Tuesdays, 6-10 PM, room 651, Fall 2005
Instructors: Howard
Besser & Ann Harris
Introduction to Moving Image
Archiving
& Preservation H72.1800
Oct 25 Film
Preservation Issues
(AH)
see entire
syllabus
Assignments due before class:
- Take Tour of Cineric 630 Ninth Avenue, Suite 508
-- Fri Oct 21, 11:00-1:00
- Read:
- Gracy, Karen.
"Documenting the Process
of Film
Preservation", The
Moving Image 3:1 (Spring 2003), pp 1-41
- Read, Paul and
Mark-Paul Meyer. "Introduction
to
the Restoration of Motion Picture Film" and "Menschen am Sonntag--a
Reconstruction and Documentation Case Study", Restoration of
Motion Picture Film, Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann, 2000, pp
1-5 and pp 231-241
- Gartenberg, Jon,
"The Fragile Emulsion", The
Moving
Image 2:2 (Fall 2002), pp 142-152
- Frye, Brian. "The
Accidental Preservationist:
An Interview with Bill Brand", Film History 15:2 (2003),
p 214
- Screen Sound Australia
Film
Preservation Handbook (parts you havenít read yet)
- Screen
Sound Australia Film Preservation Handbook (first
5 sections: Film Construction through Damage to Film)
- Baker, Nicholson.
(1996) The Size of
Thoughts.
New York:
Random House, pp. 36-50 "The Projector."
- Recommended
- Blasko, Edward,
ed., The Book of Film Care, Rochester: Eastman Kodak,
1992.
- Eastman Kodak,
"Dealing With a Laboratory", Motion Picture Film,
Rochester: Eastman Kodak, 2000.
- Look through
issues of FIAF's Journal
of Film Preservation
- Review some of
the resources listed in
Conservation
Online's Preservation
of Motion Picture Film
Agenda:
- Discuss Case Study Presentations, Papers, thoroughness,
writing, ...
- Discuss Cineric Tour
- Update on Orphans projects
- Discussion of Final Projects
- Continuation of Risk Assessment and introduction to storage
of
moving
images
- Standards and Recommended Practices: SMPTE (Society of Moving Picture and
Television Engineers)
- The
IPI Storage
Guide for Acetate Film by James M. Reilly, published by the Image
Permanence
Institute
- The
Storage
Guide for Color Photographic Materials by James M. Reilly,
published
by the University of the State of New York, New York State Education
Department,
New York State Library, the New York State Program for the Conservation
and Preservation of Library Research Materials
- IPI
Media Storage
Quick Reference by Peter Z. Adelstein, published by Image
Permanence
Institute
- The
Celeste Bartos Film Preservation Center
Museum of Modern Art in Hamlin, Pennsylvania
- What is the
impact of
appraisal and
selection (or the lack thereof) on what gets preserved?
- What are
practices for
tracking information
about moving images?
- What are
other typical
tasks in collection
management of archival collections?
- How might
they differ
for
moving image/sound
materials and other materials such as paper or photographs?
- Knowing more about film artifacts, what
does that
tell you about risks to the material? What about its needs for
description
and care?
- What are some of the major issues with film preservation?
- screening: CAPTAIN CELLULOID VS. THE FILM PIRATES,
(excerpt) 7 min.
- look at:
- How is the language of film preservation defined? How do we
differentiate among the terms preservation, conservation,
restoration and reconstruction?
- What are the major tasks in film preservation?
- What is the cost of film preservation?
- What is the role of the film laboratory?
- discussion of MOVING IMAGES FOR THE FUTURE (Film
Technology Company Promo Tape)
- discussion of visit to Cineric
- Film Preservation Case Studies
- Preservation of Independent Experimental Films
- Feature Film Preservation--Menschen am Sontag
- Film Preservation--using digital means
- screening: METROPOLIS: THE DIGITAL RESTORATION,10
min.
- FIRST
- Film Restoration and Conservation Strategies, EEC Initiative (http://www.film-first.org/)
- Digital Restoration Processes for Motion Picture Film
- What is enough information? How large must a digital file be
to represent all of the information in a moving image originating on
film?
- Current Events:
- Daggers
Drawn Over DVDs:
How Sony gained an edge in its fierce battle with Microsoft over video
formats, BusinessWeek Online,October 6, 2005.
- Blu-ray
and HD DVD Content Protection, CDR Info, September 16, 2005
- To Go
Global, Do You Ignore Censorship?, NY Times, Oct 24, 2005
- 'King
Kong' Blurs Line Between Films and Games, NY Times, Oct 24, 2005
- Encyclopedia
Brown and the Case of the Hollywood Franchise, NY Times, Oct 18,
2005
- New
Orleans Art Museum Reduces Staff, NY Times, Oct 18, 2005
- Restoring
Slumberland, NY Times, Oct 17, 2005
- Colleges
Protest Call to Upgrade Online Systems, NY Times, Oct 23, 2005
- Take Tour of Vidipax -- Fri Oct 28, 1 PM,
Long Island City Business Center, 300-00 47th Avenue, Suite 600 (this
is Queens, not Manhattan!)