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NortheastHistoricFilmCarlson 1/29 Please review the Application Guidelines for details about the information requested in this proposal. Fields marked with an asterisk are required. Eligibility To be eligible for a Digitizing Hidden Collections grant in 2016, applicant projects must meet the following requirements: Minimum allowable request for 2016: $50,000 Maximum allowable request for 2016: single-institution projects: $250,000 / collaborative projects: $500,000 Minimum allowable project term: 12 months Maximum allowable project term: single-institution projects: 24 months / collaborative projects: 36 months Projects must begin between January 1 and June 1, 2017 Single-institution projects must be completed by May 31, 2019 Collaborative projects must be completed by May 31, 2020 Is this a collaborative project? Yes/No Yes What is the size of the request? NOTE: The minimum acceptable request in this program, for all projects, is $50,000. Single-institution projects can request no more than $250,000. Collaborative projects can request no more than $500,000. Amount Requested $322,092 Provide the proposed project length in whole months, and list the project start and end dates. NOTE: All projects must begin between January 1 and June 1, 2017. The minimum project length, for all projects, is 12 months. Single-institution projects can last up to 24 months and must end by May 31, 2019. Collaborative projects can last up to 36 months and must end by May 31, 2020. Project length (months) 18 Project Start Date 01/01/2017 Project End Date 06/30/2018 NortheastHistoricFilmCarlson 2/29 A note regarding principal investigators: An individual may not be named as a principal investigator (PI) on more than one proposal, and may not serve as PI on two funded projects simultaneously. -
The Uses of Animation 1
The Uses of Animation 1 1 The Uses of Animation ANIMATION Animation is the process of making the illusion of motion and change by means of the rapid display of a sequence of static images that minimally differ from each other. The illusion—as in motion pictures in general—is thought to rely on the phi phenomenon. Animators are artists who specialize in the creation of animation. Animation can be recorded with either analogue media, a flip book, motion picture film, video tape,digital media, including formats with animated GIF, Flash animation and digital video. To display animation, a digital camera, computer, or projector are used along with new technologies that are produced. Animation creation methods include the traditional animation creation method and those involving stop motion animation of two and three-dimensional objects, paper cutouts, puppets and clay figures. Images are displayed in a rapid succession, usually 24, 25, 30, or 60 frames per second. THE MOST COMMON USES OF ANIMATION Cartoons The most common use of animation, and perhaps the origin of it, is cartoons. Cartoons appear all the time on television and the cinema and can be used for entertainment, advertising, 2 Aspects of Animation: Steps to Learn Animated Cartoons presentations and many more applications that are only limited by the imagination of the designer. The most important factor about making cartoons on a computer is reusability and flexibility. The system that will actually do the animation needs to be such that all the actions that are going to be performed can be repeated easily, without much fuss from the side of the animator. -
Videotape and Home Movie Day
Videotape and Home Movie Day Incorporating video into a Home Movie Day event presents a host with technological and curatorial challenges. You’ll need to bring even more equipment including numerous decks, cables galore, and something to show tapes on, either a video projector or a large enough monitor. Since videotapes can go on for hours, you’ll need to set time limits in advance so no one person takes up more time than other attendees. But with a little planning you can easily be showing families’ histories recorded on tape alongside those on good ol’ small gauge film. Equipment Needs There is a daunting number of consumer-level videotape and optical video formats. But just as you can't expect to have a projector for every film format, you shouldn't expect to support every video format. In our experience, the most popular formats are VHS and Video8. DVD is also common format for people bringing in already-transferred home movies. You’ll need to balance your expectations of what video formats your particular audience will be bringing in with how much effort it will be to bring in a particular format. Other video formats to consider include, but are not limited to, Hi8, Digital8, Betamax, DV, SHS, and VHS-C. And don’t forget the difference between PAL, NTSC, and SECAM. Also, don’t forget to have enough cords and adapters to connect video decks to the monitor/projector. Depending on how many decks you are bringing to your HMD event, you might want to consider getting a video switcher. -
How Existing Social Norms Can Help Shape the Next Generation of User-Generated Content
Everything I Need To Know I Learned from Fandom: How Existing Social Norms Can Help Shape the Next Generation of User-Generated Content ABSTRACT With the growing popularity of YouTube and other platforms for user-generated content, such as blogs and wikis, copyright holders are increasingly concerned about potential infringing uses of their content. However, when enforcing their copyrights, owners often do not distinguish between direct piracy, such as uploading an entire episode of a television show, and transformative works, such as a fan-made video that incorporates clips from a television show. The line can be a difficult one to draw. However, there is at least one source of user- generated content that has existed for decades and that clearly differentiates itself from piracy: fandom and “fan fiction” writers. This note traces the history of fan communities and the copyright issues associated with fiction that borrows characters and settings that the fan-author did not create. The author discusses established social norms within these communities that developed to deal with copyright issues, such as requirements for non-commercial use and attribution, and how these norms track to Creative Commons licenses. The author argues that widespread use of these licenses, granting copyrighted works “some rights reserved” instead of “all rights reserved,” would allow copyright holders to give their consumers some creative freedom in creating transformative works, while maintaining the control needed to combat piracy. However, the author also suggests a more immediate solution: copyright holders, in making decisions concerning copyright enforcement, should consider using the norms associated with established user-generated content communities as a framework for drawing a line between transformative work and piracy. -
The Music (And More) 2019 Quarter 3 Report
The Music (and More) 2019 Quarter 3 Report Report covers the time period of July 1st to Kieran Robbins & Chief - "Sway" [glam rock] September 30th, 2019. I inadvertently missed Troy a few before that time period, which were brought to my attention by fans, bands & Moriah Formica - "I Don't Care What You others. The missing are listed at the end, along with an Think" (single) [hard rock] Albany End Note… Nine Votes Short - "NVS: 09/03/2019" [punk rock] RECORDINGS: Albany Hard Rock / Metal / Punk Psychomanteum - "Mortal Extremis" (single track) Attica - "Resurected" (EP) [hardcore metal] Albany [thrash prog metal industrial] Albany Between Now and Forever - "Happy" (single - Silversyde - "In The Dark" [christian gospel hard rock] Mudvayne cover) [melodic metal rock] Albany Troy/Toledo OH Black Electric - "Black Electric" [heavy stoner blues rock] Scotchka - "Back on the Liquor" | "Save" (single tracks) Voorheesville [emo pop punk] Albany Blood Blood Blood - "Stranglers” (single) [darkwave Somewhere To Call Home - "Somewhere To Call Home" horror synthpunk] Troy [nu-metalcore] Albany Broken Field Runner – "Lay My Head Down" [emo pop Untaymed - "Lady" (single track) [british hard rock] punk] Albany / LA Colonie Brookline - "Live From the Bunker - Acoustic" (EP) We’re History - "We’re History" | "Pop Tarts" - [acoustic pop-punk alt rock] Greenwich "Avalanche" (singles) [punk rock pop] Saratoga Springs Candy Ambulance - "Traumantic" [alternative grunge Wet Specimens - "Haunted Flesh" (EP) [hardcore punk] rock] Saratoga Springs Albany Craig Relyea - "Between the Rain" (single track) Rock / Pop [modern post-rock] Schenectady Achille - "Superman (A Song for Mora)" (single) [alternative pop rock] Albany Dead-Lift - "Take It or Leave It" (single) [metal hard rock fusion] Schenectady Caramel Snow - "Wheels Are Meant To Roll Away" (single track) [shoegaze dreampop] Delmar Deep Slut - "u up?" (3-song) [punk slutcore rap] Albany Cassandra Kubinski - "DREAMS (feat. -
The Family Video Archive: an Annotation and Browsing Environment for Home Movies Gregory D
The Family Video Archive: An annotation and browsing environment for home movies Gregory D. Abowd Matthias Gauger & Andreas Lachenmann College of Computing & GVU Center Computer Science Department Georgia Institute of Technology University of Stuttgart 801 Atlantic Drive Universitaetsstr. 38 Atlanta, GA USA 30332-0280 D-70569 Stuttgart, Germany +1-404-894-7512 {Matthias.Gauger, Andreas.Lachenmann} [email protected] @studi.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de ABSTRACT digitized home movies. We present the Family Video Archive as a tool to give consumers There is much work in the area of video annotation and browsing. the ability to annotate and browse large collections of informal What makes this work significant is its focus on the informal family movies. The informal nature of home movies makes it nature of home movies. This has several implications for the difficult to use fully-automated techniques for scene detection and research contribution of our work. annotation. Our system explores the symbiosis between • Home movies record informal activities and are usually of automated and manual techniques for annotation. We also explore relatively low production quality, containing little, if any, the use of a zooming interaction paradigm for browsing and relevant metadata concerning the content of the video. As a filtering large collections of video scenes. result, we have focussed on interaction techniques that provide full manual annotation capabilities but also leverage off Keywords automation. This symbiosis between fully manual and fully Video annotation, Zooming user interfaces, home movies. automated annotation is an important research topic. • Home movies are meaningful to a community of family, friends 1. INTRODUCTION and relatives. -
Unearthing African American History & Culture Through Home Movies
Unearthing African American History & Culture Through Home Movies by Jasmyn R. Castro A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts Moving Image Archiving and Preservation Program Department of Cinema Studies New York University May 2015 1! Introduction African American home movie collections across the United States can, and should, play a larger role in the depiction of African American history and culture. As a historical resource, home movies provide a direct and personal look into the lives of African Americans. Culturally, these home movies document their way of life through everyday personal experiences and social interactions. Since the introduction of film in the United States, home movie recording was one of the first opportunities for self-documentation. Before the invention of the 8mm film gauge, only an elite few were fortunate enough to find themselves in a position to record their experiences through photography, and an even smaller group (practically non-existent) were able to record on 16mm; the first amateur motion picture film format. A small percentage of African Americans took part in such leisure activities, however, economic and social conditions in the United States played an important role in who and what was documented. During the early 1900s, African Americans found themselves in the midst of a new chapter in their history as a newly formed ethnic group in the United States. Early attempts at capturing the African American experience were, for the majority, conducted as part of government projects such as “Voices from the Days of Slavery”, a collection of audio interviews between former slaves and employees of the Work Progress Administration’s (WPA) Federal Writers’ Project.1 The WPA was an American New Deal agency that employed millions of unemployed Americans to conduct public works assignments like the Federal Writers’ Project “Slave Narratives”, in which twenty-three interviewees, born during the time of slavery in the 1 Kniffel, Leonard. -
Download 2007 Annual Report
THE CENTER FOR HOME MOVIES 2007 ANNUAL REPORT TABLE OF CONTENTS 2 A Message from the Founders 3 CHM and the Library of Congress Living Room Cinema 4 Home Movie Day Rediscovery 5 HMD in the New Yorker 6 Home Movie Day 2007 9 The Home Movies of Helen Hill Presentations and Other Activities 11 Sponsors Looking Ahead 1 A Message from the Center for Home Movies Founders 2007 was another banner year for the Center for Home Movies and Home Movie Day. Highlights included the release of Living Room Cinema , the first Home Movie Day DVD compilation; the finalization of a collaborative agreement with the Library of Congress; the naming of a second consecutive Home Movie Day rediscovery to the U.S. National Film Registry; and the celebration of the fifth annual Home Movie Day, held in a record number of cities and countries. The Board of the Center for Home Movies thanks all of its friends and sponsors, and looks forward to an even more fruitful and productive year in 2008. Photo: Center for Home Movies Board Katie Trainor, Brian Graney, Snowden Becker, Chad Hunter, Dwight Swanson (l. to r.) 2 The Center for Home Movies 2007 Annual Report CHM and THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS In the spring of 2005, the CHM board was invited to meet with David Francis, Greg Lukow and Mike Mashon to begin discussions regarding an official relationship between the Library of Congress and CHM. The Library’s Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division offered CHM workspace and collections storage in the new National Audio-Visual Conservation Center in Culpeper, Virginia. -
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'AktlkPM Scanned from the collections of The Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation www.loc.gov/avconservation Motion Picture and Television Reading Room www.loc.gov/rr/mopic Recorded Sound Reference Center www.loc.gov/rr/record It’s easy to make good movies with CINE- KODAK K Tins amazingly ingenious home you can “make bright, sparkling, movie camera is easier to operate fall-e6lp> movies even on dull most popular ol than many “still” cameras. Right days. interchangeable lenses, from the start it gives you out- ranging from wide angle to a 6- 1 6 mm. Home standingly good movies. As you inch telephoto, are available, Movie Cameras progress, its finger-tip versatility further widening the scope of the keeps pace. Which is undoubtedly Cine-Kodak K. why the “K” is the most widely Features of the “K” include: used 16 mm. camera in the world. built-in exposure guide; perma- The “K,” with/. 1.9 or/.3.5 lens, nently attached winding crank; If it is complete equipment for all half-speed device; two finders isn't an ordinary ... and many extraordi- (eye-level and waist-high); auto- Eastman. nary. .home movie requirements. matic footage indicator. Price, it isn*t a Kodak With the/.1.9 lens, a Kodacolor $112.50 with /. 3.5 lens; $152.50 Adjustable Filter and Cine-Kodak with /. 1.9 lens, complete with Super-sensitive Kodacolor Film carrying case. At your dealer’s. CODE 7 Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, N. I S OCT -8 1934 ©Cl B 24652 H O M MO VI Published monthly by the Homovie Publishing Co., 6362 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, Calif. -
The Electrical Transformation of the Public Sphere: Home Video, the Family, and the Limits of Privacy in the Digital Age
THE ELECTRICAL TRANSFORMATION OF THE PUBLIC SPHERE: HOME VIDEO, THE FAMILY, AND THE LIMITS OF PRIVACY IN THE DIGITAL AGE By Adam Capitanio A DISSERTATION Submitted to Michigan State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY American Studies 2012 ABSTRACT THE ELECTRICAL TRANSFORMATION OF THE PUBLIC SPHERE: HOME VIDEO, THE FAMILY, AND THE LIMITS OF PRIVACY IN THE DIGITAL AGE By Adam Capitanio One of the constituent features of the digital age has been the redrawing of the line between private and public. Millions of social media users willingly discuss intimate behavior and post private photographs and videos on the internet. Meanwhile, state and corporate bodies routinely violate individual privacy in the name of security and sophisticated marketing techniques. While these occurrences represent something new and different, they are unsurprising given the history of home and amateur media. In this dissertation, I argue that contemporary shifts in the nature of the public/private divide have historical roots in the aesthetics and style found in home movies and videos. In other words, long before Facebook and YouTube enabled users to publicly document their private lives, home movies and videos generated patterns of representation that were already shifting the unstable constitution of the “private” and the “public” spheres. Using critical theory and archival research, I demonstrate how home moviemakers represented their families and experiences in communal and liminal spaces, expanding the meaning of “home.” When video become the predominant medium for domestic usage, home mode artifacts became imbricated with television, granting them a form of phantasmagoric publicity that found fulfillment in the digital era. -
1 Filling in the Cracks of Culture Film Preservation in Practice Really
Madeline Fendley Politics of Preservation, Spring 2011 Filling in the Cracks of Culture Film preservation in practice really means duplicating films, whether it's for archives or commercial interests, and no one is going to spend that kind of money and time on a film that doesn't have commercial value. Most film archives can't really afford to recognize the cultural history embedded in these captured everyday moments. There's just not enough space in archives and there's not enough money in it.i –Diana Little, Cineric, Inc. Traditionally, film archives are institutions that preserve commercial motion picture films made for mainstream cinematic viewing and that hold commercial value. These films are preserved to protect the investments of studios and to preserve the history of cinematic art and technological development of the industry. As the field developed and film archives were formed, preservation work focused exclusively on these major motion pictures. In a field where preservation work is costly and public funding is limited, these commercial films were the ones deemed worthy of saving. While the films held at major, established film archives are certainly documents of cultural history, other moving image artifacts that document our cultural history are produced by amateurs, governments, corporations, and families, to name a few. It is this type of film to which Diana Little refers in the above quote, the films for which public funding is not widely available. Independent film collectors often discover and preserve the films that lie outside of the mainstream, films that document subcultures, forgotten 1 histories, and local regions. -
A History of the Amiga by Jeremy Reimer
A history of the Amiga By Jeremy Reimer 1 part 1: Genesis 3 part 2: The birth of Amiga 13 part 3: The first prototype 19 part 4: Enter Commodore 27 part 5: Postlaunch blues 39 part 6: Stopping the bleeding 48 part 7: Game on! 60 Shadow of the 16-bit Beast 71 2 A history of the Amiga, part 1: Genesis By Jeremy Reimer Prologue: the last day April 24, 1994 The flag was flying at half-mast when Dave Haynie drove up to the headquarters of Commodore International for what would be the last time. Dave had worked for Commodore at its West Chester, Pennsylvania, headquarters for eleven years as a hardware engineer. His job was to work on advanced products, like the revolutionary AAA chipset that would have again made the Amiga computer the fastest and most powerful multimedia machine available. But AAA, like most of the projects underway at Commodore, had been canceled in a series of cost-cutting measures, the most recent of which had reduced the staff of over one thousand people at the factory to less than thirty. "Bringing your camera on the last day, eh Dave?" the receptionist asked in a resigned voice."Yeah, well, they can't yell at me for spreading secrets any more, can they?" he replied. Dave took his camera on a tour of the factory, his low voice echoing through the empty hallways. "I just thought about it this morning," he said, referring to his idea to film the last moments of the company for which he had given so much of his life.