A
home movie is a short amateur
film or
video typically made just to preserve a visual record of family activities, a vacation, or a special event, and intended for viewing at home by family and friends. Originally, home movies were made on
photographic film in formats that usually limited the movie-maker to about three minutes per roll of costly camera film. The advent of
camcorders that could record an hour or two of video on one relatively inexpensive
videocassette, followed by digital video cameras that recorded to
flash memory, and most recently
smartphones with video recording capability, made the creation of home movies easier and much more affordable to the average person.