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Home Movies - A New American Project

Shereck Video Services, Inc. owner, David Shereck, has forged a partnership with Producer/Director of Home Video Studios, Inc. founder Robert Hanley. He runs the nation`s largest chain of home video studios. His job is to archive and collect America`s home videos in order to preserve a part of fading American history.

Hanley says, `What I`ve seen over the past 21 years of transferring film is fabulous - hundreds of thousands of home movies showing America at its most basic, personal and human level. I`ve watched America unfold before my eyes - the backyard barbeques, Model T-s rolling down dirt roads, small town fish fries, New York City in the `40s, families at the beach, dance recitals, baby`s first steps - a different view of history that provides insight into the American spirit. Our goal is to combine this into what I call The Great American Home Movie Project.`

According to Shereck, `Because of the popularity of TV`s America`s Funniest Videos, people think of home movies as capturing an unusual, funny events on tape or film. But home movies are so much more than that. People have been filming home movies since the 1920`s - there are millions of feet of film (8mm, Super 8mm and 16mm) and we and our 80 video studios owners around the country, are collecting footage to create a feature length documentary to capture America through the eyes of home movies.`