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Amateur film preservation in the context of the Association of Moving Image Archivists
Human Studies Film Archives, Dept. of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, established. Pam Wintle collects and preserves amateur films as documentation of cultural and historical activities.
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Bob Brodsky and Toni Treadway publish filmmakers' manual, Super 8 in the Video Age. 1 982-85 NEA National Services grants awarded to B & T to tour media arts centers to help smallgauge artists.
The National Center for Film and Video Preservation established by the AFI and NEA. Stephen Gong and Gregory Lukow provide guidance on creating regional and specialist archives.
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Fast Rewind: The Archaeology of Moving Images conference in Rochester. NY, panel on home movies includes filmmaker Alan Berliner and NHF's Karan Sheldon. Fast Rewinds organized by Bruce Austin at RIT in 1989, 1991, and 1993.
The first annual conference of AMIA takes place in New York, there is an amateur film panel: Stephen Gong, Micheline Morriset, Karen Ishizuka, Pam Wintle.
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An amateur indus From Stump to Ship, 16mm restoration funded by Maine Humanities Council. In 1986 Northeast Historic Film founded. Cineric donates 35mm preservation 2002, NHF exhibits new print at the Library of Congress in 2003 and MOMA in 2005. In 2004 Janna Joi article on the film in AMIA journal The Moving Image.
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East Anglian Film Archive Masters Course starts; David Cleveland founded the Archive in 1 976 — holdings include family and personal films and videos. Photo courtesy Jane Alvey.
ttion of the Report of the Librarian of Congress, ^reservation 1993: A Study of the Current State of American Film Preservation. Written submissions from these archives focused on home movies: Japanese American National Museum. Oregon Historical Society, Northeast Historic Film.
The US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC, opens. Raye Farr developed exhibition videos; amateur film is part of the archival and interpretive record.
Dr. James Billington, Librarian of Congress, adds Zapruder Film (1963) to the National Film Registry. Other amateur titles on the Registry are added, in 1996 Topaz (1943-45), home movie footage taken at a Japanese American internment camp, and later these: Cologne: From The Diary Of Ray And Esther (1939) From Stump To Ship (1930)
Multiple Sidosis (1970) Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse (1940)
Publication of book, Reel Families: A Social History of Amateur Film by Patricia Zimmermann (from a 1984 Ph.D. dissertation). At the AMIA conference in Toronto her plenary, Democracy and Cinema: A History of Amateur Film, is part of the centennial of cinema series.
Publication of book, Lovers of Cinema: The First American Film Avant-Garde 19 191945, by JanChristopher Horak in which he discusses earliest avantgarde filmmakers and also the Amateur Cinema League.
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