AMIA Newsbriefs

What Sands of Time Did Not Erase

But the film holds up not only for its historical parallels but also because it's thrilling and, in its present incarnation, it looks breathtaking.

The key is that this is a 4K digital restoration. When a machine called the Imagica EX scans across each frame of a film's negative, it creates a digitally encoded replica that consists of 4,000 (actually, 4,096) pixels on each horizontal line. Multiplied by the 2,160 pixels on each vertical line, this makes for a total of 8.8 million pixels per frame.

Read the story here: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/30/movies/lawrence-of-arabia-mended-returns-to-screen-and-blu-ray.html?ref=arts

All the TV News Since 2009, on One Web Site

Inspired
by a pillar of antiquity, the Library of Alexandria, Brewster Kahle has a grand vision for the Internet
Archive,
the giant aggregator and digitizer of data, which he founded and leads.
 
Read
the story here: 

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/18/business/media/internet-archive-amasses-all-tv-news-since-2009.html?_r=1

Telluride Film Festival Honors Chapin Cutler's Commitment to the SHOW

Boston Light & Sound (BL&S) and its cofounder C. Chapin Cutler, Jr. join the ranks of Ted Turner, Leonard Maltin, UCLA, and HBO
in receiving the Telluride Film Festival Special Silver Medallion. Telluride presented the award to Chapin on Sunday, September 2 at this year’s festival for his significant contribution to the world of cinema.
 
Read the press release here: http://www.blsi.com/pdf/Telluride_Special_Silver_Medallion_press_release.pdf

Fujifilm Says Goodbye To Movie Film

Fujifilm has mainly provided negative films for shooting and positive films for projection in its motion picture film business operations. However, in order to adapt to the recent rapid transition of digitalization in the shooting, producing,
projecting and archiving processes of motion pictures Fujifilm has decided to shift its business operations to provide products and services designed for digital workflow of motion picture production and projection.
 
Read more here: http://www.fujifilm.com/news/n120913.html
 

World's first colour moving pictures discovered

The world's first colour moving pictures dating from 1902 have been found by the National Media Museum in Bradford after lying forgotten
in an old tin for 110 years.
 
Read the story here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-19423951

Georgia Closes State Archives

“To my knowledge, Georgia will be the only state in the country that will not have a central location in which the public can visit to research and review
the historical records of their government and state.”
 
Read the story here: http://www2.wsav.com/news/2012/sep/13/breaking-georgia-closes-state-archives-ar-4538200/

Kodak's bumpy ride into digital age

When Eastman Kodak emerges from bankruptcy -- the goal is early 2013 -- the company will be smaller on all fronts: The size of the global workforce will have been slashed some 20% to well below
14,000, including a stable of executives with six-figure salaries.
 
Read more here: http://www.usatoday.com/money/business/story/2012/09/11/eastman-kodaks-bumpy-ride-into-digital-age/57747986/1

Academy offers tours 'Inside the Vaults' of the Pickford Center

Stepping into the vast vaults of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study in Hollywood on a hot summer day can be a shock to the system.
 
Read more at: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-et-mn-classic-academy-tours20120910,0,6500539.story

The man who keeps The Dead alive

"And you've got the communal aspect of it, which is to say, it was a very safe place to be. As we used to say - and I still hear it - you could 'freak freely,' and just do your thing. Essentially, it was the last way in America, I thought, that you could
really get up, run away and join the circus."
He couldn't know it at the time, but those days were the internship to his career.

Read more:

http://www.vancouversun.com/entertainment/keeps+Dead+alive/7211598/story.html#ixzz265jiEc4r

Rockville’s Colorlab finds future in film preservation as firms switch digital

When video killed the radio star in the 1980s, it also did a number on Russ Suniewick’s business — processing motion pictures. Suniewick co-founded Colorlab, a film-processing firm in Rockville. When the company started in 1972, D.C. was
a major film town, with several large labs — Bono, Capital, Byron, among others — cranking out miles of government, public relations and educational films. Each of the network-affiliate TV stations had film-processing equipment. The phrase “Film at 11” was
literally true. News of the day was recorded by 16mm film cameras, and the film was rushed back to the station, developed, edited and images readied for broadcast late at night or maybe the next day.
Read the story here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/rockvilles-colorlab-finds-future-in-film-preservation-as-firms-switch-to-digital/2012/09/04/f84c5318-f6a2-11e1-8398-0327ab83ab91_story.html?hpid=z14

A Vast Frank Lloyd Wright Archive Is Moving to New York

The Modernist architect Frank Lloyd Wright wasn’t a hoarder. But he did save just about everything — whether a doodle on a Plaza Hotel cocktail napkin of an imagined city on Ellis Island, his earliest pencil sketch of the spiraling Guggenheim
Museum or a model of Broadacre City, his utopian metropolis. Since Wright’s death in 1959 those relics have been locked in storage at his former headquarters — Taliesin, in Spring Green, Wis., and Taliesin West, in Scottsdale, Ariz
 
Read the story here: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/04/arts/design/frank-lloyd-wright-collection-moves-to-moma-and-columbia.html

To Be (Dis)Continued: An Archive of What Wasn't

In her book Dust: The Archive and Cultural History, Carolyn Steadman discusses the fragmentary nature of archives, and the stories they leave out. She says, “And nothing starts in the Archive, nothing
ever at all though things certainly end up there. You find nothing in the Archive but stories caught halfway through: the middle of things. Discontinuities.” Every day on the inventory project we are in the middle of things – of some story we are unraveling
about Kartemquin and its films. This can be difficult when you are digging through boxes of poorly labeled tapes, and film cans where the labels cracked off. 
 
Read the story here: http://kartemquinarchive.blogspot.com/2012/08/to-be-discontinued-archive-of-what-wasnt_29.html

Back Up Or Archive?

Archiving and backup systems can have two distinct and complementary functions within a media organisation. These two principles can be applied together to create an effective workflow addressing the original concern to protect valuable
content, along with the need to maintain appropriate levels of online shared storage while maintaining accessibility to the current media and legacy material.
 
Read the story here: http://www.4rfv.co.uk/industrynews.asp?id=148815
 
 

Amazon unleashes Glacier service into market for cloud archiving

Amazon is looking to become the world's backup store, introducing a new cloud service called "Glacier", which it says will offer "secure, reliable and extremely low-cost" retention of data for as little as $0.01 per gigabyte
per month.
 
Read the story here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/aug/21/amazon-glacier-cloud-storage?newsfeed=true

AC/DC rock 'n' rolls way onto National Film and Sound Archives list

THE 2012 additions to the National Film and Sound
Archives' national register of recorded sounds span almost a century of Australian sounds, including iconic rockers AC/DC. The
archives hit play on the latest additions to the registry on Wednesday.
 
See the story here: http://www.heraldsun.com.au/entertainment/music/acdc-rock-n-rolls-way-onto-national-film-and-sound-archives-list/story-e6frf9hf-1226460387409