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Today's guest is an accomplished film preservationist and archivist named Snowden Becker who I heard interviewed on The Cinephiliacs podcast a little while ago and made note of her many accomplishments. I knew immediately she was someone I was eager to learn from and listen to. There's a reason why you'll find many links in the show notes this time, because she has a lot to offer in a variety of ways. Her research interests focus on how audiovisual materials are integrated into, accessed, and preserved as part of a larger cultural heritage. She helped launch the annual international Home Movie Day and explored the increasingly pivotal role of audiovisual recordings in the criminal justice system, the latter of which we didn't get to explore as much, but I wouldn't be surprised if we talk some more in the future because Snowden provides a plethora of information and insight. Follow Snowden:https://twitter.com/snowdenbecker Academia Links:https://ucla.academia.edu/SnowdenBecker Center For Home Movies:https://www.centerforhomemovies.org Personal Website:https://snowdenbecker.com/about-me Book Recommendations:https://pamelaslim.com/body-of-work-book https://www.harpercollins.com/products/how-to-be-everything-emilie-wapnick?variant=32122185482274
Hey, this episode is available on our brand new youtube channel at bit.ly/cityontheedge! We chat with chile historian and author Dave DeWitt about the history and biology of green chile. Also, we find out a bit about Home Movie Day from our friends at Modern Albuquerque and Basement Films.
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Faint memories of adventures abroad, the streets lined with buildings of the past, and the Disneyland rides long replaced. All memories of others, but preserved for us through the magic of 8 and 16mm celluloid. In this special episode, Peter travels inside the land of Home Movie Day is the show's first "experiential" podcast, recording the sounds and voices of this special event. Hear archivists, projectionists, and others who drudged up canisters from their attics discover the magic of this unique event in which no one knew what was going to be shown. From "Keystone Nuns" from Hungary to the Los Angeles Dodgers and King George II, learn about how home movies provide both historical and emotional experiences that these truly personal films could provide. 0:00-3:06 Opening3:06-27:57 Home Movie Day Part 128:54-32:55 Sponsorship Section33:23-59:53 Home Movie Day Part 259:58-1:01:55 Close
Please welcome the incredible PATRICIA LEDESMA VILLON to Archivist's Alley! Currently an intern at The Center for Asian American Media (CAAM), Patricia and I discuss the pure pleasures and intricate negotiations that take place when working with home movies as well as examining ideas of class, race and cultural values. While this is a special Home Movie Day episode, Home Movie Day is really every day and Patricia's work with CAAM and elsewhere illustrates the powerful archiving future that we have to look forward to!
It’s mid-October, which means that it’s just about time for Home Movie Day, an annual celebration of amateur films and filmmakers that takes place at the New Haven Museum this Saturday, October 21st, from noon to 4 p.m. On today’s show, host Tom Breen is joined by Yale film archivists Brian Meacham and Molly Wheeler, who are the organizers of the New Haven instance of this international event, as well as by Yale University Art Gallery museum staffer Rachel Mihalko. The four dive into the actual work itself that film and media archivists do: what are the tools and materials they work with, what are the challenges they encounter and the solutions they provide, and what is the broader social value of film and media preservation in the 21st century.
On today's episode of Deep Focus, host Tom Breen talks to Brian Meacham, Molly Wheeler, and David Pilot about Home Movie Day New Haven 2016, hosted Saturday 10/15 at the New Haven Museum. During the second half of the show Breen welcomes fellow WNHH host and Inner City News CT editor Babz Rawls Ivy for a review of Ava Duvernay's new Netflix documentary, 13TH.
While this show has often staked its interest in the kinds of audiovisual materials we come to praise as art, there are many different types of moving image materials out there. None feels more pertinent to our moment today than the discussions around the introduction of police body-worn cameras alongside the amateur videos that display evidence of police brutality toward members of the African American community. To address these topics is often to approach them from one of politics, but a surrounding series of questions deals with many of the same questions that cinema-minded people might find familiar: what can we learn from analyzing how they were made? What elements are manipulation are present? How will these videos be stored? What access should the public have? What is the emotional affect of viewing them? Today's guest, Snowden Becker, has worked as a program manager for UCLA's Moving Image Archive program and the co-founder of Home Movie Day. She's also spent over a decade researching the judicial system's management of audiovisual material, and is the co-manager of this week's National Forum, "On The Record, All The Time: Setting An Agenda for Audiovisual Management," which will bring together legal scholars, social justice activists, camera manufacturers, and the LAPD among others to workshop these issues. In this episode of the podcast, Snowden discusses many of the issues that come out of a cinephile interest when it comes to thinking about these types of videos, as well as what it means to be a public citizen engaging in this emerging genre. 0:00-4:10 Opening 5:13-11:16 Establishing Shots — O.J.: Made in America 12:00-1:06:48 Deep Focus — Snowden Becker 1:07:21-1:11:32 Sponsorship Section 1:10:59-1:32:14 Double Exposure — Police Body Cameras and Evidentiary Videos 1:32:18-1:33:56 Close
Sculpted Bodies - An Evening of Dance is Thursday-Sunday at Orlando Repertory Theatre, presented by UCF Theatre. Brian Vernon runs the department's dance program. Performances are at 8pm Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 2pm on Sunday; the opening on Thursday includes the presentation of the Central Florida Dance Award. Other UCF Events: Exhibit by BFA students at the UCF Art Gallery - closes 4/24 UCF Guitar Night & Wind Ensemble Film Department's Home Movie Day and a Reading by students in the MFA Creative Writing Program on Thursday, 4/23 at 6pm at the UCF Campus Bookstore
The UCF Film Department invites you to bring your old 8mm, 16mm and Super 8 films to Orlando's Home Movie Day; it's part of an international Home Movie Day event.
Home Movie Day at the Anthology Film Archives, New York City.