Michael Pogorzelski (Academy Film Archive)

Hollywood Home Movies from the Acedemy Film Archive
(USA/1931-1970) D.: 71’. V. inglese. Digitale

From the 1930s onward, the home movie camera has played a part in many families’ lives and Hollywood movie makers are no exception. Home movies can show us the private, unguarded side of stars whose images were carefully crafted and managed in the public sphere. Over the years, the Academy Film Archive has
received dozens of collections from filmmakers that have included home movies. Sometimes the home movies are like the ones you’d find in any family: film records of weddings, birthday parties, and holidays. But in some cases, the filmmaker took their home movie camera with them to work – either on set or on location. The result is priceless footage of movies being made during the golden era and some of the biggest Hollywood stars
simply being themselves. Hosted and narrated by archive Director Michael Pogorzelski, the program will
showcase stellar clips from the Academy Film Archive’s home movie collection starting in 1931 up through the late 1960s. Footage of stars such as Marion Davies, Shirley Temple, Douglas Fairbanks, Marlene Dietrich, Cyd Charisse, Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, Jerry Lewis, Sophia Loren and Steve McQueen will be seen along with rare behind the scenes footage showing the making of films such as Gunga Din and Gone With the Wind.