The MIAP Program What Kinds of Things Does Our Field

What kinds of things does our The MIAP Program ﬁeld do?

Howard Besser, Director Moving Image Archiving & Preservation Program NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts http://www.tisch.nyu.edu/preservation

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NYU’s MIAP: A curriculum for 50 Years ago today studying Moving Image Archiving & Preservation • http://www.myfoxdc.com/story/23269278/ video-of-the-1963-march-on-washington- restored#axzz2dGCWQOAH • Film History/Historiography and Film Style • Conservation, Preservation, Storage, and Management • http://www.youtube.com/watch? • Legal Issues and Copyright v=claihYpVYjg (25:23, 27:37) • Laboratory Techniques • Moving Image Cataloging • http://blogs.archives.gov/mediamatters/ • Curatorial Work and Museum Studies 2013/08/22/preservationrestorationthemarch/ • Programming • http://blogs.archives.gov/mediamatters/ • New Media and other Digital Technologies • Access to Archival Holdings 2013/08/20/making-the-march/

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Interdisciplinary; students need to Competencies – learn the context in which each of these cultural artifacts were made – know the history of changing formats • Handling film, video, new media, and understanding how these artifacts are – need to be scientists and technologists who understand: made • the process of color changes • how certain stocks become too brittle to provide a flat focus for copying • Collections assessment, risk assessment • how magnetic particles are laid on videotape and what causes the various types of • Selection & appraisal deterioration • Collection management (labeling, storage, cataloging) • how different computer files link and interact, (and how certain compression algorithms cause various types of loss) so that they can anticipate preservation problems of • Repair and transfer compressed and hyper-linked digital works • Navigating through different institutional cultures – strong organizational and classification skills so that they can manage these collections and help others find things they want in them. • Programming and exhibition – administrative skills to manage these large preservation repositories (whether they • Budgeting, justifying projects, and grant-writing be film, video, digital, or others). • Donor relations and intellectual property – understand that preservation does not exist in a vacuum, and that they may have to • Research & access become activists to prevent outside political forces from inadvertently trampling on our ability to preserve • Scholarship • Historical Research

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1 Where do our students go to Ethics work? —conventional Film Archives • Readings touching on ethics and values in both our domain • Museo del Cine, Buenos Aires, (Philosophy of A/V Archiving) and related domains (Director) • National Film Archive, Philippines (Museum world--Enola Gay) (Director) • Examination of daily occurances for ethical and value- • Cineteca Nacional de Mexico based responses (news articles, “wardrobe malfunctions”, (Archivo Memoria Coordinator) ’ “ ” “ ” • NorthEast Historic Film (Technical Lucas restoration of THX, sound restoration ) Services Director) • Extensive discussions on contemporary incidents, and the • Paciﬁc Film Archive (Archivist) role that the professional community should play in these • Academy of Motion Picture Arts – Screensound Australia and Sciences (Print Trafﬁcker ) • Anthology Film Archives (Archival – BFI Consultant) (Digital Archivist)

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Where do our students go to Where do our students go to work?—Libraries/Museums/Archives work? —Other Non-Profits • NYPL – Library of Performing Arts, • Northwestern University Library • Bay Area Video Coalition • Canyon Cinema (Archivist) Dance Division, Reformatting Division, (Moving Image and Sound Preservation (Preservation Technician) • Electronic Arts Intermix (Media Wilson Project, (Archivist, Specialist ) • WNYC Radio (Archives Manager) Collection Manager) Technologist, Special Formats • Stanford University Library (Fellow) Specialist) • LC’s Preserving Digital Public • Pacifica Radio Archive (AACIP • The Kitchen (Archivist) • NYU - Bobst Library, (Preservation Television (Research Scholar) Cataloger) • Todo Mundo [David Byrne Fellow, A/V Lab Mgr, A/V • Rhode Island Historical Society (Film • PBS (Project Archivist & Archive)] (Audiovisual Archivist) Preservation Specialist) Archivist) Preservationist) • Vito Acconci (Archivist) • UCLA Library Preservation (A/V • Museum of Modern Art Conservation Specialist) • Democracy Now! (Digital • Gloria Steinem's Office (Archival Dept (Assistant Media Conservator) Archivist) Assistant) • Univ of Michigan Library (A/V • American Museum of Natural History Reformatting Specialist) • ONE National Gay and Lesbian (Margaret Meade Festival Coordinator) • StoryCorps Oral History (Historias • Univ of Virginia Library Info Tech (A/ Archive (Archivist) • Museum of the Moving Image, Archive Coordinator) V Preservation Specialist) (Registrar) • Appalshop (Archivist) • Standby Program (Preservation • Washington University Libraries, (A/V • Smithsonian (Hirshhorn Museum • Human Rights Watch (Multimedia Coordinator) Archivist) Research Fellow, History Museum Mgr) • Roundabout Theatre Company Lemelson Archivist) • Witness Media Archives (Archives Archives (Project Archivist) • NYC Transit Museum (Archivist) Besser-MIAP Program, 8/28/13 1 Besser-MIAPDepartment) Program, 8/28/13 • US Tennis Association (Archivist) 1

Where do our students go to NYC Internships • ABC News Archive, NYC • Jewish Museum • Academy of Dramatic Arts • Laguardia Community College work? —Commercial Sector • American Museum of Natural History • Miramax Films • Anthology Film Archives • MTV Archives • CNN News Archive (Archivist) • ArtStor • Museum of Television and Radio • Audiovisual Preservation Solutions • Barnard College Archives (Paley Media Center) (Consultants) • Bobst Library, NYU • Museum of the Moving Image • Premier Retail Networks • Broadway Video • Museum of Modern Art (Archivist) • Brooklyn College Archives • New York Botanical Garden • Standby Program (Preservation • Cineric Labs • New York City Transit Museum Coordinator) • Duart Labs • New York Women in Film and • Electronic Arts Intermix Television • Towers Productions, Inc., Chicago, • NYPL- Library of Performing Arts IL (Chief Creative Ofﬁcer) • ExitArt • Explorers Club • Orphan Film Symposium • Ugen Media (Business • Filmmakers Coop • Standby Program/Mercer Media Development) • Fox Movietone News • Thirteen/WNETUNICEF • Medianet (Account Manager) • Gartenberg Media Enterprise • Vidipax • Guggenheim Museum • Whitney Museum of American • Hadassah Archives, American Jewish ArtWITNESS Historical Society • WNYC Radio

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2 Summer Internships outside NYC • Academy of Motion Picture Arts and • Pro-Tek Media Preservation Services Sciences • Rice University Visits & Practice with Equipment • American Film Genre Archive • Sacramento Archives and Museum (LC Dayton) • Appalshop, Kentucky Collection Center, CA • Archives of Appalachia, East • SafeSound, Philadelphia • Archivo Nacional, Brazil • San Francisco State University • Arizona State Library • Smithsonian Institution • Austin Film Festival • Stanford University Libraries • Buffalo State University • Steven Spielberg Archive, Hebrew • Chace Audio University, Jerusalem • Chicago Film Archives • Technicolor • Colorlab, Rockville MD • Tennessee State University • Country Music Hall of Fame, Nashville • University of Alaska • Ghana Broadcasting Corporation • University of Baltimore • Harvard University Schlesinger Library • University of Ghana • Harvard University Film Archive • University of Hawaii • Korean Film Archive • University of South Carolina- Moving • LaserPaciﬁc Media Image Resource Center • Library Media Archives, U. Georgia • University of Southern California • Library of Congress, Preservation • Moving Image Archive Directorate • University of Texas • NorthEast Historic Film • Washington University •Besser-MIAP Paciﬁca Program,Radio 8/30/128/28/13 1 Besser-MIAP Program, 8/28/13 1

Film & Video Storage & Color Restore (VidiPax) Handling (Anthology)

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Collection Assessments Supporting Documentation (Anthology) --Personal Collections of Media Artists, Small Distributors

• Coleen Fitzgibbon Films- Spr09 • Art21 Archive- Spr07 Third • Elaine Summer Collection- World Newsreel- Spr05 Spr09 • Willoughby Sharp Archive • Cory Arcangel + BEIGE- Spr09 Collection Assessment - Spr10 • Laurie Anderson –Spr08 • Fred Barney Taylor Collection- • Sonic Youth Video- Spr08 Spr10 • The Barbara Kopple My • On Television Collection- Generation Collection- Spr09 Spr10 • Bob Stein/Voyager Inc. • John F Kennedy (Gartenberg Collection Assessment- Spr10 Media)- Spr08

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3 Collection Assessments Collection Assessments --Collections Housed in Arts Organizations --Collections Housed in Libraries, Archives

• Dance Theatre of Harlem • Flaherty Film Seminar- • Maryland Historical Society- • World Music Institute Audio/ Collection Assessment- Spr07 Spr09 Video Archive- Spr06 • Mogull Brothers (Library of • Teo Masero Collection (New Spr10 • Eyebeam- SarSpr07 Congress) Collection - Spr09 York Public Library-Rodgers/ • The Kitchen- Spr08 • Frank Kuenstler Films • California State University, Hammerstein)- Spr06 Fresno- Henry Madden Library • Robert Haller Collection (Anthology Film Special Collections- Spr09 • Red Hot and Rhapsody Music (Anthology Film Archives)- Spr07 • 16mm Films at Brooklyn Public Collection (Fales Library) Archives)- Spr07 • Cabinet Magazine Digital Library- Spr07 • American Museum of Natural History Video Collection- • New Museum of Content Archive- Spr08 • John Watts Papers (Fales Library)- Spr07 Spr08 Contemporary Art- Spr07 • Hemispheric Institute- • Richard Foreman Papers (Fales • Hadassah Collection –Spr07 • Filmmakers Coop- Spr07 Spr08 Library)- Spr07

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Acid Detection Strips at NYU Thermohygrograph Library (Internship)

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NYU University Archives Internship Project Acid Detection results/autocatalytic Other Research Areas- point readings

University Archives Total # of 0 – 1.0 % of 0 – 1.0 1.5 – 3.0 % of 1.5 Collections items – 3.0 • Copyright University Archives 400 325 81% 75 19% • Stafﬁng & competencies within Academic (in total) Audio Visual 107 82 77% 25 23% Libraries Brademas Papers 75 75 100% 0 0% Classics Dept. Tapes 101 100 99% 1 1% • Replacement issues for videos and DVDs Dept. of Athletics 14 4 29% 10 71% • Disaster Prevention/Recovery External Affairs 2 2 100% 0 0% Abby Weed Grey 37 37 100% 0 0% • Preserving Digital Public Television Alice V. Keliher 10 10 100% 0 0% Miscellaneous Films 45 6 13% 39 87% Annette Weiner 9 9 100% 0 0%

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4 IMLS grant—Moving Image © Activities NYU has worked on Specialists in Libraries (MISL)

• Study of commercially distributed VHS tapes, their • Provide Internship and Fellowship uniqueness, and preservation reformatting guidelines • Studies of international laws that inhibit moving image opportunities in libraries for moving image preservation preservation specialists – InterPARES study of laws inhibiting digital preservation – IFLA survey of mandatory registration of moving image material • examine impediments to libraries & • Study of massive underlying rights inhibitions within a archives hiring A/V preservation specialists- single public television program (as much as 350/hr) • Lucas Hilderbrand (now UCI), Inherent Vice: Bootleg Histories of Videotape & Copyright

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NYU IMLS Grant—Moving Image Specialists in Libraries: NYU Mellon Video At Risk Grant: Examine impediments to libraries & archives hiring A/V preservation specialists Video replacement issues • document key characteristics of the current status of • Expands on the previous grant ﬁndings that moving image preservation specialists in libraries – interview 2 dozen moving image specialists in libraries many VHS tapes were rare and difﬁcult to – solicit discussion through a blog replace • initiate discussions with administrators through • examine routine maintenance, preservation, professional association sessions and meetings and © issues in circulating video • publish white papers on the subject of the role of moving image preservation specialists in libraries and archives, collections- including core competencies and the issue of certification

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NYU Mellon Video At Risk Grant: Examine routine maintenance, preservation, Projects from this summer- and © issues in circulating videocollections • Research “scarcity” of videos originally purchased by libraries in commercial market (examine OCLC records) • Research “replaceability” of videos (test several procedures for determining out-of-printness) • Develop checklist procedures for determining whether replacement copy can be legally obtained (Orphan Works type procedure), and explore legal justiﬁcation for digitizing without prior permission • Develop a model procedure to follow and identify trade- offs in preservation reformatting of library videos into digital (quality, ﬁle format, CODECs, QC, line 21, …)

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5 New Museum XFR STN New Museum XFR STN

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New Museum XFR STN New Museum XFR STN

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Infant Action Lab Research Data Patrimonio Fílmico Colombiano

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6 Infant Action Lab Research Data Our Graduates

• We are training a new generation of custodians of our cultural heritage • This training has to involve more than the kind of apprenticeship that has traditionally characterized this ﬁeld • To be an effective Moving Image Archivist in the future will require a combination of the professional and the theoretical, and the ability to apply important traditions and concepts to communications technology of the future that we’ve never even dreamed of today • We want our graduates to act as “change agents” in the organizations they go into • We want to instill in them a commitment to preserve the future as well as the past • many of us will need to work together to make sure that the moving image artifacts of the 20th century and beyond are available to our grandchildrens’ grandchildrens’ grandchildren. Besser-MIAP Program, 8/28/13 1 Besser-MIAP Program, 8/28/13 1 Besser-Screening The Future-Data 37

The MIAP Program The MIAP Program

Howard Besser Howard Besser NYU Moving Image Archiving & Preservation Program NYU Moving Image Archiving & Preservation Program http://www.nyu.edu/tisch/preservation/ http://www.nyu.edu/tisch/preservation/

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Disaster Recovery-New Orleans http://www.nyu.edu/tisch/preservation/research/

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7 Research: NYU/Public Television Project Student Projects in Intro Class-

• Preserve a broad set of elements (including ancillary material) • Historical context for 1920s/1930s Fox • Life-cycle mgmt (add metadata as soon as a clip comes in) • Establish a community of stakeholders, working together for Newsreels being preserved and presented at preservation (stations, university, librarians, journalists, historians, Orphans Symposium (as well as other producers, scholars, …) • Build an OAIS Server unidentiﬁed works) • Explore appropriate ﬁle formats, wrappers, METS extensions • Case History of Productions • Develop sustainable business model • Final open-ended projects

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Fox Newsreels: Fox Newsreels (tracing route on map): The Leila Roosevelt Expedition The Leila Roosevelt Expedition

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Fox Newsreels: Fox Newsreels (postscript): The Leila Roosevelt Expedition The Leila Roosevelt Expedition

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the Jean Jadot losing Its rudder in a storm

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8 Fox Newsreels Fox Newsreels (naming): NY Street Scenes & Noises NY Street Scenes & Noises

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Fox Newsreels (background): Fox Newsreels (shot locations): NY Street Scenes & Noises NY Street Scenes & Noises

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Fox Newsreels (dating): Fox Newsreels (then & now): NY Street Scenes & Noises NY Street Scenes & Noises

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9 Fox Newsreels (then & now): NY Street Scenes & Noises Television Pictures March 12, 1931

Unedited material used in a Fox Movietone newsreel

project by Kara van Malssen, Sean Savage, Paula Felix-Didier, Lindsay Herron

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Clip #2 Ernst Fredrik Werner Alexanderson in the General Electric “House of Magic” • “We have succeeded to photograph the television image on a moving picture ﬁlm. Important events that in the future may be intercepted by the television camera and broadcast to all corners of the world may thus be recorded on the ﬁlm and kept in readiness in moving picture houses for projection of a lifetime some minutes or hours after the event.” • The scanning disk "is perforated with 48 small holes, three sixty- • Cuts to close-shot: fourths of an inch in diameter which are arranged in a spiral on the “We hope that this will be one more outer edge of the disk..." step to widen our horizon and to make all people our neighbors.” • Clip continues later on tape after a repeat of Clip #1

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Early experiments with television Limitations

• 48 lines of resolution (not a life-like image) • Audio: synchronization & pitch • Required the subject be in close proximity to the apparatus

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10 What we were able to verify. Case Studies of Production History (1/2)

Date. • Standing with Palestine: documentary film of interviews with members of U.S. activist groups supporting the Palestinian side of the Israeli/Palestinian First successfully recorded conflict, by the Paper Tiger Television Collective image shown to the public. • Memento Mori: A film by filmmaker and preservation specialist Jim Hubbard • Divine Possibilities: Short Mini-DV by filmmaker M.M. Serra Alexanderson. • Maria Movie: Short film by filmmaker Jeanne Liotta

• Radio Row: Radio production by New York based Independent producer Ben The apparatus. Shapiro

• Sid at 90: Video documentary by New York based documentary ﬁlm and Was edited and shown in television producer Howard Weinberg theaters.

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Case Studies of Production History(2/2) Final Projects-

• The Uprising of 34: Documentary film about the General Textile Strike, by documentary filmmaker George Stoney • Living Voices/Voces Vivas: Audio series produced by the Community Services Department and the Film and Video Center of the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian • Cyborg Oracle:CD-ROM by web artist Diane Bertolo. • Youth Channel: production and programming by low-income youth, led by Program Director Hye-Jung Park. • La Lecon: Narrative short film by filmmaker Craig Marsden • Doris Chase: Portrait of an Artist: A video documentary produced by video artist and producer Robin Schanzenbach

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MIAP Projects (Paper Tiger) MIAP Projects (Paper Tiger)

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11 Preserving Eyebeam’s ReBlog (Pamela Smith project) MIAP Projects (Paper Tiger)

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Preserving Eyebeam’s ReBlog Preservation Plan for a small Video Archive (Pamela Smith project) (L.A.V.A. by Paula Felix-Didier)

• Description of the component parts • The archive • Risk assessment • Possible preservation strategies

• http://www.eyebeam.org/reblog/journal/archives/2005/06/preserving_the_dynamic_by_pamela.html

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L.A.V.A.--Phase 1 L.A.V.A.--Phase 2

• Risk assessment and prioritization scheme. • Long-range preservation plan. • Improve environmental conditions: • Cataloging: consider IMAP template. • Natural disaster plan. • Start a new access number system. • Insurance. • Remove cardboard slipcovers. • Climate controlled storage. • Move the Masters tapes from besides the air conditioner and the window. • Regular tape inspection schedule. • Separate working space from the collection shelves • Plan on start collecting DVDs and migrating the most • Try not to eat or drink near the tapes. valuable VHS to DVD or other digital format. • Sample tape inspection and rewinding schedule. • Digitizing plan for their Betacam Masters. • Dub Betacam masters. • Stock on VCRs and VHS tapes. • Start collecting digital masters. • New items: keep track of provenance. /. have a tape and • Paper-based documentation preservation plan. documentation inspection routine • Make sure all tapes can be played back Besser-MIAP Program, 8/28/13 1 Besser-MIAP Program, 8/28/13 1

12 Brooklyn Museum-EIAJ Natalia Fidelholtz The Jerry Jofen Collection

At Anthology Film Archives Besser-MIAP Program, 8/28/13 1 Besser-MIAP Program, 8/28/13 1

Jerry Jofen Collection: Natalia Fidelholtz Priorities The Jerry Jofen Collection • Cataloging, General: A full inventory of all film and audio elements should be created. • Intellectual Property Rights: Anthology should draft letter of agreement, and have it signed by Ellen Jofen. • Micro environment, Film: All elements should be housed in archival containers as soon as possible. • Micro environment, Audio: Audio elements should be stored separately in acid-free individual archival boxes. • Film element preparation: Leader, labeling, wind and inspection. • Further Film element recommendations: – Cleaning – Compiling – Processing – Creating Internegatives/Negatives • Audio element preparation: Identify and remaster any unstable or deteriorating elements to new stock ¼” reel-to-reel, and/or BWF Besser-MIAP Program, 8/28/13 1 Besser-MIAPdigital Program,file stored 8/28/13 on server or hard-drive. 1

Jerry Jofen Collection: Jerry Jofen Collection: • PHASE 1 Workplan The steps to improve the storage, housing and intellectual control of Workplan the collection are: TASK WHO WHEN TIME - 1. Inspection/Rehousing & Labeling/Inventorying & Identification Order supplies for rehousing, inventorying and Archivist Month 1 3-4 weeks reshelving - 2. Drafting letter of agreement Clean storage space Intern Month 1 2 weeks - 3. Cleaning moldy elements Monitor temperature and relative humidity Archivist Month 1-6 On-going task Train intern/volunteer Archivist Month 1 2 weeks Inventorying Archivist/Intern Month 2-3 6 weeks • PHASE 2 Film/Tape inspection and cleaning Archivist/Intern Month 2-3 6 weeks The steps to be taken towards a long-term preservation plan and an Re-Housing, Labeling, Shelving Archivist/Intern Month 2-3 6 weeks access policy are: Send out moldy elements to be cleaned Archivist Month 3 4 weeks Research Jerry Jofen’s productions Intern Month 2-6 On-going task Identify items in need of laboratory work Archivist/Intern Month 4 2 weeks - 4. Re-format high-risk items (particularly mag strip films, and audio Send out to laboratory Archivist Month 4-6 10 weeks elements in danger) Quality Control Archivist Month 4-6 8 weeks - 5. Processing exposed film and slides

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13 Jerry Jofen Collection:

Budget Final Projects (2/3) The total budget cannot be estimated, as it can only be determined once the number of items requiring re-housing and in need of preservation laboratory work is determined

NEH • Rebuilding Cambodia’s AudioVisual History Funds Cost Sharing Total Salaries • Organization of print ﬁles on Kenneth Anger and Jonas Mekas at Anthology Film Archives; analysis and Wages of archival organization and arrangement at Anthology and another institution Archivist X30% x12mo. @ $30,000 $9,000 $9,000 • Case study, physical examination and subsequent reports on "Film", Samuel Beckett's only ﬁlm Intern X30% x12mo. @ $10/hr $6,240 $6,240 project in conjunction with Filmmaker's Cooperative

Fringe • History of "orphan ﬁlms" preservation funding, and implications for public access to the ﬁlms given Benefits 34% of $30,000 $10,000 $10,000 changing notions of intellectual property and copyright 34% of $6,240 $2,121.60 $2,121.60 • History and development of the 2" quadruplex format and subsequent archiving problems, and a Item Quantity Unit price/ pack Total

Services videography of 2" programs,1956-1959 Labwork for film (B/W COLORLAB Negative) TBD $.15/ft TBD • Creation of an exhibition design investigating issues of authenticity in the work "Peggy and Fred in Labwork for film (Color COLORLAB Negative) TBD $.13/ft TBD Hill" by video artist Leslie Thorton Release prints from intermediates (Color & B/W • Exploration, through a series of interviews, of the technological and lexical aspects of MLB (Major COLORLAB positives) TBD $.32/ft TBD 1/4" audio to League Baseball) Advanced Media games wave file (96k/24b): • Academic review of literature on copyright in relation to media and the arts $165 per hour of recorded • Biographical/ﬁlmographic research and identiﬁcation and condition assessment of the Al Robbins tape (Includes a Mitsui Gold Collection at Anthology Film Archives BAVAC Labwork for audio TBD CD copy). TBD

Supplies and Materials Item Quantity Unit price/ pack Total

Raw 16mm negative stock TBD $150/400ft. TBD Gloves 4 $2.50/pair $10.00 Archival Marker 10 $2.75 per unit $27.50 Besser-MIAP Program, 8/28/13 $47.60/ 420 1 Besser-MIAP Program, 8/28/13 1 Acid-free labels 1 labels $47.60

Final Projects (3/3) Some class projects later turned

• Cataloging and assessment of video interview materials within the Abraham Lincoln into thesis projects Brigade collection in the Tamiment Library of the Elmer Holmes Bobst Library • Examination of the technical, ethical and archival arguments surrounding film colorization • Research and creation of a finding aid for US government films produced before and during the New Deal • Creation of a treatment and fundraising plan for an unidentified 16mm film shot at the 1936 Summer Olympics that is part of the NYU University Archives, • Assessment and preservation plan for audio and video materials in the Institute for Afro- American Affairs Collection, University Archives, Elmer Holmes Bobst Library • Preparation of a film exhibition of contemporary Chinese independent documentaries and an analysis of the state of independent production, archiving and preservation in China • Creation of an accurate filmography of the work of Joseph W. Sarno, a key figure in sex- exploitation film production in New York City in the 1960s and 1970s

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Jeff Martin--The Dawn of Tape: Transmission RCA-WBTV Device as Preservation Medium Jeff Martin--The Dawn of Tape

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14 Pamela Smith Thesis Project: Douglas Edwards News Videofreex--early 1970s experimental Jeff Martin--The Dawn of Tape community broadcast television

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Videofreex (Pamela Smith) Videofreex (Pamela Smith)

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EAI Internship Cineric Film Restoration (Internship)

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15 Internship Project Thesis Projects (2012) Amer Museum of Natural History • We Are Underused: The Moving Image Collection of Matador Records – Seth Anderson • Phantoms of Remembrance: The Violence of the Archive in Black British Film Collectives – Rufus De Rham • Such a Time as This: Reconstructing the Past and Imagining the Future of Das Buch Esther (1919) – Caitlin Hammer • Sustainable Economics Over Dilemmatic Rhetorics: Framework and Tools for Assessing and Planning Digital Preservation – Benedict Olgado • Archiving Strategies for Fine Art Museum Audiovisual Collections: A Look at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY – Crystal Sanchez • Johnny Cash Ridin’ the Rails: The Great American Train Story - A Collection Assessment and Licensing Platform for the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum – Taylor McBride • Archiving Issues of Film Festivals: Preserving Analog and Digital Collections and Establishing Projection Format Standards – Jieun An • The Melinda Camber Porter Archive: A Collection Assessment and Exploration of Personal Archiving – Marie Lascu Besser-MIAP Program, 8/28/13 1 Besser-MIAP Program, 8/28/13 1

Thesis Projects (2011) Thesis Projects (2010)

• Saving the New Idiot Box: A History of Web Series and the • Reproducing History: Colonial Discourses & Digital Silences in African Challenges of Preservation – Samantha Oddi Audiovisual Archives – Jennifer Blaylock • Du Pont Motion Picture Film: A History of Manufacture and Physical • Preserving the computer files of Hollis Frampton and the Digital Arts Lab – Characteristics as an Aid to Identification – Erik Piil Andy Uhrich • A CASE STUDY: Internal System by Coleen Fitzgibbon – Sandra Gibson • Reading Jeremy Blake: Issues of Preservation and Access to Born- Digital Artists' Archives in a Multi-Institutional Context – Joseph • Chesapeake Baywatch! Life Guarding Regional Television Airwaves, Featuring the WJZ-TV Collection at the University of Baltimore – Siobhan Gallucci Hagan • Coming Soon to an Archive Near You: Movie Trailers and Their Need • Lowbrow Longevity: An Examination of Commercial Video Distribution’s for Access & Preservation – Samantha Losben Unique Role in the Preservation of Independent Exploitation Horror Film – • Bill Miles: Independent Producers and the State of the Archive – Stefan Elnabli Candace Ming • Averting the Lost Highway: Archival Advocacy and Migration Strategies for • Preserving Local Memories: Archiving Newsfilm Collections and the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum's 1-inch Type C Videotape Materials – Walter Forsberg Creating a Guide for the KCRA Collection – June Oh • A Producer's Guide to Preserving File-Based Digital Video – Jonah Volk

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Thesis Projects (2009) Thesis Projects (2008)

• Found in the Trash: A Collection Assessment of Dischord Records, • Night of the Blow Up: Resurrecting the 8mm movies of Mike and Peter Oleksik George Kuchar Leah Churner • Investigating Paul Sharits: Issues in the conservation and preservation • Films the Color of Blodd: The Film–makers' Cooperative and and the Conﬂict Between Cultural Stability and Avant–Gardism in the of time-based media installation art, John Passmore Distribution of the Perpetual Past Kathleen Maguire • The YouTube Archivist: Bringing Archival Methods to a Non– • A Guide to Moving Image File Formats for Digital Archives Archival World, Crystal Rangel Benjamin Moskowitz • BCAT: Consolidating & Creating a Brooklyn Community Television • Digital Audio Preservation in Small-Scale Organizations: An Archive, Steven Villereal Analysis of Core Requirements, and a Set of Tools for The Flaherty/ International Film Seminars Yvonne Ng • Phonodiscs From the Texas Borderlands: A Preservation Assessment • Capturing the Artist Interview: Interview Methodologies and & Consideration of Regional Modes of Production, Audrey Young Resources for Documenting and Preserving Time-Based Media Art Miwa Yokoyama • Home Movies’ Second Audiene: Re-contextualizing Silent Homemade Films- Nicole Martin

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16 Thesis Projects (2007) Thesis Projects (2006)

• A Techno-Aesthetic Critique of Anglo-American Moving • Preservation Services for Audio Visual Media Material: An Image Cataloging in an Online Environment; Or, The Inquiry into Current and Future Models Brad Campbell Secondary Stage Of Knowledge in a Thermodynamic Theory • Digital Distribution of Content over Internet and its Effect on of History Joshua Ranger Archives Jen Mohan • These 'Memories Can't Wait': An Assessment of the Media • Disaster Planning And Recovery: Post-Katrina Lessons For Archive of David Byrne Sarah Resnick Mixed Media Collections Kara van Malssen • The Eye Beholds: Silent Era Industrial Film and The Bureau of • Sharing Our Visions: The Essential Role of Outreach in the Commercial Economics Sean Savage Preservation of Home Movies Loni Shibuyama • Avant-Garde Won’t Wait! Archiving and Preserving • An Archeology in Film and Tape: Collection Assessment of Experimental Film-Paula Felix-Didier the Production Archive of Jem Cohen Lauren Sorensen • Artists, Activists, Neighbors and Strippers: Preserving the Legacy of Public Access Television- Caroline Rubens • Preserving the Ephemeral: An Approach to Time-Based Public Besser-MIAP Program, 8/28/13 1 Besser-MIAP Program,Art- Natalia 8/28/13 Fidelholtz 1

Thesis Projects (2005)

• Beyond The Wall Label: Moving Images in the Archives of the Brooklyn Museum Jeff Martin • Issues of Appraisal and Selection of Community Based Video: Assessing the Videofreex Collection, Pamela Smith • Don’t Touch That Dial: Assessing the Radio Series ‘Soul of Reason’ – Tanisha Jones • The Development and Current Condition of Local Chinese TV stations in New York City- Huiming Yu • Ah, the Giraffe Dance! I remember It Well: The Transformation of a Film Collection into an Audio-Visual Collection Irene E. Taylor • Collecting Couture: The Moving Image Collection of the Conde Nast Publications Archive

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