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We now flash back to a time in the distant past, before YouTube, before picture-snapping cell phones, even before videotape cameras were all the rage to document Christmas mornings and vacations in the new minivan that had a "Baby on Board' sign in the back window.

Aug. 11 is the fifth anniversary of Home Movie Day, and fans of those jittery, old family films will gather in cities around the country, including Albuquerque and Santa Fe. Anyone is welcome to dig out a home movie and offer it up to be thread through a projector.

Home Movie Day accepts films on 8mm, Super8 and 16mm film stock or any such films transferred to videotape.

The folks at Basement Films are helping organize Albuquerque's event from 3:30 to 8 p.m. Aug. 11 at the Harwood Art Center, 1114 Seventh St. N.W. (In Santa Fe, the New Mexico State Archives will run things from 3 to 6 p.m. at the Center for Contemporary Arts, 1050 Old Pecos Trail.)

This year's flagship city for Home Movie Day is Dallas, a nod to the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza and the recent discovery of more footage from the day of the assassination of President Kennedy.

"It made perfect sense for us to celebrate Dallas this year," film archivist Chad Hunter said in a news release. Hunter is co-founder of the Center for Home Movies.

"The most famous home movie in the world, the Zapruder film, was made in Dallas, and the finding of the (George) Jeffries film early this year proves that more great home movies are out there, just waiting to be discovered."

Local Home Movie Day spokeswoman Noel Fernando said she plans to bake cookies for the Aug. 9 event to give it that Saturday-night-with-the-cousins feel.

She hopes more people show up for this Home Movie Day than participated two years ago. Fernando said reports on the Home Movie Day Web site from Albuquerque's only previous foray were underwhelming.

"Only one person showed up, and he fell asleep," Fernando said.

Fernando said she plans to bring 8mm film she found in a thrift store recently. It's apparently vacation film from a Farmington family.

Fernando said a representative from Field and Frame, a Nob Hill video expert, might be on hand to offer a clinic on assessing old films, caring for them and transferring them to videotape and digital files.

The Home Movie Day national group this weekend is releasing a compilation of movies submitted in previous years.

The format of the new release? DVD.