Join us at North Lincoln County Historical Museum (NLCHM) for Home Movie Day 2024 on Saturday, October 19th, 2024 from 12PM – 3:30PM. This event is free and open to the public!
Home Movie Day is celebrated worldwide. It is a fun interactive event, where you can learn about different small gauge movie formats, get your own movies inspected and repaired by a film archivist, learn how to preserve and protect your films, and get recommendations for digitization. The best part is watching your own family’s precious memories on the big screen! NLCHM will also be projecting films from their own collection, including footage of Lincoln City and other Oregon Coast locations in the 1950s and 1960s.
8mm, super-8mm, and 16mm films are accepted day of on a first come, first served basis. If you want to guarantee a spot, you can drop off your films at NLCHM, 4907 SW HWY 101, Lincoln City, Wednesday – Saturday 11AM-4PM. If you are interested in getting VHS, hi8, MiniDV or other media inspected and screened, please contact NLCHM as soon as possible!
If you would like more information or are interested in volunteering at the event, please email: director@nlchm.org.
We hope you can make it to our Annual Meeting open house on Saturday, June 22nd, 2024 from 11am – 1pm. Come meet members of our Board of Directors, vote for our new Board member in person, and see a slide show of the years trials and triumphs! We will have goodies and refreshments. Come see what we are all about and help us shape NLCHM’s future.
Photograph of a Schooner Creek School Picnic, August 1909. Names on back note that members of the Saaranpaa, Immonen, Hill, Erickson, Bone, and Waino families are reperesented
If you cannot make the meeting, you can take a look at the PDF of our annual meeting slideshow:
With the advent of 8mm celluloid film in the 1950s, for the first time in history people were able to capture their lives in motion. Nowadays we’re used to making a video whenever we please, in 1960 this was groundbreaking. These one-of-a-kind physical films are some of the first moving images of the Oregon Coast! You will see Oregon Coast landmarks, tourist destinations, dirt highways, families playing on the beach, and many other sights – some still familiar today, and some that are clearly historical.
These are just a few of the films donated to the museum over the years, many by unknown donors. They were digitized thanks to a grant from the Siletz Tribal Charitable Contribution Fund in 2023.
The exhibit consists of a 21 minute silent film loop. It will be on display in our Anne Hall Gallery upstairs through December 2024.
