Our Day by Wallace Kelly

Courtesy of Martha Kelly and the Center for Home Movies

16mm, b&w, Silent, 1938.

Music written, performed and recorded by Rachel Grimes, © 2010 BMI

Named to the National Film Registry in 2007, Our Day is a day-in-the-life portrait of the Kelly family of Lebanon, Kentucky. Wallace Kelly’s amateur cast
was made up of his mother, wife, brother, and pet terrier. The film documents a modern home inhabited by adults with sophisticated interests and simple pleasures and contains exceptional images of small-town Southern life, ones that counter the stereotype of impoverished people eking out a living during
the Depression. Kelly (1910-1988), whose family ran the Lebanon Enterprise newspaper, was also an accomplished photographer, painter, and writer. He began shooting film in 1929 and continued until the 1950s. [Dan Streible]

Amateur Night
Home Movies from American Archives

A new 35mm feature-length compilation of home movies and amateur films from the collections of 16 American film archives, including award winning dramas, Alfred Hitchcock at home, the rescue of the real Smokey Bear, Helen Hill's super 8 movie of the Lower 9th Ward after Hurricane Katrina, Richard Nixon, WWII Japanese internment camp footage, National Film Registry Title "Our Day" (with a newly composed score by Rachel Grimes), babies in bathtubs, and many more.