COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
The Cornell Cinema video collection includes U.S. and international art film and art video works and documentary, as well as video distribution catalogs. As director of Cornell Cinema from 1982-1994, Richard Herskowitz began a program of purchasing and lending film and video artworks on videocassette. Subsequent Cinema director Mary Fessenden continued this program as long as demand persisted, then donated the video collection to the Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art in 2014. The collection is an important part of the history of Cornell Cinema. The collection focuses on significant works of historical, international, independent art cinema and video art. It includes catalogs from two video art exhibitions and annual catalogs from video distributors of the 1980s and 1990s. It also has Cornell Cinema calendars and posters from 1971 to 1983.
Dates
- 1971-2000.
Creator
- Cornell Cinema (Organization)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
Restrictions on Use:
Due to the fragility and potential degradation of moving image and sound recordings, viewing and listening is limited to items that have been digitized. If an item is in another media format, you may request to have the item digitized for access. Information on ordering access copies may be found on our Reproductions and Permissions page.
ORGANIZATIONAL HISTORY
Cornell Cinema was founded in 1970 and has earned an international reputation as a university film series and also a media center dedicated to providing the Cornell community with experimental, avant-garde, independent, and mainstream media art and cinematic entertainment. With nearly 300 screenings each year, Cornell Cinema has been cited as one of the best campus film exhibition programs in the United States.
Extent
11.3 cubic feet. (11.3 cubic feet.)
6 mapcase folders. (6 mapcase folders.)
Abstract
The Cornell Cinema video collection includes U.S. and international art film and art video works and documentary, as well as video distribution catalogs. As director of Cornell Cinema from 1982-1994, Richard Herskowitz began a program of purchasing and lending film and video artworks on videocassette. Subsequent Cinema director Mary Fessenden continued this program as long as demand persisted, then donated the video collection to the Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art in 2014. The collection is an important part of the history of Cornell Cinema. The collection focuses on significant works of historical, international, independent art cinema and video art. It includes catalogs from two video art exhibitions and annual catalogs from video distributors of the 1980s and 1990s. It also has Cornell Cinema calendars and posters from 1971 to 1983.
SERIES LIST
Series I. Video Works Boxes 1-11
Series II. Printed Materials Box 12, Mapcase Folders 1-6
Physical Description
Video, publications.
General
- Contact Information:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524rareref@cornell.eduhttp://rmc.library.cornell.edu
- Compiled by:
- Madeleine Casad
- Date completed:
- April 2016
- EAD encoding:
- Jude Corina, April 2016
- Date modified:
- Fredrika Loew, April 2018
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by RMC Staff
- Date
- April 2016
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Revision Statements
- 12/07/2018: This resource was modified by the ArchivesSpace Preprocessor developed by the Harvard Library (https://github.com/harvard-library/archivesspace-preprocessor)
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)
rareref@cornell.edu