Do these names ring a bell?

How about Harry, Albert, Sam and Jack? 

 The Warner brothers?

 In 1912 Harry Warner hired Mr. Paul Ashley Chase as an auditor. Soon after, they had begun producing films which led to the creation of the Warner Bros. Studio on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood. Sam and Jack Warner produced the pictures while Harry and Albert Warner as well as Mr. Chase handled finance and distribution in New York City.  Their first syndicated film My Four Years in Germany was produced during World War 1, this film was based on the popular book by former American Ambassador James W. Gerard.

 Through the decades, a few dates:

• April 4, 1923 - they formally incorporated as Warner Brothers Pictures, Incorporated.
• 1932 - The first mysteries in color Doctor X were produced and released in the studio.
• 1934 - Fire at the Burbank studio, destroyed $500,000 / 20 years worth of early films
• 1947 - The first pairing of Sylvester and Tweety, a phenomenal success even today
• 1953 - Jack Warner decided to expand into 3D films House of Wax was the first to be born
• 1958 - Warner Bros. Records was launched
• November 1966, Jack Warner sold the control of the studio and music business to Seven Arts Productions.
• 1976 - They acquired the video game company; Atari, Inc.
• 1995 - The launch of The WB Network, made for teens
• 2006 - The launch of the CW Television Network with CBS Paramount Television

Harry Warner         December 21, 1881 - July 27, 1958
Albert Warner        July 23, 1884 - November 26, 1967
Sam Warner           August 10, 1887 - October 5, 1927
Jack Warner           August 2, 1892 - September 9, 1978

 The Warner Bros. Archives - The University of Southern California is the largest single studio collection in the world. Donated in 1977 to USC’s School of Cinema-Television by Warner Communications, the WBA houses departmental records that detail Warner Bros. activities from the studio’s first major feature, My Four Years in Germany (1918), to its sale to Seven Arts in 1968. UA donated pre-1949 Warner Bros. nitrates to the Library of Congress and post-1951 negatives to the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Most of the company’s legal files, scripts, and production materials were donated to the University of Wisconsin - Madison. Warner Brothers is now dueted with Sony Pictures.

The consequences of our actions are so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Alkaban
Spoken by Albus Dumbledore.

Bonne lecture!

Environ 90% des émissions de radio et 60% des émissions de télévision ont été archivées sur un support unique. Beaucoup de ces supports sont menacés par les dégradations physico-chimiques que leur inflige le temps, mais aussi par la disparition des équipements permettant leur lecture. L’ensemble des archives françaises antérieures à 1990 sont ainsi vulnérables.

Si rien n’avait été fait, 835 000 heures d’archives auraient disparu d’ici 2015, soit près d’un tiers des archives audiovisuelles conservées par l’Ina.

L’Ina a donc mis en place un programme de sauvetage des archives impliquant la sauvegarde des supports originaux et la numérisation systématique des documents. L’Ina entreprend également en cas de nécessité des travaux de restauration des supports et des documents audiovisuels.

…visitez le lien pour l’article complet: http://www.ina-entreprise.com/entreprise/activites/archives-sauvegarde-numerisation/index.html

Washington, DC…The National Archives is unveiling a new initiative today that is part of its ongoing effort to make its collections, its stories, and its accomplishments more accessible to the public. This new video series entitled “Inside the Vaults” will give voice to Archives staff and users, highlight new and exciting finds at the Archives, and report on complicated and technical subjects in easily understandable presentations.

“Our buildings are filled with riveting stories waiting to be told. One way to tell them is through video, drawing on the knowledge of the Archives’ specialists and the collections they oversee. We are very excited about this new way for us to get news and information about the Archives out to the public,” said Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero.

In time for the National Archives July 4th celebration, the first two-minute video features Catherine Nicholson, National Archives supervisory conservator, discussing the conservation of the original Declaration of Independence. The videos will be hosted online on the National Archives YouTube Channel and the National Archives web site.

“Inside the Vaults” will cover a host of topics including highlights from the National Archives in the Washington, DC, area and from the Presidential libraries and regional archives nationwide. Created by a former broadcast network news producer, these shorts will present “behind the scenes” exclusives and offer surprising glimpses of the National Archives treasures.

These videos are in the public domain and not subject to any copyright restrictions. The National Archives encourages the free distribution of them.

http://www.archives.gov/press/press-releases/2010/nr10-115.html

Télé-Québec s’adresse principalement à une clientèle francophone du Québec.

Ses activités ont principalement pour but :

• de développer le goût du savoir, d’éveiller la curiosité, d’ouvrir de nouveaux horizons, de susciter la réflexion et d’entraîner les téléspectateurs sur le chemin de la découverte ;
• de favoriser l’acquisition de connaissances par la présentation d’émissions éducatives et attrayantes ;
• de promouvoir la vie artistique et culturelle, d’en être le porte-étendard et de soutenir les artistes et artisans dans leurs multiples réalisations ;
• de refléter les réalités régionales et la diversité de la société québecoise

Le gouvernement québécois crée Radio-Québec le 22 février 1968. Jusqu’en 1974, Radio-Québec diffuse seulement sur le câble, en soirée, dans les régions de Montréal, Québec, Hull, Gatineau et Sherbrooke. Par décision favorable du CRTC, les premières stations émettrices UHF sont mises en activité et le réseau de télévision est officiellement lancé en 1975. Le réseau sera étendu les années suivantes afin de rejoindre toutes les régions du Québec.

En 1979, Radio-Québec devient la Société de radio-télévision du Québec. Elle lance le slogan : « L’autre télévision ».  Et finalement en 1996, Radio-Québec devient officiellement Télé-Québec et passe de l’analogique au numérique.

Je vous invites à visiter leur site Internet: http://www.telequebec.tv/. Bon écoute!

Filmic Representations of Indigenous Peoples at Northeast Historic Film

Bucksport, Maine —   The 11^th Annual Northeast Historic Film Summer Symposium will begin July 22 and run through July 24, at 85 Main Street, Bucksport, Maine. The event is open to all with prior registration. Twelve presentations will explore how amateur and noncommercial filmmakers around the world have created a wide range of representations of Indigenous peoples and cultures. Program PDF.

Among the presenters are your AMIA-list associates Jennifer Jenkins, University of Arizona; Ross Lipman, UCLA Film & Television Archive; J. Fred MacDonald, and Paul Spehr. 

The NHF Summer Symposium is a multi-disciplinary gathering devoted to the history, theory, and preservation of moving images.  Registration is open to the public and to media professionals, teachers, and students. The evening programs and day-long sessions provide the opportunity to exchange opinions and insights with participants from all over North America, including students from the NYU Moving Image Archiving and Preservation Program.  Symposium details, registration, and lodging information is at www.oldfilm.org or contact jessica@oldfilm.org, 207 469-0924. Please register by July 12.

The event will begin for registrants on Thursday, July 22 with a reception and screening of Wabanaki Film and Video, archival selections from Northeast Historic Film.  The closing session on Saturday afternoon is Language Keepers, a National Science Foundation-funded Documenting Endangered Languages Program. The Language Keepers series captures current conversations in Passamaquoddy-Maliseet at the Pleasant Point Reservation in Eastport, Maine.  grams to an online dictionary. 

For the second year, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awarded a grant to Northeast Historic Film to help support the symposium. The Academy’s Institutional Grants program assists in fostering interactions between the public and the film industry while encouraging the appreciation of motion pictures as art form and vocation.

Symposium organizers are Snowden Becker, School of Information at the University of Texas, Austin; and Janna Jones and Mark Neumann, School of Communication, Cinema and Visual Culture Program at Northern Arizona University.

Contact: Jessica Hosford, External Affairs Director, Northeast Historic Film, jessica@oldfilm.org, 207-469-0924 , extension 107

I invite you to read the document, click here, a very complete document to answer all your questions.
To numerate what you will read and/or learn about:

• The composition of film
• Why film shrinks
• Some film base materials don’t shrink
• Some agents accelerate film base shrinkage
• De-shrinkage treatments
• How is film shrinkage measured?
• What are permissible tolerances for film perforation pitch?
• Recommended readings on picture unsteadiness and shrinkage 

 Happy reading!

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 We are very proud at STiL Casing Solution to be finalists for the prestigious prize, congratulations to Mr. Frédéric Lapointe! 

 Besides the fact that the mother company needed to be in Québec and/or Ontario, Canada, the selection criteria was as follows:

• Impact of the international commerce strategy on the company’s growth and profitability
• Market diversification
• Development opportunities
• The company’s financial health

The winner will be announced during a gala on October 5th, 2010.

http://www.desjardins.com/en/a_propos/profil/engagement/prix_entrepreneurs/edc_commerce/index.jsp

Nous sommes fiers chez STiL Solution Boitier d’être finaliste pour ce prestigieux prix, félicitations à Monsieur Frédéric Lapointe!

Mise à part le fait que la compagnie mère devait être au Québec et/ou l’Ontario, les critères de sélection étaient les suivants:

• Impacts de la stratégie de commerce international sur la croissance et la rentabilité de l’entreprise
• Diversification des marchés
• Perspectives de développement
• Santé financière de l’entreprise

Le gagnant sera dévoilé le 5 octobre, 2010.

http://www.desjardins.com/fr/a_propos/profil/engagement/prix_entrepreneurs/edc_commerce/index.jsp

http://www.archivists.ca/content/annual-conference

Frederic will be pleased to shake your hands, discuss and exchange ideas with you, come visit him at booth #9. For those who have not yet had the chance to see our two new sizes of audio containers; the 7″ and 11″…now is the time. Samples will be available at the booth for you to take back and test.  Also, a new product will be launched

PREVIEW! To answer the needs of your industry, STiL Casing Solution in partnership with WARNER Bros has designed a unique and state of the art box for proper storage and safe environment. Your photographic material, paper and other media have just gained a superior level of protection!  

Don’t miss the chance to see this unique  product.

Hope to see you there!