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A making-of featurette for the first Academy Award winning film "Wings" (1927), with plenty of rare photographs and the participation of William Wellman, Jr.
Why are we still able, today, to view images that were captured over 125 years ago? As we enter the digital age, audiovisual heritage seems to be a sure and obvious fact. However, much of cinema and our filmed history has been lost forever. Archivists, technicians and filmmakers from different parts of the world explain what audiovisual preservation is and why it is necessary. The documentary is a tribute to all these professionals and their important work.
A collection of Yale references from more than 200 films going back nearly 100 years.
Drawing on one hundred years of photobooths in cinema, the film tells the story of the machines and the photographs they produce through clips from more than 140 films, both familiar and obscure, and is a testament to the enduring and universal power of the photobooth to both freeze time and transcend it.
