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Description of Pictures: Preserving Grain, Presenting Pixels: Film Preservation and Restoration in the Digital Age:
In 2007, the Academy’s Science and Technology Council released their landmark study, The Digital Dilemma. Five years later, archival institutions and film industry continue to address the “digital dilemma” when facing the task of preserving and restoring our motion picture history. A panel including Josef Linder, Preservation Officer for the Academy Film Archive, and Christina Kovac and Bryce Lowe, Motion Picture Preservation Specialists at the National Archives, will discuss this important issue and present examples from their latest projects. This program is presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences in partnership with the Charles Guggenheim Center for the Documentary Film and the Foundation for the National Archives.
Speakers in sequence:
* David S. Ferriero, Archivist of the United States
Panel:
* (Moderator) Daniel Rooney, Supervisory Archivest, NARA Motion Picture, Sound and Video Branch
* Josef Lindner, Preservation Officer, Academy Film Archive
* Criss Kovac, Supervisory Motion Picture Preservation Specialist, NARA
* Bryce Lowe, Motion Picture Preservation Specialist, NARA
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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
PIXEL1_121019_012.JPG: David Ferriero
PIXEL1_121019_042.JPG: Bryce Lowe, Criss Kovac, Josef Lindner, Daniel Rooney
PIXEL1_121019_084.JPG: Josef Lindner
PIXEL1_121019_120.JPG: Criss Kovac
PIXEL1_121019_160.JPG: Daniel Rooney
PIXEL1_121019_309.JPG: Bryce Lowe
PIXEL2_121019_001.JPG: Preserving Grain, Presenting Pixels: Film Preservation and Restoration in the Digital Age
Josef Lindner
Academy Film Archive
PIXEL2_121019_011.JPG: Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study
PIXEL2_121019_020.JPG: Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
PIXEL2_121019_026.JPG: Fragile nitrate
PIXEL2_121019_032.JPG: Acetate Decomposition
PIXEL2_121019_035.JPG: 16mm A/B rolls
PIXEL2_121019_042.JPG: Prints of Significant Films Added to the Collection
PIXEL2_121019_050.JPG: Film to File preservation -- silent cinema
PIXEL2_121019_053.JPG: Animated and Live Action Short Films
Documentaries
PIXEL2_121019_056.JPG: Feature Films
The Cardinal, 1963
New York Confidential, 1955
Sleuth, 1972
PIXEL2_121019_063.JPG: Kukan: The Battle Cry of China
First Documentary to receive Special Oscar (1941)
To Rey Scott for his extraordinary achievement in producing Kukan, the film record of China's struggle, including its photography with a 16mm camera under the most difficult and dangerous conditions.
PIXEL2_121019_068.JPG: Benign neglect -- 1911
PIXEL2_121019_078.JPG: The Challenge of Film Preservation in a Digital Age
Artists' Films
Stan Brakhage and Robert Nelson
PIXEL2_121019_082.JPG: The Brakhage Filmography...
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2020_DC_Cave_200205 Natl Archives -- Academy Award Documentary Feature Nominee: "The Cave" (w/member reception)
2019_DC_Rubenstein_191216 Natl Archives -- David Rubenstein ("The American Story: Conversations with Master Historians") w/Taylor Branch, H.W. Brands, and Jay Winik
2019_DC_Leadership_191030 Natl Archives -- Panel -- Women in Leadership: Women on the U.S. Congress w/Shelley Moore Capito, Brenda Lawrence, Tammy Baldwin and Brooke Baldwin
2019_DC_Levin_190924 Natl Archives -- Kevin Levin ("Searching for Black Confederates")
2012 photos: Equipment this year: My mainstays were the Fuji S100fs, Nikon D7000, and the new Fuji X-S1. I also used an underwater Fuji XP50 and a Nikon D600. The first three cameras all broke this year and had to be repaired.
Trips this year:
three Civil War Trust conferences (Shepherdstown, WV, Richmond, VA, and Williamsburg, VA),
a week-long family reunion cruise of the Caribbean,
another week-long family reunion in the Wisconsin Dells (with lots of in-transit time in Ohio and Indiana), and
my 7th consecutive San Diego Comic-Con trip (including side trips to Zion, Bryce, the Grand Canyon, etc).
Ego strokes: I had a picture of Miss DC, Ashley Boalch, published in the Washington Post. I had a photograph of the George Segal San Francisco Holocaust memorial used as the cover of Quebec Francais (issue 165). Not being able to read French, I'm not entirely sure what the article is about but, hey! And I guess what could be considered to be a positive thing, my site is now established enough that spammers have noticed it and I had to block 17,000 file description postings for Viagra and whatever else..
Number of photos taken this year: just below 410,000.
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