Report to the U.S. Congress for the Year Ending December 31, 2017 Contents
Report to the U.S. Congress for the Year Ending December 31, 2017 Contents September 3, 2018 Dr. Carla Hayden Librarian of Congress Washington, D.C. 20540-1000 Dear Dr. Hayden: In accordance with The Library of Congress Sound Recording and Film Preservation Programs Reauthorization Act of 2016 (P.L. 114-217), I submit to the U.S. Congress 02 Twenty Years of Grant Giving the 2017 Report of the National Film Preservation Foundation. 04 Why Preserve Film? Americans have been making films for more than 120 years, but it is only in the last 30 that we have rallied to save those images. In 1996, Congress created the NFPF to help 06 Expanding Access archives, libraries, and museums to rescue this history and share it with the public. Thanks to federal funding secured through the Library of Congress, entertainment 08 Community of Support industry and foundation support, and the unwavering dedication of preservationists, there is much good news to report. 10 Films Preserved through the NFPF As of 2017, the NFPF programs have preserved more than 2,350 motion pictures— 40 Financial Statements newsreels, actualities, cartoons, silent-era productions, avant-garde films, home movies, and other independent works that might otherwise have faded from public 42 Contributors memory. Tremendous credit is due to the 300 public institutions that have taken part in our programs to save culturally significant motion pictures. Once copied to film 44 Board of Directors & Staff stock and safely archived, the works begin a new life through teaching, exhibition, broadcast, DVD, and most especially these days, the Internet.
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