A glimpse of fabricated home movies in advertising and feature films validates the power of the genre for me. Every day happenings, domestic ceremonies and annual events. A collection of 1930s hunting and fishing films was initially restricted by the donor, still sensitive after 50 years, to portrayal of prominent individuals drinking liquor during Prohibition. Travel and Encounters with Others Travel abroad, people living in unfamiliar cultures, country dwellers visit the city and city dwellers visit the country, and a lot of World's Fairs. These encounters order and present cultural perceptions.
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Film is also used as a tool by anthropologists, physicians, and other scientists, not trained as filmmakers. These categories are neither definitive nor exact. Whether this final category is even essentially different from the first, Domestic Life, as a record of quotidian struggle, is debated. However, the purpose of these definitions is to suggest the complexity of amateur work so as to foster discussion about the motivations of the creators and inspire us to examine their work closely. Further, these categories suggest that the material was created for expressive effect and did reach audiences, whether family groups, club members, or colleagues.