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Preliminary Program
Association of Moving Image Archivists
Conference 1993
October 18-23, 1993
Sheraton Plaza Hotel
160 East Huron
Chicago, IL 60611
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Monday, October 18, 1993
7:30pm AMIA Executive Board Meeting
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Tuesday, October 19, 1993
8:00am - 9:00am Registration
9:00am - 10:45am New Member Orientation
Hosted by: AMIA Officers
Standing Committees and
Working Groups Chairpersons
11:00am - 12:30pm (Concurrent Meetings)
--Workshop: "Basic Introduction to Archives"
(***See workshop description at the end of this message***)
Chairs: Alan Lewis, National Archives
Wendy Shay, Smithsonian Institution
--Preservation Committee Meeting
--Cataloging and Documentation Committee Meeting
--Publications Committee Meeting
12:30pm - 2:00pm Lunch Break
2:00pm - 3:45pm (Concurrent Meetings)
--Intermediate Workshop: "Basic Equipment"
(Continuation of "Basic Introduction to Archives")
Chairs: Alan Lewis, National Archives
Wendy Shay, Smithsonian Institution
--News and Documentary Collections Working Group Meeting
Chairs: Steve Davidson, Wolfson Media Center
Helene Whitson, San Francisco State University
--Independent and Media Arts Working Group Meeting
Chairs: Elizabeth Scheines, Program for Art on Film
Francine Taylor, Alaska Moving Image Preservation
Association
--Amateur Footage Working Group
Chair: Pam Wintle, Human Studies Film Archive
4:00pm - 5:30pm (Concurrent Meetings)
--Intermediate Workshop: "Cataloging"
(Continuation of "Basic Introduction to Archives")
--News and Documentary Collections Working Group Meeting
--Independent and Media Arts Working Group Meeting
--Amateur Footage Working Group
6:30pm - 8:30pm
--Opening Reception at the Chicago Historical Society
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Wednesday, October 20, 1993
8:00am - 9:00am Registration
9:00am - 9:30am (Plenary Session)
--Conference Welcome and President's Report
Chairs: Larry Viskochil, Chicago Historical Society
Jan-Christopher Horak, AMIA President
9:30am - 11:00am (Plenary Session)
--"The Marketing of Moving Image Materials"
Chairs: Steve Davidson, Louis Wolfson II Media
History Center
Sara Meyerson, ABC News Library
Panelists: Neil Waldman, CBS News Archive
Matthew White, WPA Library
John Lynch, Vanderbilt University Television
News Archive
Roxanna Charkewycz, Chicago Museum of
Broadcast Communications
11:15am - 12:30pm (Plenary Session)
--"Film Preservation 1993: A Study of the Current State of
American Film Preservation." National Film Preservation
Board of the Library Of Congress.
Chair: William Murphy
Panalists: David Francis, Library of Congress
Maxine Fleckner Ducey, Wisconsin Center for
Film and Theater Research
Eddie Richmond, UCLA Film and Television
Archive
12:30pm - 2:00pm Keynote Address Luncheon
Keynote Speaker: Leonard Maltin
2:00pm - 3:45pm (Concurrent General Sessions)
--"Revival and Recycling of Old Film and Television Programs"
Chair: Sam Suratt
(other panelists to be announced)
--"Non-Standard Film and Video Formats"
Chair: Alan Stark, Film Technology Company
Panelists: Karen Ishizuka, Japanese American National
Museum
William O'Farrell, National Archives of
Canada
(other panelists to be announced)
4:00pm - 5:30pm (Concurrent general sessions)
--"Users Access: Academics and Scholarly Researchers"
Chair: Jan-Christopher Horak, George Eastman House
Panelists: Rebecca Albitz, University of Iowa,
Communications Library
Edward Richmond, UCLA Film and Television
Archives
Fay Schreibman, Archive New Media
__"Storage Technologies Update"
Panelists: Tulsi Ram, Eastman Kodak Company
Henry Wilhelm, author of -The Permanence
and Care of Color Photograhs-
(other panelists to be announced)
6:00pm - 7:00pm
--Tour of the Museum of Broadcast Communications
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Thursday, October 21, 1993
8:00am - 9:00am Registration and breakfast
9:00am - 10:45am (Plenary session)
--"The Historiography of Moving Image Archives"
Chair: Jan-Christopher Horak, George Eastman House
Panelists: Donald Crofton, University of Wisconsin
Mary Carbine, University of Chicago
Chuck Kleinhans, Northwestern University
Tino Balio, University of Wisconsin
11:00am - 12:30pm (Concurrent general sessions)
--"Digital Technologies: Implications for Archives"
Chair: James Wheeler, Archival Tape Engineer
Panelists: Alan Mason, Eastman Kodak Company
(other panelists to be announced)
--"Its Not Just News Anymore"
Panelists: Steve Davidson, Louis Wolfson II Media
History Center
Barry Sherman, University of Georgia,
Peabody Archives
Helene Whitson, San Francisco State University
2:00pm - 3:45pm (Plenary session)
--1993 AMIA Business Meeting
4:00pm - 5:30pm (Plenary session)
--"Open Forum"
Chair: Ernest Dick, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
8:00pm - 10:30pm
--Annual AMIA Archival Screenings
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Friday, October 22, 1993
8:00am - 9:00am Registration and breakfast
9:00am - 10:45am (Plenary session)
--"Multi-Media"
Chair: Fay Schreibman, Archive New Media
Panelists: William Beckman, Manager, Corporate
Strategy, Ameritech
Patrick Montgomery, President Archival Holdings
(other panelists to be announced)
11:00am - 12:30pm (Concurrent general sessions)
--"Cataloging Elements"
Chair: Stephen Fletcher, Indiana Historical Society
Sponsored by: Cataloging and Documentation Standing Committee
(other panelists to be announced)
--"Restoration Techniques"
Sponsored by: Preservation Standing Committee
(panelists to be announced)
12:30pm - 1:30pm (Working lunch)
--"AFI Catalog Ethnic-American Database Discussion"
Sponsored by: The AFI Catalog Project of the National
Center for Film and Video Preservation
Speaker: Alan Gevinson, Associate Editor, AFI
Catalog Project
2:00pm - 3:45pm (Concurrent general sessions)
--"Independent and Media Arts Collections"
Sponsored by: Independent and Media Arts Collections
Working Group
Panelists: (to be announced)
--"Annotating Amateur Moving Images"
Chair: Pam Wintle, Human Studies Archive
Sponsored by: Amateur Footage Working Group
Panelists: Karen Ishizuka, Japanese American National
Museum
Karen Sheldon, Northeast Historic Film
(other panelists to be announced)
4:00pm - 5:30pm (Concurrent meetings)
--News and Documenatary Collections Working Group Meeting
Chairs: Steve Davidson and Helene Whitson
--Independent and Media Arts Working Group Meeting
Chairs: Elizabeth Scheines and Francine Taylor
--Amateur Footage Working Group
Chair: Pam Wintle
--Preservation Committee Meeting
--Cataloging and Documentation Committee Meeting
--Publications Committee Meeting
6:00pm - 10:00pm
--Friday Social Event: A Night of Bowling and Food
Join your colleagues for an evening of Bowling, Billiards, Beer
Wine, and Chicago Style Pizza at Chicago's famous Southport Lanes
Tavern.
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Saturday, October 23, 1993
9:30am - 11:00am
--1994 Planning Committee Meeting
Chair: Lynn Farnell, WGBH Educational Foundation
Participants: 1994 Planning Committee
Meeting is open to all AMIA members.
Noon - 1:30pm Tours
--Chicago Architectural Foundation River Cruise
--Other tours to be announced.