342: R.I.P. Wolfgang Klaue

Archival Spaces 342 Wolfgang Klaue (1935-2024) Uploaded 8 March 2024 Wolfgang Klaue, the former director of the Stattliches Filmarchiv der DDR (SFA) and, after German reunification, the founding director of the DEFA Stiftung, died on 16 February. He was a giant in the field of film preservation, winning a UNESCO Silver Medal in 1988, founding theContinue reading “342: R.I.P. Wolfgang Klaue”

339: Kinemathek Update

Archival Spaces 339 Deutsche Kinemathek Update Uploaded 26 January 2024 The news took a little longer to arrive than initially indicated in my Archival Spaces 319 blog (https://archivalspaces.com/2023/04/14/319-deutsche-kinemathek/)), but it is good, indeed. As reported in April 2023, the Deutsche Kinemathek and Museum für Film und Fernsehen on Berlin’s Potsdamer Platz had lost its leaseContinue reading “339: Kinemathek Update”

329: Tales from the Vault

Archival Spaces 329 Tales from the Vaults: Film Technology over the Years and across Continents Uploaded 1 September 2023 When I was a post-graduate intern at George Eastman Museum in the mid-1970s, I was sent by the Film Department to Yonkers, New York, to deliver a 28mm print of The Yellow Girl (1915) to DonContinue reading “329: Tales from the Vault”