film preservation

new blog of the Nat'l Film Preservation Foundation

http://www.filmpreservation.org/blog/2015/5/8/the-nfpf-invites-you-to-access-alley

Cool, added that to my feed list.

Imogen Sara Smith on the Library of Congress's Mostly Lost workshop, "where experts and devotees of early cinema gather to watch a parade of unidentified, mainly silent films, and contribute any information they can toward identification—calling out an actor they recognize, a clue to the location or studio or year, a title that seems to match the synopsis."

https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/4519-lost-and-found-cinema

That concrete preservation bunker I've heard about, partly from my curator/scholar friend Steve, cited within for "his mind-boggling erudition."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrbVZ1nfWkk