In case members have not seen this information elsewhere--The Museum of Modern Art's Film Stills Archive, now closed, will be relocated to the museum's Film Preservation Center in Hamlin, Pennsylvania, next month. Although the move had been planned--at least since last summer, the film stills staff was laid off abruptly last week. The collection, reportedly, will go into "cold storage" for an unspecified period, at least until the re-opening of the museum, now scheduled for 2005. The collection is now lost for research and publication; and, with no staff, there are no announced plans for preservation or further cataloging. For more information, here are two articles concerning the situation: <http://www.time.com/time/sampler/article/0,8599,193492,00.html> <http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/12/movies/12STIL.html"> Ann Harris NYU-Cinema Studies Department Film Study Center and Archive 721 Broadway, room 606 New York, New York 10003 [log in to unmask] phone: 212-998-1606 fax: 212-995-4061 ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html