6. What do some of the terms and abbreviations mean? (alt.movies.silent)
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This article is from the alt.movies.silent FAQ, by Rick Levinson Rick.Levinson@sympatico.ca and Emily Way emily@vex.net with numerous contributions by others.
6. What do some of the terms and abbreviations mean? (alt.movies.silent)
Here is a list of frequently used initialisms, courtesy of Jon
Mirsalis:
LOC: Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
GEH: George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
MOMA: Museum of Modern Art, New York City
PFA: Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
UCLA: University of California-Los Angeles
FIAF: La Federation Internationale des Archives du Film
AFI: American Film Institute
BFI: British Film Institute (which isn't an archive really, but they
acquire films that are then stored at the National Film Archives in
London)
NARS: National Archives, Washington, D.C.
fps: frames per second
Jon also notes that he and others frequently refer to things being at
"Turner." This refers to Ted Turner's Turner Entertainment; however,
the company is now known as Warner Brothers Classics since Time/Warner
bought Turner Entertainment in a billion-dollar stock swap.
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