AMIA Newsbriefs

Kodak Introduces Cost-Effective, Asset Protection Film

In response to the overwhelming industry concern about preserving today’s motion picture and television content long into the future, Kodak has developed an affordable, innovative
color film specifically designed for asset protection. The new KODAK Color Asset Protection Film 2332 is optimized for content owners who originate or finish their productions on digital formats and want to protect their valuable media for the future. The
stock offers over a century of dye stability when stored in recommended environments and Kodak’s proprietary ESTAR base guarantees high-quality physical performance.
 
Read the press release here: ttp://news.creativecow.net/story/869543

It was another great Reel Thing event!

On behalf of all of us at AMIA, our thanks to all of our sponsors for your support of The Reel Thing, our artists who contributed to the Silent Auction, and to Grover Crisp and Michael Friend who work tirelessly to program what is always an extraordinary event. 

We hope to see you in October at AMIA's Digital Asset Symposium  here at the Linwood Dunn Theatre in Hollywood, and in Seattle later this year for our Annual Conference and the inaugural Festival of the Archives.

Some of the presentations from The Reel Thing will be available on the website in a few weeks - www.the-reel-thing.org

 

 

End of an era: Kodak to sell its film business

Kodak is selling the business that made it famous.
The company revealed yesterday that it's selling its traditional print film business as part of an auction to raise cash.
The sale extends to Kodak's entire personalized imaging and document division, which includes kiosks that develop photos, photo paper and still camera film products, and even equipment that snaps souvenir photos at theme parks.
Read more here: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-57499679-92/end-of-an-era-kodak-to-sell-its-film-business/
 

AMIA Student Chapter Screening: Los Angeles

Summer's almost done and we're almost back in session, but before we get back to the grind we have one *last* blow-out bonanza double-feature for SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW! AMIA Student Chapter Screening in Los Angeles - August 22nd. 
The theme - Size Matters! THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN (Jack Arnold, 1957) at 7:30 followed by INNERSPACE (Joe Dante, 1987).   
 
More here: 

http://amiastudentchapteratucla.blogspot.com/2012/08/something-old-something-new-5-size.html

Buy tickets here: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/266759
 

The Dictator on the Ranch

Thankfully the U.S. Information Service got Kennedy’s speech and Khan’s trip on film and edited them into a 20-minute exhibition of newsreel propaganda and geopolitical pandering titled
America Welcomes President Ayub. In 2007, the film found its way to the Texas Archive of the Moving Image (TAMI), a little-known, Austin-based nonprofit that digitizes Texas-related moving images in an effort to preserve and restore the state’s cinematic output
and help historians piece together state history.
 
Read more here: http://www.texasobserver.org/culture/the-dictator-on-the-ranch
 

Julien Temple doc celebrates London - the Modern Babylon

Temple has made a collage, mixing film archive material and popular music with the voices of Londoners past
and present, from musicians, writers and artists, to political radicals and ordinary people, to create a picture of the capital's changing face.

Read more:

http://www.theweek.co.uk/film/48327/julien-temple-doc-celebrates-london-modern-babylon#ixzz22nq88bA7

Silent film thought to be lost is restored by the Oklahoma Historical Society

For historians “The Daughter of Dawn,” an 80-minute, six-reel silent film shot in July 1920 in the Wichita Mountains of southwest Oklahoma, is history put to motion.

Until Brian Hearn, film curator at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, answered the phone one day about seven years ago. A private investigator in North Carolina said he had received a copy of a silver nitrate film as payment for an investigation, and thought the film was “The Daughter of Dawn.” The investigator was interested in selling it. But since the museum hadn't started collecting films, Hearn decided to contact the Oklahoma Historical Society. Through the actions of many people and organizations, the movie has been restored and rereleased with the first screening held in June at the Center Film Festival in Oklahoma City.

Read more:  http://newsok.com/silent-film-thought-to-be-lost-is-restored-by-the-oklahoma-historical-society/article/3692566#ixzz215wZ5chi

Defence personnel's personal secrets revealed in archive files

A woman who asked for copies of her father’s military records was given a bundle of papers showing he had a sexually transmitted disease and a history of misconduct. The incident, which took place last year, has sparked a campaign to stop the Australian Defence Force from giving its personnel files to the National Archives.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/national/defence-personnels-personal-secrets-revealed-in-archive-files-20120719-22c8h.html#ixzz215vdifBc

Archives to air France's dark past

They are among France's darkest days: Police dragged more than 13,000 Jews from their homes, confined them in a Paris cycling stadium with little food or water, and then deported them to their deaths in the concentration camp at Auschwitz. But even in France, one of the most brazen collaborations between authorities and the Nazis during World War II is unknown to many in the younger generation. Police are hoping to change that, opening up their archives on France's biggest single deportation of French Jews for the first time to the public on Thursday.

Read the story here: http://articles.philly.com/2012-07-18/news/32731281_1_concentration-camp-french-jews-police-plan
 

Continued Data Explosion and Growing Need for Data Backup and Archiving Drives the Digital Media Storage Market, According to New Report by Global Industry Analysts, Inc.

Against the backdrop, where data literally determines the way of life for companies, it is of little surprise that data storage is now the top investment priority of companies worldwide. As the most important asset for any company is information and data, businesses are now earmarking lucrative budgets for digital information management tools including data storage solutions. Bigger companies with bulk data storage needs represent an attractive customer cluster.

Read the press release at http://www.virtual-strategy.com/2012/07/18/continued-data-explosion-and-growing-need-data-backup-and-archiving-drives-digital-media-#LDMy1sgoVXz8gcIO.99