Film's intrinsically naive quality of capturing whatever, before it is characterised by the home movie. One of the sources of understanding for family films lies within the context of screening - specifically the role of narration or commentaries offered by the family while viewing the films: "this is me, that is him," "this happened then, and that happened then," "Now we see this and this," "how happy we were at that time." Spontaneous comments that, in effect, constitutes the metanarration.
[Mining The Home Movie, Karen L. Ishizuka, book]
An Example of commentaries offered by the family while viewing the film -
