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
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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.



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