Program
Friday - November 14

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Session additions and changes will be posted here.

8:00 am - 9:00 am
International Outreach Task Force Meeting

8:00 am - 9:00 am
Access Committee Meeting

8:00 am - 2:00 pm
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. Coffee will be on all day.

9:00 am- 10:00 am
Reports from the Field: The Bophana Project

Chair:
Loubna Régragui - Thomson Foundation for Film
and TV Heritage

Speakers:
Loubna Régragui - Thomson Foundation for Film
and TV Heritage

Antonella Bonfanti - George Eastman House
Thanaren Than - Bophana Audio Visual Resource Center By exchanging resources, knowledge and experience, this session will report on the first-time collaboration between three non-profit institutions (Cambodia, France and USA) in their international effort to not only to enrich the Bophana Audiovisual Resource Center’s access collection, but also to create a training program for their staff. The goal of this session is to reaffirm the importance of education as well as access to AV heritage in order to encourage AV archives and funding institutions to undertake their own international collaboration efforts.

9:00 am- 10:00 am
Digital Archival and Presentation of Heritage Frame Rate Material

Chair:
Arne Nowak - Fraunhofer IIS

Speakers:
Nicola Mazzanti - FIAF Technical Committee
Paul Read - Paul Read Associates

In the world of digital cinema projection of today only a small choice of frame rates is available. This panel session intends to discuss what possibilities that exist when you want to show material with heritage frame rates especially from the silent film era in a digital cinemas, what types of efforts are necessary to accomplish this and which problems can arise.

9:00 am- 10:00 am
Building “The South”

Chair:
Peter Kaufman - Intelligent Television

Speakers:
Peter Kaufman - Intelligent Television
Joel Westbrook - Alexandria Productions
Stephen Ives - Insignia Films
Maria Janelli - Center for New Media Teaching & Learning,
Columbia University

“The South” is a multipart documentary being produced for public television, new media, and higher education with the support of PBS and the Hewlett Foundation. In this panel, the three producers will discuss the new model they are developing for documentary productions—involving innovative strategies for working with archives, applying metadata early, and distributing the video across mobile applications.

10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Stop By Shoot Film

Co-Chairs:
Jonathan Barlow - Eastman Kodak Company
Randall J Tack - Eastman Kodak Company

Stop By Shoot Film is a hands-on opportunity to capture images using a Super 16mm motion picture camera. Participants will learn the basics of camera operation, exposure and film emulsion choices. Led by a Kodak cinematographer, participants will work in small groups to practice various camera techniques while shooting various scenes. Each participant will receive a DVD to enable them to view their work. Scene creativity is encouraged. Pre-registration is required with a separate registration fee.

10:00 am - 10:30 am
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.

10:30 am - 12:00 pm
PBCore: What Is It Good For?

Chair:
Jack Brighton - WILL AM-FM-TV

Speakers:
Dave MacCarn - WGBH Educational Foundation
Kara Van Malssen - New York University Libraries
David Rice - Democracy Now!

Should you know PBCore? The new metadata standard developed for public broadcasting is being adopted by a growing number of A/V archives. How does PBCore fit with your archival practices, cataloging systems, and other metadata standards? Experts from the PBCore Resource Group will explain the origins of PBCore and its details. Archivists using PBCore will discuss real-world implementations, and how PBCore fits with other schema including METS and PREMIS. Your questions will be welcome!

10:30 am - 12:00 pm
Documenting the American South: Nonfiction Film, 1919-1940

Chair:
Dan Streible - New York University

Speakers:
Greg Wilsbacher - University of South Carolina
Julie Hubbert - USC Center for Southern African
American Music
Craig Kridel - University of South Carolina Museum of Education
Jacqueline Stewart - Northwestern University

This session examines images and sounds of the Southern United States captured on film between the world wars. Screening rediscovered footage, four scholars discuss the material’s documentary value, demonstrating how archival work facilitates the use and interpretation of once-obscure recordings. Such convergences not only generate new knowledge about specific works, they also increase the visibility and value of the archive itself. First, Greg Wilsbacher analyzes Newsfilm Library “dope sheets” generated by Southern-based cinematographers who submitted 25,000 stories to Fox Films for its silent-era newsreels. Music historian Julie Hubbert follows with early Movietone recordings of Southern African American musical performances. Education historian Craig Kridel screens his recent rediscovery (at the Rockefeller Archive Center) of One-Tenth of a Nation (1940). Sponsored by John D. Rockefeller’s General Education Board, the film addressed the “progress and problems” of African American schools in the South. Hubbert discusses the film’s score. Jacqueline Stewart offers a response.

10:30am - 12:00pm
The Reel Thing XXI Annex: Building the Archive of the Future

Speakers:
Emjay Rechsteiner - Amsterdam Filmmuseum
Giovanna Fossati - Amsterdam Filmmuseum
Kevin Kim - Quantum 
Steve Kochak - Ascent Media Group
Larry Blake - Swelltone

This panel explores many facets of the digital archive concept.  Mr. Rechsteiner and Ms. Fossati will talk about the planning, development and implementation of a new archive for the Amsterdam Filmmuseum. Mr. Kochak will summarize the best practices for data formatting in the context of the emerging digital archives of the moving image industry. Mr. Kim will represent the future possibilities for the LTO data tape format.  Mr. Blake will present a unique perspective on the data archive of the future.

12:30 pm - 2:30 pm
AMIA Awards & Scholars Luncheon

Please join us to honor the 2008 AMIA Awards honorees as well as the recipients of the AMIA Scholarship and Fellowship awards. Plus, the inaugural James A. Lindner Prize will be presented. Our luncheon hosts are the Thomson Foundation for Film & Television Heritage and Universal Studios BluWave Audio.

2:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Stop By Shoot Film

Co-Chairs:
Jonathan Barlow - Eastman Kodak Company
Randall J Tack - Eastman Kodak Company

Stop By Shoot Film is a hands-on opportunity to capture images using a Super 16mm motion picture camera. Participants will learn the basics of camera operation, exposure and film emulsion choices. Led by a Kodak cinematographer, participants will work in small groups to practice various camera techniques while shooting various scenes. Each participant will receive a DVD to enable them to view their work. Scene creativity is encouraged. Pre-registration is required with a separate registration fee.

3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
AMIA Annual Membership & Business Meeting

Attendees are encouraged to attend 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
AVAN Project Open Meeting

4:30pm - 5:30pm
Nitrate Interest Group Meeting

4:30pm - 5:30pm
Copyright Interest Group Meeting

4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Small Gauge/Amateur Film Interest Group Meeting

4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Elections Committee Meeting

8:00 pm - 10:30 pm
Archival Screening Night

Please join us for AMIA’s 2008 Archival Screening Night. Our thanks to SAMMA Systems for hosting the evening.
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