The Past Is a Moving Picture: Preserving the Twentieth Century on Film

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INDEX Abbott, John, 41, 46 Ainsworth, Gray, 89, 90 Allen, Barry, 106 Allen, Woody, 76, 77, 79, 83 American Film Heritage: Impressions from the American Film Institute, 69–70 American Film Institute, 18, 50, 84, 169; and the Cold War, 56–57; and filmmakers, 59; and Lyndon B. Johnson, 56; original purpose of, 54; preservation mission, 67–71; Stanford Research Institute study, 60–67 American Movie Classics, 1, 84, 102–4 Ames, Alfred, 133 Archival techne, 20 Archive, 174–76; and Walter Benjamin, 10; as disciplined space, 9; as historical phenomena , 17; and political power, 14–15; as space of exclusion, 16; as undisciplined space, 10, 13–16 Association of Moving Image Archivists, 84, 106, 178n32 Authority work, 120–23, 167 Backlogging, 112, 115, 116, 117, 119, 136 Balansky, Arlene, 122–23 Bandy, Mary Lea, 88, 98–99, 129, 130, 132 Barr, Alfred, 41 Barry, Iris, 26, 57, 71, 127, 165, 169; cinematic scholarship, 44, 181–82n44; and the MoMA film collection, 40–44, 128; and the national film collection, 46–50 Beck, Bernard, 81 Becker, Snowden, 53 Belston, Schawn, 106 Belton, John, 100 Benjamin, Walter, 48, 136, 146, 167; The Arcades Project, 11–13; dialectical image, 13, 175; methodology, 12–13, 168; montage, 13; rejection of historicism, 10; view of cinema, 5–7 Billington, James, 1, 84, 95, 101, 122 Birth of a Nation, The, 30 Black, Gregory, 46 Bloch, Marc, 14 Bowser, Eileen, 145, 148, 156 Bradley, John G., 33–35, 38, 40 British National Film Archives, 64 Brown, Beth Davis, 15 Brown, Richard, 15 Burns, Gary, 74 192 · Index Callenbach, Ernest, 68 Canby, Vincent, 74 Capra, Frank, 76; and Lost Horizon, 156–65; and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, 148–56 Card, James, 62 Champlin, Charles, 157, 158, 159, 164 Charney, Leo, 5 Cinema, as a modern idea, 5–8 Cinémathèque Française, 64 Colorization, 18, 19, 54–55, 73, 86; critics of, 74–77; description of process, 74; and the film canon, 78, 81–82; and the National Film Preservation Act, 80; proponents of, 74–75; and Ted Turner, 73; as technological innovation, 81 Connor, R.D.W, 33–35, 38, 40 Copyright, 55, 61–62, 122–23, 180n18; at the Library of Congress, 35–37, 58, 89; and orphan films, 91; ownership, 76, 89, 101, 116–18, 127 Crisp, Grover, 106 Culture wars, 19, 87 Cummings, William, 8 Decherney, Peter, 49 Deming, Barbara, 47–50 Dempsey, Michael, 74 Derrida, Jacques, 14, 16 Digital Library Federation, 171 Digitization, 21, 170–75 Dirks, Nicholas, 15 Film Archives Advisory Committee, 70 Film cataloging, 20, 118–24 Film exhibition, 2, 18, 98–99; at the Museum of Modern Art, 128–29, 132, 133–35 Film Foundation, 83, 106 Film Preservation 1993: A Study of the Current State of American Film Preservation, 84–88, 90, 92 Film restoration, 20–21, 53, 98, 103–4, 120, 137; discourse, 138; as model for history making /film history, 21, 138, 165–66, 175; of Lost Horizon, 156–65; of Molly O’, 141–45; of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, 148–56; as type of filmmaking, 138, 145, 147–48 Foucault, Michel, 15 Francis, David, 1, 3, 99, 149, 153 From Stump to Ship, 132–34 Gaddis, John Lewis, 135, 161, 164 Geary, Patrick, 113–14 George Eastman House, 27, 62, 64, 83, 105 Gitt, Robert, 113, 120; and the restoration of Lost Horizon, 157–65 Gomery, Douglas, 99–100, 104 Gosfilmofond of Russia, 64, 142 Gracy, Karen, 20 Grainge, Paul, 77, 80, 81 Great Train Robbery, 3, 4, 42 Greetham, David, 16 Griffith, D. W., 26, 43, 128, 181n44 Grimm, Charles, 37 Guildin, Jere, 141–45 Gunning, Tom, 99, 104 Hansen, Miriam Bratu, 5 Hart, Justin, 45 Hays, Will H., 29–31, 33, 40, 169 Hearst Metrotone newsreels, 112, 118, 121 Herrick, Doug, 36 Higgins, Steven, 129–30, 132 Historicism, 13, 18, 51, 136, 169; and Walter Benjamin, 10–11, 167 Historiography, 10, 11, 31 History, 135–36, 138, 147, 161; and the film archive, 7–10, 13–15, 17, 20, 174; and film restoration, 137, 156–57, 160–61, 165, 167, 175 History making, 1, 4, 7–10, 14, 119, 174; and film restoration, 136–38, 165–66 Horak, Jan-Christopher, 111 Horne, Jennifer, 183n9 Huston, John, 75 Internet Archive, 96, 171, 173 Ishizuka, Karen, 93–94, 104 Index · 193 Jensen, Richard, 87 Karr, Lawrence, 62, 69, 71, 159 Kirkpatrick, Ernest, 90 Kolker, Robert, 97–98, 107 Koppes...