Newsreels in film archives
Subtitle: a survey based on the FIAF Newsreel Symposium
By: edited by Roger Smither and Wolfgang Klaue.
Contributors: Smither, Roger B. N.; Klaue, Wolfgang.
Publisher: Flicks Books; Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Wiltshire, England; Madison
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
Subjects: Motion picture journalism.; Newsreels.
Description: Newsreels have become increasingly important to historians, programme-makers, researchers and others in providing precious actuality footage of a specific event, custom or personality.

This volume brings together some 30 essays and other contributions on the subject of the newsreel from international members of the Federation Internationale des Archives du Film/International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) and other experts.

Based on papers delivered at the 1993 FIAF Symposium "Newsreel collections in film archives", the book provides a stimulating and wide-ranging discussion of and documentation on the history, preservation, cataloguing and particular appeal of this valuable yet vulnerable part of moving image heritage.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 200-210) and index.
Based on a symposium organised by the Fédération Internationale des Archives du Film (FIAF) in conjunction with the 49th Annual Congress of the Federation at Mo i Rana, Norway, 1-2 June 1993.