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April 16, 2012 By iluvcinema 8 Comments

Today’s PSA: Film Preservation

Just think about the following facts:

Over 80% of all silent films are lost FOREVER;

Nearly half of all the films ever made (up to and including the present day) are lost FOREVER.

Film is not only a wonderful form of entertainment and amusement for us all, but it is an indelible marker of our culture and society, too. It is a legacy that we leave for future generations to understand who we were and where we were, frozen for that particular moment in time.

Please take a moment to look at this short video about the Celeste Bartos Film Preservation Center of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).

The Center, located in Hamlin, Pennsylvania, comprises two buildings on a 38-acre estate. This includes a 7,900-square-foot facility for the Museum’s holdings of 5,000 fragile nitrate films, dating from 1894 to 1951; and a much larger 28,000-square-foot main building that houses some 9,000 titles on acetate-based “safety stock.”

 

To find out more about film preservation in general, please check out these resources:

National Film Preservation Foundation

National Film Preservation Board (Library of Congress)

Women’s Film Preservation Fund

The Film Foundation

Film Preservation in the Digital Age (article)

 

Filed Under: Movie Resources Tagged With: film preservation, moma

March 7, 2011 By iluvcinema Leave a Comment

Back in the Public Domain

Here is a treasure trove of film available for cineastes everywhere.

http://www.archive.org/details/movies

This site contains feature length films as well as animated shorts, home movies, etc.

Here is a sample of some of the films on offer:

Panic In the Streets featuring Richard Widmark and Jack Palance (directed by Elia Kazan)

The Red House (1947) featuring Dame Judth Anderson and Edward G. Robinson

His Girl Friday (1940) featuring Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell

Dressed to Kill (1946) featuring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes

Night of the LivingDead (1968)

Reefer Madness

Nosferatu …. you get my point.

My suggestion would be to take some time and look at all the videos that are available. They are available for download and streaming.

 

Happy Viewing!

Filed Under: Movie Resources Tagged With: public domain films

February 1, 2010 By idawson Leave a Comment

Coming up at BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music)

A Place In The Sun

Last month, I saw the film Fish Tank (which I have discussed already in a previous post) at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. It is a fantastic venue to catch films and I recommend it to anyone who is in the NYC area or plans to visit the area.

I checked their calendar of events for upcoming screenings and plucked a bit of repetory cinema I think many will enjoy, That’s Montgomery Clift, Honey! during the month of March. Montgomery Clift the actor and the man always fascinated me. Before I knew his films very well, I remember watching one of those “beyond belief”-type shows as a kid and hearing the ghost story of how the spirit of Clift haunts a landmark Hollywood hotel.

After watching many if not all of his films, I was “haunted” but in a totally different way. With an artist like Clift, it helps to watch his films sequentially. This is especially true when looking at his films in the context of what was happening in his life off-screen (notably his disfiguring car accident) and how it affected his on-screen. persona.

Filed Under: Movie Resources Tagged With: BAM, BAMcinematek, Brooklyn Academy of Music, film societies, montgomery clift

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