** Introduction by Hannah Palin (Film Curator at UW Libraries, Special Collections) **

Curated home movie footage includes:

• Armeta Hearst Home Movie Collection (1950s-1960s)
  – Original format: 16mm (color, silent)
  – – University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
  Black home movies from the ’50s/’60s! Amreta Hearst, born 1906, and her husband Bennie moved from Oakland to Seattle in 1923. Armeta was an active community member; Bennie worked as a Pullman porter and was an avid collector of newspaper articles about African American history and life. These films document their trips to NYC and Canada.
• Jessie Hugh Burgess Family Home Movies (circa 1940s)
  – Original format: 8mm
  – – University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
  These films, shot by Idahoan optometrist and prolific home movie recorder Jessie Hugh Burgess in 1942–43, all focus on a circus in Moscow, Idaho. In these clips, Burgess documents sword-swallowing, elephants, acrobats, and more.
• Iwao Matsushita Films (circa 1931–48)
  – Original format: 8mm (black and white, silent)
  – – University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
  Iwao Matsushita (b. 1/10/1892) and his wife Hanaye Tamura (b. 3/9/1898) emigrated to Seattle in 1919 for Matsushita to pursue educational opportunities. Academia temporarily landed on the back burner for Matsushita, however, and he spent several years working as a cook, a hotel manager, and then in various positions for Mitsui and Company, a major Tokyo-based trading firm, which allowed him and Hanaye leisure time like the hike through Mt. Rainier National Park captured here. Featuring handwritten and typewritten titles throughout, often in both English and Japanese.
• Powell-Tourtellotte Family Films (1931)
  – Original format: 16mm (black and white, silent)
  – – University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
  Footage from the Powell and Tourtellotte families’ vacation through England, Scotland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Belgium, Germany, Czechoslovakia, and the Netherlands.
• Bear cub and Robert Buschmann, Southeast Alaska (1934)
  – Original format: 16mm (black and white, silent)
  – – University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections (Eigil and Robert Buschmann Home Movies, PHColl 0976, VC72)
  Frolicking brown bears and black bears in southeast Alaskan grasslands! Ease your cabin fever with bear cub antics.
• The Mountaineers Film Collection (1927–41)
  – Original format: 16mm (black and white/color, silent)
  – – University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
  These films were produced by members of the Mountaineers between 1927–75 in Washington State, Montana, Wyoming, California, Idaho and Canada. They document climbs and expeditions, recreational and social activities, the development of mountain rescue techniques, and performances by The Mountaineers Players at their outdoor theater.
• Charles and Marion Hessey Films (1961)
  – Original format: 16mm (color, silent)
  – – University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
  Several 100′ reels of Marion Hessey’s films stitch together snow camping, fishing, marmot-feeding, rock-climbing, and fishing in a mountain lake.

+ A brief showcase of MIPoPS staff home movies!

** Introduction by Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa (Assistant Professor of Film Studies at Seattle University) **

Curated home movie footage includes:

• Gorilla Gone Wild, How Not to Behave in the Library (1984)
  – Original format: 16mm (color with sound)
  – – University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
  The film uses an interaction between a librarian and a gorilla to demonstrate unacceptable behavior in UW’s Odegaard Library. The gorilla breaks a host of library rules, misusing the copy machine and printed materials.
• Seattle Engineering Work/Home Movies (1932)
  – Original format: 16mm film (black and white, silent); transferred from Digital Betacam
  – – Seattle Municipal Archives (Item 525, Record Series 2613-09)
  Seattle Engineering Dept. employees’ families and guests enjoy a holiday dinner and parade.
• Florestine Ware Papers (1960–82)
  – Original format: Super 8mm (color); transferred from DVCAM
  – – University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
  These reels of Super 8mm shot by Seattle-area activist Florestine Ware relate to her work as a caravan leader and spokesperson for the North West Convention to the Poor People’s Campaign, 1967. This footage also includes Ware’s family on a camping trip and at a wedding.
• Home Movie Footage of David McGee (circa 1940)
  – Original Format: 16mm
  – – Seattle Art Museum Historic Media Collection – Dorothy Stimson Bullitt Library, Seattle Art Museum
  David McGee and his family on various outings in downtown Seattle and the Seattle Asian Art Museum in Volunteer Park.
• Edward and Jeanette Otsuka Film Collection (1952–57)
  – Original format: 16mm (color, silent)
  – – University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
  The Otsuka family play in the snow, dance with cherry blossoms, hunts deer, perform in a play, attend the Seafair Parade, and take family portraits together. The outfits are all incredible, and frankly it is hard to overstate the beauty and color of this footage! It’s an irresistible time capsule of ’50s Seattle.
• Edwin C. Thompson’s Seattle’s World’s Fair Home Movie (July 1962)
  – Original format: 8mm (color, silent)
  – – University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
  An 8mm record of Ed and Edith Thompson’s experience attending the Century 21 Exposition at Seattle Center. Monorail rides, Space Needle views, water-skiing, amusement park and cable car rides – the works! The film ends with nighttime scenes with prominent neon signs and views from the cable car ride of the fairgrounds at night.
• Tanejiro Kushi Family Films (1925–39)
  – Original format: 8mm (black and white, silent)
  – – University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
  The Kushi family filmed marriages, graduations, festivals, and family trips both in the US and in Japan. Includes footage of the Mukai Cold Process Fruit Barreling Plant on Vashon Island and views of the Seattle waterfront.

+ A brief showcase of MIPoPS staff home movies!