National Society of Film Critics Heritage Awards
posted January 8, 2011
The National Society of Film Critics has announced its annual awards – voted by film critics, naturally enough – and as always included a slate of honorees in its “Film Heritage” category, to recognize the efforts of archives and archivists. Listed with the winners are the archives that restored the films, as reported by Dennis
Internship at Blood Audio & Video
posted January 8, 2011
George Blood Audio and George Blood Video, in Philadelphia, a leading provider of audio and video digitization for preservation, has invited applications from graduate students in archives, library, or similar areas of study for its 2011 Summer Internship, which will last for six or eight weeks. According to an announcement posted by the company, candidates
Northeast Historic Film Offers Fellowships
posted January 8, 2011
Northeast Historic Film, an independent nonprofit organization founded in 1986 in Bucksport ME to preserve and make available moving images of interest to the people of northern New England, is offering its 2011 William O’Farrell Fellowship, which is awarded to an individual engaged in research towards a publication, production, or presentation based on moving-image history
What a Moving Image Archivist Does
posted January 8, 2011
Lance Watsky, the coordinator of the UCLA Moving Image Archive Studies (MIAS) program, is featured in an online interview about the variety of jobs available in the field. And on Friday, January 14 2001, at 4:05pm Pacific Coast Time, he will be featured on “Our Digital Future,” a radio show about libraries and archives that
Public Broadcasting Leads the Way in Preserving Digital Programming
posted January 5, 2011
Clearly, television is not what it used to be, thanks to major developments in the way moving images are recorded, edited, stored, viewed, distributed, and everything else. Tape is dead or at least put on ice; the new day is all digital. and nonprofit TV is pointing to ways ahead for moving-image archiving, although not
Public Broadcasting’s Future and Its Contributions to Broadcasting’s Future
posted January 5, 2011
The new day is all digital. Motivated by that ongoing revolution, public-broadcasting planners have undertaken a broad survey of prospects and challenges.
China’s New Documentary Movement
posted January 4, 2011
The New Documentary Movement in China emerged in the late 1980s, and has ruffled officialdom’s feathers by examining, interpreting, and intervening in social, political, and historical issues in the nation. Contributors to a new book relate the history and character of the new works, and explain that documentary films are becoming the signature mode of
The New Chinese Documentary
posted January 4, 2011
In the introduction to her earlier, 2003 book, Documentary China: The New Documentary Movement in Contemporary China, Lu Xinyu described the movement, dated to the late 1980s, as “a new way of looking at the world from the grass-roots up; a way of clearly understanding what drives different classes to survive and what feelings they
Storing the Story of Dom DeLuise
posted December 30, 2010
Nat Segaloff, the Los Angeles-based archivist for the Estate of Dom DeLuise, reports on the disposition of the great comedian’s collections, including the forthcoming donation of TV material to the UCLA Film & Television Archive.
Bill Morrison, Poet of Decaying Film Stock
posted December 30, 2010
Renowned experimental filmmaker Bill Morrison has an unusual relation to the world of moving-image archives: He uses the qualities of deteriorating nitrate film stock for various artistic, expressive ends. He speaks here with Moving Image Archive News.