I certainly agree with Skip. The St.
Louis Public Schools no longer had the staff or resources to manage and
preserve the collection. I had a terrific response to our posting, but
when we learned of AFANA, the ball started rolling, and the collection was
transferred to their satellite facility here in St. Louis. It was important to us that
the films remain in the St. Louis
area, and that they would be made available to the public. As the
excellent staff at AFANA can tell you, it was no picnic getting several
thousand 16mm films moved to AFANA’s storage facility, but all in all, it
was a win-win situation. Some wonderful films are being preserved thanks
to the AMIA listserve.
Sharon A. Dolan
Records Center Supv./Archivist
St. Louis Public Schools
1615
Hampton Ave.
St.
Louis, MO 63139
314-645-2648, x 118
Fax 314-781-3378
sharon.dolan@xxxxxxxx
From: Association of Moving Image Archivists [mailto:AMIA-L@xxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Skip Elsheimer
Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006
10:22 AM
To: AMIA-L@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [AMIA-L] 16mm films
being screened
This NPR news story is
actually an AMIA success story. I remember getting emails and phone calls about
the St. Louis
school collection after it was posted to the AMIA mailing list. After some
digging, I got someone from the school talking to the St. Louis contact for the Academic Film
Archive (Elizabeth, I think.). Films were saved! Woo-hoo!
Good deed for the day.
Skip Elsheimer
http://www.avgeeks.com
On 2/14/06, Rick
Prelinger < footage@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
The story Margie points our attention to concerns the Academic Film
Archive of North America ( http://www.afana.org),
whose founder is the meticulous researcher, bravura presenter and snappy
dresser Geoff Alexander.
Geoff has done great work foregrounding educational films as works of art in
historical and social contexts, and his screenings are not to be
missed. I believe he is going to show a film at Orphans that the
lucky viewers are highly unlikely to forget.
Rick
--
new Prelinger Library blog at http://www.prelingerlibrary.blogspot.com