Young Film Archivists of LA
posted April 23, 2012
Many a movie fan was made at college, thanks to campus film organizations. In a fundraising effort, the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) Student Chapter at UCLA is running a monthly series of films at the New Beverly Cinema in Los Angeles. On May 4 2012, the chapter presents the second screening in its
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:
Wonderful Alices, Throughout the Land
posted April 17, 2012
Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland has been memorably adapted numerous times, as early as 1903 by Cecil Hepworth and Percy Stow (left). Throughout April, The Cinefamily, a hearth-warming, Los Angeles familiarizer of film, is presenting versions of the not-just-for-children classic. The selections are excerpted on the organization’s website. Included in the series are: Black Moon,
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.
Whither the Easter Bunny?
posted April 8, 2012
Whither all the abandoned Easter bunnies? Jack-rabbit roundup, 1934. Bunnies, bunnies, bunnies. It’s a bunny fest. Forget bunnies as pets, buy your loved ones the mp3, instead. Alice in Wonderland, with rabbit, 1903 http://youtu.be/RjzrsimNn08
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.
In the News
posted March 30, 2012
With the volume of news about moving image archives, film and video restoration, and the like that appears, here and there, you might conclude that the zeitgeist is turning in favor of such undertakings. Perhaps it is. Perhaps little by little awareness is growing of just what could be lost, if efforts are not made.
Wunderkino Weekend
posted March 28, 2012
What would you put in your wunderkino – your “wonder-cinema” of images that project your curiosities and personality?
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.
Clip of the Day: Life in Japanese America
posted March 26, 2012
Now, footage of the internment of Japanese Americans in camps in the Western United States is as hard to fathom as scraps of film footage can be to make out through the injuries of time. The Japanese American National Museum is dedicated to preserving such memories, and others from the long residence in North America