February 2008 Archives

"...The Packard Campus of the National Audio-Visual Conservation Center is a state-of-the-art facility where the Library of Congress acquires, preserves and provides access to the world’s largest and most comprehensive collection of films, television programs, radio broadcasts, and sound recordings. The Campus has globally unprecedented capabilities and capacities for the preservation reformatting of all audiovisual media formats (including obsolete formats dating back 100 years) and their long-term safekeeping in a petabyte-level digital storage archive. In addition to preserving the collections of the Library, the Packard Campus was also designed to provide similar preservation services for other archives and libraries in both the public and private sector." The Library of Congress goes on to describe how "the Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound (MBRS) Division reading rooms on Capitol Hill"... "will be linked directly to the Packard Campus and remain the public face of the NAVCC for researchers and patrons....MBRS holds approximately 6.2 million collection items, comprised of 3 million sound recordings, 1.2 million moving image items and 2 million related documents (scripts, copyright records, photos, posters, manuscripts, etc.). Of these, 5.7 million are destined for final storage at Culpeper, a relocation effort that began in January 2006. By the end of fiscal 2007, nearly 5.2 million of these had been relocated to the 140,000 square foot Collections Building from existing storage facilities in Capitol Hill; Boyers, Pennsylvania; Elkwood, Virginia; and the Landover, Maryland, annex. The collections moved include all 3 million sound recordings, 800,000 moving image items, and 1.4 million related documents. The 500,000 items still to be moved are primarily nitrate film in Dayton, Ohio, and additional moving image items still stored in Boyers and Landover."

Temple University Libraries now offer online access! Just visit our list of databases, click on "Hollywood Creative Directory", then log in with your accessnet login. When you enter the HCD online, be sure to then click on the next "login" button that appears in the upper right of the screen.

...Commonly known as "the phone book to Hollywood," the Hollywood Creative Directory offers the most comprehensive, up-to-date information available, listing the names, numbers, addresses and current titles of entertainment professionals from the film, television and music industries. *For twenty years this "insider's guide to the insiders" has been a must-have for anyone seriously considering a career in the entertainment business.

Paley Library now has a subscription to Wholphin, the DVD magazine brought to you by the same folks as McSweeney's and The Believer. Wholphin is a quarterly publication featuring short documentaries, animation, experimental, narrative, and "and other cinema hybrids that deserve to be seen on very expensive televisions." Temple students and faculty can check the dvds out at the circulation desk.

Quinn's "The New Year Parade" earned him the Slamdance Grand Jury Award for Best Narrative Feature. The prize includes a $15,000 Credit at Filmworksfx, an LP3 Pictures Grip, Electric, and Studio Package ($15,000 value) and $3,500 Credit on legal services from Pierce Law Group, LLP. Congratulations!

Companion to the One Book, One Philadelphia project, Spielberg's Empire of the Sun has been selected for the inaugural run of One Film, One Philadelphia.

During the One Film program period, Empire of the Sun will be shown at libraries, theaters, and schools throughout Philadelphia and the surrounding area. DVD copies of Empire of the Sun will also be available at all Free Library of Philadelphia locations. Additionally, audiences will be encouraged to draw connections between Empire of the Sun and What Is the What—the featured selection of the 2008 One Book, One Philadelphia program—as testimonials of the experiences of children in war zones. One Film will open with a reception and screening of Empire of the Sun at Moore College of Art and Design on February 21 at 6:00 p.m.

Temple Libraries has upgraded subscriptions to two essential film studies research databases, adding more full text content online for scholarly and trade publications in film and media studies. FIAF Index to Film Periodicals Plus and Film and Television Literature with Full Text.