Excellent point. I would recommend using these films in the context of your
site.  The size of the collection means that there are films relevant to
almost any exhibit on the arts of the middle ages, renaissance, modern,
contemporary, etc.  Simply, these films are the same films that thousands of
museums have shown to their visitors by VCR or projection in dark rooms
ancillary to physical gallery exhibits for decades.  The Internet merely
allows the films to adorn on-line exhibits as the films have adorned actual
exhibits in the past, nothing more or less.

Thomas Chase
Director
AboveStream.com

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Subject: Re: art films for museum websites


If these free art films are not already a part of either permanent
collection or for the purpose of an exhibition for any museum
constructing and managing their own website, why would a museum require
these free art films as part of the content of that website when as
museums we already have plenty of resources to draw from in-house that
is relevant to our respective missions?

By simply placing these images onto our websites with no relevance to
what the museum is about or within the criteria of a described program
seems to smack of pure commodification and not address, hence not
fulfill, the educational tenet of our purpose and mission as educational
institutions.

Cheryl Maslin

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