Day 1

Day 1: Three-eighths of an inch

[Focus on the technology, the gauge, media archaeology, archival practice, broad applications, theoretical debate]

Keynote:

Dr Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes (University of Cambridge), '9.5mm kinship and the creation of a new film genre'

Programme Overview* Times shown as BST – British Summer Time (GMT/UTC + 1)

10:00-10:15 Welcome & housekeeping

10:15-11.30 Session 1

11:30-11:45 Break

11:45-13.00 Session 2

13:00-14.00 Lunch

14:00-15.30 Session 3: Panel A

15:30-16.30 Keynote: Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes. Discussion & close

*Timings subject to change

Programme Detail

10:00-10:15 Welcome & Housekeeping

Session 1 (10.15-11.30) Chair: Dr Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes

Rosie Rowan Taylor (BFI National Archive): ‘A Film Collectors Favourite: The Endurance of 9.5mm Film’

Guy Edmonds (University of Plymouth): In Search of 9.5mm Widescreen

Mathias Bracke (Cinémathèque Royal de Belgique): How to restore a film with a little help from the 9.5mm format

Break 11:30-11:45

Session 2 (11.45-13.00) Chair: Dr Elizabeth Watkins

Paolo Simoni (Home Movies - Archivio Nazionale del Film di Famiglia (IT, Bologna)): Towards the Centenary of Pathé Baby. Survey on the Italian 9.5mm film heritage

Stefanie Zingl (Austrian Film Museum Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Digital History): A world in red and green. The early color process of “Mroz-Farbenfilm”

Andrea Mariani and Luca Mazzei (University of Udine and University of Rome Tor Vergata):

An Arctic Trial. Pathé Baby into the Extreme Lands: The Case of the 9.5mm Amateur Film about the Nobile Expedition to the North Pole (1928)

Lunch 13:00-14:00

Session 3 (14.00-15.30) Chair: Christopher Bird

Christopher Bird, David Wyatt, Dino Everett, Dave Glass (freelance film editor and director):

The importance of 9.5mm film in preserving lost films

Keynote address & close (15.30-16:30) Dr Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes