HOME MOVIE / BASEMENT TAPES DAY MONTREAL 2025
Saturday December 6, 2025, 2 – 6 p.m.
followed by Home Movie Day film screening, 6 – 7:30 p.m. @ Cinema Public
Casa d’Italia / Cinema Public, 505 Jean-Talon E. Free! Facebook event.
It’s time once again for Montreal’s own Home Movie and Basement Tapes Day!
Bring out your old reel to reels or audio cassettes, dig up your old home movies and experts from ARCMTL and the Musée des Ondes Berliner (RCA-Victor Museum) will give advice on how these old formats can be safely played or digitized.
From 2 to 6 pm in the basement of the Casa d’Italia, many different audio and video players and projectors will be on hand, from reel to reel and cassette players, record players, 8 and 16mm film projectors, VHS, hi-8, MiniDV and more.
This year’s edition showcases radio advertisements! Original vintage radio ads from Montreal from the 1960s to 1990s will be digitized on-site, including some from partner radio station CKUT 90.3 FM.
Audio and video recordings will be played all afternoon, featuring home movies showing Montreal neighborhoods from the 20th century.
The day ends with a special projection of home movies at 6 p.m. at Cinema Public in the same building.
The programme includes digitised Montreal home movies, including home movies and footage shot by renowned NFB filmmaker Arthur Lipsett and his friends in the 1970s. More ephemeral films shot in and around Little Italy, Rosemont Petite Patrie and the surrounding areas will also be on the menu.
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ARCMTL has made a growing number of rare Montreal publications available in this collection on the Internet Archive, with recently added titles. More archival material can be found on our Youtube channel, including our playlist of ephemeral films and home movies; and the Montreal Sound Ark radio show on CKUT 90.3 FM on Tuesdays from 9 – 11 p.m.
If you’d like to consult the collections at our archive centre, please contact us by email to make an appointment.
