NFPF Grantee: Oregon Historical Society
posted September 26, 2012
With its NFPF grant, the Oregon Historical Society will conserve the only known copy of The Boy Mayor, a short film shot in Portland in 1914 about the city's progressive-era experiment involving teens in local government.
NFPF Grant Recipient: Trisha Brown Dance Company
posted September 25, 2012
The Trisha Brown Dance Company will preserve two films with a grant it has received in the NFPF's 2012 round of funding. Both films provide insight into the choreographer's intelligent and irreverent wit and her radical definitions of what constituted performance.
NFPF Grant Recipient: Colorado Ski & Snowboard Museum
posted September 25, 2012
The annual Steamboat Winter Carnival is the oldest continuous winter carnival west of the Mississippi. It brings together neighbors and visitors to mark the winter-sports history of the region. The Colorado Ski & Snowboard Museum in Golden will use its grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation to restore Steamboat Winter Carnival, a 1948 film that highlights events
NFPF grant recipient: Council Bluffs Public Library
posted September 24, 2012
Council Bluffs Public Library, in Council Bluffs, Iowa, will use its 2012 NFPF grant continue work on restoring a two-reel, 35mm silent film, Man Power, a 1930 portrait of the industrial city made by the Chenoweth Film Company of Omaha, Nebraska.
NFPF 2012 grantee: Center for Home Movies
posted September 23, 2012
The Center for Home Movies will use its 2012 National Film Preservation Foundation grant to continue work on restoring films by Arthur H. Smith, an industrial and amateur filmmaker of note.
NFPF Awards Preservation Grants to 27 Films
posted September 23, 2012
The National Film Preservation Foundation has awarded preservation grants to 27 films being cared for by 20 institutions. The Foundation’s grants program targets newsreels, silent-era films, documentaries, culturally important home movies, avant-garde films, and endangered independent productions that fall under the radar of commercial preservation programs. The awards support the creation of film preservation masters
Work Continues on a Film Trove in Jordan
posted August 14, 2012
An American multimedia artist and colleagues are processing a film trove discovered in Jordan, hoping eventually to establish a moving-image archive in the country.
What is the Artwork?
posted July 26, 2012
Archiving works of multimedia art is a challenge. Caylin Smith tells why, and describes a workshop on creating conservation models for media art with moving images.
Treacherous Subject: Doing Archival Work in Việt Nam
posted July 16, 2012
In her book Treacherous Subjects: Gender, Culture, and Trans-Vietnamese Feminism, issued in April by Temple University Press, Lan P. Duong, an associate professor of media and cultural studies at the University of California at Riverside, takes feminist perspectives on post-Vietnam war era filmmakers Tony Bui and Tran Anh Hung; filmmaker, writer, and composer Trinh T.
London’s Earliest Cinema Will Return
posted July 16, 2012
In a £6-million project, Westminster University is restoring and reopening the late-Victorian Royal Polytechnic theater that housed Britain's first film presentation. The Regent Street Cinema will open in 2014 with state-of-the-art projection and sound.