Instructors: Howard Besser & Mona Jimenez
 
 

Introduction to Moving Image Archiving & Preservation H72.1800

Oct 7 Modes and Artifacts of New Media/Risk Assessment with Moving Images

see entire syllabus

Assignments due before class :

• Prepare for in-class presentation of Case Study of Production History assignment.
• View video: Keepers of the Frame. Available in Bobst Library and Film Study Center.
• Read:
• Packer, Randall and Ken Jordan (eds.) "Overture" in Multimedia: From Wagner to Virtual Reality (2001), p. xiii - xxxi.
• Canter, Marc "The New Workstation: CD ROM Authoring Systems" in Multimedia: From Wagner to Virtual Reality (2001), p. 179-188.
• Besser, Howard (1994). Fast Forward: The Future of Moving Image Collections , in Gary Handman (ed.), Video Collection Management and Development: A Multi-Type Library Perspective , Westport, CT: Greenwood, p. 411-426.
• Screen Sound Australia Film Preservation Handbook ( first 5 sections: Film Construction through Damage to Film)
• Roosa, Mark, "Videotape Analysis and Evaluation" and Adelstein, Peter, "Videotape Storage" in Playback: A Preservation Primer for Video (1998), p.5-17. On reserve in Bobst Library.
• Recommended
• American Library Association. "Audio Preservation: A Selected Annotated Bibliography and Brief Summary of Current Practices"    (7 March 2003)
• National Institute of Standards & Technology and Care and Council on Library and Information Resources. Handling Guide for the Preservation of CDs and DVDs , NIST Special Publication 500-252, May 2003

Planned Topics to cover:

• Who makes/has made new media? What artifacts exist as a result of the production? What gets saved and is lost?
• Knowing more about film/video/sound/new media artifacts, what does that tell you about risks to the materials? What about their needs for description and care?
• In class presentations of case studies

Agenda

• Reports of student case-studies
• Quick review of Anthology tour (& project ideas)
• Film Sound Preservation guest lecture by Tom Regal
• Intro to Modes & Artifacts
• Choose groups/tapes for Orphans Assignment
• Finish(?) Discussions of final project ideas
• Current Events
• Copyright
• Small Studios Say DVD Edict Will Diminish Oscar Chances, NY Times, Oct 3, 2003
• Filmmakers Criticize Move to Curb Piracy, NY Times, Oct 2, 2003
 

• Review of previous readings (if time)
• Assignments for next week