Storing the Story of Dom DeLuise
posted December 30, 2010
When comic actor, director, television producer, and author Dom DeLuise died in 2009 at the age of 75, he left a large collection of materials relating to his career.
Much of the material has already gone to large collections. DeLuise’s heirs gave his feature-film material to the Margaret Herrick Library at the Academy of Motion Picture ...
Bill Morrison, Poet of Decaying Film Stock
posted December 30, 2010
Bill Morrison Revivifies Dying Filmstock
posted December 29, 2010
Renowned experimental filmmaker Bill Morrison has an unusual relation to the world of moving-image archives: He uses decaying film stock as his raw material. He has become synonymous with the found-footage film, as he uses the inherent qualities of nitrate-film-stock deterioration for various artistic, expressive ends. (And, as he says, because “it looks really cool.”)
Rather ...
A New Book on Tennessee Williams’ Movie Colleagues
posted December 29, 2010
Read about new books about moving image forms, and their archiving, on our New Books pages.
In Tennessee Williams and Company: His Essential Screen Actors (Hansen Publishing Group), John DiLeo presents his study of 11 actors, including Marlon Brando, Madeleine Sherwood, and Anna Magnani (see cover photo, left, where she appears with ...
The Rise of Nollywood
posted December 29, 2010
In a new book, researchers of contemporary African cinema describe the influence of French-language cinema of the 1960s, and what came after.
Among many compelling perspectives on the film of the continent are those dealing with the extraordinary rise of “Nollywood” – cheaply made and highly popular films from Nigeria.
Viewing African Cinema in the Twenty-First Century: ...
Twenty-Five Films Added to the National Film Registry
posted December 28, 2010
Five Hundred and Fifty Film Gems Now Guaranteed Preservation
Librarian of Congress James H. Billington today [December 28 2010] named 25 motion pictures – very early American films, Hollywood classics, documentaries, innovative shorts, and examples from most eras of American filmmaking – that he and his colleagues, based on nominations from film guilds, archivists, and everyday ...
New in Our Book Pages: The Life and Art of Busby Berkeley
posted December 27, 2010
When new books appear that relate to moving images in any format, Moving Image Archive News lists and describes them in the Books section. (If you know of any we’ve missed, please let us know through info@movingimagearchivenews.org.) We also ask authors to share their experiences of locating source material for their books – moving images ...
Historic Cricket Footage Found in a Shed
posted December 22, 2010
Readers in the United States may, if they wish, tune out right about now, but those from the British Commonwealth, blessed with knowledge and love for the transcendent pastime of cricket, listen up.
The biggest deal in international cricket is the oddly titled Australia v England series, The Ashes. It has been taking place generally every ...
CPB Job Posting
posted December 20, 2010
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s American Archive Content Inventory Project (CIP) has advertised a job posting for archivists and librarians to help inventory archival public media assets nationwide. It is hiring “Saving What America Treasures” teams to visit archives, libraries, and public media broadcasting stations to inventory their collections.
Information about applying is online. Deadline ...
San Francisco, Days Before the Great Earthquake
posted December 8, 2010
From the Better Late Than Never department:
The CBS News program, 60 Minutes, aired a fascinating segment in October 2010 about historic 1906 film of San Francisco’s main thoroughfare, Market Street, just days before the street and much of city were devastated by the great earthquake of 1906 and subsequent fire.
The segment was about an 11-minute ...

