On Monday, August 29, 2016 I began my Film & Media Archivist internship at Oddball Films, a stock film footage archive in San Francisco. The collection is housed on the third and top floor of a warehouse building in the Mission District and is home to over 50,000 films and video tapes used for research, preservation and providing licensing for footage to be used in films all over the world.
I became interested in this position because I want to learn more about caring for film collections. In my experience I have found that a lot of smaller archives and historical societies don’t know how to care for the film they acquire and accession into in their collections. There are so few dedicated film archives out there to gain hands-on experience and Oddball Films was offering a unique opportunity to get some hands on experience in managing their collection.
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