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Moving image exceptionalism• format(s) and fragility make people uneasy• expensive to touch• access has historically been contingent on processing, cataloging &preservation• “seething bundle of rights” Some films are complex bundles of rights. Although probably no amateur films post-1923 are in public domain, thatdoesn’t reduce the vast traffic in home movies and their exposure in the public sphere -- they sell for big $$$ on eBay. many rightsholders are quite often unknown or unlocatable -- the orphan works problem AND IT NEEDS TO BE SAID THAT WE HAVE HUGE PUBLIC DOMAIN IN THE U.S., AND ARCHIVESCONTROL LOTS OF PD MOVING IMAGES. For a number of reasons, this seems to be soft-pedaled.38
Moving image exceptionalism• format(s) and fragility make people uneasy• expensive to touch• access has historically been contingent on processing, cataloging &preservation• “seething bundle of rights”• powerful rightsholders & donors engender excessive deference We are excessively deferential to claims we haven’t received from rightsholders we often can’t identify but who wouldn’t be scared of studios, TV networks, estates of authors and celebrities? we hear about crackdowns on “pirates” and imagine we are next fear of offending, fear of missteps; fear of fear itself39
Page 6 and 7: How can we begin to collect and exp
Page 8 and 9: A BIT OF(FILM) HISTORYFirst —8
Page 10 and 11: Early film archives took on a compl
Page 12 and 13: We must sometimes applaud guardians
Page 14 and 15: Pregnant turtle radiograph: Megan S
Page 16 and 17: Canonical moving image archives use
Page 18 and 19: movement from institutional to indi
Page 20: There’s even an archival fan comm
Page 23 and 24: not just “movies”It may be obvi
Page 25 and 26: Master Hands (Jam Handy Organizatio
Page 27 and 28: Lost generations• Growing body of
Page 29 and 30: Garden for the Environment,San Fran
Page 31 and 32: valuebegetsenclosure31With the emer
Page 33 and 34: moving image exceptionalismBut let
Page 35 and 36: Moving image exceptionalism• form
Page 37: Unbundling access from preservation
Page 45 and 46: Lessons of moving-image exceptional
Page 47 and 48: I often wonder why libraries and ar
Page 49 and 50: Access is a spectrum; openness a pr
Page 51 and 52: I am convinced that openness, and I
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Page 55 and 56: Dawn, not sunset55Moving images are

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