AMIA Member Updates

AMIA Fall Newsletter Available!

The Fall 2009 Newsletter is now available!

Go to www.amianet.org to read the Fall Newsletter.  Remember, you'll need your email address and your Membership Number (your password) to log on.

AMIA 2009 Early Bird Registration Extended to October 9th!

You can find the AMIA 2009 Program online at www.AMIAConference.com. 

Information about registration, hotel space, Trivia Night, the Newcomer's Mixer, Room Share program and more!

AMIA 2010

Dear AMIA Colleagues,

On behalf of the AMIA Board of Directors and the AMIA Conference Committee, I have the pleasure of making an important announcement about the 2010 Annual Conference. Next year, AMIA will collaborate with the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA) to hold a joint conference (November 1-6) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

AMIA is pleased to be partnering with IASA on the anniversary of our 20th year. This event will be an opportunity for AMIA and IASA members to discuss common issues of both interest and concern. Today a similar announcement is being made to the IASA membership at the 2009 IASA Conference in Athens, Greece.

Thank you to IASA President Kevin Bradley as well as IASA Past-President Richard Green for working with us to help make this possible. More information will be made available about this event at the 2009 Annual Conference in St. Louis (November 4-7), in the AMIA Newsletter, on the AMIA website and on AMIA-Member.

See you in St. Louis!

Best,
Janice Simpson
AMIA President

AMIA 2009 Program now online!

The 2009 Preliminary Program is now online at www.AMIAConference.com.  Information about registration, hotel space, Trivia Night, the Newcomer's Mixer, Room Share program and more!

SabuCat Datecode Chart on AMIAnet.org

You can find the SabuCat Datecode Chart on the AMIA website at http://www.amianet.org/resources/guidelinesnologin.php?accesscheck=%2Fresources%2Fguidelines.php.

 

Our thanks to Jeff Joseph for making this available!

 

 

AMIA 2009 Registration Now Open!

Registration information for AMIA 2009 is now available!  

 

Registration and hotel information, preliminary program information, as well as other information are all available now at www.AMIAConference.com.  

 

We look forward to seeing you in St. Louis.

 

Sincerely,

2009 Conference Committee

The 2009 AMIA Conference Blog!

Our St. Louis locals have started a blog about everything you need to know about St. Louis!

Blog posts will all come from this year's local planning committee. The committee includes: Alison Carrick, Patrick Flanigan, Klara Foeller, Nadia Ghasedi, Sara Holmes, Jim Hone, David Rowntree,  Irene Taylor, and Colleen Simpson.  The group is made up of St. Louis natives, transplants from the Coasts, and a Canadian. Who is who will likely become evident as we talk about our favorite things to do in the city, sports, and St. Louis style pizza.

Visit the blog here:  http://amia.typepad.com/amia_2009/

TYPE A Videotape and THE EVERLY BROTHERS

The restoration of “Johnny Cash Presents the Everly Brothers Show”—an early 70’s TV series that exist only on obsolete type A videotape copies—presented technical challenges far in excess of ordinary video restoration. Unlike 2” quad recordings, Type A was a videotape format promoted by Ampex for the industrial and educational market and as such was a “stripped down” technique which for most of its market life was never intended to be broadcast. These particular recordings were not recorded at ABC by direct wire. Instead they are off-the-air recordings made by someone who had no means of precisely monitoring what was being recorded and who inadvertently introduced signal distortions which preclude direct recapture to a modern format.

 

 

Register Today!

The program schedule, session abstracts and screenings information
is available at www.the-reel-thing.org

The Reel Thing XXII: After The DI

After the DI – How to Organize, Catalogue and Protect the Original Negative

 

Most people will agree that the Digital Intermediate process has opened up a vast opportunity for filmmakers to enhance, manipulate and often improve the original images shot during a film. Among some purists, there are strong arguments against the process, but regardless, it has become the accepted and required way to finish virtually all films released by major studios.  The use of digital cameras has also gained popularity, but for now, a large amount of features are still shot on cameras that use negative, and it makes sense to have a plan to archive the original camera negative in a way that identifies it as the source material used in the creation of the DI and to preserve those master shots as valuable assets.  This presentation explains the method we follow to extract the “selects” of each reel, preparing it and storing it in a way that creates an accurate road map back to the original project.

 

Register Today!

The program schedule, session abstracts and screenings information
is available at www.the-reel-thing.org

The Reel Thing XXII: How to Marry a Millionaire

A Case Study in Sound Restoration: HOW TO MARRY A MILLIONAIRE (1953)
How To Marry A Millionaire was the first film shot in Cinemascope and mixed 4-track stereo, but 20th Century Fox decided to release The Robe as the first Cinemascope picture. How To Marry A Millionaire was set to introduce Cinemascope and 4-track stereo in grand style.  The opening of the movie is a thoroughly entertaining 8 minute prologue written and conducted by Alfred Newman.  How better to introduce 4-track stereo and a wide aspect ratio than an orchestral performance where the placement of the instruments perfectly matches the performers on screen.  Shrinkage and vinegar syndrome of the original masters had advanced beyond the capabilities of standard film transfer equipment, and it was unclear if a transfer was even possible.  Protection copies of the sound master had built in sound problems pointing to deterioration of the masters when the copies were made. This case study will identify the problems that existed in the sound master and protection copies of the master, and discuss how these problems were overcome.

Register Today!

The program schedule, session abstracts and screenings information
is available at www.the-reel-thing.org

The Reel Thing Program Update

Re-outfitting the USS Arizona Memorial film

Sony Electronics, Sony Pictures, MTI Film, EFILM, Deluxe Laboratories, Chace Audio have all joined forces with the National Park Service to create a Digital Cinema presentation of the USS Arizona Memorial orientation film, made to commemorate the attack on Pearl Harbor and consisting of rare archival footage. A 35mm Interpositive made from the original negative of the film was scanned at 4K resolution at EFILM, where final color correction was also completed.  MTI Film, working from the scanned files, digitally removed dirt, scratches, stains and other imperfections to the image.  Due to the extreme damage inherent in much of the stock footage used in the body of the film, there was a conscious decision to only remove or repair items as seemed practical, with care taken not to denature the original experience of the film.  Chace Audio restored the audio by removing pops, clicks, distortion and other anomalies to the original soundtrack, also creating a new 5.1 soundtrack in keeping with the original intentions of the filmmakers and sound designers.  Deluxe Digital Cinema created the 4K Digital Cinema Package.  This will be the premiere screening of the new 4K Digital Cinema presentation of the film.

 

Opening Reception & Screening - August 20, 2009
Program and Screenings - August 21 - 22, 2009

 

Register Today!

The program schedule, session abstracts and screenings information
is available at www.the-reel-thing.org

 

Early Bird Extended for The Reel Thing XXII

The early bird registration deadline for The Reel Thing XXII has been extended to Friday, August 14th!. 

 

Fees start at $195 for two days of sessions and screenings, or $125 for single day registrations.

 

Opening Reception & Screening - August 20, 2009 Program and Screenings - August 21 - 22, 2009

 

Register Today!

The program schedule, session abstracts and screenings information is available at www.the-reel-thing.org

The Reel Thing XXII Program Update

Just added to The Reel Thing XXII program ... 

Restoration of the Apollo 11 EVA Footage
During the presentation, the system used to capture the extravehicular activity on video during Apollo 11 will be reviewed as well as the process for broadcasting those first live pictures from the moon. NASA's search for the original telemetry tapes which recorded the feed from the moon, and the best surviving elements will also be profiled.  A discussion will ensue about the technical and philosophical factors that are guiding the restoration project itself, and how these new restoration capabilities may apply to other genres of moving images.

Finally, before and after sequences of images from the ongoing restoration project will be screened in HD resolution.

Final Program announcements and screenings information coming soon at www.the-reel-thing.org.

Register now at www.the-reel-thing.org!

The Reel Thing XXII Opening Night Screening & Reception

Opening Night 
The Reel Thing XXII
Thursday - August 20, 2009

The Reel Thing XXII opens on Thursday, August 20th with a reception and the premiere screening of the digitally-restored Walt Disney's "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs."

Register now!  
Opening Reception & Screening - August 20, 2009
Program and Screenings - August 21 - 22, 2009

www.the-reel-thing.org

 

 

Reminder: World Day Logo Contest

October 27 has been declared by UNESCO as World Day for AV Heritage.

 

For this year, the theme will be "Fading Heritage: We Can Save It." 

 

For greater impact, both UNESCO and the CCAAA have recognized the need to come up with a logo to give the celebration its own identifiable brand.

Logo Parameters

Content

The logo should symbolize and represent the global audiovisual heritage and its permanent cultural value in the fullest sense. It may also suggest its fragility and vulnerability, the sense of urgency attached to its preservation and the importance of accessibility.

Design

            The logo should be:

·         Simple – the simpler the better

·         Monochrome

·         A graphical design which works:

-   independently of language (the logo itself must not contain any letters or text)

-   independent of time

-   in different cultural settings

-   in all anticipated usage environments (e.g. internet sites, e-mailings, hard copy, projected  image)

-   in different sizes, from miniscule to enlarged applications

         when reproduced through simple technical means (e.g. low resolution black and white photocopy)

·         Suitable for systematic use (as a secondary logo) together with the UNESCO emblem

or accompanied by the words “UNESCO World Day for Audiovisual Heritage”, or equivalent in other languages.(for requirements for secondary logos, go to http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=28318&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html.

 

Entries will be selected on the following criteria:

·         Ability to impart the message or the meaning of the symbols

·         Attractiveness, recognizability and memorability for audiences in the archival, library, museum and documentation profession; and the mass media and the general public potentially.

·         Distinctiveness from other popular logos of institutions and corporations using similar stylized AV imagery of film strips, video screens, phonographs, projectors, sound waves, digital pixels, reel, discs, etc.

 

Submission of Entries

            Entries should consist of the following:

            a) Original Artwork (softcopy)

-        preferred format: JPG

-        resolution: minimum 300 dpi

-        width: minimum 800 pixels

            b) Thumbnail version

-        format: JPG

-        resolution: 96 dpi

-        width: 300 pixels

c)      Summary description or explanation of the logo symbolism

                        A brief write-up on the logo designer will be expected as well.

            Deadline for Submission: No later than 15 August 2009

            Submit entries and requests for information to:

                                          Ms. Joie Springer
                                          Senior Programme Specialist
                                          Information Society Division
                                          UNESCO
                                          1, rue Miollis
                                          75732 Paris Cedex 15
                                          email: j.springer@unesco.org

 

Specific questions concerning the graphic charter of UNESCO should be sent to:

Philipp Müller-Wirth
Chief, Promotion, Partnerships and Branding Unit
Bureau of Public Information
UNESCO
e-mail: p.muller-wirth@unesco.org

 

Recognition

The winning entry will be announced and presented on October 27, 2009 at the CCAAA and UNESCO websites, together with an explanation of the symbolism inherent in the design. The winner will receive from UNESCO a monetary reward of US2000 and will be featured in the website as well.