How Many Feet of Film Are Still Out There Waiting to Be Preserved?
By Ron Merk I recently saw some information posted on the A.M.I.A. listserv by one of the members, and I was flabbergasted to learn how much film might be out there just [...]
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Archives at Risk
Millions of hours of film, television and radio are at risk! Worn by time, eaten away by acidity, victims of wars, or natural disasters, lack of investment the audiovisual [...]
Help Preserve All Those Reels in the Closet
By Ron Merk Two years ago, a film preservation project which I initiated at my company, The Preservation Project Partnerships, was created to bring the public’s awareness [...]
Keeping FILM Alive
By Ron Merk For those of ups who grew up with the movies, the term “film” is one that not only means the movie, itself, but also the stuff on which the movie was made and [...]
Tales from the Archives
By Ron Merk Each year The San Francisco Silent Film Festival presents a program at the Castro Theatre called “Tales from the Archives.” It is a free event to which the [...]
Film Restoration and Preservation in the Digital Age
By Ron Merk Rob Byrne and I recently met in my office in Civic Center to “just chat” and get to know each other better and to see how we could work together on future [...]
The Birthday of Cinema
Our friend, animation expert Karl Cohen, sent us this tidbit: Dec. 28, 1895 – THE BIRTHDAY OF CINEMA – In Paris at the Grande Cafe des Capuchines the Lumiere brothers [...]
Preservation Project Partnerships
The Metro Theatre Center Foundation is committed to film preservation and saving the many millions of feet of film that are currently in danger of being lost due to lack of [...]
Preservation Project Partnerships
By Ron Merk While I may be preaching to the choir at Indieplex, I think it’s important to reach out to our colleagues in in the film community with an idea that I think [...]
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