Upcoming Workshops, Conferences, etc.
posted March 4, 2012
Symposium on Long-Term Archiving Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg – Fernsehzentrum Berlin Berlin March 13 2012 A day-long symposium on the benefits for long-term storage of analog media over digital storage systems. Lectures scheduled are: – The Ilford Micrographic film (Dr. Jean-Noel Gex, Ilford, Marly / Switzerland) – The laser film exposure technologies of the Fraunhofer Institute for
More Interviews with Moving Image Archivists
posted March 2, 2012
Some more interviews with moving image archivists. If you know anyone who would like to become one, this series of clips might well help. In today’s selection, Hannah Palin, a film archives specialist at the University of Washington Libraries Special Collections, suggests how a beginner moving image archivist might find work in the field. And
Interviews with Moving Image Archivists
posted February 29, 2012
Here are two more of a series of interviews with moving image archivists and people working in related fields that we’ll be posting over the next couple of weeks. A while ago, we asked some folks in the moving image archiving world what they do in their jobs, how they got involved in the field,
Interviews with Moving Image Archivists
posted February 28, 2012
A while ago, we at Moving Image Archive News interviewed some folks in the world of moving image archiving, preservation, and restoration about what they do in their jobs, how they got involved in the field, and the like. Over the next few weeks, you can see what they said, here on the site. If
Films University Students Don’t Know About
posted February 27, 2012
In The Chronicle of Higher Education, Gina Barreca, a professor of English and feminist theory at the University of Connecticut, remarks that although an extraordinary proportion of American college students are aspiring screen writers, their film literacy is, well, limited. She lists 40 movies that few if any of her students would seem to have
The Last Insider of Silent Hollywood
posted January 16, 2012
Naked-starlet chases, stolen story ideas and scripts, sex as humdrum as cleaning your teeth. Frederica Sagor Maas is dead at 111, but not before telling all about silent-era Hollywood. The prolific screenwriter first trained to be a doctor, and then a journalist, and after quitting Hollywood in disgust said she would have preferred to be
The Art of the Trailer
posted January 16, 2012
The art of the trailer. NPR’s Brent Baughman reports on those ninety-nine seconds cut from four hours of unfinished movie with visible green screens and the director yelling cues from off-screen.
Kim Jong-Il, Auteur
posted January 1, 2012
North Korean supremo Kim Jong-Il, whose run has just ended, fancied himself a film visionary. He amassed his country's largest collection of films while driving it into devastating famine and poverty.
Rosebud: Not Just a Sled
posted December 30, 2011
Much has been written about how Orson Welles’s Citizen Kane so annoyed its quasi-subject, media baron William Randolph Hearst, that he set the dogs on Welles. Peter Rainer, a Bloomberg News arts and culture critic, revisits the sordid response, on the occasion of Warner Home Video’s 70th-anniversary re-issue of the film in a restored, three-disc
Three Films Unearthed in New Zealand
posted December 30, 2011
The National Film Preservation Foundation is presenting, on its website, three more films preserved through its collaboration with the New Zealand Film Archive. This second round of films includes Won in a Closet (1914), directed by and starring Mabel Normand, a 1917 automobile manufacturing saga from the Dodge Brothers, and the comedic short A Bashful