From: andrew lampert (email suppressed)
Date: Thu Jan 12 2006 - 13:49:42 PST
Hi Scott-
Yes, the shows will be every Tuesday and Wednesday
evening in April. There will also be a colloquium
(sp?) at NYU during sometime during the month. As
soon as the schedule comes together it will be posted
here. The book should be available by early April if
the schedule moves along as planned.
A.
--- Scott <email suppressed> wrote:
> Hi Bill,
> Forgive the dumb question, but is the
> month-long series
> scheduled for April?
>
> Scott
>
>
>
>
> At 12:47 PM 1/12/2006, you wrote:
>
> >Thank you to all who responded on and off list to
> my posting about a
> >film preservation guide for filmmakers. Your
> comments, suggestions
> >and stories are very helpful. I'm not thinking of
> an exhaustive
> >guide since I can and will direct readers to NFPF,
> Lux, IMAP and
> >Screensound. Instead, I was thinking about a very
> simple set of
> >steps filmmakers can take such as:
> >
> >locating the films
> >
> >getting them back from labs
> >
> >getting them out of basements, attics and garages
> >
> >removing them from acid laden boxes, closed cans
> and plastic bags
> >
> >removing paper products from the cans (although I'm
> still trying to
> >figure out what to recommend so that the paper
> records don't get
> >forever separated from the films)
> >
> >checking for vinegar and isolating deteriorating
> reels.
> >
> >
> >Then, I thought I'd present a basic model of what a
> partial and full
> >preservation might entail, so that even if you
> can't do it, you'll
> >know what might be done.
> >
> >
> >Finally, I suppose I need to write something about
> how to deposit
> >originals and masters with archives, but I don't
> have clear answers
> >to this question and was hoping to address them
> problem through a
> >colloquium that is being proposed at NYU.
> >
> >
> >The point is, most of us CAN'T do full preservation
> on our work and
> >so have a mental block about doing anything! I
> want to provide a
> >"harm reduction" approach and encourage all of us
> to take the simple steps.
> >
> >This leads me to explain why I'm doing all this.
> >
> >April 2006 marks the 30th Anniversary of BB Optics,
> my optical
> >printing and film preservation company. Anthology
> Film Archives
> >(Andrew Lampert) along with the Moving Image
> Archiving and
> >Preservation program at NYU Cinema Studies (Howard
> Besser) is
> >organizing a month-long series of screenings to
> celebrate the
> >occasion. Programs will be an eclectic mix of
> films selected out of
> >the list of the hundreds of films I've worked on or
> preserved since
> >1976. The idea is to make really interesting shows
> that mix and
> >match in unlikely combinations. For instance,
> we're hoping to open
> >the series with a show combining Saul Levine's "New
> Left Note", a
> >regular 8mm rapid fire diary film on the anti-war,
> anti-racist, and
> >women's liberation movements of the early 1970s
> with a compilation
> >of the Nixon White House Staff Super8 films.
> (Nixon gave super8
> >cameras to his top aids and the FBI confiscated
> them when they found
> >them in the office files of John Ehrlichman after
> he resigned his
> >post as Assistant to the President for Domestic
> Affairs on April 30,
> >1973.) I preserved all 14 hours of these films a
> few years back
> >through a contract with the Nixon Library at the
> National
> >Archives. Brian Frye is making the compilation.
> >
> >As a catalogue for the show, Anthology is printing
> a short book that
> >will contain the program, along with some of my own
> writing, essays
> >by filmmakers, film scholars and archivists as well
> as a
> >self-preservation guide for filmmakers (if I can
> get it together in
> >the short period of time before we go to press!)
> >
> >In any case, I'd love to hear more stories about
> what is and isn't
> >being done to keep our works from disappearing.
> I'll keep you
> >posted about the Anthology shows and the book.
> >
> >Thanks for the response so far.
> >
> >Bill
> >
> >--
> >Bill Brand
> >BB Optics
> >108 Franklin Street #4W
> >New York, NY 10013
> >(212) 966-6253
> >http://www.bboptics.com/bboptics
> >
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