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Posted by: Donna Ross
This post was co-written with Bryan Cornell and Karen Fishman. On the 100th birthday of Francis Albert Sinatra, the Library’s National Audio-Visual Conservation Center recognizes Ol’ Blue Eyes’ contributions to both sight and sound. Sinatra, who appeared in more than 50 movies, starred in the 1945 RKO short film The House I Live In, which …
Posted in: Film/Video, Motion Pictures, National Film Registry, Recorded Sound
Posted by: Mike Mashon
The Library always announces new additions to the National Film Registry in December, and this year will be no different. The National Film Preservation Board had its annual meeting in October to, among other things, advise Acting Librarian David S. Mao on Registry selections. Once they’re announced, the final 25 selections will bring the total …
Posted in: Film/Video, Motion Pictures, National Film Registry
Posted by: Mike Mashon
Ah, September. The first hints of cooler fall weather, football season starts, and baseball pennant races heat up…even as we ruefully acknowledge that Washington Nationals fever isn’t quite where it was last year. For those of us who toil in the federal vineyards, September also marks the end of the fiscal year. I recently attended …
Posted in: Film/Video, Motion Pictures
Posted by: Mike Mashon
Spring practice has come and gone, minicamps, two-a-days and OTAs are done, and–mercifully–we’re finished with preseason games for the pros. College football started last weekend and the NFL starts in a few days; let the anxiety and heartburn begin! The oldest football film in the Library’s collection is the 14 November 1903 match between Princeton …
Posted in: Film/Video, Motion Pictures, Paper Prints
Posted by: Mike Mashon
Last November we hosted a visit from Heather Linville, a film preservationist at the Academy Film Archive in Hollywood; the AFA is part of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which is better known as the organization responsible for awarding Oscars. Heather had been processing a collection of nitrate film donated to the …
Posted in: Film/Video, Motion Pictures
Posted by: Mike Mashon
The following is a guest post by Kelly Chisholm, a Processing Technician in the Moving Image Section. Back in December, I posted an entry about three versions of a film I found in the J. Fred MacDonald Collection; today, I return with a story about another film from that collection to illustrate a little more …
Posted in: Film/Video, Motion Pictures, National Film Registry
Posted by: Mike Mashon
When Martha Teichner and a crew from CBS Sunday Morning came to the Packard Campus a few months ago for a story about our preservation work, I put together a varied package of clips from the moving image collections for her to react against. Now, I’ve put together clip shows for what feels like countless …
Posted in: Advertising, Film/Video, Television
Posted by: Mike Mashon
The following is a guest post by Rachel Parker, a Moving Image Processing Technician at the Packard Campus. Last July I was frantically typing away at a laptop in the back of the beautiful Packard Campus theater, transcribing the helpful and solicited comments from Mostly Lost 3 Silent Film Archeology Identification Workshop attendees who were …
Posted in: Film/Video, Motion Pictures
Posted by: Mike Mashon
The National Audio-Visual Conservation Center has garnered a fair amount of media attention over the years and 2014 was no exception. Here’s a selection of print and broadcast stories from last year that, taken together, provide a good overview of who we are and what we do. The announcement of new additions to the National …
Posted in: Film/Video, Motion Pictures, National Audio-Visual Conservation Center, National Film Registry, National Recording Registry, Recorded Sound, Television