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 ...
Video of the Day: Archive of American Television
posted March 28, 2013
In 1955, in the first on-screen appearance of his memorable career in television comedy, Andy Griffith appeared in a U.S. Steel Hour episode entitled “No Time for Sergeants,” a television version of his first stage success on Broadway, later the same year.
Born Andy Samuel Griffith in Mount Airy, North Carolina, in 1926, the fine comic ...
Want to Preserve and Restore Film and Other Moving Images?
posted March 27, 2013
Ever wanted to restore, preserve, or archive film and television programs, or work in some other area of preserving and restoring artifacts in all the moving-image categories including some that are being created right now?
The United States has three master’s level programs in moving image archiving, while one other is at the University of Amsterdam, ...
Preserving Exemplary American Films
posted March 17, 2013
Keeping culturally influential films in good shape is no easy task. It is costly, and can require huge efforts just to track down films that may have become damaged, or have become hard to find – in whole or in bits and pieces.
In a project designed to assure preservation of the highest caliber to a ...
Fit for a Restoration
posted February 2, 2013
A Trip to the Movies, at Australia’s National Film and Sound Archive
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It’s always a great pleasure to be reminded of what makes for a successful film restoration.
For starters, of course, it’s one that recovers films from obscurity, neglect, or the undersides of history’s high-piled dust heaps. Most viewers of restored films little suspect the technological ...
When Women Made the Movies
posted January 12, 2013
In her book just out (January 2013) from the University of California Press, Go West, Young Women: The Rise of Early Hollywood, Hilary Hallett explains how, thanks to immigrants seeking out futures and fortunes, Los Angeles became a burgeoning film city – and, in 1920, the only western city where women outnumbered men. Hallett, a ...
Wheeler Winston Dixon Tolls the Death of the Moguls
posted December 19, 2012
Wheeler Winston Dixon talks about how he went about researching his latest book, Death of the Moguls: The End of Classical Hollywood, which Rutgers University Press released in August 2012.
Dixon is a prolific film historian based at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. Among his many books are 21st Century Hollywood: Movies in the Era ...
