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Film genre
Amateur film
is the low-budget art of
film
practised for passion and enjoyment done without payment.
Organizations
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The international organization for amateur film makers is UNICA (
Union International du Cinema Non Professionel
); in the
United States
the
American Motion Picture Society
(AMPS), in Canada the
Society of Canadian Cine Amateurs
(SCCA), in the
UK
it is the
Institute of Amateur Cinematographers
. These organizations arrange annual
festivals
and
conventions
. There are several amateur film festivals held annually in the United States,
Canada
and
Europe
.
The
Cinema Museum
in London holds a large collection of amateur films whose details can be accessed on-line.
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Creation
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Amateur films were usually shot on
16 mm film
or on
8 mm film
(either Double-8 or Super-8) until the advent of cheap
video cameras
or digital equipment. The advent of
digital video
and computer based editing programs greatly expanded the technical quality achievable by the amateur and low-budget filmmaker. Amateur video has become the choice for the low-budget filmmaker and has boomed into a very watched and even produced industry with the use of VHS and digital video camcorders.
Notable films
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A number of amateur films have been added to the
National Film Preservation Board's
(NFPB)
National Film Registry
(NFR) including:
Further reading
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- Ian Craven (ed.)
Movies on Home Ground: Explorations in Amateur Cinema.
Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
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- Francis Dyson (2012)
Challenging assumptions about amateur film of the inter-war years: Ace movies and the first generation of London based cine-clubs
. Unpublished PhD thesis, Norwich: University of East Anglia
- Karen L. Ishizuka and Patricia Zimmerman (eds.) (2008)
Mining the Home Movies: Excavations in Histories and Memories.
Berkeley: University of California Press.
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- Heather Norris Nicholson (2012)
Amateur Film: Meaning and Practice, 1927-77.
Manchester: Manchester University Press.
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- Laura Rascorolli and Gwenda Young (2014)
Amateur Filmmaking: The Home Movie, the Archive and the Web.
London: Bloomsbury.
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- Ryan Shand and Ian Craven (eds.) (2013)
Small Gauge Storytelling: Discovering the Amateur Fiction Film.
Edinburgh University Press.
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References
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- ^
Movies on home ground : explorations in amateur cinema
. Craven, Ian. Newcastle. 2012.
ISBN
9781443841696
.
OCLC
850163333
.
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Mining the Home Movie : Excavations in Histories and Memories
. Ishizuka, Karen L., Zimmermann, Patricia Rodden. Berkeley: University of California Press. 2007.
ISBN
9780520939684
.
OCLC
723943549
.
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Nicholson, Heather Norris (2012).
Amateur film : meaning and practice, 1927-1977
. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
ISBN
9780719077739
.
OCLC
799144752
.
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Rascorolli, Laura; Young, Gwenda (2014).
Amateur Filmmaking: The Home Movie, the Archive and the Web
(1st ed.). London: Bloomsbury.
ISBN
9781441191496
.
- ^
Small-gauge storytelling : discovering the amateur fiction film
. Shand, Ryan,, Craven, Ian. Edinburgh. 2013-05-31.
ISBN
9780748656356
.
OCLC
903489120
.
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