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Interes'ng
Recent
Developments
in
Film
Archiving
&
Preserva'on:


From
Classics
to
Ephemeral
Works


Howard
Besser
Moving
Image
Archiving
&
Preserva

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Langlois’
influence
well‐known


Besser‐Memory
in
World
Cinema,
2011
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Langlois’
eclec

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Besser-Memory in World Cinema, 2011

Some

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Colorizing
if
Director
wanted
it?


Besser-Memory in World Cinema, 2011 19 Besser-Memory in World Cinema, 2011

Pan
and
Scan
example


•  7
Brides
for
7
Brothers,
Stanley
Donen,
MGM,
1954
from
hhp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_and_scan


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Besser-Memory in World Cinema, 2011

Commercial
Reformapng
Issues:
PR
at
1967
re‐issue
of
GWTW


•  “Spherical
Blow‐Up”
•  “In
the
Splendor
of
70mm.
Wide
screen
and
full
stereophonic


sound!”
•  “For
the
thousands
who
remember
its
unparalleled
drama,


ac

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Besser-Memory in World Cinema, 2011

Elimina

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Besser‐Memory
in
World
Cinema,
2011


3
US
Educa

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New
Breed
of
Archivists
not
like
old
•  Date:
Fri,
27
Jun
2008
19:53:36
‐0300





From:
Paula
Félix‐Didier
•  I
just
came
back
from
a
very
nice
cheese
and
wine
dinner
with
Herr
M
Koerber,
in
his
Berlin
apartment.
A


German
magazine
brought
me
here

as
part
of
the
story
they
are
publishing
next
week
on
our
Metropolis











finding.
I
arrived
here
two
days
ago
and
I
went
directly
from
the
airport
to
the
Kinemathek
to
show
my
DVD
to
Koerber,
Reiner
Rotha,
and
the
people
form
the
Murnau
Founda

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Museo
del
Cine
–NYU
work
crew—New
Breed
of
film
archivists


Besser‐Memory
in
World
Cinema,
2011
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Museo
del
Cine
–NYU
crew
brings
equipment


Besser‐Memory
in
World
Cinema,
2011
 44


Museo
del
Cine
–daily
mee

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And
the
New
Breed
of
Archivists
show
great
interest
in
films
outside
the
“Classics”


Besser‐Memory
in
World
Cinema,
2011
 49


La
Venganza


•  Felix
and
Edmundo
Padilla—i

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Besser‐Memory
in
World
Cinema,
2011
 55


Gregorio
Rocha


Besser‐Memory
in
World
Cinema,
2011
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1936
Olympics‐


Besser‐Memory
in
World
Cinema,
2011
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No#ciario
de
Laya
No.
3
(1937),
Generalitat
de
Catalunya


Besser‐Memory
in
World
Cinema,
2011
 58


Laya
#3—thought
lost


Besser‐Memory
in
World
Cinema,
2011
 59


Another
Spanish
Civil
War
film
found
in
NYU
Tamiment
Collec

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Historically,
Film
Archives
primarily
preserved
narra

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Orphans


Besser‐Memory
in
World
Cinema,
2011
 67


Mexico’s
Archivo
Memoria


Besser‐Memory
in
World
Cinema,
2011
 68


“Rescatar
esos
filmes
olvidados
que
se
encuentran
en
los


closets
y
las
bodegas,
para
dar
cuenta
de
épocas,
sucesos
y
lugares
clave
para


nuestra
historia,
será
uno
de
los
principales
propósitos
del
proyecto
Archivo
Memoria,
cuya
primera
muestra
se


llevará
a
cabo
el
26
y
27
de
agosto
en
la
Sala
4


de
la
Cineteca
Nacional.”


Besser‐Memory
in
World
Cinema,
2011
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Aug
2011
Archivo
Memoria
Event


Besser‐Memory
in
World
Cinema,
2011
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Audrey
Young’s
prepara

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Home
Movie
Day


•  Began
in
a
few
ci

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Besser‐Memory
in
World
Cinema,
2011


NYU’s
MIAP:
A
curriculum
for
studying
Moving
Image
Archiving


&
Preserva

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Field
Guide


Besser‐Memory
in
World
Cinema,
2011
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Field
Guide‐Scholarly


Besser‐Memory
in
World
Cinema,
2011
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Prelinger
Collec

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Prelinger
Assembled
(mash‐up)


•  prelinger‐assembled.mp4
‐
prelinger
assembled


Besser‐Memory
in
World
Cinema,
2011
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Auteurs


•  Social
Networking
site
for
“quality
films
(“classic
masterpieces”,
“wonderful
new
cinema”,
“visionsary”
films,
…)


•  Over
750
films
available
(from
several
different
collec

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WCF


97
Besser‐Memory
in
World
Cinema,
2011


2009
Cannes‐1st
try


•  4
WCF
films
posted
on
The
Auteurs
(day
of
press
conference)


•  Within
2
days,
1,000
viewings
(each
view
>10
minutes)


•  Appears
that
there’s
a
resul

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Youtomb


•  monitoring
435,900
YouTube
videos
•  23,712
videos
taken
down
for
alleged
copyright
viola