1. Moving Image Archives: Past and Future.
- Author
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Leab, Daniel J.
- Subjects
FILM archives ,MOTION pictures ,TECHNOLOGICAL innovations - Abstract
The article explores the history and progress of moving image archives. According to the author, the moving picture archives are a recent phenomenon resulting from various technological innovations that existed during the 19th century. During the mid-1890s the movies came into being. Both William Kennedy Laurie Dickson, an Englishman who worked for U.S. inventor Thomas Edison, played a key role in the development of motion pictures and supported the validity and usefulness of the moving image archive. The first successful film archives were established after the U.S., Great Britain, France and Germany collaborated to form an International Federation of Film archives (FIAF).
- Published
- 2000