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.
AMIA Conference Registration is Open
posted September 25, 2012
Registration is now open for the annual conference of the Association of Moving Image Archivists, the largest professional organization in the field. The convention offers sessions and workshops on varied topics, as well as an opportunity to network with colleagues and other interested parties including vendors of hardware and software associated with moving-image conservation, restoration,
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
Symposium: Archiving the Arts – addressing preservation in the creative process
posted September 24, 2012
Attend a symposium on preventive preservation, the creative process, and where the two concepts intersect. In New York City.
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
All the News That’s Fit to Archive
posted September 21, 2012
The New York Times published an article on 18 September 2012 about Brewster Kahle and the Internet Archive’s latest accomplishment: The archive’s online collection now includes the total news production footage of 20 channels over the last three years. That’s more than 1,000 news series and 350,000 separate programs.
Best Video-Collection-Goes-Sicily Story
posted September 20, 2012
A cautionary tale, and a weird one: “The best video collection in New York was shipped to a Sicilian town with a promise that it would be kept accessible to cinephiles. Here’s what really happened to it.”