Beyond the Bolex
As a filmmaker, I’ve always had a personal connection to the Bolex camera. I bought one when I was still in high school, after having saved money for almost two years. It [...]
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Home Movie Day – San Francisco – October 20, 2018
By Ron Merk, Editor in Chief The Metro Theatre Center Foundation is proud to support the San Francisco Bay Area annual event, HOME MOVIE DAY. This year the San Francisco [...]
The Metro Theatre Center Foundation, with support from National Film Preservation Foundation, has completed a film-based restoration of the John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy Collection of Home Movies filmed by Augustus Sassa
The wonderful material that we have in our library of President John F. Kennedy and Senator Robert F. Kennedy, has now been copied from it’s original 8mm and Super 8 [...]
The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival 2017
By Ron Merk, Editor in Chief, Indieplex Online Magazine There’s something truly special about this festival. The stories are important. The filmmakers are brilliant. The [...]
Film is Fragile
By Ron Merk I was recently sent a link to this amazing video made by Mill+ and the British Film Institute. No words, no narration, just images. Images we all know and [...]
Hard Time for Hard Drives
By Ron Merk I’m going to make this piece short and sweet. Well, maybe not sweet. As my readers know, I’ve been banging the drum loudly on the issue of film preservation [...]
Film IS History
By Ron Merk The title of this piece doesn’t mean to imply that film as a means of recording or saving history is no more, discarded and then replaced recently by [...]
Digi-Tell Me The Truth?
By Ron Merk There’s a rumor floating around that digital preservation is a real way of saving things that exist in the “real world” such as photos, sound recordings, [...]
Technicolor
By Ron Merk When I was a kid, when people talked about color movies, they used the word Technicolor. I remember one of my aunts saying they had just seen a new Technicolor [...]
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