Film Preservation Project
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of 15 films reviewed and chosen 1998-1999 for an RDA grant funded project to conserve and transfer to a tape format. In 2011, these 15 films were digitized from Beta tapes by AVS, a local company.
In October 2011 a Colorado company, "Crosspoint", duplicated five different films to tape and digitized them using money from a National Film Preservation Project grant.
Dates
- Creation: 1937-1980
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Materials are available for use in the Richardson-Sloane Special Collections Center only.
Request permission before copying materials.
Personal digital cameras and scanners are allowed in the Richardson-Sloane Special Collections Center on a case-by-case basis. The items that a researcher may want to scan or photograph must be examined and evaluated for physical condition, copyright issues, and donor restrictions by staff.
Copyright restrictions may apply; please consult Special Collections staff for further information.
The copyright law of the United States (title 17, United States Code) governs the making of reproductions of copyrighted material.
Under certain conditions specified in the law, libraries and archives are authorized to furnish a reproduction. One of these specific conditions is that the reproduction is not to be "used for any purpose other than private study, scholarship, or research." If a user makes a request for, or later uses, a reproduction for purposes in excess of "fair use," that user may be liable for copyright infringement.
Biographical / Historical
This project was a joint effort in 1998-1999 of DPL, Open Cities Film Society supported with funds from RDA. The call was put out for motion picture film from the QC area shot before 1980. If donor wanted original film returned, offer was made to evaluate, clean, copy footage, and return originals. Many many films were submitted and reviewed. Ultimately, 15 were chosen for preservation. Selection criteria for donated film footage included historical significance, rarity due to age and/or subject matter, uniqueness with regard to other footage in the archives, production quality, physical condition, relationship to other materials in the collection, and general interest to the public.
In 2011, all 15 of the films were digitized from Beta tapes by AVS, a local company.
Five different films were digitized with the assistance of a National Film Preservation Project grant in late 2011.
Newspaper articles highlighting the project can be accessed from the Quad City Times, Friday June 6, 1997 page T1 [TODAY section] and The Dispatch and the Rock Island Argus from Sunday April 6, 1997 page G1.
Extent
20 films (original film format; DVD; digital files)
Language of Materials
English
Physical Location
DVDs for all 20 in Digital Repository Box 2;
Range 35 Section 01 has original reels, video copies, BETA tapes from 2011, and Archival copies of the original films;
Range 35 Section 03 has WHBF films;
Range 35 Sections 8-10 have supplies and more WHBF film.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Richardson-Sloane Special Collections Center Repository
321 Main Street
Davenport IA 52801-1490 United States
specialcollections@davenportlibrary.com