It’s April 21, 2023. Time to begin the Orphan Film Symposium: All-Television at UCLA. The UCLA Film & Television Archive team put together this Digital Cinema Package of objects born on videotapes and films. John H. Mitchell Television Curator (Mark Quigley!) sent this photo of the DCP today. The symposium originated as a film preservation event, but it’s always incorporated television (and video, audio, and digital). The 1999 event included this panel: Television and Video Preservation • Linda Tadic (then director of the U of Georgia Media Archive and Peabody Awards Collection, and president of AMIA) “Archiving Local TV Stations” • Steve Davidson
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Meet UCLA TV curator Mark Quigley
Meet curator, archivist, and co-host of the 2023 Orphan Film Symposium: Mark Quigley! by Lisa van der Loos and Bella Masterson A remarkable event is coming up in Los Angeles April 21–22, an All-Television Edition of the Orphan Film Symposium. The five sessions at the UCLA Hammer Museum are free to the public. Nine-time participant and now co-host Mark Quigley presents this unique event with May Hong HaDuong, Director of the UCLA Film & Television Archive, and Dan Streible, organizer of the biennial symposium since 1999. We were thrilled to sit down recently with Quigley and discuss his passion for
All-Television Edition, UCLA, April 21-22
Join NYU Cinema Studies and the UCLA Film & Television Archive at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles for 5 sessions, featuring 20 presenters of 30 TV pieces from across 9 decades and 12 archives in 10 hours of free programming over 2 days. Friday, 7:30 pm Four Arguments for the Preservation of Television May Hong HaDuong (UCLA Film & Television Archive) Welcome Dan Streible (NYU Cinema Studies) What Was Television? 1. Jeffrey Bickel (UCLA Film & Television Archive) Anniversary of a Great Invention (Hearst Metrotone News vault material; Gaumont British News, 1938) and more Scottish engineer John Logie
All TV, April ’23
Save the Dates: April 21 – 22 Orphan Film Symposium: All-Television Edition Billy Wilder Theater (in the Hammer Museum), Los Angeles The UCLA Film & Television Archive presents this special edition of NYU’s Orphan Film Symposium. See lost, neglected, forgotten, rare, and unseen works produced for the cathode ray-tube and beyond—a vast wonderland. Kinescopes, videotapes, and more exhibited on the big screen, with scholars, artists, and archivists in person. Details to be announced soon. Co-presented by NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Martin Scorsese Department of Cinema Studies. No advanced registration required. Free tickets available on a first come, first