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Basements and attics across the continent contain countless reels of the stuff - flickering images of baptisms and bar mitzvahs, weddings and graduations, dazed toddlers by the Christmas tree and bored teenagers on cross-country road trips.
Home movies and their unique place in our popular culture are the subject of Karen Shopsowitz's My Father's Camera.
Israel Shopsowitz's lifelong passion for amateur filmmaking started in the 1930s. His curiosity in the world around him - and his fond gaze on the Shopsowitz clan - are at the heart of his daughter's film, which skilfully weaves his cinematic legacy into a richly textured and entertaining history of the home movie. Equipped with her dad's old Super 8 and a sharp eye for a great clip, Karen traces the genre's history from the first home-movie boom in the 1920s through to the amateur explosion of the 1930s and 1940s and beyond.
2000, 59 min 28 s
Awards
Peabody Award
Peabody Award Competition
May 20 2002, Athens - USA
Bronze Plaque Award - Category: The Humanities
International Film and Video Festival
October 23 to 26 2001, Columbus - USA
Certificate of Merit - Category: History
Golden Gate Awards Competition & International Film Festival
April 19 to May 3 2001, San Francisco - USA
