Moving image review (1988]-)

Amateur film preservation timeline Continued from Page 9 Small Gauge Film Symposium with four days of workshops, screenings, and presentations related to film of all kinds on small gauges in Portland, Oregon, as part of the AMIA annual conference. Photo courtesy Janice Simpson, AMIA AMIA's Small Gauge and Amateur Film interest group created to continue work begun by Small Gauge Task Force and In6dits interest group; chair, Snowden Becker. Orphans II, Documenting the 20th Century, includes Nico De Klerk, Netherlands Filmmuseum, with Dutch East Indies amateur film, and panel with Melinda Stone on California Amateur Film Clubs; Karen Glynn, Mississippi Mule Race Movies; Andrea McCarty, Making The Movie Queen. Greg Lukow gives a paper on the history of the Orphan metaphor. Photo courtesy Dan Streible ^^^^^^^^— i CM Home Movies and Privacy, NHF's second annual symposium, presenters Patricia Zimmermann, Mark Neumann, Eric Schwartz, and Eric Schaefer. In the first year William O'Farrell, Chief of Moving Image & Audio Conservation at the National Archives of Canada, spoke on the Amateur Cinema League, with a 1939 Hiram Percy Maxim Memorial Award globe. First international Home Movie Day (sponsored by AMIA): meet film archivists, learn longevity benefits of film, see family films. www.homemovieday.com HMD was organized in 2002 by Snowden Becker, Bryan Graney, Chad Hunter, Dwight Swanson, Katie Trainor. New Zealand Film Archive exhibition, 8Super8 with 8mm and Super 8 cameras, projectors. Karen Shopsowitz produces My Father's Camera, www.nfb.ca/fatherscamera Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant-Garde Film shows at Moscow International Film Festival and Whitney Museum of American Art; organized by Anthology Film Archives and Deutsches Filmmuse L. Jeffrey Selznick School, Rochester. NY, Dwight Swanson lectures students on small gauge and amateur film and regional archives. The preservation school began in 1996; every year since 1997 an invited speaker from NHF lectures and screens amateur and regional film. www.filmforever.org, a Website for home film preservation sponsored by AMIA, goes live. By Jean-Louis Bigourdan, Liz Coffey, and Dwight Swanson, edited by Bob Brodsky, Toni Treadway (www.littlefilm.org), David Cleveland, Robin Williams, East Anglian Film Archive. Film History: An International Journal special issue, Amateur Cinema & Small-Gauge Film, edited by Melinda Stone and Dan Streible. The Moving Image, the AMIA journal, first issue. Edited by Jan-Christopher Horak; two issues per year. Many articles and reviews in the later editions relate to amateur, small gauge and regional film. What Was That and Where is it Going? This timeline is a first attempt to depict the development of the amateur film preservation movement within the context of the ion of Moving Image Archi [•rum sparse beginnings and a disco —no funding, no ]•, commit ment, no public or professional in the early 21st c a broader uwaren tural and historical value of amateur film. Help and encouragement in advancing am ; small gauge preservation came from long-time advocates and from new and peered corners. The picture is bright. From here two important things will hap; nsion of the sources and amount of funding to \isting and new collections, and rigorous attention from as yet une holars and oth ben i of our work. J.B.S-HaJdane (1892-1964 •IT biolo;. i ibed the phases of acceptan tific theory. We can laugh at its applicability to the notion that the film record of regular people is worthy of preservation, study, and enjoyment: Phases of acknowledgment 1. This is worthless nonsen 2. This is an interesting, but } point of 3. This is true but quite unimportant. 4. 1 always said so. ' Thanks, Jennifer Sheldon. www.oldfilm.org