Re: [Videolib] Film archives
I'll just second what Dennis said - as a long-standing member of AMIA and frequent conference attendee, AMIA is definitely the community to connect with regarding your 16mm collections. Also, If some of the prints that need homes are experimental or documentary shorts, let me know. I might be able to help. Cheers, Carolyn -- Carolyn Faber Film and Media Technician Flaxman Library School of the Art Institute of Chicago 312-629-1341 16mm Film Study Collection http://libraryguides.saic.edu/16mm On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 8:55 AM, Dennis Doros milefi...@gmail.com wrote: Well, this is why membership in AMIA and attending the conference (Hi, Kim, Stephen and Francis!) and participating on its listserv is invaluable because these problems and issues -- the importance of small gauge films and their preservation -- are discussed as frequently as public performance is discussed here. And as Gary has mentioned frequently, many of these 16mm prints at institutions are the *only* copies in existence and there are NO video copies of many of them either. What we're facing here at institutions is the filmic equivalent of Fahrenheit 451. The only trained film archivist performing restorations and preservation at a public library in the country -- that I know of -- is the wonderful Elena Rossi-Snook at the New York Public Library Reserve Film Video Collection, Library for the Performing Arts. Her blog is herehttp://www.nypl.org/blog/author/318 and she is one of the best authorities on 16mm print collections along with independents Rick Prelinger, Geoff Alexander and a few others. She's also on the Board of Directors at AMIA. I'm hoping she'll chime in on the discussion. *That said, if anybody has 16mm copies of any of Shirley Clarke's films (I can send a list) or IN THE LAND OF THE WAR CANOES they want to deliver to a good home (and we are the rights holders), please contact me! These would be for a very important project.* Dennis Doros Milestone Film Video milefi...@gmail.com On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 7:31 PM, Susan Weber swe...@langara.bc.ca wrote: ** I'm doing the very same thing, Barb. At least I still have some film fans in town, and I've passed the list to a couple of universities, who are taking about a total of 150 of our films. Some film Depts. want film for practising their editing. That still leaves 4,000 more to find homes. If only 16mm wasn't so heavy, and shipping so costly - I'm not about to ship to Boston or Chicago. Susan On 08/12/2011 2:59 PM, Bergman, Barbara J wrote: I have to do some very extreme weeding of our remaining 16mm films. (Losing their storage space. Space for VHS DVDs is not effected, fortunately.) ** ** Do you have archives or other places you’d suggest I contact, who might want to give some reels a new home? ** ** (I’ve sent films to the Chicago Film Archive, Harvard’s, and have a list to go to David in Rhode Island.) ** ** Barb Bergman | Media Services Interlibrary Loan Librarian | Minnesota State University, Mankato | (507) 389-5945 | barbara.berg...@mnsu.edu ** ** -- VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors. VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors.
Re: [Videolib] Film archives
We have a copy of Skyscraper; can't vouch for the color quality, though. Brigid Duffy Academic Technology San Francisco State University San Francisco, CA 94132-4200 E-mail: bdu...@sfsu.edu On Dec 9, 2011, at 6:55 AM, Dennis Doros wrote: Well, this is why membership in AMIA and attending the conference (Hi, Kim, Stephen and Francis!) and participating on its listserv is invaluable because these problems and issues -- the importance of small gauge films and their preservation -- are discussed as frequently as public performance is discussed here. And as Gary has mentioned frequently, many of these 16mm prints at institutions are the only copies in existence and there are NO video copies of many of them either. What we're facing here at institutions is the filmic equivalent of Fahrenheit 451. The only trained film archivist performing restorations and preservation at a public library in the country -- that I know of -- is the wonderful Elena Rossi-Snook at the New York Public Library Reserve Film Video Collection, Library for the Performing Arts. Her blog is here and she is one of the best authorities on 16mm print collections along with independents Rick Prelinger, Geoff Alexander and a few others. She's also on the Board of Directors at AMIA. I'm hoping she'll chime in on the discussion. That said, if anybody has 16mm copies of any of Shirley Clarke's films (I can send a list) or IN THE LAND OF THE WAR CANOES they want to deliver to a good home (and we are the rights holders), please contact me! These would be for a very important project. Dennis Doros Milestone Film Video milefi...@gmail.com On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 7:31 PM, Susan Weber swe...@langara.bc.ca wrote: I'm doing the very same thing, Barb. At least I still have some film fans in town, and I've passed the list to a couple of universities, who are taking about a total of 150 of our films. Some film Depts. want film for practising their editing. That still leaves 4,000 more to find homes. If only 16mm wasn't so heavy, and shipping so costly - I'm not about to ship to Boston or Chicago. Susan On 08/12/2011 2:59 PM, Bergman, Barbara J wrote: I have to do some very extreme weeding of our remaining 16mm films. (Losing their storage space. Space for VHS DVDs is not effected, fortunately.) Do you have archives or other places you’d suggest I contact, who might want to give some reels a new home? (I’ve sent films to the Chicago Film Archive, Harvard’s, and have a list to go to David in Rhode Island.) Barb Bergman | Media Services Interlibrary Loan Librarian | Minnesota State University, Mankato | (507) 389-5945 | barbara.berg...@mnsu.edu -- VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors. VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors.
Re: [Videolib] Film archives
We (by which I mean a grad student who had no choice) spent a year going through our list to see which 16mm films were available in other formats and if we had last copy. When it gets down to the final reels that must be sadly recycled, I'm thinking that the Art department might had a few ideas... Barb Bergman | Media Services Interlibrary Loan Librarian | Minnesota State University, Mankato | (507) 389-5945 | barbara.berg...@mnsu.edu VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors.
[Videolib] Film archives
I have to do some very extreme weeding of our remaining 16mm films. (Losing their storage space. Space for VHS DVDs is not effected, fortunately.) Do you have archives or other places you'd suggest I contact, who might want to give some reels a new home? (I've sent films to the Chicago Film Archive, Harvard's, and have a list to go to David in Rhode Island.) Barb Bergman | Media Services Interlibrary Loan Librarian | Minnesota State University, Mankato | (507) 389-5945 | barbara.berg...@mnsu.edu VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors.
Re: [Videolib] Film archives
I could always be coerced into taking more : ) On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 5:59 PM, Bergman, Barbara J barbara.berg...@mnsu.edu wrote: I have to do some very extreme weeding of our remaining 16mm films. (Losing their storage space. Space for VHS DVDs is not effected, fortunately.) ** ** Do you have archives or other places you’d suggest I contact, who might want to give some reels a new home? ** ** (I’ve sent films to the Chicago Film Archive, Harvard’s, and have a list to go to David in Rhode Island.) ** ** Barb Bergman | Media Services Interlibrary Loan Librarian | Minnesota State University, Mankato | (507) 389-5945 | barbara.berg...@mnsu.edu ** ** VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors. -- David Dvorchak Office Manager Providence Community Library ddvorc...@provcomlib.org (401) 467-2700 x2 VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors.
Re: [Videolib] Film archives
I'm doing the very same thing, Barb. At least I still have some film fans in town, and I've passed the list to a couple of universities, who are taking about a total of 150 of our films. Some film Depts. want film for practising their editing. That still leaves 4,000 more to find homes. If only 16mm wasn't so heavy, and shipping so costly - I'm not about to ship to Boston or Chicago. Susan On 08/12/2011 2:59 PM, Bergman, Barbara J wrote: I have to do some very extreme weeding of our remaining 16mm films. (Losing their storage space. Space for VHS DVDs is not effected, fortunately.) Do you have archives or other places you'd suggest I contact, who might want to give some reels a new home? (I've sent films to the Chicago Film Archive, Harvard's, and have a list to go to David in Rhode Island.) Barb Bergman | Media Services Interlibrary Loan Librarian | Minnesota State University, Mankato | (507) 389-5945 | barbara.berg...@mnsu.edu VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors. -- Susan Weber Media Librarian Library T 604.323.5533 F 604.323.5512 swe...@langara.bc.ca mailto:susan%20weber%20%3cswe...@langara.bc.ca%3E Langara. http://www.langara.bc.ca 100 West 49th Avenue, Vancouver, BC, V5Y 2Z6 Please consider the environment before printing. CONFIDENTIALITY: This e-mail may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify us immediately and delete this email from your system. VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors.
Re: [Videolib] Film archives
Uncanny--I am also working on this. I am reviewing my 16mm list and checking it thrice. Our films are in a basement compact storage space, which is undergoing renovation for an expanded Archives. Our collection is quite small now, but yet I find it hard to part with these. Yet I feel someone has to do it. Is there a way to determine which particular films have value? (I worked with collectors when de-accessioning my lp collection). Today I was asked if Can't Take No More , available in the Internet Archives, might be valuable because the US Gov. required all the prints to be destroyed. For now I am holding onto all prints of feature films in response to request from faculty, even though we don't have a decent working classroom projector! So this is just a matter of sentimentality I know, since we have them all on DVD or VHS. We would never use a 16mm as back-up! I also know a faculty member who integrates 16mm films into her experimental videos, and have hesitated giving these to her. But I feel I have a responsibility to keep them intact as long as someone has an interest, like David, in actually showing them. Reely random thoughts. Debra From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Susan Weber [swe...@langara.bc.ca] Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2011 7:31 PM To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: [Videolib] Film archives I'm doing the very same thing, Barb. At least I still have some film fans in town, and I've passed the list to a couple of universities, who are taking about a total of 150 of our films. Some film Depts. want film for practising their editing. That still leaves 4,000 more to find homes. If only 16mm wasn't so heavy, and shipping so costly - I'm not about to ship to Boston or Chicago. Susan On 08/12/2011 2:59 PM, Bergman, Barbara J wrote: I have to do some very extreme weeding of our remaining 16mm films. (Losing their storage space. Space for VHS DVDs is not effected, fortunately.) Do you have archives or other places you’d suggest I contact, who might want to give some reels a new home? (I’ve sent films to the Chicago Film Archive, Harvard’s, and have a list to go to David in Rhode Island.) Barb Bergman | Media Services Interlibrary Loan Librarian | Minnesota State University, Mankato | (507) 389-5945 | barbara.berg...@mnsu.edumailto:barbara.berg...@mnsu.edu VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors. -- Susan Weber Media Librarian Library T 604.323.5533 F 604.323.5512 swe...@langara.bc.camailto:susan%20weber%20%3cswe...@langara.bc.ca%3E Langara.http://www.langara.bc.ca 100 West 49th Avenue, Vancouver, BC, V5Y 2Z6 Please consider the environment before printing. CONFIDENTIALITY: This e-mail may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify us immediately and delete this email from your system. VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors.
