7:00am - 8:00am - Clarion Hotel - Douglass Room
Board & Committee Chair Meeting
8:00am - Clarion Hotel
Buses leave for sessions
8:30am - 12:00pm - Kodak: Colonial Dining Room
MIC Registration Desk
8:30am - 12:00pm - Kodak: Colonial Dining Room
AMIA Vendor Cafe
Please join us for the always informative AMIA vendor exhibits in the Cafe. It’s a great place to get a cup of coffee, have a quick meeting or just hang out between sessions.
8:30am - 12:00pm - George Eastman House: Curtis Theatre
Triage Training: Tools for Assessing the Condition of Legacy and Master Tapes and New Methodologies for Prioritizing Preservation Needs
Chair: Peter Brothers, Specs Bros., LLC
Speakers:
Peter Brothers, Specs Bros., LLC
Josh Ranger, NYU Libraries
Recently published international standards contain a recommended 7-Step Physical Inspection to identify tape that is “endangered and needs attention.” This inspection is considered “essential to prevent premature loss of materials.” The procedures are quick, reliable, easy to perform, and require no equipment. The instructor will present a step-by-step breakdown of the Inspection procedures, with visual examples of problem tapes, and will explain each step so results can be easily understood and applied to a collection’s preservation efforts. The workshop will also cover essential tape handling and preventative maintenance and will provide a visual guide to identifying tape formats. The second presenter will demonstrate a Mellon Foundation-funded prototype tool, developed at New York University, designed to help prioritize preservation needs for archival magnetic media and determine appropriate preservation pathways based on both physical and playback inspection. Q&A will follow along with discussion of a related research project at Columbia University.
Preregistration is required with a separate registration fee.
9:00am - 10:00am - Kodak: IMM Conference Room
UNESCO World Day for Audiovisual Heritage
Hosted by: International Outreach and Advocacy Task Forces
Chair: Ray Edmondson, Archive Associates
Speaker: Caroline Frick, Texas Archive of the Moving Image
On 27 October this year UNESCO, in conjunction with the CCAAA (Coordinating Council of Audiovisual Archives Associations), will launch what will be an annual event: the World Day for Audiovisual Heritage. It’s an unprecedented opportunity for AMIA members to join with colleagues around the world in an effort to challenge popular perceptions about the value of moving image archiving, the status of our collections and our profession, and to engage in both celebration and advocacy - locally, regionally and globally. This session will be both a conversation and a brainstorming forum, led by two people closely involved in the development of the concept: the consultant who carried out the original feasibility study for UNESCO (Ray Edmondson) and AMIA’s representative on the CCAAA working group which is now coordinating global arrangements for the “Day” (Caroline Frick). Come and learn the background - share your thoughts - and pick up some action ideas!
9:00am - 10:00am - Kodak: Theatre on the Ridge
16mm Documentary Outtakes: Challenges for Acquiring,
Processing and Providing Access
Hosted by: Small Gauge & Amateur Film Interest Group
Chair: Pamela Wintle, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Speakers:
Liz Coffey, Harvard Film Archive, Harvard University
David Rowntree, Washington University Film &
Media Archive
Pamela Wintle, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution
16mm documentary outtake collections are rich historical and cultural moving image resources that pose complex acquisition, organizational, and access issues. The presenters will discuss their experiences in working with the donors (often the filmmakers), unpacking, organizing, re-constituting both camera original film and workprint, dealing with synchronous sound issues, identifying pre-production film and sound materials, preservation, the promise of (and archival responsibilities for) new media for providing access, and cataloging. Attendees are strongly encouraged to participate in order to explore new ideas for working with these challenging collections.
9:00am - 10:00am - Kodak: Camera Club Theatre
Simplifying Licensing in the Digital Era
Chair: Max Segal, HBO Archives
Speakers:
Alison Smith, WGBH Stock Sales
Jill Hawkins, ACSIL, Ltd.
Jessica Berman-Bogdan, Global ImageWorks, LLC
Lee Shoulders, Getty Images
Max Segal, HBO Archives
With representatives from both institutional and commercial libraries, this panel will discuss the footage licensing business today. Members of the industry’s trade association (ASCIL) will present an innovative footage licensing model for all rights holders to consider. In this digital era, Licensors are faced with confusing licensing language and technical terms that are being invented on a daily basis. Licensees are requesting ‘broadband’ rights, without any formal definition of what that means. And is it relevant anyway? Broadband is a distribution term, not a market segment and it tells us nothing more about the audience than the equally meaningless “digital” rights. The goal of this proposal is to remove the confusion of multi-platform formats and gizmos, and to re-focus on usage, who and where are the audiences and the funding. ASCIL’s goal is to shape the language of footage licensing and to establish a future proofed business model for everyone.
10:00am - 10:30am - Kodak: Colonial Dining Room
Take a Break in the AMIA Vendor Cafe
Please join us for the always informative AMIA vendor exhibits in the Cafe. It’s a great place to get a cup of coffee, have a quick meeting or just hang out between sessions.
10:30am - 12:00pm - Kodak: Theatre on the Ridge
Scopitones: Jukebox Films From the 60’s
Hosted by: Independent Media Interest Group
Chair:
Stephen Parr, Oddball Film+Video and
San Francisco Media Archive
Speakers:
Carla Reiter, University of East Anglia
Jayson Wall, Walt Disney Studios
Stephen Parr, Oddball Film+Video and
San Francisco Media Archive
Scopitones, pop music films viewable through film jukeboxes, emerged in France during the early 1960s. By 1963, this technology was licensed to the US market by the French originator (CAMECA) and produced a wave of musical films similar to their 1940’s American predecessor, Soundies. Many American Scopitones were shot in 35mm, printed in lurid 16mm Technicolor with magnetic soundtracks, featured emerging pop and rock acts including: Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, Lou Rawls, Johnny Hallyday (The French Elvis), Nancy Sinatra, Bridgette Bardot and burlesque star Lili St Cyr in a short directed by Robert Altman. Today, most of these films are orphaned, lie in public domain and await preservation. This panel will explore the history of the Scopitone phenomenon and its cultural and technological impact. A screening of selected 16mm Scopitones that paved the way for MTV and the current Ipod/YouTube generation will conclude this presentation.
10:30am - 12:00pm - Kodak: Camera Club Theatre
Volunteering: What’s in it for Me?
Hosted by: Membership Committee
Chair: Jeff Martin, Smithsonian Institution, Hirshhorn Museum
and Sculpture Garden
Speakers:
Lisa Carter, University of Kentucky
Brian Graney, UCLA Film and Television Archive
Jeff Martin, Smithsonian Institution, Hirshhorn Museum
and Sculpture Garden
Christopher Lane, MGM Technical Services/Deluxe
Digital Media
Non-profit and professional organizations like AMIA rely on volunteers to succeed at their mission. This session, an informal roundtable discussion, will explore the opportunities available within AMIA for professional development through work within the Association. We’ll also take a broader look at why people volunteer and why they don’t, how volunteering for AMIA, as well as other organizations, directly benefits a career and individual growth. If you think you don’t have time to volunteer or are looking for a way to become well known in your profession, come join the discussion.
10:30am - 12:00pm - Kodak: IMM Conference Ctr
Sound Standards for MOVING IMAGES COLLECTIONS:
MIC and the Audio Engineering Society Schemas
Hosted by: Digital Initiatives and Cataloging & Metadata Committees
Chair: Jane D. Otto, Library of Congress
Speakers:
Grace Agnew, Rutgers University Libraries
Jane D. Otto, Library of Congress
David Ackerman, Audio Engineering Society /
Harvard University
This session will explore emerging Audio Engineering Society standards for administrative and technical metadata and their adaptation for MIC’s new Cataloging Utility. MIC is the first system working to extend the AES audio object schema to moving images. The MIC Cataloging Utility, developed by Rutgers and scheduled for launch in January, 2008, incorporates the full range of metadata needed to manage a resource through its life cycle, from production to distribution, repurposing and preservation. The session will also introduce the MIC Service Providers Directory, making its debut at this conference. This Directory complements MIC’s Archive Directory, listing individuals and organizations supplying products and services for archival moving image collections. These new services exemplify MIC’s unique commitment to collaborative preservation of moving images, analog or digital, physical or electronic. MIC is a partnership of AMIA and the Library of Congress.
12:30pm - 2:30pm - Clarion Hotel: Carlson/Douglass Room
AMIA Awards & Scholars Luncheon
Hosted by: AMIA Education and Awards Committees
Please join us for lunch and to honor the 2007 Silver Light and Leab Award winners, as well as the recipients of the AMIA Scholarship and Fellowship awards, the IPI Internship, Rockefeller Archive Center Visiting Archivist Fellowship and the Maryann Gomes Award. Our luncheon hosts are the Thomson Foundation, Universal Studios BluWave Audio, and Rockefeller Archive Center.
3:00pm - 4:30pm - Clarion Hotel - Clarion Hotel: Carlson/Douglass Room
AMIA Membership & Business Meeting
Hosted by: AMIA Board
Attendees are encouraged to attend the Annual Membership Meeting and Open Forum to hear the annual report from the AMIA Board of Directors. The open forum will provide an opportunity for participants to raise issues and challenges not addressed elsewhere during the conference.
4:30pm - 5:30pm - Clarion Hotel - Fitzhugh Room
RAVA Interest Group Meeting
4:30pm - 5:30pm - Clarion Hotel - Eastman Room
Diversity Task Force Meeting
5:30pm - 6:30pm - Clarion Hotel - Gleason Room
International Outreach Task Force Meeting
5:30pm - 6:30pm - Clarion Hotel - Fitzhugh Room
Cataloging Committee Meeting
6:30pm - Clarion Hotel
Buses leave for Archival Screening Night & Reception
7:00pm - 7:45 pm - Kodak: Colonial Dining Room
Archival Screening Night Reception
Cocktails and hors d’oeuvres hosted by our friends at Eastman Kodak Company.
8:00pm - 10:30pm - Kodak: Theatre on the Ridge
Archival Screening Night
Co-Directors: Katie Trainor, IFC Center
Leo Enticknap, Institute of Communications Studies, University of Leeds
Please join us for AMIA’s 2007 Archival Screening Night.
