The Midwest Media Archives Alliance, the Chicago Film Archives and the University of Chicago Film Studies Center present: Basics of Film and Video Preservation Saturday October 7th, 2006 9:00 AM - 4PM The University of Chicago Film Studies Center, Cobb Hall Room 307 5811 S. Ellis Avenue, Chicago IL An introduction to basic concepts and practices in film and video preservation, this class will be useful to archivists, students, filmmakers and others who want to know more about preserving, accessing and managing collections or have a general interest in the practice of moving image archiving. The class is split into two separate sessions, one for film, one for video. The morning session will be an overview of film gauges, stocks, handling, storage issues, types of damage and decay, and tips for setting preservation priorities. The afternoon session will cover basics of videotapes formats, magnetic recording, preservation risks, migration/reformatting, working with vendors, storage issues and more. We will provide resources in both sessions for participants to further investigate these and other topics independently. Instructors: Film Session: Carolyn Faber Video Session: Jeff Martin Registration info: Film Session (9am - noon): $50 (Students $40) Video Session (1pm - 4pm): $50 (Students $40) Both sessions (All day): $80 (Students $60) Register online: www.midwestmediaarchives.org/registration.htm STUDENTS MUST PRESENT VALID STUDENT ID AT THE DOOR Location map: http://maps.uchicago.edu/mainquad/cobbhall.html CONTACT: Midwest Media Archives Alliance Carolyn Faber [log in to unmask] www.midwestmediaarchives.org 773-562-3540 About the instructors: Carolyn Faber, co-founder and Executive Director of the Midwest Media Archives Alliance, is a filmmaker and a moving image archivist with 10 years experience in he field. She has worked with collections at National Geographic, the University of Chicago, University of Illinois, and Chicago Filmmakers. She is an advisory board member of the Chicago Film Archives and consultant to the Media Burn Independent Video archive. For 6 years she was the archivist at the WPA Film Library where she managed over 50 film and video collections. Jeff Martin is a graduate of New York University's Moving Image Archiving and Preservation Program. His work at NYU included projects at the Guggenheim Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, and NYU's Bobst Library Downtown Arts Collection. He is the content coordinator for a new online preservation resource co-developed by Independent Media Arts Alliance and Electronic Arts Intermix. He has worked as an archival moving image researcher, archivist, writer, and television producer; his writings have been published in The Moving Image, The Journal of the National Arts Museum of Taiwan, and the forthcoming anthology Watching Teen TV. A posting from the Archives & Archivists LISTSERV List sponsored by the Society of American Archivists, www.archivists.org. For the terms of participation, please refer to http://www.archivists.org/listservs/arch_listserv_terms.asp. To subscribe or unsubscribe, send e-mail to [log in to unmask] In body of message: SUB ARCHIVES firstname lastname *or*: UNSUB ARCHIVES To post a message, send e-mail to [log in to unmask] Or to do *anything* (and enjoy doing it!), use the web interface at http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/archives.html Problems? Send e-mail to Robert F Schmidt <[log in to unmask]>