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Archivists Tell It Like It Is: More Interviews

posted by MIAN on 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 by MIAN on March 27, 2012

Lance Watsky, coordinator of the Moving Image Archive Studies program at UCLA, on his history in moving image archiving:

Kimberly Peach, of Blood Audio & Video, Philadelphia, on the challenges facing moving image archiving:

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Yet More Interviews

posted by MIAN on 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 the Institute of Communications Studies at the University of Leeds, discusses the origins of the field of moving image archiving.

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“Napoleon,” an Epic, in Oakland, Cal.

posted by MIAN on March 23, 2012

Here’s a tip. Get on your bike and pedal like blazes – get to 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, Napoléon.

Albert Dieudonné in the title role. Photo: Photoplay Productions

The presentations, the highlight of the 2012 San Francisco Silent Film Festival, are showing at the spectacular, cathedral-like Oakland Paramount cinema, a jewel of a movie palace. …MORE >>

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