Archival Spaces 291 The “Missing Movies” Manifesto Uploaded 18 March 2022 Recently, film director Nancy Savoca and screenwriting partner, Richard Guay realized that their 1993 film, Household Saints, could not be screened at Columbia University, because of copyright problems. Nancy eventually worked with her lawyer, Susan Bodine, and Ira Deutchman, the film’s original distributor, toContinue reading “291: Missing Movies”
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286: The Village Detective (2021)
Archival Spaces 286 The Village Detective: A Song Cycle (2021) Uploaded 7 January 2022 A couple of years ago I contributed to an anthology on the filmmaker Bill Morrison, The Films of Bill Morrison (2017), edited by Bernd Herzogenrath, and I have been a big fan of Bill’s since he first showedDecasia (2002), his feature-lengthContinue reading “286: The Village Detective (2021)”
278: Restored Paper Prints
Archival Spaces 278Amazing Tales Online: Library of Congress’s Paper Prints restoredUploaded 17 September 2021 The San Francisco Silent Film Festival has been hosting screenings and special Zoom webinars, an extension of their in-person “Amazing Tales” program during the festival, where film archivists report on preservation projects. On 29 August, SFSFF hosted two women from theContinue reading “278: Restored Paper Prints”
271: Ozaphan 16mm
Archival Spaces 271 Ozaphan, 16mm on Cellophane Uploaded 11 June 2021 Ozaphan was a non-flammable safety film format marketed for home use in France and Germany from the late 1920s to the 1950s, which had the peculiarity that it neither used a conventional photographic emulsion, nor was its base di-acetate. Rather, Ozaphan employed a systemContinue reading “271: Ozaphan 16mm”
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