Before Hollywood: Betzwood
posted April 26, 2012
The Betzwood Film Festival
ONE HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY SHOW
Saturday, May 12 2012, 8pm
Science Center Theater, Montgomery County Community College
Blue Bell, Pennsylvania
The Betzwood Film Festival marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Betzwood Motion Picture Studio. It features the first and last films made at the famous movie Philadelphia studios: “While matinee idols, Arthur V. Johnson ...
Call for Papers: Archiving the Arts symposium
posted April 24, 2012
The Association of Moving Image Archivists Student Chapter at New York University and Independent Media Arts Preservation invite submissions for a symposium titled Archiving the Arts: Addressing Preservation in the Creative Process, scheduled for October 13 2012 during Archives Week in New York City, organized by Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York.
The symposium will ...
Young Film Archivists of LA
posted April 23, 2012
Many a movie fan was made at college, thanks to campus film organizations. In a fundraising effort, the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) Student Chapter at UCLA is running a monthly series of films at the New Beverly Cinema in Los Angeles.
On May 4 2012, the chapter presents the second screening in its “Something ...
Interviews with Moving Image Archivists
posted April 20, 2012
Wonderful Alices, Throughout the Land
posted April 17, 2012
Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland has been memorably adapted numerous times, as early as 1903 by Cecil Hepworth and Percy Stow (left).
Throughout April, The Cinefamily, a hearth-warming, Los Angeles familiarizer of film, is presenting versions of the not-just-for-children classic. The selections are excerpted on the organization’s website.
Included in the series are:
Black Moon, Louis Malle’s 1973 ...
More Interviews with Moving Image Archivists
posted April 12, 2012
Whither the Easter Bunny?
posted April 8, 2012
Whither all the abandoned Easter bunnies? Jack-rabbit roundup, 1934. Bunnies, bunnies, bunnies. It’s a bunny fest. Forget bunnies as pets, buy your loved ones the mp3, instead. Alice in Wonderland, with rabbit, 1903
Archivists Tell It Like It Is: More Interviews
posted April 5, 2012
Hannah Palin, moving image specialist at the University of Washington Libraries special collection, talks about how she became a moving image archivist. Leo Enticknap, lecturer in cinema at the Institute of Communications Studies at the University of Leeds, talks about how he became a moving image archivist.


