AMIA Member Updates

AMIA Short Film/Video Contest: Have you voted?!

Voting is open!

AMIA Members vote on the finalist entries in AMIA’s first Short Film/Video Contest.  The winners will be announced to coincide with the World Day for Audiovisual Heritage on October 27th, and will be screened at the AMIA Archival Screening Night on November 5, 2010 in Philadelphia.

See the entries at www.AMIAnews.com and click the button on the right hand side of the page to vote on your favorites!  You’ll need your AMIA membership number (from the back of your membership card) to vote.

We’ve made the films quicker to load, too!

The challenge? To create a film or video that conveys the importance of preserving the world’s moving image heritage.  The winning entries will best convey the importance of saving the world’s moving image heritage. It’s about originality, imagination and the ability to engage the audience in 180 seconds or less.

AMIA Members get a 20% Discount at Createasphere DAM in New York

Createasphere/EXPLORE Digital Asset Management Conference
September 23-24, 2010 | The New Yorker Hotel | New York, NY

The premier event on the management of digital assets. This conference will shape the standards and explore the urgent global issues of digital asset management in the sectors of advertising, publishing, sports organizations, museums, and higher education.

The conference will feature a keynote panel discussion comprised of DAM experts from professional sports organizations including the PGA Tour, Major League Baseball, WWF, NASCAR, and others.  Educational sessions and workshops will be instructed by leaders in DAM technology and will include timely topics that are appropriate for newcomers, experienced specialists, and organization leaders. http://www.createasphere.com/DAM

The AMIA Discount Code is:  DAMIA

Saturday at The Reel Thing XXV

Today at The Reel Thing XXV -

Rebuilding Metropolis: A Report on the New Reconstruction
Thomas Bakels, ALPHA-OMEGA digital GmbH

"München 1945"
Thomas Bakels, ALPHA-OMEGA digital GmbH

A Non-Contact Method for Recovering Information from Magnetic Media
Brian Walker, Applied Pictures

From Silence to Sound: A Studio's Transition from Silent Films to Talking Pictures
Rita Belda, Sony Pictures

Special Screening of "So This Is Love" with Live Musical Accompaniment
Alan J. Stark, Musician

Paramount Pictures: Preservation Assessment: Digital Content
Andrea Kalas, Paramount Pictures
Christopher Cary, Ascent Media
Steve Kochak, Ascent Media

Digital Subjectivity: Restoring Barbara Loden's WANDA
Ross Lipman, UCLA Film & Television Archive

Adventures in 65mm Restoration
Andrew Oran, FotoKem

A Look at the RCA Color Stabilizer for Early Monochrome Videotape Recorders
AKA: The Heterodyne Color Corrector
Ralph Sargent, Film Technology Company, Inc.

Saving Cyd Charisse - A Second Look
David Crosthwait, DC Video
Dan Wingate, Sony Pictures

Tonight at The Reel Thing

Friday, August 13, 2010
7:30pm

Fantasia (1940)
The Reel Thing presents a screening of the new digital restoration of the classic Walt Disney animated film, presented with the original intermission.

One of the most highly regarded of the Disney classics, a symphonic concert with Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra, embellished by Disney animation. 

Today at The Reel Thing XXV

Friday - August 13, 2010 at The Reel Thing XXV ...

Big Screen: Changing Dimensions of the Silver Screen
Jack Theakston, 3-D Film Preservation Foundation

Preserve and Access - "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson"
Bob Schumacher, Deluxe Archive Solutions

Modern Technologies for Handling Legacy Optical Sound Tracks - Developments and Considerations for Photo Chemical Processes and Digital Scanning Techniques
Robert Heiber - Chace Audio by Deluxe
Ralph Sargent - Film Technology Company, Inc.

There's the Rub: The Restoration of "Bus Stop" (1956)
Seth Berkowitz, Cineric, Inc.

"We're Not Just Animation" - Disney Live-Action Restorations
Theo Gluck, Walt Disney Studios
Andrew Brutocao, Walt Disney Studios
Michele Winn, Walt Disney Studios
Jayson Wall, Walt Disney Studios

Archiving Color Image to Single Strip 35mm B&W Film
Sean McKee, IVC / Point 360

Poto and Cabengo (1980) - a Sound Restoration Case Study
John Polito, Audio Mechanics

Preservation at the Library of Congress Packard Campus:
A Progress Report and Perspectives on the Future
Ken Weissman, Library of Congress

Tonight at The Reel Thing XXV: Dr. Zhivago!

Doctor Zhivago (1965)
The Reel Thing XXV opens on Thursday, August 12th with a reception and a 4K digital projection screening of the new digital restoration of this classic David Lean film.

"A Love Caught in the Fire of Revolution" ... the winner of five Oscars, the film was banned in the Soviet Union. It was finally shown in Russia in 1994.

The Reel Thing XXV:  August 12-14, 2010 at the Linwood Dunn Theatre in Hollywood.  The two day technical symposium offers the latest technologies in audiovisual restoration and preservation. The Reel Thing brings together a unique line up of laboratory technicians, archivists, new media technologists and preservationists.

2010 Board Election: Slate of Candidates

The Elections Committee has submitted the provisional slate of Candidates to the Board for the 2010 Board Election.  You can find the provisional slate of candidates here:  www.amianet.org/groups/committees/elections/2010/provisional_slate.php

If after viewing the provisional slate, any qualified AMIA member wishing to run for any open AMIA office may add their name to the list of candidates on the provisional ballot by the nomination by petition process. 

All candidates must declare their intention to run through the nomination by petition process no later than August 6th and must submit their petitions no later than August 20, 2010.   

For more information about the Nomination by Petition process, go to www.amianet.org/groups/committees/elections/2010/provisional_slate.php.

Candidate statements and ballot information will be sent to Members in late August.

Get Involved in AMIA's New Preservation Committee!

Hello all,

 

The AMIA Preservation Committee is reinventing itself and we need your participation to make the committee a success. The first action item for the new co-chairs Kate Murray and Reto Kromer is to establish the committee membership roster. Next steps are to finalize our mission statement and then decide on tasks for the upcoming year. We have some exciting projects for both analog and digital preservation issues in mind but we need your skills and experience to get them off the ground.

 

All AMIA members are welcome to join the committee!

 

If you are an AMIA member and want to get actively involved in the new Preservation Committee, please send an email to Kate Murray ([email protected]) and/or Reto Kromer ([email protected]).

 

Best wishes,

 

Kate Murray

Digitization Process Development Specialist Special Media Preservation Division National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)

301-837-2924

[email protected]

 

Reto Kromer

reto.ch Ltd | A Bright Future for Historic Films

9 chemin du Croset | 1024 Ecublens | Switzerland

Email: [email protected]| Phone: +41 21 691 6511

The AMIA Forums are here!

Dear All,

 

After over a year in the planning (they say that the best things in life are worth waiting for!), we (the AMIA Board of Directors and office staff) are pleased to announce the launch of the web-based AMIA discussion forum.  You can find the forum and guidelines here:

 

http://www.amianet.org/participate/forums.php

 

 

I'm not going to repeat the stuff on the guidelines page, but I would just like to emphasise two points.

 

1.  We are offering this as an additional facility to promote discussion and collaboration within the field, NOT as a replacement for this list or AMIA-L.  Business as usual for both will continue.

 

2.  Please do bear with me if your registration takes a day or two to be processed and activated.  I will be on solo moderation duty over the opening weekend, and so if there's a deluge it might take a while to process what we anticipate will be the initial rush of registration requests.

 

If you have any comments about the way the board is set up, and/or technical queries related to its operation, please don't hesitate either to email me privately or to start a thread in the off-topic area of the forum itself.

 

We would also encourage you to forward this announcement to any other listserv, forum or individual(s) you feel may be interested.

 

Many thanks and best wishes

 

Leo Enticknap

AMIA Secretary