Archive • March 2012

In the News

posted March 30, 2012

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With the volume of news about moving image archives, film and video restoration, and the like that appears, here and there, you might conclude that the zeitgeist is turning in favor of such undertakings. Perhaps it is. Perhaps little by little awareness is growing of just what could be lost, if efforts are not made. Among ...

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Wunderkino Weekend

posted March 28, 2012

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Wunderkino n Northeast Historic Film Thursday, July 26 2012 – Saturday, July 28 2012 Bucksport, Maine, USA What would you put in your wunderkino? A “wonder-cinema” is a collection of moving images that project its maker’s curiosities and personality, as a holiday album of photos and mementos may project the diversion, adventures, and even hints of the lurid that do ...

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Archivists’ Perspectives

posted March 27, 2012

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Lance Watsky, coordinator of the Moving Image Archive Studies program at UCLA, on his history in moving image archiving: Kimberly Peach, of Blood Audio & Video, Philadelphia, on the challenges facing moving image archiving:

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Clip of the Day: Life in Japanese America

posted March 26, 2012

Clip of the Day: Life in Japanese America

Now, footage of the internment of Japanese Americans in camps in the Western United States is as hard to fathom as scraps of film footage can be to make out through the injuries of time. The Japanese American National Museum is dedicated to preserving such memories, and others from the long residence in North America of ...

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Want to Win the Margaret Mead Filmmaker Award?

posted March 26, 2012

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The American Museum of Natural History’s Margaret Mead Film Festival, held each fall, honors the  anthropologist who pioneered the use of film for fieldwork. The Mead Festival screens documentaries, experimental films, animation, and hybrid works that cast light on the complexity and diversity of peoples and cultures. In 2010, the ...

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Yet More Interviews

posted March 26, 2012

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Here are two more items from the Moving Image Archive News collection of interviews with professionals and students with experience in the field, or hopes of gaining it. Melissa Dollman, an audiovisual archivist at the Schlesinger Library at Harvard University, suggests how to get jobs in moving image archiving. Leo Enticknap, lecturer in cinema at the Institute ...

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“Napoleon,” an Epic, in Oakland, Cal.

posted March 23, 2012

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Here’s a tip. Get on your bike and pedal like blazes – get to Oakland, California this weekend or next for one of only four screenings in the United States of a fully restored version of Abel Gance’s 1927 epic masterpiece, Napoléon. The presentations, the highlight of the 2012 San Francisco Silent Film Festival, are showing ...

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More Interviews

posted March 22, 2012

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Stephanie Sapienza, Project Manager, American Archive, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, on her favorite projects in moving image archiving: “Alternative projections” of experimental artists in Los Angeles from 1945 to 1980. And, inventories of public-media access projects around the country. Rick Shephard, technical director of Armáge Archival Imaging, on challenges facing moving image archivists. It’ll take some ...

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Video of the Day: Puff on This

posted March 20, 2012

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What did the busy doctor of 1949 do to catch a moment’s pause on his busy rounds? [Please note: This scenario refers to a now-mythic era in American life when doctors actually left their offices and went to where the sick lay ailin’.] Why, of course, they smoked, as several items in a collection of smoking ads ...

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Film of the Day: Carib Gold

posted March 16, 2012

Film of the Day: Carib Gold

What did Key West look like in the 1950s, before much of it was contorted into a garish tourist trap? Carib Gold, a 1956 drama, gives some indication. It is a rare document of its time in another respect, too: its cast was largely African American. With great underwater shots and plenty of local flavor, it tells ...

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