Instructors: Howard Besser & Mona Jimenez
 
 

Assignments due before class:

• Look closely at Weblinks for Professional Organizations
• Read:
• Johnson, Jane. Overview: Preservation "Lay of the Land"
• Johnson, Jane. Overview: Cataloging "Lay of the Land"

• Why is conservation and preservation important?
• Who has taken on the responsibility for moving image and sound preservation?
• What are basic functions? (identification, selection [of both "content" and equipment], appraisal, Ö)
• What are the various professional practices that moving image archiving and preservation professionals draw from? (cataloging, reference, exhibition, fundraising, budgeting, management, Ö)
• What are the various roles or tasks we are responsible for?
• What are some of the organizations that hold moving image and sound material? (Film Studios, TV stations, large public film & television archives, media preservation depts.w/i larger collecting institutions, small non-profits preserving their own media, Ö)
• What are some of the Professional Organizations that Moving Image Archivists belong to? And at what conferences can one learn about professional issues? (AMIA, FIAF, FIAT, AIC, AAM, MCN, SMPTE, ALA, Orphans, SCS)

Agenda

• What is this class about?
• Explanation of the new MIAP program
• Short introductions to everyone
• Review of Syllabus
• Current Events
• The end of August, Howard attended Society of American Archivist conference (also  Memoria, Voz Y Patrimonio; Conference on Latino/Hispanic Film, Print and Sound Archives)
• images from conferences
• Hand around conference programs
• Hand out list of moving image professional opportunities
• Anthology Film Archives visit (& Program)
• Howard attended the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) Stockholm/Helsinki meeting, June 2003
• In the News:
• Fine-Tuning the Sound in Your Own Cinema, Wilson Rothman, NY Times, August 28, 2003
• For Sale: How King Shaped the Dream, Emily Eakin, NY Times, August 25, 2003
• Background of faculty and students
• Clips
• -Arms of Strangers-Kindertransport 2000 (DVD)
• - Seabiscuit trailer
• -JFK 1991 (DVD)
• -Zelig 1983 (DVD)
• -Capturing the Friedmans trailer
• -Lost Horizon 1937 (DVD)
• -Metropolis 1927 (DVD)
• -"Moving Images for the Future", Film Technology 1999 (video)
• - "Television: Technical Development" (video)
• - "History and Future of Television" (video)
• -Big Sleep 1946 (DVD)
• --Tribulation 99 1992 (video)
• -"Something Strong Within" (video)
• -"Birth of a Nation" (video)
• -"Captain Celluloid Vs. The Film Pirates" (film)

• Review of Readings
• What is moving image archiving and preservation?  Functions of identification, selection, appraisal, etc.
• Cataloging issues
• Professional organizations
• Assignments for next week