Home Movies: A History of the American Industry, 1897-1979

For the thousands of us who remember when home movies meant Super 8, or 8mm, or even 16mm, there's a wonderful feeling of nostalgia when you read this remarkable history.  It will bring back memories of our beloved cameras, projectors, magazines, competitions, and so much more.  But the book is not just for the movie-making enthusiast.  Everyone who is fascinated by the moving image will find much in these pages to satisfy curiosity and the need to know.

The book is not only about equipment.  It's also about the books and magazines that focused on personal filmmaking, the amateur filmmaking organizations, the competitions and festivals.  There is even a chapter describing many detailes account of that most famous of all home movies: the Zapruder film of the Kennedy assassination.

"Home Movies is abundantly illustrated with photographs and diagrams.  Its extensive appendix has a bibliography, footnotes, equipment chronology, and much more.  As a reference and for pleasurable reading, this is a volume that many of us will open again and again."

--Elinor Stecker-Orel, associate Editor, Popular Photography