The Library of Congress's National Film Registry has a mandate to preserve "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant films." It is an exclusive club that few films belong to. Well, now a home movie has been added to the list: Robbins Barstow's 1956 Disneyland Dream. The Home & Amateur blog explains, "The Barstow family films a memorable home movie of their trip to
Disneyland. Robbins and Meg Barstow, along with their children Mary,
David and Daniel were among 25 families who won a free trip to the
newly opened Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif., as part of a ‘Scotch Brand
Cellophane Tape’ contest sponsored by 3M. Through vivid color and
droll narration (”The landscape was very different from back home in
Connecticut”), we see a fantastic historical snapshot of Hollywood,
Beverly Hills, Catalina Island, Knott’s Berry Farm, Universal Studios
and Disneyland in mid-1956." You can watch it over at The Internet Archive.
It's not quite the first -- check out Sid Lavarents' amazing short amateur film Multiple Sidosis:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cRZmvr-2QM
Posted by: Etherealpr | December 30, 2008 at 04:38 PM