June 2, 2003
"If this piece of film dies, a human thought dies with it. If I can do something to preserve that thought, isn't it worth doing?" That observation
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April 2, 2003As a documentary producer/director for almost two decades, I have had the opportunity to experience first-hand the meteoric evolution of technology
March 5, 2003Unless your documentary consists entirely of original footage you've shot, chances are you're going to use archival footage and stock shots to help
March 3, 2003Documentarians and other filmmakers who rely on images from libraries and archives to tell their stories are being helped by long-promised advances
May 1, 2002Marina Goldovskaya, who heads the documentary studies department at University of California at Los Angeles, has been working on her “Oral History
May 1, 2002Robert Rosen said it all: “Moving images are vital to our culture. They are a pre-eminent popular art form characteristic and distinctive to this
December 1, 2001Virtually every documentary filmmaker hopes that the meaningful slices of history they have captured will be saved for posterity. For Steven
December 1, 1999Michael Friend, director of Film Archives at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, is working with Les Blank on the archiving and- October 1, 1998One of the missions of the Film Archive at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is to acquire, preserve and provide research access to
- September 1, 1996The IDA will bestow its 1996 Preservation and Scholarship Award to the National Film Board of Canada for its significant archival and preservation