Smither Robert, Surowiec Catherine (eds.) This Film is Dangerous! A Celebration of Nitrate Film

Bruxelles: FIAF (Federation Internationale des Archives du Film), 2002. — 690 p. — ISBN-10: 2960029607; ISBN-13: 978-2960029604.This Film Is Dangerous is an anthology published by the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) to examine and to celebrate the life, the death, the afterlife, and the mythology of nitrate film. It incorporates the papers given at the symposium The Last Nitrate Picture Show during the FIAF Congress in London in June 2000, as well as a wealth of original contributions by historians, archivists, veterans, and enthusiasts around the world.Foreword by Martin ScorseseNotes on Authors
Guest Editorials, Endorsements and EpigraphsNitrate Lives - Eileen Bowser
Life with Nitrate - Ib MontyEndorsements byDavid Brown
Helen van Dongen
Richard Attenborough
Fay Kanin
Richard Leacock
Leonard Maltin
David Puttnam
Jeremy Thomas“Nitrate Railways” - Michael Chanan
Orson Welles Defines “The Job of the Archivist” - Tom McGreevey
William Wyler Answers the Question: “How Do You Become a Director?” - Catherine Wyler and Jan Herman
A Poem - Jean-Luc Godard
“Next to the United States Mint...” - Terry Ramsaye
I Am the Motion Picture - Arthur James
The Asbestos Screen and the Not-So-Flammable Nitrate“The Last Nitrate Picture Show”Exploding Teeth, Unbreakable Sheets and Continuous Casting: Nitrocellulose from Gun-Cotton to Early Cinema - Deac Rossel
From the Nitrate Experience to New Film Preservation Strategies - Jean-Louis Bigourdan
Wizards of Oz: Survivals, Losses and Finds in Australian Film History - Ray Edmondson
“The sparkling surface of the sea of history”: Notes on the Origins of Film Preservation - Stephen Bottomore
Trying to Save Frames - Harold Brown
Projecting Nitrate - Stephen Herbert
Phantom Fires - Vanessa ToulminRainbow Chasers: Colour in the Nitrate EraBlack-and-White in Colour - Joao Socrates de Oliveira
Raising the Colours (Restoring Kinemacolor) - Nicola Mazzanti
A Colour Box (Len Lye Recovered) - Anne FlemingAn Epiphany of Nitrate - Paolo Cherchi Usai
The Nitrate Collections of the Archives du Film du CNC, France - Michelle Aubert
The Sound of Nitrate - Martin Sawyer
The Case of the Cineteca Nacional Fire: Notes and Facts in Perspective - Fernando Osorio
The Legion of the Condemned - Why American Silent Films Perished - David Pierce
Mea Culpa; or, How I Abused the Nitrate in My Life - Sam Kula
Reproduction... Disappearance - Dominique Paini
Dangerous Stuff - Kevin BrownlowThe Silver Lining“A Fallen Star”: Problems and Practices in Early Film Preservation - Stephen Bottomore
Don’t Try This at Home: Some Thoughts on Nitrate Film, with Particular Reference to Home Movie Systems - David Cleveland
The Degradation and Disappearance of Cellulose Nitrate Objects - Sylvia Katz
The Film Industry’s Conversion from Nitrate to Safety Film in the Late 1940s: A Discussion of the Reasons and Consequences - Leo Enticknap
Up from the Permafrost: The Dawson City Collection - Sam Kula
Nitrate? Bah! Humbug! - John Reed
Firetraps of Tsarist Russia - David Robinson
The Library of Congress and Its “Nitrate Problem"; or. It Was Necessary to Destroy the Nitrate in Order to Preserve It - Paul C Spehr
Playing with Fire - Clyde Jeavons
Not So Dangerous: Some Recollections - P. K. Nair
Henri Langlois and Nitrate, Before and After 1959 - Roger SmitherEveryday Nitrate“A Sight Worth Travelling a Long Way to See”
“Reckless Disorder” 1 and 2
Charles Urban and Nitrate
“A Complete Loss” - Harry K McWilliams, interviewed by Ronald S Magliozzi
Unseen Showmen and Unsung Heroes: Projectionists in the Nitrate Era in the United Kingdom - Roger Smither
Flash Frame - Clive Donner
Nitrate Portraits: A Photo Gallery
The William T Madigan Scrapbook - Ronald S Magliozzi
Interview with Enrique Blanco, January 2000 - Rosa Cardona Arnau and Jennifer Gallego Christensen
“Throw me out!”
Early Days in New Zealand Government Film-making - Lawrie Morton
“Occasional Mishaps” - Jack Kinney
As If It Was Yesterday - Queenie Turner
Safety Film: False Dawns
Nitrate Nightmares - Frank Worth
“You always treat the film with respect” - Frank Holland, interviewed by Catherine A Surowiec
“35 was the real thing”: A Film Collector Interviewed - Catherine A Surowiec
The Common Hazards of Fire Insurance
“Mort du Film”
Nitrate Memories from TK2 - Christine WhittakerLuminous ImpressionsAl-Dahaia: An Egyptian Case History in the Restoration of Nitrate Film - Magdi Abdel Rahman
Helen Gardner’s A Sister to Carmen: A Granddaughter’s Restoration - Dorin Schumacher
Fragile History - Cushla Vula and Kurt Itzen
The Guano Deposit - Janet McBain
The Man Haters Project - Nancy Turner
A Melody Lost in 1939... - Sakari Toiviainen
The Cobra’s Hoard - Suresh ChabriaWhen Time Ran Out...24 Years to Safety - Clyde Jeavons
The Last Film Search - Ray Edmondson
Remembering the United Kingdom’s Nitrate Project 2000 - Jerry Kuehl
Seven Years on the Road - The New Zealand Film Archive’s Last Film Search 1992-1999 - Jane Paul and Diane Pivac 403
Tradition Is... The Preservation of Nitrate Film Heritage in Austria - Ernst Kieninger
Nitrate Film Repatriation - A Diplomatic Experience - Ann Baylis
Saving Egyptian Film Classics - Sayed BadreyaThe Cost of Nitrate“Calamity Howlers”: An Introduction - Roger Smither and Catherine A. Surowiec
A Calendar of Nitrate Fires
“Un Autodafe Sensationnel"
“Fire!” The 1917 Nitrate Fire in Berlin, and Its Consequences - Martin Koerber
The Drumcollogher Disaster - Sunniva O’Flynn
Inconfidencia Archiveira: Nitrate Fires in Brazilian Film History - Carlos Roberto de Souza
Poland’s Worst Nitrate Film Disaster - Jan Slodowski
Fires in the Spanish Cinema - Jorge Martin Neira
A Subconsciously Intended Burnt Offering? - Tedi Villalba
Dutch Flames and Flickers - Ivo Blom
Kyoto Tales and Tokyo Stories: Incidents in Japanese Film History - Hisashi Okajima and Toshiro Trie
Fire in the UNAM Film Archive - Manuel Gonzalez Casanova
The Last Nitrate Fire in a Commercial Cinema? - Vigdis Lian
Not Guilty: Nitrate Film an Innocent Witness at Two of the 20th Century’s Great Fire Disasters - Roger SmitherFiery Tails - Roger SmitherGoing Up in Smoke
Lethal Weapon 35?
Nitrate Special Effects
Film Fire of the Vanities
Nitrate Auteur
Frighted with False Fire
You Talkin’to Me?
A Hard Act to SwallowSpeaking of Nitrate...Nitrate Pussy - Anonymous
Gosfilmofond Silhouettes: Nitrate in the Russian Manner - Vladimir Antropov and Valeri Bosenko
The Game of Freeze Out: A Celebration of Nitrate Vaults - Mary Lea Bandy
Vault Farce - Kevin Brownlow
The Legend of the Earth Vault - Paolo Cherchi Usai
Waiting for Arirang - Hong-taek Chung
Eternal Hope - Carlos Roberto de Souza
Local Topicals in the North West Film Archive - Maryann Gomes
Three Nitrate Stories - Jan-Christopher Horak
It Happened One Nitrate - Clyde Jeavons
The Sad Story of Abi va Rabi - Fereydoun Khameneipour
Fires and Feedbags: Nitrate Stories from the Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive - Marilyn Koolik and Hillel Tryster
Budapest Experiences - Marton Kurutz
How State Production Targets Helped Save Nitrate - Natasha Lako
Fortune on Our Side! - Vigdis Lian
Henri’s Magic - Tom Luddy
A Sobering Lesson - Janet McBain
She Needed to Get Rid of Them... - Mona Nagai
How We Salvaged Kalia Mardan - P. K. Nair
Role Models - Dinu-loan Nicula
Les miracles ont lieu non seulement une fois - Vladimir Opela
“I am opening the 2nd gathering year of the 4th Quarter of the Parliament!.. A Nitrate Memory - Professor Sami Sekeroglu
Northern Lights: Father Hubbard's Alaskan Bonfires - Francine Lastufka Taylor
Nitrate Tales - Hong Kong's Vanishing Film Heritage? - Angela Tong
Nitrate Film in the Slovenian Film Archive - Lojz Trsan
Two important nitrate deposits - Inmaculada Trull
Some Good Advice (And Some Rather Less So) - David Walsh
The “Tenacity" of Nitrate Film - George R WillemanNitrate MuseCaptain Nitrate - A Super-Hero for the Centenary of Cinema - Borislav Stanojevic
Footage - a poem by Mario Petrucci
£ric Rondepierre - A Fascination with Decomposition
Preservation - a short story by Sarah St Vincent Welch
Hermit - a poem by Tony Bicat
Two Cartoons - Roy BoydBibliography and FilmographyNitrate BibliographyFiction
Poetry
Non-Fiction
The History and Science of Plastics, and especially of Celluloid
“Lost Films”, the Need for Preservation, and the History of Film Archives and Film Archivists
The Theory and Practice of Film Preservation
The Technology and Practice of Cinema in the Nitrate Era
Restoration Festival Programmes and CataloguesNitrate FilmographyFiction
Creative Responses to Nitrate Film
Contemporary Documentaries about Film Production and Film Handling in the Nitrate Era
Documentaries about Film History and the Role of Archives
Archival Test Films