A Bolex H16. This 16mm film camera was a popular camera used by amateur filmmakers.Sony Mavica FD 5.
Amateur film is a genre of filmmaking done primarily for personal enjoyment, passion, or hobby, without commercial intent or substantial funding. It encompasses a wide range of activities, from recording family events and local news to creating experimental works or dramatic productions.
It later overlapped with fan film, a filmmaking genre used for amateur films created by fans rather than by the source's copyright holders or creators.
The Cinema Museum in London holds a large collection of amateur films whose details can be accessed on-line.
Creation
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.
Ian Craven (ed.) Movies on Home Ground: Explorations in Amateur Cinema. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.[3]
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 Unpublished PhD thesis, Norwich: University of East Anglia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.[4]
Heather Norris Nicholson (2012) Amateur Film: Meaning and Practice, 1927-77. Manchester: Manchester University Press.[5]
Laura Rascorolli and Gwenda Young (2014) Amateur Filmmaking: The Home Movie, the Archive and the Web. London: Bloomsbury.[6]
Ryan Shand and Ian Craven (eds.) (2013) Small Gauge Storytelling: Discovering the Amateur Fiction Film. Edinburgh University Press.[7]
↑ Movies on home ground: explorations in amateur cinema. Craven, Ian. Newcastle. 2012. ISBN9781443841696. OCLC850163333.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)
↑ Mining the Home Movie: Excavations in Histories and Memories. Ishizuka, Karen L., Zimmermann, Patricia Rodden. Berkeley: University of California Press. 2007. ISBN9780520939684. OCLC723943549.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
↑ Nicholson, Heather Norris (2012). Amateur film: meaning and practice, 1927-1977. Manchester: Manchester University Press. ISBN9780719077739. OCLC799144752.
↑ Rascorolli, Laura; Young, Gwenda (2014). Amateur Filmmaking: The Home Movie, the Archive and the Web (1sted.). London: Bloomsbury. ISBN9781441191496.
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