Home Movie Day is a worldwide celebration of home movies and amateur films. Come find out how to best care for your home movies and hang out – check where the closest celebration is by you.

Join Eastman House and our Selznick School of Film Preservation to have trained archivists and technicians  inspect your home movies and then project them!

Bring along your 16mm, 8mm, Super8, and VHS tapes this Saturday October 20.

OCTOBER 20 // RUSH RHEES LIBRARY  AT THE U OF R // 12 – 4 p.m.

image thanks //  Meredith Kresge

(Brian De Palma, US 1976, 98 min.) / Photofest

Halloween is once again upon us, and as is our custom here at Eastman House and the Dryden, we’ve rounded up another batch of classic horror films that are guaranteed to thrill and delight.
From the height of the Cold War come Them! and Invasion of the Body Snatchers, in which the twin plagues of atomic testing and mass conformity manifest themselves in the form of giant ants and pod people, respectively. Familial dysfunction has a negative impact (to say the least!) on the protagonists of Carrie and Psycho, while Vincent Price thirsts for vengeance in Theatre of Blood, and Audrey the Plant hungers for humans in the original Roger Corman version of Little Shop of Horrors. The golden age of made-for-TV movies brings us Bad Ronald and Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark, two classic, compact thrillers that are rarely (if ever) shown theatrically, screening in a doubly terrifying double feature. Finally, we’ll go back to the studio that started it all, Universal, for a special Halloween screening of the original Wolf Man. Join us, if you dare!

Sunday, Oct. 14, 2 p.m.
Them!
(Gordon Douglas, US 1954, 94 min.)

Thursday, Oct. 18, 8 p.m.
The Little Shop of Horrors
(Roger Corman, US 1960, 72 min.)

Saturday, Oct. 20, 8 p.m.
Sunday, Oct. 21, 2 p.m.
Psycho
(Alfred Hitchcock, US 1960, 109 min.)

Thursday, Oct. 25, 8 p.m.
Double Feature: Bad Ronald and Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark
Bad Ronald (Buzz Kulik, US 1974, 74 min.) Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark (John Newland, US 1973, 74 min.)

Saturday, Oct. 27, 8 p.m.
Sunday, Oct. 28, 5 p.m.
Carrie
(Brian De Palma, US 1976, 98 min.)

Wednesday, Oct. 31, 8 p.m.
The Wolf Man
(George Waggner, US 1941, 70 min.)

Next week we’ll be opening our new exhibit “60 from the 60s“. Our assistant curator of photographs, Jamie Allen was able to spend some time talking with documentary photographer Mary Ellen Mark about her career and work. Mark’s work is included in our new exhibit – along with work from Harry Callahan, Benedict J. Fernandez, Hollis Frampton, Betty Hahn, Robert Heinecken, Roger Mertin, Arnold Newman, Aaron Siskind, and Garry Winogrand.

60 from the 60s opens this weekend.

By Adriane Smith, Race Founder’s Circle and Eastman Young Professionals Steering Board

When I visit George Eastman House, I love to look at Mr. Eastman’s oak box full of index cards recording all of his charitable contributions. George Eastman was a great philanthropist and wanted to make Rochester, N.Y. the best place to live and work.

During his life he supported organizations concerned with health and wellness, culture, education, and more. Today, the charitable investments he made are still at the foundation of many organizations in Rochester and beyond.

It is George Eastman’s generous spirit of philanthropy that inspires the George Eastman House PhotoFinish 5K. In the PhotoFinish 5K, everybody can be a philanthropist. Everybody can invest themselves in the cause they feel most passionate about. And everybody can make a meaningful difference. The PhotoFinish 5K is a community wide event with participants donating and raising money for over 40 nonprofits—with concerns from education to health to culture to animals to music and anything in between.

You can join an existing team or start a new one for your own favorite nonprofit; fundraising is open through October. So many people coming together to support so many amazing causes truly exemplifies the vision George Eastman had for our community. This Saturday, runners and walkers will gather to celebrate George Eastman’s legacy of philanthropy. Come celebrate with us and together let’s make Rochester the best place to live and work.

Attention runners! Our big event of the fall is fast approaching, the George Eastman House Photo Finish 5K on October 6! It’s not too late to get your team and your charity on. We’re working with Crowdrise again this year make it easy for participants to gain momentum and support.

We’re also excited to be screening Chariots Of Fire  on September  24, 2012, @ 8:00 p.m.  What better way to get pumped for a race? Donations gratefully accepted.

That night you’ll also be able to enter the name of your favorite charity in a 50/50 drawing for half of the evening’s proceeds.

Don’t forget, you can run or you can walk, you can bring your family or come alone. Please do come out to support the local Rochester community and your favorite charity.