Want to Win the Margaret Mead Filmmaker Award?
posted March 26, 2012
The American Museum of Natural History’s Margaret Mead Film Festival, held each fall, honors the anthropologist who pioneered the use of film for fieldwork. The Mead Festival screens documentaries, experimental films, animation, and hybrid works that cast light on the complexity and diversity of peoples and cultures. In 2010, the Margaret Mead Film Festival inaugurated
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
Video of the Day: Puff on This
posted March 20, 2012
What did the busy doctor of 1949 do to catch a moment’s pause on his busy rounds? [Please note: This scenario refers to a now-mythic era in American life when doctors actually left their offices and went to where the sick lay ailin’.] Why, of course, they smoked, as several items in a collection of
Film of the Day: Carib Gold
posted March 16, 2012
Carib Gold, a 1956 drama, is a rare document of its time: its cast was largely African American.
Arcadia Funds UCLA Collection of Middle East Media
posted March 14, 2012
The University of California at Los Angeles Library has announced a gift from the Arcadia Fund of $3.4-million to help it to preserve “ephemeral media” including a wide range of media artifacts that are serving to capture the rapidly evolving political changes in the Middle East. The new International Digitizing Ephemera Project’s goal is to
Babylon Revisited
posted March 14, 2012
Kenneth Anger’s galvanizing Hollywood Babylon, revisited, along with gossip’s role in maintaining the movies’ media and public image. In London, on March 21, Little Joe Magazine looks back, at the Cinema Museum in London.
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.
8th Orphan Film Symposium
posted March 13, 2012
Orphans 8: Made to Persuade 8th Orphan Film Symposium April 11-14, 2012 Museum of the Moving Image (Astoria, NY) The term “orphan film” refers to film in any form that has been abandoned by its owner or caretaker. For the eighth time since 1999, the Orphan Film Symposium will present a variety of daytime and