It’s the Reel Thing
posted June 17, 2013
The Reel Thing
Los Angeles, 21-23 August 2013
The Reel Thing is naturally the real thing, when it comes to symposiums on technical issues relating to moving-image archiving.
The next edition – the 31st – takes place August 21-23 at the Linwood Dunn Theater in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Pickford Center for Motion Picture ...
Wunderkino 2013: Visions of Travel and Mobility
posted June 14, 2013
Wunderkino 2013: Visions of Travel and Mobility
14th Annual Northeast Historic Film Summer SymposiumThursday, July 25 – Saturday, July 27, 2013
Wunderkino is a much-admired, multi-disciplinary gathering of devotees of moving-image history, theory, and preservation. For more than a decade, it has brought together archivists, scholars, artists, and interested members of the public in an intimate setting for ...
OK, Movie Smarty-Pants, It’s You vs. John DiLeo
posted June 9, 2013
In its reissue, John DiLeo’s 1999 And You Thought You Knew Classic Movies: 200 Quizzes For Golden Age Movie Lovers, is no less challenging, nor any less delightful.
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Growing up on Long Island, John DiLeo was a movie obsessive with a cataloging mind. Even before his teens he was setting his alarm clock to wake up ...
More Skirmishing in the Copyright Wars
posted June 4, 2013
Earlier today, MIAN posted an article about the thorny issue of copyright as it affects moving-image products. It featured comments from David Peck, the president of Reelin’ In The Years Productions, which represents significant film libraries around the globe and holds the license all of the footage from The Merv Griffin Show 1965-1986.
Here are some ...
Is What’s Mine Also Yours?
posted June 4, 2013
When it comes to using film and TV clips, shouldn’t the answer be: Uh, no…?
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The issue of copyright of moving-image materials is, to say the least, a vexed subject. Whenever the subject is raised, reactions and opinions come thick and fast, from the impassioned to the sober, from the dubiously authoritative to the plainly confused.
Indeed ...
Surprises Down Nightmare Alley
posted May 27, 2013
Sure, the film noir features wise-cracking detectives and alluring femmes fatales. It even extols these characteristics as enviable personality traits. But is that the real point of the genre?
In Nightmare Alley: Film Noir and the American Dream (Johns Hopkins University Press), by Mark Osteen, a professor of English and founder of the film-studies program at ...
TV News Junkies, Rejoice
posted May 23, 2013
Big news for news junkies!
The Internet Archive, the huge array of public, online, digital libraries, is to post hundreds of thousands of U.S. television news programs, aided by a $1-million grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
That will allow anyone to search or borrow news clips from one website.
Reasoning that news coverage ...
New Books on Moving Image Archiving, and Moving Images
posted May 22, 2013
Our book pages are constantly updated. We provide summaries of books, based on our own reading and also publisher’s blurbs. And, we ask authors of books that likely involved searching for material in archives, and invite them to comment on their search experiences, and the state of archives relating to their work.
The Archival Successes and Tribulations of Three Authors
posted May 20, 2013
Exploring archives and other sources of research material for publications on moving-image topics can be a pleasure, or a mighty challenge.
Here, three authors of recent books describe the range of experiences they had as they prepared their books, published over the last few months.
In preparing his Euro Horror: Classic European Horror Cinema in Contemporary American ...
Amateur Newsreel Footage Brings It Home
posted April 22, 2013
By Rachel Price
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Grays Harbor County, in the far western part of Washington state is, at this moment, drawing thousands of visitors to its shore, there to gawk at scores of migrating shorebirds refueling in the coastal mud flats. Last month, I braved Interstate 5 from Seattle to head out to the area for a different ...
