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NOTE: Registration deadline has been extended. For registration information contact Katharine Donahue at <[log in to unmask]>.
"REEL PRESERVATION: Preserving Moving Image Materials."
The Los Angeles Preservation Network (LAPNet) presents a one-day symposium at the Autry Museum of Western Heritage, Los Angeles on Monday, May 4, 1998 on identifying, handling, storing, cataloging and preserving moving image materials.
The symposium is designed for collection curators, conservators, collection managers, librarians, archivists, museum personnel and all who have responsibility for the access and preservation of moving image materials.
Speakers include Scott Curtis (Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences), Michael Friend (AMPAS), Henry Matoon (National Moving Image Database), Lon Sobel (Entertainment Law Reporter; UCLA School of Law); Dan Einstein (UCLA Film & Television Archive); Bob Gitt (UCLA Film & Television Archive); Marsha Kinder (USC School of Cinema-Television); Richard May (Warner Bros.).
Registration is $50.00 and includes a continental breakfast, lunch, and an optional docent-led tour of the museum. To register, please send a check payable to LAPNet to Katherine E.S. Donahue, History and Special Collections Division, Louise Darling Biomedical Library, UCLA, 12-077 CHS, Box #951798, Los Angeles, California 90095-1798. Registration deadline is April 20, 1998. For additional information contact Linda Mehr: (310) 247-3000/(310) 657-5193 (fax)
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PROGRAM:
8:45-9:15 Coffee and Check-In
9:15-9:30 Welcome
Joanne Hale, President and CEO, Autry Museum
9:30-10:00 History Written with Lightning: The Enduring and Elusive Image of Cinema.
Scott Curtis, Research Specialist, Margaret Herrick Library, AMPAS;
Adjunct Professor, School of Cinema-Television, USC
10:00-10:30 Identifying Moving Image Materials: Formats, Problems and Solutions
Michael Friend, Director, Academy Film Archive, AMPAS
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-11:15 Cataloging Moving Image Materials
Henry Matoon, Director, National Moving Image Database (NAMID)
American Film Institute
11:15-11:45 Reel Rights...and Obligations: Copyright and Other Rights Issues for Moving
Image Materials
Lon Sobel, Editor, Entertainment Law Reporter; Visiting Professor, UCLA School of Law
11:45-12:00 Questions
12:00-1:30 Lunch/Optional Tour of the Autry Museum.
1:30-2:15 Storage, Handling and Accessing Moving Image Materials.
Overview of UCLA Film & Television Archive, and Case Study of
Preservation and Restoration of "Nixon/Krushchev Kitchen Debate"
Dan Einstein, Television Archivist, UCLA Film and Television Archive
2:15-3:15 Preserving Color Processes from Tinting to Technicolor
Bob Gitt, Preservation Officer, UCLA Film and
Television Archive
3:15-3:3:30 Break
3:30-4:00 Panel Discussion: The Ethics and Politics of Preservation
Marsha Kinder, Professor, School of Cinema-Television, USC
Richard May, Vice President, Film Preservation, Warner Bros.
Michael Friend; Dan Einstein; Bob Gitt
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