Week 4

This week we made great headway into the collection by finishing the films above Filmmaker's library. As we get further along into the collection we are beginning to think about the institutions and individuals that we may consider trying to get in touch with about the films.

Lindsey has talk to Rick Prelinger, and he has said that he may be interested in some of the films.

We have also made a separate stack of films that are Pittsburgh focused which we believe Filmmakers should probably try to hold onto.

The more I am around these films, the more I hold them and look at them, the more I want to watch them. We are trying to see what kind of state they are in, but I would much rather watch them. I want to see the stories that they hold. I would love to clean them and just put them through the projector.

As I have said many times in class and to my classmates, I don't know much about film. I am a viewer of movies. I love the stories. I like to know why people make them. And above all I like to watch them. I am just wondering if these films are ever going to truly see the light of day again. Is there really an audience out there who cares about these stories anymore? The job is an interesting one, and I have begun to learn a little about film and the care it takes to keep them alive. But in the end it always seems to raise more questions than it answers. Which, I guess, is the course of most things in life.