Bradley Reeves
Film Archivist, Co-president of Tennessee Archive of Moving Image and Sound
Bradley Reeves is a native of Knoxville, Tennessee with a background in audio-visual archiving. A graduate of the L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation at the George Eastman House in Rochester, New York, Reeves has worked on film collections at the National Archives, Library of Congress, and the Archives of Appalachia. Reeves has worked on preserving silent films made during Hollywood's first golden era in the 1920s, regional home movies, military and government film, educational and industrial film, television newsfilm, lost regional television shows, and all types of recorded audio media. Reeves recently participated in a preservation project reformatting and cataloguing portions of an extensive 50 year collection of 16mm newsfilm and obsolete video formats originating from a local Knoxville television station WBIR-TV, Channel 10. Reeves is co-founder of the Tennessee Archive of Moving Image and Sound (TAMIS) in Knoxville. He specializes in transferring old media to modern digital formats: from early wire audio recordings, 78rpm records, 16mm and 8mm home movies, to the various obsolete video formats.
Louisa Trott
Film Archivist, Cataloguer and Researcher
Louisa Trott is co-founder and co-president of the Tennessee Archive of Moving Image and Sound (TAMIS). Her background is in regional and amateur film archiving. She earned an MA in Film Archiving at the University of East Anglia, UK in 2003. Her interest in film preservation grew out of her undergraduate work at the University of Brighton (BA Hons Photography), which focused on regional amateur film. Prior to her MA she worked as a film cataloguer and researcher at the Imperial War Museum Film and Video Archive in London, primarily on the amateur material in the collection. After graduating she worked as cataloguer and researcher on Screen Archive South East's online access project (University of Brighton, UK). She has presented papers on film preservation-related topics at the Orphan Films Symposium, the Society of Tennessee Archivists, universities and historical societies. She has also co-curated and presented a series of archival film screenings at the East Tennessee History Center, Knoxville.
She is currently developing all aspects of the fast-growing Tennessee Archive of Moving Image and Sound, and is also an adjunct instructor for SOLINET (audio visual preservation class).
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