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Rochester archives center receives grant for film preservation - Penfield, NY - Penfield Post
The Carolyn White Siegfried & DeFois Hathaway Siegfried Archives Center at Rochester School for the Deaf will receive a grant award of $7,051 from the National Film Preservation Foundation. The school’s film archives are among 24 archives in the country — including George Eastman House in Rochester — to be awarded funding to preserve as many as 43 motion pictures covering a far-ranging collection of subjects.
The funds will be used to make some of the oldest historical films ever made at Rochester School for the Deaf accessible to the public. The films slated for preservation are stored together on one large reel titled “Graduation Ceremonies and Other Events, 1929-1938.” The collection of films shows scenes from Rochester School for the Deaf graduation ceremonies, building dedications, Boy and Girl Scout gatherings, skits, a lawn party, outdoor plays and dancing, woodshop demonstrations, sewing class instruction, elementary school classes and a baseball game.
The grant will support efforts to make a new film negative and preservation master prints, as well as digital access copies.
The preservation grants are made possible through funds from The Library of Congress Sound Recording and Film Preservation Programs Reauthorization Act of 2008 and services donated by public-spirited preservation laboratories.
For more information on the Carolyn White Siegfried & DeFois Hathaway Siegfried Archives Center at Rochester School for the Deaf, visit About RSD - Archives & History.
The Carolyn White Siegfried & DeFois Hathaway Siegfried Archives Center at Rochester School for the Deaf will receive a grant award of $7,051 from the National Film Preservation Foundation. The school’s film archives are among 24 archives in the country — including George Eastman House in Rochester — to be awarded funding to preserve as many as 43 motion pictures covering a far-ranging collection of subjects.
The funds will be used to make some of the oldest historical films ever made at Rochester School for the Deaf accessible to the public. The films slated for preservation are stored together on one large reel titled “Graduation Ceremonies and Other Events, 1929-1938.” The collection of films shows scenes from Rochester School for the Deaf graduation ceremonies, building dedications, Boy and Girl Scout gatherings, skits, a lawn party, outdoor plays and dancing, woodshop demonstrations, sewing class instruction, elementary school classes and a baseball game.
The grant will support efforts to make a new film negative and preservation master prints, as well as digital access copies.
The preservation grants are made possible through funds from The Library of Congress Sound Recording and Film Preservation Programs Reauthorization Act of 2008 and services donated by public-spirited preservation laboratories.
For more information on the Carolyn White Siegfried & DeFois Hathaway Siegfried Archives Center at Rochester School for the Deaf, visit About RSD - Archives & History.