Archival Spaces 376: Martina Weisz Named Director, Steven Spielberg Film Archive Uploaded 27 June 2025 I first made contact in 1982 with the Steven Spielberg Film Archive in Jerusalem, when I was researching films for my exhibition, “Helmar Lerski: Photographs and Films,” at the Folkwang Museum, Essen, then in Tel Aviv, Munich, Frankfurt, and SanContinue reading “376: Spielberg Film Archive”
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373: IMAX à la 1900
Archival Spaces 373: American Biograph Co. 68mm Films Added to UNESCO Register Uploaded 16 May 2025 A month ago, the British Film Institute, London, and Holland’s Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, announced in a joint press release that their unique collection of 300 68mm films from the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company had been added to UNESCO’s International MemoryContinue reading “373: IMAX à la 1900”
363: M&K Controversy
Archival Spaces 363 Mitchell and Kenyon Discovery in Dispute Uploaded 27 December 2024 I can’t quite remember when I first saw the Mitchell and Kenyon films but Andrea Leigh tells me it was at the AMIA Conference in 2001 when the British Film Institute first began circulating 35mm prints of their restorations. I was trulyContinue reading “363: M&K Controversy”
361: Accidental Archivism
Archival Spaces 361 Accidental Archivism: Shaping Cinema’s Futures with Remnants of the Past Uploaded 29 November 2024 As anyone knows, who has been following the fortunes of AMIA (Association of Moving Images), film preservation before the 1980s was the purview of major, mostly state-funded, national film archives, which felt responsible mainly for fiction feature films.Continue reading “361: Accidental Archivism”
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