Bono Olgado Introduction to moving image archiving and preservation December 7, 2010

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Orphans of WarSecuring a home for found orphaned Vietnamese documentary films

outline.

✤ Discovery

✤ Physical Inspection

✤ Content Analysis

✤ Contextualization

✤ Provenance and Rights

✤ Current Actions

✤ Future Plans

discovery.

discovery.

✤ Deborah Shaffer’s Collection at Greene Street, SoHo, NY

✤ 10 unknown 16mm reels

✤ 6 from Vietnam

✤ 3 from Cuba

✤ 1 from Mexico

✤ initial provenance track: Newsreel

discovery.

✤ Initial Inspection, Inventory

✤ 6 reels, 5 films (one is a mag track)

✤ identified possible:

✤ title

✤ year of production

✤ producer

discovery.

✤ Going Up The Line – Supplying the Front, 1969. NLF (National Liberation Front) Films

✤ The University in Times of War: Polytechnic – Hanoi, 1968. DRV (Democratic Republic of Vietnam)Studios

✤ PRG Founding Conference – 1969, 1969. NLF Films. [*PRG = Provisional Revolutionary Government]

✤ Children's Film – Exp, 1969. DRV

✤ Puppet

physical inspection.

physical inspection.

✤ Followed the Film Inspection Report form of Bobst Library [Goldsmith]

✤ characteristics and elements

✤ physical damage

✤ Inspected reels at the MIAP Lab

Physical Inspection.

✤ Generally in good playable conditionphysical

inspection.

content analysis.

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✤ Watched the films using a 16mm projector at the film study center

content analysis.

✤ Going Up The Line – Supplying the Front

✤ The University in Times of War: Polytechnic – Hanoi

✤ PRG Founding Conference – 1969

✤ Children's Film – Exp

✤ Puppeteers of SouthVietnam

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content analysis.

✤ Going Up The Line – Supplying the Front

✤ The University in Times of War: Polytechnic – Hanoi

✤ PRG Founding Conference – 1969

✤ Children's Film – Exp

✤ Puppeteers of South Vietnam

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✤ confirmation of initial information gathered

✤ acquiring further information (title, date, crew)

✤ seeing the content of the film

contextualization.

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✤ Vietnam War

✤ Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam)

✤ National Liberation Front (Vietcong - South Vietnam Communists)

✤ Provisional Revolutionary Government (NLF renamed)

✤ Vietnamese Cinema

✤ Hanoi - Saigon

✤ Between 1965 and 1973, 463 newsreels, 307 documentaries and 141 scientific films were produced, in contrast to just 36 feature films and 27 cartoons.

✤ Newsreel

✤ In December 1967, Newsreel was established in New York City conceived out of the progressive social movements of that decade

✤ This network produced large numbers of short 16mm documentaries quickly and inexpensively

✤ They chose as their subject matter issues such as war resistance, campus protests, and racial injustice.

✤ They also were able to present unique films from North Vietnam, Cuba, and various national liberation movements around the world.

provenance and rights.

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✤ Newsreel

✤ Clips used for the NR film People’s War, 1969. (Supplying, Founding, University)

✤ Films brought by the filmmakers (Norm Fruchter, Robert Kramer and John Douglas) from Vietnam when they visited to shoot.

✤ Puppet Film shown as is in Vermont.

✤ Newsreel to Third World Newsreel

✤ Vietnamese Copyright Law

✤ None of the original filmmakers who brought the films in the US is interested in keeping them

✤ Deborah wants it out of her place

✤ Orphan at the moment

actions and plans.

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✤ THIRD WORLD NEWSREEL (TWN)

✤ VIETNAM FILM INSTITUTE (VFI)

✤ Further research

✤ Currently in foster care