« Award Winners | Main | Peacemaking Lecture »

October 15, 2007

Home Movie Day

October has been designated Oregon Archives month - a time to celebrate Oregon's unique archival heritage.

A featured event for this year is "Home Movie Day." The event will be held from noon to 5 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 20 at the Multnomah County Building, 501 SE Hawthorne in Portland. The public is invited to bring their old home movies where there will be four theaters set up for screening 16mm, 8mm and Super 8 movie film. (NO VHS/DVDs will be shown, since the even it focused on actual film and its care.)

Archivists will be on hand to show people how to view, care for, preserve and transfer their films to digital format.

Archives Month events are also schedule for other cities around Oregon. For a complete listing of events and locations, go to http://arcweb.sos.state.or.us/oaw/events.htm.