AMIA Newsbriefs

Paramount's VP of Preservation and Restoration Talks Breakfast at Tiffany's

For over 20 years, Ron Smith, Paramount Pictures Vice President of Preservation and Restoration, has been ensuring that some of the world's most beloved and cherished films and TV series receive the clarity and care that they deserve. His latest efforts were focused on the transfer for the Audrey Hepburn classic, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and its new 50th anniversary Blu-ray release

Read the story here.

Digital Cinema Technologies from the Archive's Perspective

Goodbye, Dawson City, Goodbye

Actually, I use the phrase "the horse is out of the barn" in the strictest sense, as in "Belgium, 2011." This is one of the first countries to have completely switched to D-Cinema, with hardly any commercial theatres operating 35mm projectors anymore.

Read the story at The AMIA Tech Review here.

The Reel Thing: Los Angeles Schedule Now Online!

  The program schedule is now available for The Reel Thing: Los Angeles!

• Opening Reception and screening of the digital restoration of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea 
• The Coroner's Report - Dissecting Film Sound Preservation o The ABC's of Color Space 
• Wet-gate Film Scanning - A Proven Technology for Motion Picture Image Restoration 
• Where Did Our Films Go? The Destruction and Survival of American Silent Features 
• The Media History Digital Library - Digitizing the History of Cinema 
• Case study:  4K restoration of Marcel Carné's "The Children of Paradise"
• Advances in Restoration - Theory and Practice of Automatic Dust Removal 
• Designing a New Film Stock for Digital Separations 
• Case Study: Restoration of The Loves of Pharoah"
• Sneak Preview of a New Restoration
• Restoration and Screening of "Shoes"
• Managing Large Scale Sound Preservation 
• A Case of the Mumps | The Mumps Test Redux 
• Scanning for Preservation Purposes - A "Deep Catalog" Pilot Project 
• The Resurrection of Le Voyage Dans La Lune (A Trip to the Moon) 
• Screening of "The Children of Paradise"

Go to www.the-reel-thing.org to register!

 

The Summer Newsletter is available online!

The AMIA Summer Newsletter is here!

There's information about the upcoming Reel Thing: Los Angeles,  a report from the recent SEAPAVAA Conference from Kate Pourshariarti, a visit to the TCM Film Festival with Ariel Schudson, an update from the USCBS, and more!

Just log into the members area of the AMIA website to read the Newsletter here.  

Not an AMIA Member?  Interested in becoming a part of the community of archivists, scholars and supporters of moving image preservation and access?  Read more here.

And remember, the Newsletter is great summer reading.  Print it out, pour something cool over ice and enjoy!

 

 

 

 

 

Early Bird Rates for The Reel Thing: Los Angeles ending soon!

 
The Reel Thing XXVII
August 18-20, 2011 - Los Angeles, CA

Early bird registration ends soon for The Reel Thing!  Don’t miss …

• Opening night reception premiere screening of 4K restoration of “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea” on Thursday, August 18^th.
• Panavision Vs CinemaScope – a “shootout” featuring new test footage (and edited on a Moviola!)
• EYE Film Institute Netherlands Restoration and Screening of “Shoes” (USA 1916)
• Case study:  4K restoration and premiere screening of Marcel Carné’s “The Children of Paradise”
• Managing Large Scale Sound Preservation
• Scanning for Preservation, a Studio test case
• Where Did Our Films Go? - The Destruction and Survival of American Silent Feature Films
• Case study:  Reconstruction and restoration of long-lost Ernst Lubitsch silent film “The Loves of Pharoah”
• The Media History Digital Library - Digitizing the history of cinema
• Audio restoration challenges: silent films converted to sound
• The ABC’s of Color Space
• Restoring the 1902 Georges Méliès classic “Le Voyage dans la Lune” (includes screening)
• Sneak Preview of a newly restored film!

More screenings and topics to be added shortly!

Register today at www.the-reel-thing.org

John Ford's 'lost film,' 'Upstream,' looks good after restoration

"Upstream" was one of 75 American silent films on highly combustible nitrate stock that had been stored at the New Zealand Film Archive. In June, it was announced that the National Film Preservation Foundation and the Archive had formed a partnership to preserve and make these films available. The five silent film archives — the Academy Archive, George Eastman House, the Library of Congress, the Museum of Modern Art and UCLA Film & Television Archive — divvied the titles and are supervising the restoration work on these films.

Read the story here.

Saving film treasures

A behind-the-scenes peek shows why the world relies on George Eastman House to preserve films and photos.

Read the story here:  http://www.democratandchronicle.com/article/20100718/ENT01/7180313

The Library of Congress Unlocks the Ultimate Archive System

Our division within the Library of Congress is responsible for the Library’s 6.3 million piece collection of audio-visual and film materials.  I direct the film preservation program, and prior to the advent of the Packard Campus for Audio-Visual Conservation in 2007, we were primarily focused on the nitrate film collection: 140 million feet, dating back to the 1890s.

Read the story here:  http://magazine.creativecow.net/article/the-library-of-congress-unlocks-the-ultimate-archive-system

DELUXE ACQUIRES MEDIARECALL

Deluxe Entertainment Services Group, Inc. announced today it has acquired the assets of metro-Chicago based MediaRecall Holdings, LLC, a fast growing player in the digital video services space, founded in 2007.

Read the story here: http://www.mediarecall.com/index.php?p=news10

Space and Sharing at the Prelinger Library

“We were interested in experimenting with alternative access to cultural resources,” says Megan, an independent scholar whose history on advertising in the space age will be published in May 2010 by Blast Books. “We wanted to start a library that would support our work as researchers and archivists, but we wanted it to be open to everybody.”

Read the story here:  http://shareable.net/blog/the-movable-library