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Bibliography

Aurand, Ute. [Obituary] ‘Margaret Tait’. Translated from the German. First appeared in epd Film, Frankfurt, June 1999. Bell, Gavin. ‘A Reel Visionary’, The Scotsman, 27th September, 2000. British Film Institute databases: SIFT; Film Index International. Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts (CCAHA). Mold. Managing a Mold Invasion: Guildlines for Disaster Response, Philadephia, 1996. Curtis, [...]

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4. Conclusions

I’m not really interested in ‘recording for posterity.’ That’s an incidental, or accidental value or interest that any of my films might have (not what I’m making it for). I make my films for audiences who are there at the time – for a response at the time.1 On The Idea of Permanence In my [...]

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1. ‘On The Idea of Permanence’

To say that archival records are permanent seems to fix their nature beyond doubt and to establish beyond challenge the full extent of the archivist’s responsibility to them.1 Two years ago, while writing a paper on the preservation of amateur and small gauge film, I came across a reference to an article in the American [...]

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