Cinecon 45

Roundup of Cinecon 45 by Allan Ellenberger.

Cinecon is is a festival organised by the Society of Cinephiles in LA.

To quote from Mr Ellenberger's blog..
"Highlights of the weekend included the North American premiere of The Dawn of Tomorrow (1915), a Mary Pickford film thought to be lost when a tinted nitrate print with Swedish titles turned up in the Archival Film Collections of the Swedish Film Institute. Pickford’s costars were David Powell, Forrest Robinson and Robert Cain. The film was dedicated to Robert Cushman, photo archivist of the Margaret Herrick Library of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences who recently passed away".

Grassroots TV and digital archive

Regeneration and memory
Deptford TV link

Presto Prime - be competent

Keeping audiovisual content alive.

First PrestoPRIME dissemination event - Vienna [ 5 & 6 October 2009]

The Dissemination Event will be your first possibility to hear all about the PrestoPRIME programme and its Competence Centre. Come get to know our plans and ideas and share your experiences in beautiful Vienna!

Oral History Seminar at Winchester

The eighteenth annual Oral History Seminar, organised to encourage and
inform those recording people’s memories, is being held in Wessex Film
and Sound Archive Cinema at Hampshire Record Office, Sussex Street,
Winchester, from 10am to 4pm. on 14 October 2009.

Contributors will include:-
Padmini Broomfield from the Oral History Society
David Lee of Wessex Film and Sound Archive and
Dominique Rawlings, Project manager of Hampshire County Council’s Ethnic Minority Learning Disability Project.

Contact David Lee at the Hants. Record Office if you wish to attend.

BL making noises

Thanks to funding from the UK's Joint Information Systems Committee, this
week thousands of traditional and classical music and spoken word
recordings, plus images of historic recordings and playback equipment, were
added to the British Library's Archival Sound Recordings website:


The Archival Sound Recordings website (main page)
provides free access to 45,500 rare recordings and thousands of images of
record labels and early record catalogues available for UK university and college
researchers. 23,700 of the recordings are available to anyone worldwide.

Another take on 3D

A bit more info on 3D at home.

Bravia new world

5 (UK) seals deal with Sony for on-demand content via internet enabled screens.