Revamping Canadian Archives
posted May 25, 2010
Daniel J. Caron, Librarian and Archivist of Canada, has launched a series of dialogues with the Canadian archival community about the role of Library and Archives Canada (LAC). He is looking for input on what the national archive is doing right, wrong, well, and not well enough. What new services should it offer? What strategies
New US Archivist
posted May 25, 2010
In November, David S. Ferriero was sworn in as the tenth Archivist of the United States, the first librarian to hold the position. The librarian and library administrator was previously the director of the New York Public Library where he worked after serving as University Librarian and vice provost for library affairs at Duke University.
AMIA 20th Anniversary Edition of The Moving Image
posted May 25, 2010
Marsha and Devin Orgeron, editors of The Moving Image: The Journal of the Association of Moving Image Archivists, have gathered input for an expanded Forum section of the publication (issue 11.1 of early 2011) which will commemorate AMIA’s 20th anniversary. The tentative lineup for the issue, which will be the first issue of 2011, includes
On, Archives!
posted May 24, 2010
On, Archives!: A conference on media, theater, and history Wisconsin Center for Film & Theater Research July 6 – 9, 2010 Madison, Wisconsin On, Archives!, a conference celebrating 50 years of the Wisconsin Center for Film & Theater Research, takes place July 6-9, 2010, in Madison. The center, formed in 1960 by the then-department of
34th Annual Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival
posted May 24, 2010
American Museum of Natural History, November 11-14, 2010 Central Park West at 79th Street, New York, NY The longest-running American showcase for documentaries, experimental films, animation, and hybrid works that increase understanding of the complexity and diversity of peoples and culture. Submit films here by June 1. Some of the festival’s films travel to universities
Australia’s Oldest Film, Online and in the Vault
posted May 24, 2010
Late in October, 1896, Lumière cinematographer Marius Sestier took his newfangled movie camera out into central Melbourne to shoot what is now Australia’s oldest, known, surviving film, Patineur Grotesque. Performing for a gathering crowd, the bearded, cigar-puffing Humorous Rollerskater (as the film’s title has been translated) stumbles about, struggling to keep his hat on his
The American Indian Film Gallery Retrieves Images from 20th Century Life
posted May 22, 2010
A Hollywood staple, for decades, was Indians yelping from pinto ponies, brandishing tomahawks with bloodcurdling cries, and plummeting rifle-shot from rocky outcrops.
posted May 20, 2010
From The Washington Post: What happened to Hattie McDaniel’s Oscar? A good question, and reminds us of another Oscar associated with being first (McDaniel was the first African-American to win the statuette). Oscar Micheaux is considered the first African-American to direct a feature-length film. The Black Film Center/Archive at Indiana University at Bloomington is a
San Francisco Silent Film Festival
posted May 6, 2010
From July 15-18, the San Francisco Silent Film Festival runs, featuring a restored print from the most intact version of F.W. Murnau’s Metropolis found to date (at the Museo del Cine in Buenos Aires and now making the rounds worldwide). http://www.silentfilm.org/index.php
From Nitrate to Digital: New Technologies and the Art of Cinema
posted May 6, 2010
From May 1-9, the UCLA Film & Television Archive at the Billy Wilder Theater presents “From Nitrate to Digital: New Technologies and the Art of Cinema.” Throughout May and June, the Archive, Cinecittà Luce and the Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles present a retrospective of Italian-based Turkish filmmaker Ferzan Ozpetek: http://www.cinema.ucla.edu/calendar/calendar.aspx