Tuesdays, 6-10 PM, room 651, Fall 2004
Instructors: Howard
Besser & Ann Harris
Introduction to Moving Image
Archiving
& Preservation H72.1800
Sept 7 Introduction to Entire Class
see entire
syllabus
Assignments due before class:
Agenda
- What is this class about?
(40 min)
- Clips
(60 min)
- -Arms of Strangers-Kindertransport 2000 (DVD)
- - Seabiscuit
trailer
- -JFK 1991 (DVD)
- -Zelig 1983 (DVD)
- -Capturing
the Friedmans trailer
- -Out Foxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on
Journalism 2004 (DVD)
- -Lost Horizon 1937 (DVD)
- -Metropolis 1927 (DVD)
- -Big Sleep 1946 (DVD)
- -"Captain Celluloid Vs. The Film Pirates"
(film)
- -Tribulation 99 1992 (video)
- -"Moving Images for the Future", Film
Technology 1999
(video)
- - "Television: Technical Development" (video)
- - "History and Future of Television" (video)
- --"Something Strong Within" (video)
- -"Birth of a Nation" (video)
- Review of Readings (15 min)
- What is moving image archiving and preservation?
Functions of identification,
selection, appraisal, etc.
- Cataloging issues
- Professional organizations
- Discussion questions (40 min)
- Why is conservation and preservation
important?
- Who has taken on the responsibility for
moving image
and sound preservation?
- What are the issues involved in making
visual materials
persist over time? How do we decide which materials should persist over
time?
- What are some of the organizations that
hold moving
image and sound material? (Film Studios, TV stations, large public film
& television archives, media preservation depts. w/i larger
collecting
institutions, small non-profits preserving their own media, ...)
- What are some of the Professional
Organizations that
Moving Image Archivists belong to? And at what conferences can one
learn
about professional issues? (AMIA, FIAF, FIAT, AIC, AAM, MCN, SMPTE,
ALA,
Orphans, SCS)
- What are basic functions?
(identification,
selection
[of both "content" and equipment], appraisal, ...)
- What are the various professional
practices
that
moving image archiving and preservation professionals draw from?
(cataloging,
reference, exhibition, fundraising, budgeting, management, ...)
- What are the various roles or tasks we
are
responsible
for?
- What are the structures like of film
and
other moving
image works?
- Identification of different formats and
gages of
video and film, as well as when they evolved. Who
makes/has
made moving image and sound material? Different eras, modes of
production
have different artifacts. Role of manufacturers and information
industries.
- Background of faculty and students (45 min)
- Current Events (20 min)
- Some of Howard's recent trips
- Recent important news articles
- Products
Slide Into More TV Shows, With Help From New Middlemen, NY Times,
Sept 6, 2004
- TiVo,
Cable or Satellite? Choose That Smart TV Wisely, NY Times, Sept 5,
2004
- Citing
Politics, Studio Cancels Documentary, NY Times, Sept 2, 2004
- NY Times Circuits,
Sept 2, 2004
- Want
to Rent a Movie? Help Yourself, NY Times, Sept 2, 2004
- Ubiquity of video recording everyday events, but is anyone
saving it?
- Curb"
Curbs Injustice, EOnline, June 3, 2004 -- man freed from jail based
on out-takes from TV show shot at baseball game
- <>New Microsoft-based Portable Media Players -- tight
control over watching and copying
- Protecting
Your Files When a Password Isn't Enough, NY Times, Sept 2, 2004
- Hey,
You Need a License to Watch That! A sports fan is viewing the (Olympic)
Games on Canadian satellite TV. FCC says he failed to go through the
proper channels. Los Angeles Times, August 19, 2004
- Grokster/StremCast Decision, August
19, 2004
- Assignments for next week