Events › Home Movie Day

Digitize your home movies! Chat with film and video experts from Moving Image Preservation of Puget Sound (MIPoPS) who can answer your questions on how to protect these valuable memories.

• Digitize your home videos! Bring in your own homemade film and videotapes  and get them safely digitized. We will have all the equipment and the expertise at your disposal.*
• Ask an Audiovisual Archivist! Do you have a mystery tape? Or want to know the best way to store your VHS collection? MIPoPS experts can help with identification, basic preservation and conservation actions, and digitization options.
• Moving Image Discovery Station! Check out our collection of film and video formats from over 100 years of film and video history. 
• Watch home movies on the big screen! Watch home movies from the coast of California to the lakes of Wisconsin, all set to music.
• Take home a swag bag! Including a Home Movie tote bag, zines on audiovisual and digital preservation, a list of local resources for film and videotape digitization, stickers, how-tos for home movie care and more!

*Time available for digitization will be limited and will depend on demand. KCLS and MIPoPS can digitize the following formats:

• 8mm film
• VHS +VHS-C
• SVHS
• MiniDV
• Betamax
• 8mm video/Video8/Hi8

Registration not required.

Reasonable accommodation for people with disabilities is available by request. Email access@kcls.org at least seven days before the event. Automated closed captioning is always available for online events.