8:00am
- Buses leave Clarion Hotel for Disaster Planning Workshop
8:30am
- 5:30pm
Disaster Planning and Recovery of Wet Materials (Day 2)
Hosted
by:
Moving Image Related Materials and Documentation Interest
Group
Chair:
Sara J. Holmes - Texas Tech University
Speakers:
Barbara Moore - Conservator in Private Practice
Gary Albright - Conservator in Private Practice
Mick Newnham - National Film and Sound Archive
Peter Brothers - Specs Bros.
This workshop
will introduce attendees to the basic concepts of disaster
planning and recovery for materials such as paper, photographs,
textiles, wooden objects, metal objects, as well as film and
video. Following lecture-style presentations, participants
will have the opportunity to work in teams in a hands-on recovery
of wet materials. The experience will allow experimentation
and observation of the ways different media are damaged in
disaster scenarios and to gain an understanding of how to
organize and react to an actual disaster. Content and activities
will be suitable for beginners as well as more experienced
practitioners seeking further training or a refresher course.
Preregistration
is required with a separate registration fee.
8:30am - 11:30am - Tour
Eastman Kodak Plant Tour
Manufacturing plant tour of Kodak's motion picture finishing and sensitizing operations.
Ticketed event, signup require. Space is limited.
12:00 pm -- Buses leave Clarion Hotel for The Reel Thing
12:30pm - 5:30pm
The Reel Thing XXIX
Co-Chairs:
Grover Crisp - Sony Pictures Entertainment
Michael Friend - Sony Pictures Entertainment
Dedicated
to presenting some of the latest technologies employed in
film restoration and preservation, The Reel Thing features
a unique lineup of laboratory technicians and specialists.
Preregistration
is required with a separate registration fee.
5:00
pm -- Buses return to the Clarion Hotel
6:00pm
- 7:00pm
AMIA Newcomer Mixer
Hosted
by:
AMIA Conferencre Committee
Coordinator:
Andrea McCarty - HBO
Welcome
to the AMIA Conference! The Newcomer program matches first-time
attendees with experienced AMIA members. Support and guidance
is offered to those who may be attending an AMIA conference
for the first time and provides experienced AMIA members an
opportunity to meet newcomers to the field or to the conference.
The Mixer will give everyone a chance to meet and network.
Participants are matched prior to the conference and must
sign up before the conference.
7:00pm - Buses leave Clarion Hotel for George Eastman House
7:30pm
- 9:00pm
AMIA Opening Reception at George Eastman House
Eastman Kodak Company and George Eastman House welcome the seventeenth annual AMIA Conference to Rochester. There will be tours, exhibits and technology as well as screenings of “A Movie Trip Through Filmland,” a 25 minute short showing the production of motion picture film in the twenties.
