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TIME OUT:  IMAGES OF PLAY AND LEISURE -- CALL FOR PAPERS
Eighth Annual Northeast Historic Film Summer Film Symposium
Thursday, July 19 – Saturday, July 21, 2007

Recognizing that play and recreation are integral facets of modern life, the theme of the Eighth 
Annual Summer Film Symposium is “Time Out: Images of Play and Leisure.” Since the late 19th 
century Maine has been known as a tourist destination for the original “rusticators,” to 
tastemakers who turned Acadia into playground for the rich and famous, to working class families 
seeking a week of quiet camping and fun.  As Maine’s traditional economic bases in timber and 
fishing have declined, the state has been transformed into “Vacationland,” and tourism is now 
recognized as Maine’s largest employer. Other regions around the nation and throughout the 
world have witnessed similar changes, changes that speak to the increasing importance of play 
and leisure to individuals in the industrial and post-industrial era. We invite papers and 
presentations that explore aspects of play and leisure as a subject of amateur and non-
commercial film. We are interested in moving images that offer us a new historical, cultural, and 
critical understanding of play and leisure. By examining moving images of play and leisure made 
by amateurs and for noncommercial purposes the aim of this symposium is to consider the 
details, diversity and perspectives on play and leisure time.  Potential paper topics might include, 
but are not limited to subjects such as:

Involuntary leisure (TB sanitaria)    Work in the tourism/leisure industry      Home movies as leisure
Shopping as leisure  Leisure in the workplace (picnics, parties)           Back to the land movements
Organized recreation        	 Fairs, carnivals and festivals  	           The Playground Movement
Religious holidays     Music, dance, painting, and drama              Games (traditional and unusual)
Travel narratives            Issues of leisure and class                   Unfilmable leisure (reading, writing)
Hunting and fishing 	     Tourism Dept/Chambers of Commerce Films                   Gendered play 
Scientific studies of play     Travel by rail, air, automobile  Marginalized leisure (nudism, drug use)

The NHF Summer Film Symposium is a multi-disciplinary gathering devoted to the history, theory, 
and preservation of moving images.  The Symposium is noted for bringing together archivists, 
scholars, and artists in an intimate setting. NHF is located in Bucksport, a town of 5,000 on the 
coast of Maine (for more info about NHF, visit: http://www.oldfilm.org).  Presenters have a full 
hour in which to deliver their paper and engage in discussion with their colleagues. Typically, 
presentations are 30 minutes, including moving images, and followed by 30 minutes of 
discussion.  The symposium is open to archivists, artists and scholars from all disciplines.

Northeast Historic Film has become internationally recognized for its wide range of amateur, 
documentary, personal and industrial films of New England’s people and those who visit from 
throughout the world. NHF is the repository of over six million feet of film and holds an 
international reputation as a regional archive at the forefront of collecting, preserving and 
studying our moving image heritage.  It houses a 125-seat cinema with 35mm, 16mm, videotape, 
and DVD projection, and we are looking for presentations that include interesting moving images.  
Please send 250-500 word abstracts outlining your paper ideas to the Symposium Program 
Committee at the address below. We prefer e-mail submissions, but will accept any format. We are 
happy to discuss your presentation ideas with you in advance of a formal submission. The 
Symposium Program Committee will begin reviewing proposals on February 1, 2007. Please send 
proposals and inquiries to:

				Eric Schaefer, NHF Summer Film Symposium Chair
				Department of Visual and Media Arts
				Emerson College
				120 Boylston Street
				Boston, MA   02116   USA
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