This Way!

There was a time - A lot less tense

When friends talked issues - At the back yard fence

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The moon was there - We said "Why not?"

Are we still ready - To give our best shot?

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The moon was there - We said "Why not?"

Are we still ready - To give our best shot?

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This Way!

We stormed the shores - At Normandy

The Brits stormed ours - By way of TV

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HVS Top Five Patriotic "Feelgood" Movies

HVS Top Five Patriotic "Feelgood" Movies

The Great American Home Movie is "America in Red, White and You". This month we celebrate movies that depict our American ideals and attitude.

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington - An idealistic young man, appointed as a U. S. Senator, stands against graft and the corrupt "good ole' boys network" of cynical politicians in Washington.

Saving Private Ryan - A group of soldiers who have barely made it in the Normandy Invasion are given the task of locating and delivering back a paratrooper who is the only survivor of four brothers. Duty, honor and courage keep them on their mission as they encounter many obstacles.

The Patriot - As a peaceful man Benjamin Martin didn't live to fight - but even peace lovers will fight to live. Especially if life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are at stake.

Rocky - America is a nation made of second chances. Rocky Balboa, a broken fighter down for life's count, gets another shot to do it right.

Apollo 13 - A true story. Three astronauts, with the support of Mission Control, must devise a strategy to return to Earth safely after their spacecraft undergoes massive internal damage.

Home Video Studio Presents Major Motion Picture

"...movies tell us so much about ourselves- not just what we did, but what we thought, what we felt, what we imagined, what we aspired to..." - Independent Lens Digitally transferring your precious home movies is more than a "job" at Home Video Studio. We have always considered it a mission to preserve a part of the story of America as "written" through the lens of parents and grandparents, aunts and uncles, and children who lived in the 40s, 50s, 60s and 70s and documented their life and times with a home movie camera. As far back as the early 1990s, when Robert Hanley (our Founder and President) started transferring these home movies to video tape, he began to see a unique story emerge from the cameras of these everyday Americans. It's a story from a sweeping era of great change that began with our "marching home" from WWII and ended with Watergate. It's a story from an era that brought us Rock 'n Roll, the Civil Rights Movement, Viet Nam, Woodstock, Watergate and home computers. It's a story that, although born amidst the aftershock of a terrible war, brought theretofore unparalleled stability, leisure, mobility and discretionary income. Best of all it's a story written, heart and soul, by those who lived it: It's a story of you! This is the cinematic canvas for a mission that started over twenty years ago: To present the Golden Age of Home Movies on a silver platter on the big screen. On October 19th, in conjunction with International Home Movie Day, Home Video Studio took a big step in this ongoing mission. The Great American Home Movie, a feature-length documentary produced and directed by Robert Hanley, commenced its finishing stages. After gathering thousands of hours and tens of millions of feet of home movies from people just like you (if you contributed your film, by the way, thank you!) we now begin the process of distilling it all into a ninety minute portrait of this time in America. Besides a custom musical score by three-time Grammy and five-time Emmy-nominated composer Steve Dorff this movie will feature interviews with storytellers who lived in these times. This process of choosing the final interviewees for The Great American Home Movie also began on October 19th by way of open casting calls. These took place in twenty-five cities across the United States. If you missed the October 19th date don't worry! We are still auditioning our storytellers so please call us to see how you can participate. As you can imagine this is where the fun really starts! The Great American Home Movie has been a grassroots project from its inception. (the subtitle of this movie is "America in Red, White and YOU") Please watch our short video on why we think this movie is important to America. If you want to help Kickstarter.com page. You'll find much more information about The Great American Home Movie Project. Please follow this link: bit.ly/gahmp2013 to watch the video and to see our Kickstarter Page. For those of you who don't know about Kickstarter, it's a pretty cool website dedicated to helping creative projects get made. Third, on our Kickstarter pages, there are links to Facebook and Twitter. Please share our project with your friends. That will really help us get the word out. We feel that this movie is pretty important to all Americans right now. there are three ways you can show your support. First, please share this newsletter with a friend - easy to do - just click the link at the bottom of the page. Second, if you would like to support this project please go to our You don't have to look far to see that America has been divided lately in our heartfelt beliefs on important issues. With that said, maybe there's never been a better time for The Great American Home Movie to come along. As the images of an earlier America roll by and as the stories of our elders began to be told it quickly reminds us that we've always been of different stripes and we've always been outspoken as individuals - but we've always come together around the things in this country that we love. Nowhere is that more aptly portrayed than in The Great American Home Movie. At Home Video Studio those 8mm, Super 8mm and 16mm reels you bring in are more than just film. And it's more than a project. Together we are teaming up to preserve something precious for you and culturally significant to our country. Why would you look anywhere else? Whether you have film that needs our TLC, or whether you want to become involved in The Great American Home Movie, or both - call us today! Home Video Studio - Visalia 559-732-3050 Share this Kickstarter video on Facebook, Twitter or embedded video! Click here

The Great American Home Movie - America in Red, White & You!

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Caught on tape, here is the most epic welcome to school speech ever. Enjoy!

Georgia Tech - Freshman Convocation - Epic Welcome Speech

Open Casting Call for The Great American Home Movie on October 19, 2013!

America is a land of stories, and we need yours!  That's why The Great American Home Movie is searching for people who lived in the United States between 1946 and 1976 and who are at least 40 years of age to tell their stories of a time when American life was documented in a unique and intimate way:  The Golden Age of Home Movies. 

The Great American Home Movie, produced and directed by Robert Hanley, is a feature length documentary film.  Distilled from thousands of hours and millions of feet of 8mm, Super 8 and 16mm film it explores American life from the perspective of people's home movies taken in the 40s, 50s, 60s and 70s.  This film is also complemented by a custom music score by three-time Grammy and five-time Emmy-nominated composer Steve Dorff.   

A vital component of The Great American Home Movie will be interviews of select Americans who lived in this time. This is where you come in!  Your story is important to this project.  An open casting call for interviewees in the final production will be held on October 19, 2013 at Home Video Studio 4844 W. Rialto Ave., Visalia from 10 am to 2 pm.

We are especially interested in people who took home movies and/or 35mm slides, or were the subject of those movies and pictures. If you remember Mom and Dad getting out the movie camera (or you were Mom and Dad) then we want to hear from you!

The Great American Home Movie will highlight America’s “Coming of Age” period. We want to hear about your experiences during this time: The Cold War, The Korean Conflict, the birth of Television and Rock ‘n Roll, Camelot, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Civil Rights Movement, the British Invasion, Vietnam, the Summer of Love, Woodstock, the Moon Landing, Watergate, computers and the birth of Apple and Microsoft.  

What an era of sweeping change - yet unparalleled stability for average Americans!  It was a revolution in jobs, careers, businesses, automobiles, birthing babies and raising families, childhood, toys, family gatherings, cookouts, picnics, holidays, vacations, schools, sporting events, weddings and funerals – life and living.  What was your part in the revolution during this Golden Age of Home Movies?  Come by Home Video Studio 4844 W. Rialto Ave., Visalia on October 19 from 10am to 2pm and tell your story!  Should you be chosen as one of the featured interviewees the filming will begin in 2014 with a movie release in 2015.  There is no compensation for the interviewees.

The Great American Home Movie will have a universal impact - like no other documentary ever produced.  And you have an opportunity to be part of it!  American families tell their own stories - their hopes, desires, and most special moments. It’s America in Red, White and You!

                                                                     

                SYNOPSIS OF THE GREAT AMERICAN HOME MOVIE

Post World War II America – the Baby Boom generation era, beginning in the mid-1940s and climaxing in the 1960s, stretching into the 1970s – redefined and challenged the traditional American experience.  It was an amazing time of great change – the re-industrialization of America, the Korean Conflict, the birth of Television and Rock ‘n Roll, Camelot, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Civil Rights Movement, the British Invasion, the Cold War, Vietnam, the Summer of Love, Woodstock, the Moon Landing, Watergate, Computers and the birth of Apple and Microsoft.  Yet this era of sweeping change brought unparalleled stability for average Americans – jobs, careers, businesses, automobiles, birthing babies and raising families, childhood, toys, family gatherings, cookouts, picnics, holidays, vacations, schools, sporting events, weddings and funerals – life and living. 

What is even more amazing is that all across the country, Americans captured these precious moments as they happened on 8mm and 16mm motion picture film – the Greatest Generation, the parents of the Baby Boomers, documented this “Coming of Age” period in American history. This is the context and cinematic canvas for The Great American Home Movie – a feature-length documentary shot by parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles, and yes, even their children.  

  

Over the past twenty years, Producer/Director/Editor Robert Hanley has been evaluating, capturing and archiving America’s home movies. Culled from over 5,000 hours of 8mm, Super-8mm, and 16mm film, The Great American Home Movie engages and electrifies the viewer, first in the simplicity of its subject matter and then in the poetry of moving images – Dad grilling hamburgers on the back porch for the family’s 4th of July cookout; Betty unwrapping her brand new Barbie Doll on Christmas morning; Billy riding his first Schwinn bike down a gravel road, fishing pole over his shoulder; Baby Karen taking her first steps; and Corporal Johnson, home from the war, washing his brand new Chevy.

Added to these iconic images is our American landscape – small towns, big cities, suburbs, farms, schools, roads and highways; city parks, national parks, zoos, and monuments. These scenes, and thousands of others, comprise the single, constant theme that ties The Great American Home Movie together: the American experience.   Multiply these iconic images by the more than thirty-year chronological time-span of this documentary and the very ordinary becomes truly extraordinary!  Hanley has rescued, edited, and woven together these incredible, priceless images with real live accounts of those days by the Americans who lived it. Everything is set to a lush musical score by Composer/Songwriter Steve Dorff.

The Great American Home Movie has a universal impact and is like no other documentary ever produced.  American families tell their own stories with their own cameras, displaying their hopes, desires, and most special moments. They captured scenes from everywhere – from living rooms, back yards, parades and playgrounds to Disneyland, the Mississippi River, and the Washington Monument; indeed from “sea to shining sea.” And while they were at it, they covered most of America’s historical moments as well. As groundbreaking and graceful as Disney’s Fantasia, reflecting the real and surreal spontaneity and liveliness of Woodstock with the elegance and fun of The Sound of Music, The Great American Home Movie will grab your heart and move you to tears of joy. It’s America in Red, White and You!

©Great American Home Movie 2013

The Great American Home Movie™
Runtime: 69 minutes, Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1

Produced, Directed and Edited by Robert Hanley

Musical Score by Steve Dorff

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