Support the National Film Preservation Foundation
posted May 18, 2012
One week each year, moving-image related bloggers take time to raise money for the fine work of the National Film Preservation Foundation. This is that week – in fact, the Blogathon ends today, although that needn’t prevent you donating to the cause, whenever you happen to read this post.
More Interviews with Moving Image Archivists
posted April 12, 2012
Stephanie Sapienza, project manager at American Archive, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, talks about skills needed to work in moving image archiving. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCh393xk3SY Deborah Steinmetz, director of the Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive in Jerusalem, describes her work.
Archivists Tell It Like It Is: More Interviews
posted April 5, 2012
Hannah Palin, moving image specialist at the University of Washington Libraries special collection, talks about how she became a moving image archivist. Leo Enticknap, lecturer in cinema at the Institute of Communications Studies at the University of Leeds, talks about how he became a moving image archivist.
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
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.
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.
Moving Image Archiving as Performance Art
posted March 6, 2012
Caylin Smith asks: What are the implications for moving image archivists – restorers and presenters of early films, for example – of the old saw, "a work of art can never be produced the same way twice?"
The Art of the Film Improviser
posted November 23, 2011
During 25 years of accompanying and composing for silent film and other audio-visual media, Neil Brand has become one of the finest exponents of a century-old art.
John Carpenter’s First Student Film and 27 Other Projects Win Preservation Awards
posted October 26, 2011
Thanks to the National Film Preservation Foundation – which, by the way, is we, the people – you'll soon be able to see 28 films that have been missing from action.
New Light Cast on The White Shadow
posted October 11, 2011
"The White Shadow" went missing from screens in the mid-1920s, but now it's back – at least, half of it is. A restoration of the early feature, one of the first film projects featuring Alfred Hitchcock, was a highlight of the just-completed 2011 Pordenone Silent Film Festival. Caylin Smith reports.