Instructors: Howard Besser & Mona Jimenez
 
 

Introduction to Moving Image Archiving & Preservation H72.1800

Nov. 18  Film Preservation Issues
see entire syllabus

Assignments due before class :

• Tour of Cineric either Nov 10 3PM, or Nov 11 10AM

* Read:
* Gracy, Karen. "Documenting the Process of Film Preservation", The Moving Image 3:1 (Spring 2003), pp 1-41
* Gartenberg, Jon, "The Fragile Emulsion", The Moving Image 2:2 (Fall 2002), pp 142-152
* Screen Sound Australia Film Preservation Handbook (parts you havenít read yet)
* Baker, Nicholson. (1996) The Size of Thoughts. New York: Random House, pp. 36-50 "The Projector."
* 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

* Screen Sound Australia " How to Care for your Film "

• 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?

• Announcements & upcoming events
• Operation Intellectual Freedom: Librarians on the Front Line, Fri Nov 21, 8:30-3:30, Baruch College Conference Center
• Association of Moving Image Archivists, Vancouver, Nov 18-22, 2003
• Native American Film & Video Festival, Dec 4-7, 2003
• Curating opportunity
• Misc
• Student Reports on Orphans project (continued)
• Film as a physical medium/artifact
• Current Events
• Copyright & Intellectual Property
• No Golden Years Yet for a 75-Year-Old Mouse, NY Times, Nov 24, 2003
• Arts Briefing: Mouse Milestone, NY Times, Nov 18, 2003
• New Copyright Rules Fail to Provide Fair Access in the Digital World, American Library Association Press Release, Oct 31, 2003
• Internet Archive & software preservation
• Fighting to Preserve Old Programs, Wired News, Oct 14, 2003
• Exemption request from Internet Archive to US Copyright Office, Dec 12, 2002
• Ex-Boxer Sues Stallone Over ’Rocky’ and Sequels, NY Times, Nov 13, 2003
• These Are Your Movies on Piracy, Nov 16, 2003  (and see http://www.respectcopyrights.org | credits for film Human Stain)
• In the News:
• The Men Who Saved the Relics of 9/11, NY Times, Nov 25, 2003
• The 'Alien' Series, Stretched to the Nines, NY Times, Nov 18, 2003
• ART; The 40th Anniversary of a 26-Second Reel, NY Times, Nov 16, 2003
• Vision of Personal Computers as Heart of Home Entertainment, NY Times, Nov 17, 2003
• When Bad DVD's Happen to Great Film, NY Times, Nov 9, 2003
• The Long Last Gasp of Tube-Based TV, NY Times, Oct 29, 2003

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