Rediscovered Cinema: Films from the Eclectic Collections at the University of South Carolina
December 04, 2013 - 6:15pm
Location:
Department of Cinema Studies, Michelson Theater
721 Broadway, 6th Floor
New York, NY 10003
Amazing film rediscoveries keep flowing from the University of South Carolina’s Moving Image Research Collections (MIRC): early sound newsreels, lost European silents, Vishniac microcinematography, Chinese documentaries, local TV newsfilm, amateur masterpieces. Curator Heather Heckman presents a variety of unique films and discusses the archive’s digital-era initiatives and ongoing collaborations with NYU's Moving Image Archiving and Preservation program. Highlights include 35mm restorations of NYC Street Scenes & Noises (1929) and, from 1931, one of the earliest film recordings of television images.
Bonus extra: media artist Bill Morrison introduces an excerpt of his new compilation film, The Great Flood, built from unique archival footage from MIRC.
Presented as part of MIAP10, the Moving Image Archiving and Preservation program's 10-year anniversary celebration.
This event is free and open to the public.
Image: Still from The Augustas by Scott Nixon, 16mm, b&w and color, 18 min., c. 1930-1950. Courtesy of the University of South Carolina Moving Image Research Collections.