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Small gauge film survey



Colleagues,

Your help is needed with a "small gauge" film survey.

For much of the 20th Century, home movies showing diverse aspects of life in
the United States and around the world, documentary and promotional footage,
and artistic films by both well-known filmmakers and amateurs all have been
shot on "small gauge" film stocks, from 8mm to 28mm. Typically, these unique
cultural and historic artifacts have not been given the attention of
larger-gauge theatrical films, and their identification and preservation has
therefore suffered. They represent some of the most threatened and
overlooked testaments of our heritage.

As a step toward understanding the needs of small gauge films, the Small
Gauge Preservation Task Force of the Association of Moving Image Archivists
(AMIA) has created a brief survey questionnaire with which it needs your
help. This simple survey is designed to identify the scope of small gauge
film materials (16mm excluded in this survey) held both in institutions  and
in private hands.  Whether or not your institution houses small gauge film,
or if you know of a collection in private hands, please take a few minutes
to contact Task Force member Karen Glynn at the Southern Media Archive,
University of Mississippi (662-915-5851 or kglynn@olemiss.edu), for a copy
of the short survey form.  Your input will help shape future  efforts, and
will contribute to the Small Gauge Film Symposium in Portland, Oregon, in
November 2001, which will be held in conjunction with the next AMIA
conference.  To find out more about the goals of the AMIA Small Gauge
Preservation Task Force, visit its web site at
www.amianet.org/05_Committees/committees.html.

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