| PG-271695-20 | Preservation and Access: Preservation Assistance Grants | Chicago Film Archives, NFP | Refrigeration for at-risk films | 9/1/2020 - 12/31/2020 | $10,000.00 | Yasmin | | Desouki | | | | Chicago Film Archives, NFP | Chicago | IL | 60616-1120 | USA | 2020 | Media Studies | Preservation Assistance Grants | Preservation and Access | 10000 | 0 | 10000 | 0 | The purchase of a storage freezer for nitrate films and a refrigerator for films suffering from vinegar syndrome. The Chicago Film Archives holds over 160 collections and more than 30,000 film items documenting the Midwest, including documentaries; avant-garde and experimental films; industrial, corporate and advertising films; educational films; and home movies. This project would support some of the most fragile audiovisual assets, including rare nitrate prints of 1929 news films from the Chicago Daily News Television Service, Mayor Edward J. Kelly, the 1933 World’s Fair, dancer Ruth Page, the original Hiawatha pageant performed by an Ojibwa community in Ontario, Canada, and a 1921 film about damage to a cathedral in Rheims, France, sustained during World War I.
CFA would like to purchase a refrigerator/freezer tor for nitrate films from its collections and a refrigerator for films that have vinegar syndrome. |