Philanthropy News Digest (PND) announced the National Film Preservation Foundation’s (NFPF) Avant-Garde Masters Grants for film preservation.
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One of the films preserved by the NFPF
Carnival in Trinidad (1953)
Director/Photographer: Fritz Henle. Editor: Robert Sosenko. Writer: Richard Plant. Music: Macbeth. Transfer Note: Digital file made from a 16mm print preserved by the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin. Running Time: 13 minutes.
Fritz Henle was a versatile photographer who worked in a variety of genres, from fashion and celebrity portraiture to industrial landscapes. Born in Germany in 1909, he emigrated to the United States in 1936 and started freelancing for LIFE magazine. By the 1950s, he was one of the best-known photographers in America. His work was widely circulated in such periodicals as Harper’s Bazaar, Holiday, Town & Country, and U.S. Camera.
About the Archive
Founded in 1957, the Harry Ransom Center is one of the premiere libraries for humanities research in the United States. The Center’s diverse holdings range from the dresses worn by Vivian Leigh in Gone with the Wind to the Watergate Papers of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein.
View the entire film and notes at: http://www.filmpreservation.org/preserved-films/screening-room/carnival-in-trinidad-1953
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The National Film Preservation Foundation invites applications for Avant-Garde Masters Grants. These cash preservation grants are available to nonprofit and public archives for laboratory work that preserves significant examples of America’s avant-garde film heritage.
The program supports the preservation of a film or films by a single filmmaker or from a cinematic group significant to the development of avant-garde film in America. Works made within the last twenty years are not eligible. Applications should show how the proposed titles have made a significant contribution to American experimental film or, if the works are lesser known today, demonstrate how the films will contribute to a better understanding of avant-garde film history. Proposals must also explain why the proposed films are in need of preservation and include plans detailing how the films will be made available to the public and the scholarly community.
Grants are available to public and 501(c)(3) nonprofit archives in the United States, including those that are part of federal, state, and local government.
The program will fund several preservation projects with grants ranging between $10,000 and $50,000. Funds must be used to pay for laboratory work involving the creation of new film preservation elements (which may include sound tracks) and two new public access copies, one of which must be a film print.
The NFPF also offers Matching Grants, Awarded Grants, and Basic Preservation Grants.
Find out more about the Avant-Garde Masters Grants (http://www.filmpreservation.org/nfpf-grants/avant-garde-masters-grants)
