DaveBrett
12 Sep 2007, 03:23 PM
Have any of you ever heard of the Florida Moving Image Archive?
Their web site is: http://www.fmia.org/
I am trying to find out if they have any classic soccer on tape.
I have emailed and called them numerous times. They do not respond...
http://www.famousplayersmovies.com/Movies/FamousNews/MovieNewsFeed.aspx?page=15&Story=19285
News Tapes Expand Eclectic Archive:
The Louis Wolfson II Florida Moving Image Archive is Expanding Its
Collection With Tapes of TV Newscasts From the 1970s and '80s
Monday July 30
The Miami Herald
By Erika Beras
When Rick Remmert was organizing a 25-year reunion for the University of
Miami's 1982 national championship baseball team, he ordered a slew of
memorabilia, including orange, green and white M&Ms. But what the reunited
ballplayers treasured most was a reel of their winning season, partially
compiled by the Louis Wolfson II Florida Moving Image Archive. "Seeing yourself
as a young man winning the national championship, now that's pretty darn
special," said Remmert, who was the school's assistant athletic director in
1982. "There's not many places you can go to get your history back."
Over the years, curator and preservationist Barron Sherer has accommodated many
requests like Remmert's -- people seeking film from a time when video cameras
were scarce. He also gets requests from people like Ken Burns. It's where the
acclaimed filmmaker went for footage of the historic Hampton House Motel when
he was making his 10-part documentary Jazz.
And when fashion and interior designers are searching for Art Deco Miami Beach
inspiration, it's one of the first places they contact. Now the archive has
added to its extensive Florida history with a massive donation from WPLG-ABC
10. Five thousand three-quarter-inch u-matic tapes of newscasts from the '70s
and '80s will join the eight million feet of film and countless hours on beta,
videotape and DVDs stored in the archive.
HOPES OF DIGITIZING
For now, the footage will remain in that format, but the archive hopes to
digitize it and all the footage it has in storage. "There are a lot of dates
that are not accounted for, in terms of the news. And even if we have it, this
is another perspective," Sherer said. The local TV station is gearing up for a
move from its headquarters on Biscayne Boulevard to an office on Hallandale
Beach Boulevard in Pembroke Park. "Our new building will be bigger, so we have
the space, but this is just a matter of what we need," said WPLG News Director
Bill Pahovey. "We'll still have access to it, but now the public will also."
Among the footage in the donation: the station's 1980 coverage of the McDuffie
riots and the Mariel boatlift.
The Wolfson archive opened in 1986 and is partially funded by local, state and
federal grants. It's located in a 1,500-square-foot room of the main branch of
the Miami-Dade Public Library downtown. Dedicated to film produced in or about
Florida, the archive houses everything from county-commissioned videos to
promotional videos made for local tourist attractions, like Parrot Jungle, now
called Jungle Island. The footage dates as far back as 1910. Film that runs the
risk of deteriorating or holds significant historical importance has been
restored to original quality. Some of it is wacky only-in-Miami images like
one-time sideshow, vaudeville and movie stars Violet and Daisy Hilton --
Siamese twins -- operating their snack stand on West Flagler in 1960. Stacked
in reels, the titles alone tell the story of the area -- 1926 Miami after
Hurricane; 1955 Overtown Easter Parade; 1961 Dade County Jail. The Wolfson also
collects home videos donated by Floridians, a rarity among archives. Only about
10 moving image archives in the country collect amateur films, said Rosemary
Hanes, moving image reference librarian at the Library of Congress.
"This is video that was shot without financial interest. They tell us a lot
about America's history, politically, personally, artistically," Hanes said.
"It's a record of our culture, our history, our society."
The archive welcomes all donations and dubs the film into VHS or DVD for the
donors. "When I got here in 1991, we had about an hour of home movies," Sherer
said. "Now we have thousands." Among the 300 families represented in the film
are two black Miami families -- one identified as the Hayeses; the other
unidentified. The film is of the families spending time at the designated black
beach at Virginia Key Park.
"When you think about it, you don't see a lot of that stuff on television from
the days of segregation; what you see are white families," Sherer said. "We get
requests from scholars from all over the world for the footage." In addition to
the donated material, the archive has been recording and storing every South
Florida newscast since 1989.
CLIMATE CORRECT
The archive's main room is climate-controlled to protect the film --
temperature at 68 degrees, humidity at a minimum. Other storage locations exist
throughout the city. For a fee, Sherer will comb through footage and compile
reels for clients. Depending on what the footage will be used for, prices range
from $100 to $2,000.
"For John Q. Public, it'll probably be $100 to $150," Sherer said. "But if it's
for distribution, all of the licensing fees can make it go as high as $3,000."
More than half the footage in Billy Corben's 2006 documentary Cocaine Cowboys
came from the archive.
Independent producer Molly Bernstein's documentary on Cuban-American dancer
Pedro Ruiz aired on PBS's In the Life in June. She used footage from the
archive of his hometown.
"I rarely get to use home footage in my films," she said. "But it's more
atmospheric. It evokes emotion." Requests also come in from Hollywood -- for
research .
When Oliver Stone was making Born on the Fourth of July, JFK and The Doors, he
requested material. When Michael Mann made Ali, he contacted the archive.
"He wanted to know what the front of his house looked like, what the gym where
he trained was like," said Sherer, who found footage of the boxing legend
watering the lawn at his Allapattah house in old WTVJ newscasts. Novelists also
come in search of inspiration.
"With a moving image . . . there's a richness to it that you can't get from a
still photograph," Sherer said. Every month, the archive gets about a dozen
calls from people who were one of the 14,000 South Florida children who sat in
the audience of The Skipper Chuck Show, the long-running children's television
show. But although the show was broadcast for several decades, most of it was
not recorded. The archive has only 10 episodes on file. It also gets many calls
from Cuban Americans hoping to find footage of their parents arriving in Miami
in the 1960s. The archive is open to the public by appointment, but only
Sherer, another preservationist, Erin Clark, and two interns can handle the
film. "These are one-of-a-kind," Sherer said. "They are artifacts. You couldn't
ask to hold the first American flag, could you?"
Their web site is: http://www.fmia.org/
I am trying to find out if they have any classic soccer on tape.
I have emailed and called them numerous times. They do not respond...
http://www.famousplayersmovies.com/Movies/FamousNews/MovieNewsFeed.aspx?page=15&Story=19285
News Tapes Expand Eclectic Archive:
The Louis Wolfson II Florida Moving Image Archive is Expanding Its
Collection With Tapes of TV Newscasts From the 1970s and '80s
Monday July 30
The Miami Herald
By Erika Beras
When Rick Remmert was organizing a 25-year reunion for the University of
Miami's 1982 national championship baseball team, he ordered a slew of
memorabilia, including orange, green and white M&Ms. But what the reunited
ballplayers treasured most was a reel of their winning season, partially
compiled by the Louis Wolfson II Florida Moving Image Archive. "Seeing yourself
as a young man winning the national championship, now that's pretty darn
special," said Remmert, who was the school's assistant athletic director in
1982. "There's not many places you can go to get your history back."
Over the years, curator and preservationist Barron Sherer has accommodated many
requests like Remmert's -- people seeking film from a time when video cameras
were scarce. He also gets requests from people like Ken Burns. It's where the
acclaimed filmmaker went for footage of the historic Hampton House Motel when
he was making his 10-part documentary Jazz.
And when fashion and interior designers are searching for Art Deco Miami Beach
inspiration, it's one of the first places they contact. Now the archive has
added to its extensive Florida history with a massive donation from WPLG-ABC
10. Five thousand three-quarter-inch u-matic tapes of newscasts from the '70s
and '80s will join the eight million feet of film and countless hours on beta,
videotape and DVDs stored in the archive.
HOPES OF DIGITIZING
For now, the footage will remain in that format, but the archive hopes to
digitize it and all the footage it has in storage. "There are a lot of dates
that are not accounted for, in terms of the news. And even if we have it, this
is another perspective," Sherer said. The local TV station is gearing up for a
move from its headquarters on Biscayne Boulevard to an office on Hallandale
Beach Boulevard in Pembroke Park. "Our new building will be bigger, so we have
the space, but this is just a matter of what we need," said WPLG News Director
Bill Pahovey. "We'll still have access to it, but now the public will also."
Among the footage in the donation: the station's 1980 coverage of the McDuffie
riots and the Mariel boatlift.
The Wolfson archive opened in 1986 and is partially funded by local, state and
federal grants. It's located in a 1,500-square-foot room of the main branch of
the Miami-Dade Public Library downtown. Dedicated to film produced in or about
Florida, the archive houses everything from county-commissioned videos to
promotional videos made for local tourist attractions, like Parrot Jungle, now
called Jungle Island. The footage dates as far back as 1910. Film that runs the
risk of deteriorating or holds significant historical importance has been
restored to original quality. Some of it is wacky only-in-Miami images like
one-time sideshow, vaudeville and movie stars Violet and Daisy Hilton --
Siamese twins -- operating their snack stand on West Flagler in 1960. Stacked
in reels, the titles alone tell the story of the area -- 1926 Miami after
Hurricane; 1955 Overtown Easter Parade; 1961 Dade County Jail. The Wolfson also
collects home videos donated by Floridians, a rarity among archives. Only about
10 moving image archives in the country collect amateur films, said Rosemary
Hanes, moving image reference librarian at the Library of Congress.
"This is video that was shot without financial interest. They tell us a lot
about America's history, politically, personally, artistically," Hanes said.
"It's a record of our culture, our history, our society."
The archive welcomes all donations and dubs the film into VHS or DVD for the
donors. "When I got here in 1991, we had about an hour of home movies," Sherer
said. "Now we have thousands." Among the 300 families represented in the film
are two black Miami families -- one identified as the Hayeses; the other
unidentified. The film is of the families spending time at the designated black
beach at Virginia Key Park.
"When you think about it, you don't see a lot of that stuff on television from
the days of segregation; what you see are white families," Sherer said. "We get
requests from scholars from all over the world for the footage." In addition to
the donated material, the archive has been recording and storing every South
Florida newscast since 1989.
CLIMATE CORRECT
The archive's main room is climate-controlled to protect the film --
temperature at 68 degrees, humidity at a minimum. Other storage locations exist
throughout the city. For a fee, Sherer will comb through footage and compile
reels for clients. Depending on what the footage will be used for, prices range
from $100 to $2,000.
"For John Q. Public, it'll probably be $100 to $150," Sherer said. "But if it's
for distribution, all of the licensing fees can make it go as high as $3,000."
More than half the footage in Billy Corben's 2006 documentary Cocaine Cowboys
came from the archive.
Independent producer Molly Bernstein's documentary on Cuban-American dancer
Pedro Ruiz aired on PBS's In the Life in June. She used footage from the
archive of his hometown.
"I rarely get to use home footage in my films," she said. "But it's more
atmospheric. It evokes emotion." Requests also come in from Hollywood -- for
research .
When Oliver Stone was making Born on the Fourth of July, JFK and The Doors, he
requested material. When Michael Mann made Ali, he contacted the archive.
"He wanted to know what the front of his house looked like, what the gym where
he trained was like," said Sherer, who found footage of the boxing legend
watering the lawn at his Allapattah house in old WTVJ newscasts. Novelists also
come in search of inspiration.
"With a moving image . . . there's a richness to it that you can't get from a
still photograph," Sherer said. Every month, the archive gets about a dozen
calls from people who were one of the 14,000 South Florida children who sat in
the audience of The Skipper Chuck Show, the long-running children's television
show. But although the show was broadcast for several decades, most of it was
not recorded. The archive has only 10 episodes on file. It also gets many calls
from Cuban Americans hoping to find footage of their parents arriving in Miami
in the 1960s. The archive is open to the public by appointment, but only
Sherer, another preservationist, Erin Clark, and two interns can handle the
film. "These are one-of-a-kind," Sherer said. "They are artifacts. You couldn't
ask to hold the first American flag, could you?"