From: 40 Frames (email suppressed)
Date: Sat Sep 17 2005 - 09:31:37 PDT
> Greetings,
>
> I hope this email finds you all in the best
> and most steadfast of cheer. Please know
> that:
>
> the downtown Washington DC MLK Jr. Library
> has an extensive collection of 16mm prints,
> several thousand that are, nowadays, seldom
> checked out - this because 16mm is not as
> popular as digital versatile discs and
> video tapes - and also because until now there
> has been no easily searchable and browsable
> database of the section's holdings.
>
> I have, as a free and open public service
> to Washington DC public library patrons,
> converted their printed catalogue of films
> to an internet browsable format:
>
> http://www.angoleiro.com/wdc_16mm/
>
> Of course this is only a beginning project
> and I request your comments. The information
> in the on-line catalog reflects the sum of
> what I had access to.
>
> Should someone be interested in the very short
> term in studying the films, I would be happy to
> work with them, as I have a 16mm projector in my
> apartment and always seeks actionable collaborators.
> I am quite familiar with the resources at the
> dc public library and regularly borrow films.
> Aside from this, I have also begun to work with
> regular 8mm filmmaking.
>
> Please feel free to contact me directly.
>
> Should some one or group be interested
> in the database project and seriously
> wish to work together, I also welcome that.
>
> I envision
> an on-line database that details specifically
> publicly and freely accessible film resources
> available in different cities throughout
> the United States, and elsewhere. At the
> same time, we needn't duplicate the serious
> work of others, but should join them.
>
> Thank you. Sincerely,
>
> ml
> pth
Quite an amazing resource for those living in DC!
This one in particular is of note...
ASSEMBLY LINE - (1961, MacMillan, b/w)
For the study of human values in our contemporary urban industrial
society, this story of a young factory worker who spends his days on an
assembly line and his evenings in a fruitless search downtown for pleasure
and companionship raises many valid questions.
Dennis Nyback has shown this several times here in Portland as well as
various other points on
the map.
Alain
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