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Reconstructing the 1938 Amateur

Movie Show
Prior to a screening of short films from the 1938
International Amateur Movie Show, film scholar Charles
Tepperman considered the exhibition and international
circulation of amateur cinema

The original International Amateur Movie Show took place at Columbia

by Staff University’s McMillin Theater on April 6, 1938. It was the last instalment of a 20-
Dec 31, 2013 screening series devoted to the art of motion pictures, and was coordinated by
Columbia’s Extension program in film studies. The theme for the 1938 instalment
! " was “depicting daily life.”

Of the 10 short films originally shown in 1938, six were selected and screened at
TIFF. Prior to their screening, film scholar Charles Tepperman highlighted the key
characteristics of amateur cinema, in contrast to the films being produced by the
Hollywood studio system — namely, that amateur films were typically shot on
16mm or 8mm film and often featured domestic subjects. To conclude his talk,
Tepperman provided background on the Amateur Movie Database, a
contemporary listing containing information on more than 1,900 amateur films
from 1911 to 2018 and over 160 amateur movie clubs. The website is intended to
support research and has been used by archives to help identify and contextualize
films.

This Higher Learning event was held on January 26, 2018, at TIFF Bell Lightbox
and was hosted by Charles Tepperman, Associate Professor and Graduate
Program Director in the Department of Communication, Media and Film at the
University of Calgary.

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