Interviews with Moving Image Archivists
posted April 20, 2012
Lance Watsky, coordinator of UCLA’s moving image archiving program, discusses challenges moving image archiving faces: Rob Byrne, president of the board of directors of the San Francisco Silent Film Festival, on becoming a moving image archivist:
More Interviews with Moving Image Archivists
posted April 12, 2012
Stephanie Sapienza, project manager at American Archive, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, talks about skills needed to work in moving image archiving. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCh393xk3SY Deborah Steinmetz, director of the Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive in Jerusalem, describes her work.
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.
Archivists’ Perspectives
posted March 27, 2012
Lance Watsky on his history in moving image archiving, and Kimberly Peach on the challenges facing moving image archiving.
Yet More Interviews
posted March 26, 2012
Here are two more items from the Moving Image Archive News collection of interviews with professionals and students with experience in the field, or hopes of gaining it. Melissa Dollman, an audiovisual archivist at the Schlesinger Library at Harvard University, suggests how to get jobs in moving image archiving. Leo Enticknap, lecturer in cinema at
“Napoleon,” an Epic, in Oakland, Cal.
posted March 23, 2012
Pack your bags for Oakland, California this weekend or next for one of only four screenings in the United States of a fully restored version of Abel Gance’s 1927 epic masterpiece, "Napoleon."
More Interviews
posted March 22, 2012
Stephanie Sapienza, Project Manager, American Archive, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, on her favorite projects in moving image archiving: “Alternative projections” of experimental artists in Los Angeles from 1945 to 1980. And, inventories of public-media access projects around the country. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHZ3wTYYOSc Rick Shephard, technical director of Armáge Archival Imaging, on challenges facing moving image archivists. It’ll
More Interviews
posted March 14, 2012
In today's interviews, Rob Byrne talks about the San Francisco Silent Film Festival, George Blood talks about the business of moving image preservation and restoration, and Jennifer Graves aspires to be a moving image archivist.
Interviews: Become an Archivist? Study in Amsterdam?
posted March 8, 2012
What it takes to work in moving image archiving, and why go to Amsterdam to study it.
Interviews: Some Favorite Moving Image Collections
posted March 7, 2012
Melissa Dollman, audiovisual archivist, Schlesinger Library, Harvard University, and Hannah Palin, moving image specialist at the University of Washington Libraries, describe some of their favorite collections.