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Please contribute to AFI Ethnic Feature Film Project
Marsha Maguire (marsham@HALCYON.COM)
Tue, 25 Jan 1994 11:24:10 -0800
THIS ANNOUNCEMENT IS BEING CROSS-POSTED TO AMIA-L, ANTHRO-L,
ARCHIVES, CINEMA-L, FOLKLORE, H-AMSTDY, AND H-ETHNIC, AS
WELL AS TO THE NEWSGROUPS ALT.ASIAN.MOVIES, REC.ARTS.CINEMA,
AND REC.ARTS.MOVIES. APOLOGIES FOR DUPLICATIONS.
THE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE ETHNIC AMERICAN FEATURE FILM
PROJECT
The National Center for Film and Video Preservation at the
American Film Institute has received Challenge Grant funding
from the National Endowment for the Humanities to compile a
published book catalog and database documenting feature
films made by, for, or about ethnic groups in the United
States. The catalog entries will be published in a form
similar to the Center's AFI Catalog of Feature Films, which
provides comprehensive information on American films by
decade. They will also exist as MARC catalog records in the
Center's National Moving Image Database (NAMID). Barring
unforeseen difficulties, the NAMID databases will be
available via the Internet in a year or so, and the ethnic
films records in two years.
The project's staff seeks to gather information about films
that may be difficult to track down (such as locally
produced films), that may no longer exist, or that may have
been inadequately cataloged. We would appreciate hearing
from archivists, curators, librarians, scholars, and film
lovers who may have viewing prints, primary source
documents, catalogs, databases, descriptions, or
recommendations that might help us to produce the most
useful and comprehensive catalog possible.
Scope: Feature-length films (40 minutes or longer) produced
in the United States in which a major focus on an American
ethnic group or on an issue of ethnicity or ethnic identity
is revealed in the story line, setting, or characters. Non-
English-language films will be included.
Please contact:
Alan Gevinson
Project Director
Ethnic American Feature Film Project
American Film Institute
2021 N. Western Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90027
(213) 856-7765
Or send e-mail to Marsha Maguire, Project Consultant, at:
marsham@halcyon.halcyon.com
Thank you very much.
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