Soviet Witness to the Holocaust
posted November 29, 2012
Jeremy Hicks set out to expand the visual record of the Holocaust by seeking out Soviet contributions to it. In "First Films of the Holocaust: Soviet Cinema and the Genocide of the Jews, 1938–1946" he urges historians to take into account a corpus of film that the West has little heeded.
New Books, and Lots of Them
posted November 26, 2012
You'll find descriptions of plenty of new and recent books relating to moving-image archiving on our books pages. You can also read about how authors went about the archival tasks needed to complete some of them.
The Scots Go to the Movies, and How
posted November 26, 2012
Trevor Griffiths had a wide-open research topic when he decided to write a book about Scottish film-going habits of the early 20th century and to set them in social and historical context. In his new book, The Cinema and Cinema-Going in Scotland, 1896-1950, from Edinburgh University Press, distributed in the US by Columbia University Press),
Movies on the Canadian Prairie
posted November 26, 2012
Writing a history of cinema in Prairie Canada from the earliest days of film until current times does not get done without an awful lot of hard grind in archives. Tamara and Robert Seiler describe their work.
New Books on Moving Image Works
posted November 20, 2012
As is often the case, summaries of plenty of new books have been added to our Books pages. You can read summaries of books, and in some cases authors’ thoughts on the process of searching through archives for the material they needed.
The Open Video Project’s Dual Purposes
posted November 14, 2012
The Open Video Project is an effort to standardize access to online moving-image content. But it also has become a popular site for viewing out-of-the-way video clips – ethnographic film, early experiments in film making, and much else.
Preserving the Interactive Telecommunications Program
posted October 20, 2012
Matthew Epler and Kate Watson were among presenters at Archiving the Arts: A symposium, a recent day-long event organized by Independent Media Arts Preservation, a New York-based service, education, and advocacy nonprofit organization that assists caretakers of collections of non-commercial electronic media. (See, an interview with IMAP director Jeff Martin.) Here is Epler and Watson’s
Preserving “Time-Based Art” – An interview with Jeff Martin, IMAP
posted October 11, 2012
Jeff Martin, the executive director of Independent Media Arts Preservation, is a respected authority on a challenging undertaking: to preserve the fast-evolving works known by such titles – never quite inclusive enough – as “time-based art.” Moving Image Archive News interviewed him as IMAP’s Archiving the Arts: A symposium addressing preservation in the creative process
NFPF Preservation Grantee: George Eastman House
posted October 10, 2012
The George Eastman House has won a 2012 Basic Preservation Grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation to restore and publicly present Hollywouldn’t, a 1925 film by Lou Carter. The short film, originally released by Trem Carr Productions, is a free-wheeling satire on the Hollywood industry at the height of the silent era, the Eastman
NFPF Grant Winner: The Exploratorium
posted October 2, 2012
The Exploratorium, a San Francisco institution that explores the intersections of art, science, and human perception, and helps users to take a curious, playful approach to doing the same, will use a grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation to conserve Jon Boorstin’s Exploratorium, a documentary short filmed in 1974 that portrays the renowned Bay