Symposium: Archiving the Arts – addressing preservation in the creative process
posted September 24, 2012
Attend a symposium on preventive preservation, the creative process, and where the two concepts intersect. In New York City.
NFPF grant recipient: Council Bluffs Public Library
posted September 24, 2012
Council Bluffs Public Library, in Council Bluffs, Iowa, will use its 2012 NFPF grant continue work on restoring a two-reel, 35mm silent film, Man Power, a 1930 portrait of the industrial city made by the Chenoweth Film Company of Omaha, Nebraska.
NFPF 2012 grantee: Center for Home Movies
posted September 23, 2012
The Center for Home Movies will use its 2012 National Film Preservation Foundation grant to continue work on restoring films by Arthur H. Smith, an industrial and amateur filmmaker of note.
NFPF Awards Preservation Grants to 27 Films
posted September 23, 2012
The National Film Preservation Foundation has awarded preservation grants to 27 films being cared for by 20 institutions. The Foundation’s grants program targets newsreels, silent-era films, documentaries, culturally important home movies, avant-garde films, and endangered independent productions that fall under the radar of commercial preservation programs. The awards support the creation of film preservation masters
All the News That’s Fit to Archive
posted September 21, 2012
The New York Times published an article on 18 September 2012 about Brewster Kahle and the Internet Archive’s latest accomplishment: The archive’s online collection now includes the total news production footage of 20 channels over the last three years. That’s more than 1,000 news series and 350,000 separate programs.
Best Video-Collection-Goes-Sicily Story
posted September 20, 2012
A cautionary tale, and a weird one: “The best video collection in New York was shipped to a Sicilian town with a promise that it would be kept accessible to cinephiles. Here’s what really happened to it.”
Explaining the Digital Dilemma
posted September 20, 2012
Reducing to digital form everything written and published, and even said and thought, is surely going to produce as many cloud-stored ones and zeroes as there are grains of sand (ballpark estimate, only). For the rest of us, an essential aid in the monumental change in human affairs represented by gazillion-byte digitization will be generous
Jobs Jobs Jobs
posted September 20, 2012
The Association of Moving Image Archivists is looking for a managing editor for its journal, The Moving Image. The managing editor oversees all phases of the production process of two issues annually, coordinating with the editor-in-chief, book and film/DVD reviews editors, authors, the AMIA office, the copyeditors, and the University of Minnesota Press. The position
Tour LA’s Huge Pickford Archive
posted September 18, 2012
Want to take a tour of the vaults of the Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study, the largest independent film archive in Los Angeles – one large enough to house 250 million tons of film? You can, at least, follow along on Flicker Alley’s, in a post on its website. Clearly a phenomenal place.
Understanding 9/11
posted September 11, 2012
Last year, the Internet Archive, a California-based organization that collects audio, moving images, and Web pages for historical purposes, built a site collecting more than 3000 hours of television coverage by American networks and others from cities around the world. Titled Understanding 9/11: A Television News Archive, the site is designed as a resource for