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Journal of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers ( Volume: 42, Issue: 3, March 1944)
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Motion Picture Incunabula in the Library of Congress

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Publisher
SMPTE — White Plains, NY, USA
Doc Type
Journal Article
Content Type
Original Research
Abbreviated Title
J SMPE
Volume
42, No. 3, pp. 155–158
Abstract
A brief survey of the importance of the motion picture and its preservation as an outstanding part of the Nation's culture; summary of the various ways in which early films were lost, destroyed or left to decay; an analysis of recent attempts by various individuals and organizations (public and private) to minimize this significant loss to motion picture art by the rescue of remaining films, and an account of their difficulties arising from the great scarcity of early film material. A narration of how the early film companies (Edison, Biograph, and others) sent photographic paper tape of their films to The Library of Congress for copyright as photographs; how these paper prints were stored as copyright deposits from 1897 to 1915 in an almost continuous sequence; the recent discovery by The Library of Congress that these prints could be rephotographed through optical printing to celluloid, thereby restoring almost all of the early films to the screen in a single, comprehensive project. The importance of this discovery from social, aesthetic, and historical viewpoints is discussed.
Publication Date
1944-03-01
DOI
10.5594/J08451
ISSN
Print: 0097-5834
Link
https://doi.org/10.5594/J08451
Author(s)
Howard L. WallsIn charge of Motion Picture Collections, The Library of Congress, Washington, D. C.
Copyright
© 1944 Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, Inc.
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