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Welcome to Academic Film Archive of North America. At this site,
you'll find loads of information about academic film, the people who made it,
and how it's being preserved and documented by us. It's easy to navigate
through it, once you know where you're going. Here's a map that will guide
you to each page, and its derived links...
Home
About Us
- Facts and Future Plans
- Who We Are (meet our
Board)
- AFA Advisory Board
- AFA Manifesto (our raison d'être)
- Our corporate bylaws
- Confirmation of our non-profit status
Ongoing and Special Projects (preservation and media projects we've
initiated)
- Academic Film Defined (our symposium on academic
film)
- Archival Survival (presentation on tools
that can be used to assist film archives to survive in an institutional
setting)
- Encyclopaedia Britannica's
foreign-language instruction films of the early 1960s
-Lost & Found FilmKids (discover what child and
young adult actors who appeared in academic films are
doing now)
- Geoff Alexander Projects
(past art projects underwritten by AFA's director)
- KTAO Radio History
-
KTAO Roster
-
Bill Ryan
-
Musical
Compositions
-
New
Directions for Farfisa Organ (Geoff's compositions on CD)
-
Terre
Inconnue (describes the challenges of playing the Farfisa VIP-500 organ,
and
highlights the 19 minute composition "Terre Inconnue")
-
Black
Preaching Styles: an Introduction
-
Flamenco
Music: an Introduction
-
Jazz Organ
History
- Roots of
Madness, early 1970's avant-garde music
- 'Girl in
the Chair' LP liner notes
-
Idylwild
Center for Communicative Disorders (ICCD) 2008 Reunion
- Morlam Music (defining a Thai musical form on
VCDs)
- Morlam Show Notes (notes to our
Morlam VCD shows)
- Jintara Poonlarb (bio &
information on Morlam's great singer)
-
Morlam Buyer's List (a guide to
buying Morlam video CDs)
-
Tawan Daeng (a visit to a Morlam
club in Bangkok, with directions)
- Photo Gallery (action at ciné16 AFA
events)
Publications
-AFA in the Press (our press
clippings)
- Films You Saw In School
View Our Films (click on any of our films
to view them on the Internet Archive)
Save a Film by
nominating a film, then donating for its upload for free viewing on the Internet
Archive
- Eligible films for uploading
- Saved Films (uploaded & ready to view)
Research Resources (16mm
Academic film research materials in print, CD, and online)
Filmmakers (the portal to the historically important people who made the
films)
- Missing Filmmakers (filmmakers whose whereabouts we're trying to
find)
- Johanna Alemann
- John Barnes
- John Barnes'
filmography
- John Barnes' 'Macbeth' films
controversy
- Norman Bean
- Walt & Myrna Berlet
- Peter Boulton
- Judith Bronowski
- Julien & Sam Bryan
- Paul Burnford
- Paul Burnford Filmography
and Writings
- Peter Chermayeff
- Bruce & Katharine Cornwell
- Stanley Croner
- Carson 'Kit' Davidson
- Gene Deitch
- Gene Deitch-designed ciné16
t-shirts available for purchase
- Bill Deneen
- Warren Everote
- Chuck Finance
- Grace Garland Janisz
- Ray Garner
- Frederic Goodich
- Wilf Gray
- J Michael Hagopian
- Willard Hahn
- Milan Herzog
- Bruce Hoffman
- George Holland
- George Kaczender
- Steven Katten
- David Kennard
- Ernest Kleinberg
- Ricky Leacock
- Ricky Leacock's
essays
- Isidore Mankofsky
- Karl Maslowski
- Gerald McDermott
- Jay McMullen
- George McQuilkin
- Sid Milstein
- Wayne Mitchell
- Olin Petingill
- Alan Root
- Irving Rusinow
- Bruce Russell
- Paul Saltzman
- Paul Saltzman
filmography
- Bert Salzman
- Morton Schindel & Weston Woods
- Georg Schimanski
- Hermann Schlenker
- Charles & Elizabeth Schwartz
- Tom Smith
- Philip Stapp
- Philip Stapp's fimography
- George Stoney
- Gerald Thompson
- Bert Van Bork
- Pieter Van Deusen
- John Walker
- Mel Waskin
- Clifford B. West
- Clifford West Project (preserving important art films owned
by the filmmaker)
- Sy Wexler
- Bernard Wilets
- Bernard Wilets interview
- Donald Winkler
- Robert M. Young
- Larry Yust
Donations (meet our
donors)
- Donor Archive
- Reshelving & Retrieval Project
AFA FilmShows
- Current Bay Area Show (this week's
program)
- Past Shows & Notes (all filmnotes regarding films we have shown
are listed here, by year): www.chronolog.htm
- 2007 & 2008 Bay Area shows
- 2005 & 2007Bay Area shows
- 2004 San Jose shows
- 2003 San Jose shows
- 2002 San Jose shows
- 2001 San Jose shows
- 2000 San Jose shows
- 1999 San Jose shows
- 1998 San Jose shows
- 1996-1997 San Jose shows
- St. Louis shows in the past
Start Your Own Cinema (film preservation basics, and a "how to"
for starting your own microcinema)
16mm Cinema Store
Search (search our site for films and
keywords)
Contact (contact
information)
