Preserving the Walther Barth Collection: An Archival Film Case Study

Name: Preserving the Walther Barth Collection: An Archival Film Case Study
Start: 2024-11-13T13:00:00-04:00
Location: 601 S Gay St, Knoxville, TN, United States, Tennessee 37902

Schedule

Wed Nov 13 2024 at 01:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

601 S Gay St, Knoxville, TN, United States, Tennessee 37902 | Knoxville, TN

One of the most fascinating historic motion picture collections at the Tennessee Archive of Moving Image and Sound (TAMIS) is the Walther Barth Film Collection. Barth’s unique amateur films depict privileged society and tourism in Germany and the United States over the course of nearly 100 individual films shot between the 1920s and the 1960s. Conserving, preserving, and cataloging this collection has been a long-term project for TAMIS staff since 2007, culminating in a recent grant-funded comprehensive preservation project. TAMIS staff will describe different phases of this long-term project and show examples of recent state-of-the-art scans of the films.
Lectures are free and open to the public. In-person at the East Tennessee History Center, 601 S Gay Street or online on Facebook Live, advance registration is required for Zoom. Guests are invited to bring a “Brown Bag” lunch.