Bringing the Past to the People: Moving Image Research Collections at USC

With over 26 million feet of film (6,000 hours of unique content) and a mission to preserve and make accessible this celluloid past, Moving Image Research Collections is one of the largest public film archives in North America. This talk will provide an overview of the film archive, highlighting core collections like Fox Movietone News, explaining our service oriented mission, and introducing our newest collection–its a big one!

Greg Wilsbacher is a curator at the University of South Carolina’s Moving Image Research Collections. He earned his PhD in English from Indiana University and an MLIS from the University of South Carolina. His recent work focuses on the creation of digital surrogates for motion picture film, the digitization and preservation of optical sound, and the history of newsreels and signal corps photography. His publications include, “Forgotten History?: The Value of Newsreel Libraries” (The Chronicle Review, 2009) and “Al Brick: The Forgotten Newsreel Man At Pearl Harbor” (The Moving Image, 2010).

The meeting will be held Friday, August 14th at 1 p.m. in the Hall of Fame Room, Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center.