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Interes'ng Recent Developments in Film Archiving & Preserva'on:
From Classics to Ephemeral Works
Howard Besser Moving Image Archiving & Preserva
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Langlois’ influence well‐known
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Langlois’ eclec
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Some
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Colorizing if Director wanted it?
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Pan and Scan example
• 7 Brides for 7 Brothers, Stanley Donen, MGM, 1954 from hhp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_and_scan
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Commercial Reformapng Issues: PR at 1967 re‐issue of GWTW
• “Spherical Blow‐Up” • “In the Splendor of 70mm. Wide screen and full stereophonic
sound!” • “For the thousands who remember its unparalleled drama,
ac
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Elimina
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3 US Educa
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New Breed of Archivists not like old • Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 19:53:36 ‐0300 From: Paula Félix‐Didier • I just came back from a very nice cheese and wine dinner with Herr M Koerber, in his Berlin apartment. A
German magazine brought me here as part of the story they are publishing next week on our Metropolis finding. I arrived here two days ago and I went directly from the airport to the Kinemathek to show my DVD to Koerber, Reiner Rotha, and the people form the Murnau Founda
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Museo del Cine –NYU work crew—New Breed of film archivists
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Museo del Cine –NYU crew brings equipment
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Museo del Cine –daily mee
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And the New Breed of Archivists show great interest in films outside the “Classics”
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La Venganza
• Felix and Edmundo Padilla—i
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Gregorio Rocha
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1936 Olympics‐
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No#ciario de Laya No. 3 (1937), Generalitat de Catalunya
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Laya #3—thought lost
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Another Spanish Civil War film found in NYU Tamiment Collec
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Historically, Film Archives primarily preserved narra
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Orphans
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Mexico’s Archivo Memoria
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“Rescatar esos filmes olvidados que se encuentran en los
closets y las bodegas, para dar cuenta de épocas, sucesos y lugares clave para
nuestra historia, será uno de los principales propósitos del proyecto Archivo Memoria, cuya primera muestra se
llevará a cabo el 26 y 27 de agosto en la Sala 4
de la Cineteca Nacional.”
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Aug 2011 Archivo Memoria Event
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Audrey Young’s prepara
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Home Movie Day
• Began in a few ci
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NYU’s MIAP: A curriculum for studying Moving Image Archiving
& Preserva
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Field Guide
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Field Guide‐Scholarly
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Prelinger Collec
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Prelinger Assembled (mash‐up)
• prelinger‐assembled.mp4 ‐ prelinger assembled
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Auteurs
• Social Networking site for “quality films (“classic masterpieces”, “wonderful new cinema”, “visionsary” films, …)
• Over 750 films available (from several different collec
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WCF
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2009 Cannes‐1st try
• 4 WCF films posted on The Auteurs (day of press conference)
• Within 2 days, 1,000 viewings (each view >10 minutes)
• Appears that there’s a resul
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Youtomb
• monitoring 435,900 YouTube videos • 23,712 videos taken down for alleged copyright viola