Positions Vacant
posted November 4, 2010
Head of Preservation & Professor of Library Administration The University of Illinois Library www.library.illinois.edu is looking for someone to lead its preservation and conservation program for analog and digital materials and to continue expanding its general and special-collections holdings. The appointee will oversee preservation reformatting, the media preservation program, and analog preservation and conservation services,
Economies of the Commons 2
posted November 4, 2010
International conference, seminar, and public evening programs 12-13 November 2010 De Balie, Amsterdam (Pre-conference: November 11, Hilversum) The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision will host Economies of the Commons 2 , an international seminar on Open Video, a two-day international conference and two-evening public program at De Balie, a center for culture and politics
UNC-Chapel Hill Offers Fellowships in Digital Archiving
posted November 3, 2010
The School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is offering fellowships to American-citizen applicants interested in digital archiving and curation and in earning a doctoral degree. The two-year fellowships include a 20 hours of work each week as a research fellow in digital curation; an annual stipend
Jim Henson Media Library Seeks Intern
posted November 3, 2010
The Jim Henson Company media library, located in Hollywood, is looking for a media-library intern for next semester. The intern will work with the company’s video, audio, and photographic collections in an unpaid position, and the position is dependent on the applicant qualifying for college credit from a college or university in the US. The
Librarians Ask for Fairer Fair-Use Ruling
posted September 30, 2010
Three librarians associations are among five organizations that have filed a friend-of-the-court brief to protest a ruling that they say could severely narrow the definition of “fair use” of copyrighted materials including moving images.
Film Studies Spring School in Gorizia, Italy
posted September 7, 2010
The 9th MAGIS-Gorizia International Film Studies Spring School takes place in Gorizia, Italy, April 8–13, 2011, with a them of The Archive: Memory, Cinema, Video, and the Image of the Present. In workshops and plenary sessions, scholars, graduate students, artists, curators, and representatives of art institutions, will discuss such areas of archiving as cinema &
Iota Online Fundraising Auction
posted September 5, 2010
iotaCenter, a nonprofit organization that supports experimental film and video, is holding its annual fundraising auction. Organizers have collected donations of animation drawings, artwork, and photos from members and supporters. The event is for members, only, but anyone can visit the event’s online auction listing pages, and join during the auction. Among items offered are
What Researchers Are Saying About Charlie Chaplin, and a Rare Chaplin Film is Rediscovered
posted August 27, 2010
It remains shocking to many film enthusiasts that the reception of Charlie Chaplin in America does not compare with the reception of Charlie Chaplin in, say, the United Kingdom, Europe, or even Japan. Even in the 1960s, children in many other nations grew up watching the Little Tramp and Chaplin’s other alter egos. Not so, in the United States, although a schooling in other greats of the silent era – Fatty Arbuckle, or Buster Keaton, say – has been, and remains, even more lacking. Still, a slowing of Chaplin-related publications, American or not, seems highly unlikely.
Detecting the History of Sound-on-Film
posted August 24, 2010
Twenty-four frames of one of the earliest surviving recordings of sound-on-film, a test strip that Eugene Lauste made between 1910 and 1912, merely hints at the revolution that was to come. Only 24 frames long, it belongs to a Florida collector who bought it at an estate sale along with other items from Lauste’s obscure career. Alongside the frames, which show nondescript images of plants, lies a series of black squiggles that encode sound – perhaps the first sound ever simultaneously reproduced with images on film.
Going Dutch on a Moving Image Archiving Degree
posted August 17, 2010
If you’re contemplating completing a master’s degree in moving-image archiving, you could hardly find a more appealing place to do so than Amsterdam. Apart from everything else – bike-friendly, crisscrossed with scenic canals, liberal beyond American dreams – it is home to world-class film collections and institutions that excel in restoration, research, and educational programs, and several of those have been involved in the University of Amsterdam’s archiving program since its inception in 2003. The program, in its seventh year, boasts an impressive record of combining solid schooling in the skills of the trade with a firm grounding in film history and related subjects. In Amsterdam’s master’s-degree program in the preservation and presentation of the moving image...