Are you interested in film and film history? Wondering what the switch to digital film means for archives that preserve film? Don’t miss our big program Friday night! The National Archives will host a special panel discussion on “Preserving Grain, Presenting Pixels: Film Preservation and Restoration in the Digital Age” on October 19 at 7 p.m. at the National Archives building in Washington, DC. In 2007, the Academy’s Science and Technology Council released their landmark study The Digital Dilemma. Five years later, archival institutions and film industry continue to address the “digital dilemma” when facing the task of preserving and restoring our motion picture history. Josef Linder, Preservation Officer for the Academy Film Archive, and Criss Kovac and Bryce Lowe, Motion Picture Preservation Specialists at the National Archives, will discuss this important issue and present examples from their latest projects. Image: Deteriorating film before and after being treated in the Motion Picture Preservation Lab at the National Archives. This program is presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences in partnership with the Charles Guggenheim Center for the Documentary Film and the Foundation for the National Archives.
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Are you interested in film and film history? Wondering what the switch to digital film means for archives that preserve film? Don’t miss our big program Friday night!

The National Archives will host a special panel discussion on “Preserving Grain, Presenting Pixels: Film Preservation and Restoration in the Digital Age” on October 19 at 7 p.m. at the National Archives building in Washington, DC.

In 2007, the Academy’s Science and Technology Council released their landmark study The Digital Dilemma. Five years later, archival institutions and film industry continue to address the “digital dilemma” when facing the task of preserving and restoring our motion picture history.

Josef Linder, Preservation Officer for the Academy Film Archive, and Criss Kovac and Bryce Lowe, Motion Picture Preservation Specialists at the National Archives, will discuss this important issue and present examples from their latest projects.

Image: Deteriorating film before and after being treated in the Motion Picture Preservation Lab at the National Archives.

This program is presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences in partnership with the Charles Guggenheim Center for the Documentary Film and the Foundation for the National Archives.

Tomorrow at noon, we host a free screening of Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment at the National Archives. A landmark in American documentary films, Robert Drew’s cinéma vérité work chronicles how President John F. Kennedy, along with his brother Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, clashed with Alabama Governor George Wallace over racial integration at the University of Alabama in 1963. Special guest Dr. Sharon Malone will also speak about her sister Vivian Malone, who is featured in the film. Image: President Kennedy addressing the nation after the integration of the U. of Alabama, 6/11/63.
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Tomorrow at noon, we host a free screening of Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment at the National Archives.

A landmark in American documentary films, Robert Drew’s cinéma vérité work chronicles how President John F. Kennedy, along with his brother Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, clashed with Alabama Governor George Wallace over racial integration at the University of Alabama in 1963.

Special guest Dr. Sharon Malone will also speak about her sister Vivian Malone, who is featured in the film.

Image: President Kennedy addressing the nation after the integration of the U. of Alabama, 6/11/63.

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In the next film of the National Archives 1940: America Goes to the Movies series comes the comedy The Great McGinty. Directed by Preston Sturges and starring Brian Donlevy, Muriel Angelus, and Akim Tamiroff, it focuses on a rigged election, a marriage of convenience, and many more plot twists! Free screening this Saturday, August 11, at noon in the William G. McGowan Theater at the National Archives building.
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In the next film of the National Archives 1940: America Goes to the Movies series comes the comedy The Great McGinty. Directed by Preston Sturges and starring Brian Donlevy, Muriel Angelus, and Akim Tamiroff, it focuses on a rigged election, a marriage of convenience, and many more plot twists!

Free screening this Saturday, August 11, at noon in the William G. McGowan Theater at the National Archives building.

Two brothers battle corruption in the interstate trucking business! Director Raoul Walsh’s taut melodrama features an all-star cast including Humphrey Bogart, George Raft, Ann Sheridan, and Ida Lupino in They Drive By Night (93 minutes). Join us Saturday, July 14, at noon in the National Archives Building in Washington, DC. Enter through the special events entrance for the McGowan theater.
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Two brothers battle corruption in the interstate trucking business! Director Raoul Walsh’s taut melodrama features an all-star cast including Humphrey Bogart, George Raft, Ann Sheridan, and Ida Lupino in They Drive By Night (93 minutes).

Join us Saturday, July 14, at noon in the National Archives Building in Washington, DC. Enter through the special events entrance for the McGowan theater.

Join us Wednesday, June 27, at 7 p.m. for a free screening of the Gold Medal–winning films of the 2012 Student Academy Awards®.   The program will be hosted by syndicated film critic Willie Waffle. Keiko Wright, Gold Medal Winner in the Documentary category for her film, Hiro: A Story of Japanese Internment, will join Mr. Waffle onstage following the screenings for a brief discussion and Q&A with the audience. The screening is free and open to the public. Join us in the William G. McGowan Theater of the National Archives Building in Washington, DC. Use the Special Events entrance on Constitution Avenue at 7th Street, NW. Screening Program (Please note that some films may not be appropriate for general audiences.) Alternative: The Reality Clock (7 minutes) Amanda Tasse, University of Southern California Animation: Eyrie(4 minutes) David Wolter, California Institute of the Arts Documentary:Hiro: A Story of Japanese Internment (29 minutes) Keiko Wright, New York University Narrative:Under (23 minutes) Mark Raso, Columbia University Foreign: For Elsie (23 minutes) David Winstone, University of Westminster (United Kingdom) Presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, in partnership with The Charles Guggenheim Center for the Documentary Film and the Foundation for the National Archives.(Image courtesy of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences)
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Join us Wednesday, June 27, at 7 p.m. for a free screening of the Gold Medal–winning films of the 2012 Student Academy Awards®.  

The program will be hosted by syndicated film critic Willie Waffle. Keiko Wright, Gold Medal Winner in the Documentary category for her film, Hiro: A Story of Japanese Internment, will join Mr. Waffle onstage following the screenings for a brief discussion and Q&A with the audience.

The screening is free and open to the public. Join us in the William G. McGowan Theater of the National Archives Building in Washington, DC. Use the Special Events entrance on Constitution Avenue at 7th Street, NW.

Screening Program

(Please note that some films may not be appropriate for general audiences.)


Alternative: The Reality Clock (7 minutes)

Amanda Tasse, University of Southern California


Animation: Eyrie(4 minutes)

David Wolter, California Institute of the Arts


Documentary:Hiro: A Story of Japanese Internment (29 minutes)

Keiko Wright, New York University


Narrative:Under (23 minutes)

Mark Raso, Columbia University


Foreign: For Elsie (23 minutes)

David Winstone, University of Westminster (United Kingdom)


Presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, in partnership with The Charles Guggenheim Center for the Documentary Film and the Foundation for the National Archives.(Image courtesy of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences)