Symposium on moving image preservation

A Moving Image Preservation Symposium is being held this weekend
at Chapman University, in Orange, CA. It will be held on
Saturday, April 19, from noon until 6 p.m., in Argyros Forum,
room 208.

Following is a list of some of the speakers who will be there.
We also will have an organist accompanying the silent films, in
addition to one more speaker from the UCLA Film and Television
Archive.

The cost of the event is $20, which includes refreshments.
Please make a reservation with Maureen Furniss, 714-744-7018, as
soon as possible. It's going to be great. I hope to see you
there.

    Sandra Joy Lee
    Curator, Moving Image Archive, USC
    "Do-It-Yourself Film Preservation for the Do-It-Yourself
    Filmmaker"
        Sandra Joy Lee is Curator of the Moving Image Archive in the
        School of Cinema-Television at the University of Southern
        California and has been working with film and video for ten
        years. She received her B.A. degree in Film Studies from the
        University of California at Santa Barbara and an M.L.I.S.
        degree from UCLA's Graduate School of Library and
        Information Science. Her research interest is the history
        and evolution of cinema technology. She is the President of
        the Movie Machine Society and is a Co-founder of the Society
        of Moving Image Artifact Curators (SOMIAC).  She is also
        affiliated with the Technology Council for the Motion
        Picture-Television Industry and is a Preservation Committee
        Member for the Association of Moving Image Archivists, as
        well as a member of the Magic Lantern Society and the SMPTE
        Archival Papers and Historical Committee.

    Francisco Menendez
    Professor of Film, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
    "Restoring History: Bringing Back the Shorts of Baltazar Polio,
    a Salvadorian Experimental Filmmaker"
        Francisco Menendez began making movies at the age of nine in
        his native country of El Salvador.  In 1985, Menendez won
        the Dore Schary Award for his documentary of Mexican
        children along the U.S. border, Los Ni=F1os Thinking About
        Others.  He was also honored as the Outstanding Graduate of
        the Year at University of Puget Sound, where he had begun
        teaching film as an undergraduate.  In 1989, Menendez
        received his M.F.A. in Film/Video at the California
        Institute of the Arts, where he learned the craft of
        directing under British director Alexander Mackendrick.
        After Cal Arts, Menendez continued production on his first
        feature-length narrative film, Backstage.  Currently, he is
        an Associate Professor in the Film Department at the
        University of Nevada, Las Vegas, teaching advanced courses
        in screenwriting, production, and non-linear editing.  His
        areas of research are narrative theory, new technologies and
        the restoration of Central American films.  Currently, he is
        the director of SCRIPT, the screenwriting arm of the
        University Film Video Association.

    Randy Haberkamp
    The Silent Society
    speaking on silent cinema
        Randy Haberkamp is the founder of The Silent Society, a
        non-profit organization dedicated to the appreciation,
        presentation, and preservation of silent film art.  He is a
        graduate of Bowling Green State University and received his
        Master's degree in Film and Television from UCLA.  The
        Silent Society is based in the Hollywood Studio Museum,
        housed in the DeMille-Lasky Barn Studio, where Hollywood's
        first feature film, The Squaw Man, was shot in 1913.  Randy
        is past President and currently on the Board of Directors of
        Hollywood Heritage, a preservation organization that has
        overseen the sustenance of the Barn and other historic
        Hollywood landmarks. He also has served as President and
        Vice President of The Society for Cinephiles, which presents
        an annual festival of classic films. He is currently
        employed as the Director of Specials and Feature Films for
        the CBS Television Network.

    Dan Einstein
    UCLA Film and Television Archive
    speaking on early television
        Dan Einstein has been the Television Archivist at the UCLA
        Film and Television Archive since 1979.  A graduate of the
        University of California at Berkeley, he earned his M.A. in
        Film and Television Studies at UCLA's Department of Theater,
        Film and Television.  In 1989, he received an Emmy Award for
        his contributions toward the restoration and preservation of
        the landmark television special, "An Evening with Fred
        Astaire."  He is the author of Special Edition:  A Guide To
        Network Television News Documentary Series and Special News
        Reports, 1955-1979 (scarecrow Press, 1987) and the
        just-published companion volume covering the years
        1980-1989.  He has authored articles on television and film
        for Emmy Magazine, Camera Obscura, Magill's Survey of Cinema
        and other publications on media history.  He has taught film
        studies courses at a Los Angeles Area community college and
        is a member of the Association of Moving Image Archivists
        (AMIA).

    Richard May
    Vice-President, Film Preservation, Warner Bros.
    speaking on feature films
        Richard May started working in the motion picture business
        over forty years ago, in theaters in Oklahoma City.  From
        1952 - 1984, he worked in theatrical distribution for
        Universal, Disney, 20th Century Fox and MGM. He joined
        Turner Entertainment in 1986, when Turner bought the MGM,
        pre-1950 Warner Bros., and RKO libraries, with his primary
        responsibility in the preservation and restoration of the
        films.  With the merger of Turner and Time-Warner in
        November 1996, he moved over to Warner Bros. to continue the
        same responsibility for the combined companies, maintaining
        the care given by both Warner Bros. and Turner to their
        films.

Maureen Furniss, Ph.D.
Editor, Animation Journal
Assistant Professor
School of Film and Television
Chapman University
333 N. Glassell
Orange, CA 92866 USA
714-744-7018
Fax: 714-997-6700

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