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Who We Are: Michael Hinton, Motion Picture Preservation Specialist

Posted by: Cary O’Dell

This is a guest post by Patty Templeton, who was a 2020 Library of Congress Junior Fellow Summer Intern. Michael Hinton has been a Motion Picture Preservation Specialist at the Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation since 2009. Before joining the Library, Hinton worked in cinema for 35 years, having founded INTERFORMAT, a San Francisco-based …

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Meet the Staff: New Teleworking Colleagues (aka Our Pets)

Posted by: Mike Mashon

All of us at the National Audio-Visual Conservation Center are teleworking during the COVID-19 pandemic, but we’re still getting a lot done. Copyright and gift collections are being processed and catalog records created or enhanced. We’re writing quality control reports and documenting Standard Operating Procedures. We’re doing research for film restoration projects and creating new …

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Wrapping Up: Reflections on a Residency

Posted by: Amanda Jenkins

These past ten months at the Library of Congress have been a whirlwind—it’s amazing to me how quickly the time has flown by. I’ve learned so much and had so many unforgettable experiences during my time at the Library. You may have noticed that I became a regular contributor to Now See Hear—the blog has …

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Who We Are: Kelly Chisholm, Moving Image Processing Technician

Posted by: Mike Mashon

The following is a guest post by Kelly Chisholm. Hello! When I tell people I work with the Library’s film and video collections, they’re often curious about what my job as a Processing Technician entails and how I trained for it, so I thought I would try to answer both those questions here. I discovered …