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Home Movies and Privacy,
NHF’s second annual sym-
posium, presenters Patricia
Zimmermann, Mark Neumann,
Eric Schwartz, and Eric
Schaefer. In the first year
William O’Farrell, Chief
Fédération Internationale des Archives NFPF receives funding of Moving Image & Audio New Zealand Film
Formation of AMIA du Film (FIAF) conference in Cartagena, for Treasures of American
An amateur industrial, Conservation at the National Archive exhibition, www.filmforever.org, a
Amateur Materials Colombia, symposium Out of the Attic: Film Archives, includes
From Stump to Ship, Getty Research Institute Archives of Canada, spoke on 8Super8 with 8mm Website for home film
16mm restoration funded Association of working group. Archiving Amateur Film. FIAF Journal of amateur film from
symposium organized the Amateur Cinema League, and Super 8 cam- preservation spon-
by Maine Humanities Moving Image In 1993 name Film Preservation preceded meeting with Japanese American
by Karen Ishizuka, with a 1939 Hiram Percy eras, projectors. sored by AMIA, goes
Council. In 1986 Northeast Archivists (AMIA) becomes Inédits an Open Forum on amateur film and National Museum,
The Past as Present: Maxim Memorial Award globe. live. By Jean-Louis
Historic Film founded. emerges out of interest group. followed in 1998 with Jan-Christopher Minnesota Historical
The Home Movies as Bigourdan, Liz Coffey,
Cineric donates 35mm the Film/ Chairs Pam Wintle, Horak’s article about the symposium— Society, National
a Cinema of Record. and Dwight Swanson,
preservation 2002, NHF Television Karen Ishizuka, on taking amateur cinema seriously. Museum of American
Genesis of book in edited by Bob Brodsky,
exhibits new print at the Archives Micheline Morisset. History,Northeast Historic Karen Shopsowitz produces My Father’s
press, Mining the Home Toni Treadway (www.
Library of Congress in Advisory Camera, www.nfb.ca/fatherscamera
Movie: Excavations into Film, West Virginia State littlefilm.org), David
2003 and MOMA in 2005.
Committee. Historical and Cultural Archives. The four-DVD set Cleveland, Robin
In 2004 Janna Jones’s Publication of the Report of Publication of book, Publication of Alan
article on the film in AMIA Reel Families: A Social Memories edited by is reissued in 2005. Williams, East Anglian
the Librarian of Congress, Publication of Kattelle’s book, Home
journal The Moving Image. Film Preservation 1993: A History of Amateur Film Karen Ishizuka and Unseen Cinema: Early Film Archive.
Jubilee Book, Movies: A History of the
Study of the Current State of by Patricia Zimmermann Patricia Zimmermann. American Avant-Garde
Essays on American Industry, 1897
American Film Preservation. (from a 1984 Ph.D. dis- Film shows at Moscow
amateur film by – 1979, currently selling on
Written submissions from sertation). At the AMIA International Film Festival
l’Association Amazon.com for $210 and
these archives focused on conference in Toronto and Whitney Museum
Européenne more affordably at www.
home movies: Japanese her plenary, Democracy of American Art; orga-
Bob Brodsky and Toni Inédits. homemoviehistory.com Film History: An
American National Museum, and Cinema: A History nized by Anthology Film
Treadway publish film- International Journal
Oregon Historical Society, of Amateur Film, is part Archives and Deutsches
makers’ manual, Super special issue, Amateur
Northeast Historic Film. of the centennial of cin- Filmmuseum.
8 in the Video Age. The Reel Thing X: Laboratory Cinema & Small-Gauge
1982-85 NEA National ema series. Big as Life: An First Orphans Film Preservation Technical Symposium in LA, Film, edited by Melinda
Services grants American History Symposium at the University Toni Treadway presents Stone and Dan Streible.
awarded to B & T to New York Women in Film & Television’s of 8mm Films, Jytte of South Carolina, Saving Topaz, Cineric’s 8mm film L. Jeffrey Selznick School,
tour media arts centers Women’s Film Preservation Fund Jensen, MoMA, Orphan Films in the Digital Age to 35mm blowup; an excerpt Rochester, NY, Dwight
The US Holocaust Memorial Publication of book, Swanson lectures students
to help small-gauge (WFPF) first year, makes amateur film and Steve Anker, organized by Dan Streible. A of 1930s Czech home mov-
Museum in Washington, DC, Lovers of Cinema: The on small gauge and amateur
artists. preservation grant to the Southern SF Cinematheque, screening, A Home for Home ies copied to PAL DigiBeta
East Anglian Film Archive Masters Course opens. Raye Farr developed First American Film Avant- film and regional archives. The The Moving Image, the
Media Archive. Karen Glynn preserves 1998-2001 exhibition Movies, with Alan Berliner and and thence to 35mm; William
starts; David Cleveland founded the Archive exhibition videos; amateur film Garde 1919-1945, by preservation school began in AMIA journal, first issue.
Emma Lytle’s Raisin’ Cotton (1938- and catalog. Péter Forgács. O’Farrell presents 9.5mm work
in 1976—holdings include family and per- is part of the archival and inter- Jan-Christopher Horak in 1996; every year since 1997 Edited by Jan-Christopher
pretive record. 1941). WFPF later supports amateur including Hints, a Pathex film. Horak; two issues per year.
sonal films and videos. which he discusses earliest film preservation at NHF and the Louis an invited speaker from NHF
Photo courtesy Jane Alvey. avant-garde filmmakers and lectures and screens amateur Many articles and reviews
Wolfson II Media History Center. www. in the later editions relate to
also the Amateur Cinema nywift.org and regional film.
League. amateur, small gauge and
regional film.