In writing a blog for ArchivesInfo I picked up the book Mining the Home Movie: Excavations in Histories and Memories from my local library. I was focusing my attention on the Introduction section, written by co-editor Patricia Zimmerman, and the recent attention home movies and amateur film has received in scholarship and the shift in perception of the value of these personal histories. The book itself is an anthology of essays using “primary research, archival collections, critical analy...