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...Arnold Arboretum. What they’re not told is how Harvard administrators regularly jeopardize the accessibility of those resources with budget cuts, peculiar staff restructuring and other decisions of questionable sanity. When Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby quietly announced last month that the Harvard Film Archive (HFA) would move—minus its well-respected curator of five years—away from the Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) department and into the Harvard College Library (HCL), film enthusiasts and cinematographically-inclined undergraduates all had to wonder what he was thinking. The decision risks marginalizing?...
...quarter-century-old HFA is one of those institutions for which Harvard has few peers; it’s known by cinema buffs and researchers throughout the country for its extensive archive of nearly 9,000 independent, classic and foreign films—and often the last surviving or best quality print anywhere. Though most visible on campus and within Cambridge for its nightly public screenings and visits from filmmakers, the archive’s more significant role takes place behind-the-scenes in collecting and preserving its coveted collection. Film reels age very poorly, undergoing wear and tear from...
...cinematheque will be a low priority, if not a candidate for elimination. This would be a disservice to local film lovers, including the students who attend screenings there—and certainly will sever Harvard’s ties with those in the Cambridge community who frequent the HFA. Moreover, discontinuing the screening program next fall would indicate an unfortunate kind of academic elitism in refusing to share a collection of film treasures with the public...
...control of the VES professors, who are presumably the best suited to run such a collection. Some members of the film community have speculated that the move might jeopardize the HFA’s prestigious International Federation of Film Archives accreditation. As one of only 127 members, the HFA is entitled to film loans and collaboration with other archives; losing this would be a great disservice to anyone studying film at Harvard...
...filmmaker Alfred Guzzetti, Hooker professor of the visual arts, wondered whether the library administration was suited to carry out the wide range of services currently provided by the HFA...