Journal of Film Preservation - FIAF

Additional courses are also offered in the Museum’s Certificate Program
in Photographic Preservation and Archival Practice.
The core quarter may be taken alone, and is necessary for access to the
other quarter offerings. Tuition fee is $ 1,200 per quarter. A Certificate of
Training is issued at the satisfactory completion of at least three quarters.
Enrollment is limited to 10 students. Applicants must hold at least an
undergraduate degree, and be able to demonstrate aptitude for the program
through academic or practical experience. Submissions of curriculum
vitae and two letters of recommendation should be sent by August
1st 1997, to the Motion Picture Department, George Eastman House,
900 East Avenue, Rochester NY 14607.
Please note: at this time, the 1996-1997 course is already under way.
No further applications are accepted for the current year.
The Cinema After 100 Years
Egon Jacobsohn (1922)
Egon Jacobsohn (1895-1969), son of a cigar dealer and an actress (and
nephew to the famous Berlin comedian duo Anton and Donat Herrnfeld),
wrote his first irreverent articles about films and film people for the slightly
disreputable “Kleiner Journal” and the “Lichtbild-Bühne” while still at school.
In about 1916 he made the grade as editor-in-chief (!) of the “Erste
Internationale Filmzeitung” and, subsequently, of the “Illustrierte Filmwoche”.
Between 1920 and 1923 he was already master of his own film magazine, the
“Filmhölle”, in which, waiving advertising, he campaigned against the corruption
and lapses in taste that were rife in the film industry. When Jacobsohn
revealed that Harry Piel used a double in the most dangerous scenes of his sensationalist
films, Piel took him to court, and lost. The “Lexikon des Films (Wie
ich zum Film kam)” (“Dictionary of Film (How I Came to the Cinema)”) compiled
in collaboration with Kurt Mühsam, and which was based on personal
information supplied by the film personalities listed, remains an indispensable
source of biographical information on the history of German silents. He interviewed
whoever was en vogue at the time for the “Berliner Morgenpost”, the
“B.Z. am Mittag” and other Ullstein papers: Asta Nielsen and Henny Porten,
Conan Doyle and Einstein. He even interviewed Haarmann, the mass murderer,
before the police managed to do so. He was not only an admired news
sleuth - he became news himself as he pursued his various assignments in a
wide range of disguises: as casual waiter, croupier, tramp, sausage vendor, barrel-organ
player, fireman, or burglar. Following the coming to power of Hitler
on 30 January 1933, Jacobsohn lived in clandestinity for almost a year until
he succeeded in escaping to London with a false passport, where he took on a
new identity as the journalist Egon Jameson. After 1945 he worked for nine
years as chief reporter for the American “Neue Zeitung”, wrote further books –
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ación, hasta el manejo de aparatos
de imágenes en movimiento, su
conservación, restauración y
acceso público. El programa (de
un año, comenzando el 9 de
septiembre de 1997) prevé, en
particular:
1. El curso básico (sept - nov 1997)
2. Un taller (dic. 1997 - feb. 1998)
3. Un trabajo práctico avanzado
(marzo-mayo 1998)
4. Un trabajo práctico facultativo
destinado a completar programas
especiales (julio-agosto 1998).
Un certificado es extendido previo
cursado satisfactorio de al menos 3
trimestres. Precio del curso: US$
1.200 por trimestre.
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