Description

We are searching for exceptionally motivated individuals to assist in day-to-day operations including researching footage requests, film and digital image archiving, film and video logging, non-linear time code editing, database entry and other technical and organizational duties. This is not a production position. This position is unpaid. College credit is possible. Oddball Film+Video is a unique stock footage company specializing in providing offbeat and eclectic footage for feature films, documentaries, broadcast television and other projects. We acquire, archive and supply footage for major creative projects across the globe. Our clients have included television productions such as Mythbusters and Glee, feature films like Milk and documentaries like Magic Bus, The Weather Underground and Jesse Owens. Additionally we have supplied footage for music acts such as Kiss, Primus and many more.

What You Will Learn • Digitizing, archiving and making accessible archival materials • Cleaning, repairing and archiving 16mm and 35mm film elements. • How to maintain digital databases • Principles of time code • Logging and metadata procedures • How to work with digital files • non-linear editing • Researching our analog and digital archive Building Your Future This is a intensive hands-on internship and you will leave here with real world skills. Past interns have received scholarships to New York University’s Moving Image Preservation Program, furthered their studies at the L Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation at the George Eastman House, received grants from the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) and now have positions at Oddball Film+Video, the Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences, Lucasfilm, the Stanford Archives of Recorded Sound, Current TV and the National Archives. Note: We are not specifically looking for editors, filmmakers or actors but rather archivists and analog and digital media oriented individuals interested in archiving, researching, compiling footage and cataloging historical data for client and in house use.