The Value Of Your Home Movies

By Laura Lee,

Published October 16, 2014 at 12:22 PM EDT

The reel of film or a stack of VHS tapes gathering dust on your shelves might seem pretty useless beyond your family.

But an event at the State Archives of North Carolina this weekend seeks to highlight the value of home movies. The realistic style of the home movie also has an influence on modern film. Host Frank Stasio talks with two of the organizers of Home Movie Day in Raleigh: Devin Orgeron, film professor at North Carolina State University and Kim Anderson, audio visual materials archivist at the State Archives of North Carolina.

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Laura Lee

Laura Lee was the managing editor of The State of Things until mid February 2017. Born and raised in Monroe, North Carolina, Laura returned to the Old North state in 2013 after several years in Washington, DC. She received her B.A. in political science and international studies from UNC-Chapel Hill in 2002 and her J.D. from UNC-Chapel Hill School of Law in 2007.

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Frank Stasio

Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.

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