There's a nice article about Jackie Stewart and the South Side Home
Movie Project in the University of Chicago magazine:

http://magazine.uchicago.edu/0734/features/stewart.shtml

As much as it is an act of preservation, the South Side Home Movie
Project is also an inquiry into the histories of film, Chicago,
neighborhoods, and personal experiences. In the pantheon of cinema
achievement, home movies usually get shoved aside. "People focus on
narrative film, Hollywood film, commercial cinema," Stewart says.
"Even documentary and avant-garde filmmaking have found a place in
history. But what about the films regular people were making?" She
recalls the first time she saw footage taken by residents of Japanese
internment camps. It showed ordinary-looking people going about their
daily routines, families celebrating Christmas, children posing for
the camera. "I don't know what I thought life looked like in
internment camps," she says, but the images on screen surprised her.
"It's so incredible to have this visual record to put alongside
traditional histories of moments we think we understand."