161 Susan Aasman “Smile, Wave or Blow a Kiss ...” Home Movies and Tele-Technologies from the Hearth Our lives, relationships, fantasies, desires also flow across media channels. Being a lover or a mommy or a teacher occurs on multiple platforms. 1 “Kodak as you go” was the suggestion made by Eastman Kodak in the twenties, stimulat- ing travellers to take a film camera with them. “Go places ... see things ... bring them back” was the slogan of Bell & Howell used in 1931 to market the Filmo 16 mm camera as a luxurious leisure article. Amateur film has always been about leisure and travel. And, it never lost its popularity, although the slogan – for a Nokia mobile phone with camera function - nowadays has changed slightly to: “see it ... snap it ... share it”. The word ‘share’ sounds like a minor al- teration but in fact it represents a major transformation. It replaces older notions such as ‘recording’, ‘keeping’ or ‘saving’ with others, such as ‘sending’, ‘uploading’ and ‘instant’ viewing. Technological changes have influenced existing conventions of pro- duction and reception. Especially the context of reception has changed: to watch a video that is transmitted online means that it is no longer necessary to be in the same room. On multiple platforms members of the family can view imagery together – simultaneously – while apart. It is fascinating to see how fast new technologies and possibilities are em- braced and become embedded in our daily life. In no time they transform from some- thing new into routinized practices. They have made the home “a nodal point in a com- plex flow of people, goods and message”, as David Morley notes in his book Home terri- tories, wherein he explores our sense of be- longing and the way the media have con- tributed to different conceptions of home, family and household in a globalised world. 2 To analyze new ideas on home and home territories, Morley follows Michel Foucault who suggested to combine macro and micro levels of analysis by linking “grand strategies of geo-politics” with “little tactics of the habi- tat”. 3 What I would like to add to this analyti- cal framework is a historical perspective. What I would argue here is that if we want to understand family life and amateur film- making in a global age, we need to broaden our concept of home movie making by in- cluding new global communication techno- logies. I think it is necessary to re-evaluate and redefine the concept of amateur film making in order to understand current