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This is the University of Rochester.
What does knowledge of film preservation bring to the film and media studies student,
to film and media studies scholarship, and to film and media studies as an academic disciplines? For one
ot brings us a deeper appreciation, a more comprehensive and inclusive
understanding
of filmmaking and the film making process.
This facilitates a better understanding of the diversity of national industries
and also
we can have a better sense of the very broad breadth
of film studies as a discipline, all the different fields that it encompasses.
Third, it helps to demysitify
film and what I mean by that is to give us a better
sense of what film is, where film comes from,
why people have used film, how people used films
for different reasons.
We demystify by demystifying the process of film preservation.
We get better acquainted with the terminology, the difference between conservation
preservation
um access, restoration, reconstruction.
Also we get a better sense of the fragility of film.
The fact of that film is an organic object.
I love the idea that film has a life of its own. I once heard a comment
that many films
reach the end of their lives
in Australia.
And the idea that film has a life
I think is something that
we really haven't thought a
lot about deeply enough before. We've always taken film for granted
as a kind of primary practical source of images, before, at least,
the digital age.
Also, I think it's important that students learn
more about the archival world and the roles, the
great diversity
of roles that archivists
have in working behind the scenes.
Archivists make very important decisions about what we see
and
the visual integrity
of what we see, and it's important to understand this.
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