed by Eastman Kodak. He is the nephew of former congressman, football player and HUD secretary Jack Kemp. He has completed the digital re-mastering of the home movie collection of the Jack Kemp family, probably some of the oldest home movies discovered. Dating from 1925 through the 1940s, 4000′ feet of 16mm home movies were shot of the Kemp Family, including footage of boyhood Paul Kemp, Tom Kemp, Jack Kemp, and Dick Kemp. They were discovered in 2002 in the attic of a family member in Laguna Beach. What you are about to see has not been seen in over 50 years! Rob has raised the bar and provided inspiration to what a complete family legacy could look, like. They utilized not only film and photos, but records from the library of congress, maps, marriage and birth certifcates, deeds, telegrams, letter and newspaper clippings Watch a clip of the films transferred in High Definition by Pro8mm here Watch these early 16mm Kemp Family Film Legacy View the early history of the family through photos and documents Eastman Kodak introduced 16mm in 1924. It was not that common for families to have home movies at that time due to the expense. It was Clare Kemp that owned the 16mm camera, and you can tell in some of the footage that he clearly hired a cameraman to shoot the footage for him. The footage is like a time machine glimpse of the family in the 1920s, 30s, and up to 1940! Bio: ROB HUMMEL is the President of Group 47. He began his career as the director of production services for the Technicolor Laboratories, and then moved on to Douglas Trumbull’s visual effects company during the making of Blade Runner (1982) and to post-production work on Tron (1982). A former president of DALSA Digital Cinema, Hummel has also served as Senior Vice President of Production Technology at Warner Brothers where he oversaw digital post-production (mastering films for digital cinema, HDTV, DVD, etc.) and digital restoration work on such classics as “Gone with the Wind” and “The Wizard of Oz.” He previously worked in post-production, animation and Imagineering at Walt Disney Studios, headed animation technology at DreamWorks, and helped launch digital cinema units at Technicolor and Sony. Hummel currently serves as the Chair of the Public Programs Committee of Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences’ Science and Technology Council and sits on the Scientific and Technical Awards Committee. Rob has hosted several programs at the Academy on Film Formats, Film Technology, and 3D Stereoscopic Imaging. He is also an associate member of the American Society of Cinematographers and editor of the 8th edition of the American Cinematographer, and authored most of its articles. Rob has taught classes at the USC and the UCLA and is an Honorary Visiting Professor at the Kanazawa Institute of Technology in Kanazawa, Japan

5 JAN 2016 · Our guest this week was award winning filmmaker Ken Paul Rosenthal who is completing a beautiful and provocative short documentary films that re-envision the way we think and speak about our individual and collective mental health in today’s chaotic world. Using his own home movies from childhood, and mental Hygene films from decades past, the trilogy offers transformational content that offers new hope. As an educator and activist , Ken makes films that exist as works of art and also function as tools for personal and societal transformation. His current projects are poetic mental health documentaries that weave personal and political narratives through natural and urban landscapes, home movies, and archival mental hygiene films. Mad Dance The Mental Health Film Trilogy includes: For Shadows, In Light, In! and Crooked Beauty. For Shadows (15 minutes) unearths the tangled roots of self-harm from the home movies of a child’s formative years. It consists entirely of home movies from the first five years of Ken’s life. We will take a close look at what the film is about, what the home movies brought to the surface, and what challenges specific to this project are unique to working with home movies. In Light, In! (*formerly ‘A Movement’, 12 minutes) is a darkly humorous, yet ultimately hopeful commentary on the pervasive disease model of mental illness in Western Culture. Images recycled from archival mental health films—doctors in lab coats, patients in distress, and invasive strategies of mainstream psychiatry—will be edited to original cello compositions by world renowned cellist, Zoe Keating. Crooked Beauty (30 minutes) is a poetic documentary that chronicles artist-activist Jacks McNamara’s transformative journey from psych ward inpatient to pioneering mental health advocacy. Poignant testimonials connect the fissures and fault lines of human nature to the unstable topography and mercurial weather patterns of the San Francisco Bay Area. Ken Paul Rosenthal boat smallKen Paul Rosenthal Bio: Ken holds an MA in Creative & Interdisciplinary Arts and an MFA in Cinema Production, and has taught film as a means of cultivating personal vision in workshops and universities in North America and abroad. His most recent film, Crooked Beauty, has been invited to 35 film festivals, won 16 awards, and been presented in person at dozens of peer support networks, hospitals, universities, mental health symposia and community events worldwide. He is the recipient of a Kodak Cinematography Award, numerous festival awards, and frequently recognized for his media work in mental health advocacy. Over 2,500 Crooked Beauty DVDs have been distributed to date, including 160 academic libraries. Ken is currently in production on Mad Dance, a trilogy of provocative short documentary films that re-envision the way we think and speak about our individual and collective mental health in today’s chaotic world. It will include newly translated version of Crooked Beauty in Spanish, French, German, Italian and Hebrew. To connect with Ken, or find out more information, go to: www.crookedbeauty.com watch the trailer http://www.crookedbeauty.com/trailer.htm www.maddancementalhealthfilmtrilogy.com www.kenpaulrosenthal.com

4 JAN 2016 · Surfing and home movie cameras have been part of each other’s culture for decades. While there are dozens of commercially produced surf films, beach party films, surf narrative and documentaries, the home movie camera has captured millions of feet of dramatic encounters of riding the wave. This is a tradition that continues today. But what are the back-stories behind the culture and the surfer? Who are these legendary “Mad Men”, and Women? What is their story? jedThis week my guest was Jed Justeson who shared some amazing stories about the pioneers of surfing he interviewed as part of the Oral History Project at the Surfing Heritage Foundation. He has directed and recorded audio/video oral histories, archiving interviews of surfers in California and Hawaii, and has recently completed the production which is a promotional Oral History DVD for that organization. Jed shared with us great tips of what you need to think about in order to capture a compelling Oral History for your project, and how to get the most out of creating a story sound track for your home movie or documentary. Tech Talk with Phil Vigeant examined different types of audio sound tracks that may show up with an archive and how they can be cut into a project when creating a new digital master.

4 JAN 2016 · Every home movie library has clips in it that someone might want for something. It doesn’t matter whether your home movies were shot on the farm or in the city, have famous people in them or home town happenings, capture the industrial world or the arts, foreign travel, Americana, or faces and places of the here and now (that were the there and then!) The older the material gets, the more valuable it becomes. This show was a fascinating and lively discussion about Home Movies as stock footage.