Tuesdays, 6-10 PM, room 651, Fall 2004
Instructors: Howard
Besser & Ann Harris
Introduction to Moving Image
Archiving
& Preservation H72.1800
Sept 14 Modes & Artifacts of Moving Image
Production: General Discussion & Film
see entire
syllabus
Assignments due before class:
Assignments due before class:
- Visit American
Museum of the Moving Image for a minimum 90-minute visit. Must see
core exhibit "Behind the Screen", and be familiar with basic concepts
of
film/video/audio recording and playback per "Shutters, Sprockets, and
Tools"
- Visit http://www.paulmessier.com/VideoID/
- Visit: http://www.paulmessier.com/VideoID/audio/
- Visit Section 2 (Film Specifics: Stocks and
Soundtracks)
of the Home Film Preservation
Guide
- Visit the descriptions of the 4 film gauges
on
the homepage
of http://www.littlefilm.org/
- Bring an audio or video recording device, if
you
own
one, and a tape that can be recorded upon.
Read:
- Ascher, Steven and Edward
Pincus, "Introduction to Film and Video Systems" in The
Filmmaker's Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide for the Digital Age,
New York: Plume, 1999, pp 1-44
- Annette Melville, ed., "Understanding
Film and How It Decays", The Film Preservation Guide,
San Francisco: The Film Preservation Foundation, 2004, pp 6-18.
- Recommended:
Agenda
- Introduction to moving image artifacts: film, tape, discs and
other materials.
- Recording devices
(60 min)
- Guest speaker: Diane Bonder(90
min)
- Introduction of Case Study Project
(30 min)
- Structure of Film and a brief History of Film Formats
(45 min)
- Excerpts from: Nature of Film, Eastman Kodak, 2003,
CD-Rom.
- Review:
Further review of readings, discussion questions, and discussion of
visit to AMMI (15 min)
- What artifacts exist as a result of the production? What
gets saved and what gets lost? Knowing production process can aid
identification.
Detective work and how ancillary materials are both cultural artifacts
and clues. Sources for gauges & types of moving image material.
- Current Events (15 min)
- Recent important news articles
- consolidation w/distribution, value of film libraries -- Sony-Led
Group Makes a Late Bid to Wrest MGM From Time Warner, NY Times,
Sept 14, 2004
- commerce drives preservation -- Some
classics still not available on DVD, NPR, Sept 14, 2004 (thanks to
Brad!) [need .smil player like Reel or WMP]
- copyright can affect political commentary -- The
Times Refuses Reprint in Moore Book, NY Times, Sept 10, 2004
- media consolidation -- BBC
Is Exploring Options for Its Commercial Unit, NY Times, Sept 9, 2004
- artifacts and evidence -- CBS
Defends Its Report on Bush Military Record, NY Times, Sept 11, 2004
- trying to date culture -- Baseball's
Origins Ain't Found Till They're Found, NY Times, Sept 11, 2004
- different institutions/missions? -- The
Future of the Past: New York has multiple museums determined to record
and convey its remarkable history. Would they fulfill their
mission more powerfully if they were united?, NY Times, Sept 12,
2004
- decayed films as performance -- From
Dying Movies, the Birth of a Score, NY Times, Sept 11,
2004
- audiotape without a function? -- The
Tour That Never Was, NY Times, Sept 12, 2004
- audio walking tours with historical significance -- Sounds of a
Silent Place, NY Times, Sept 11,
2004
- new moving image delivery systems -- For
a Fee, a Stream of Tunes, Talk and Video, NY Times, Sept 9,
2004
- TXTMob: what are the preservation challenges here? -- Protests
Powered by Cellphone, NY Times, Sept 9,
2004
- Assignments for next week