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Collection Name:
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Ira Current
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Title:
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Projects - 1
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Name:
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Current, Ira B.
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Name and Role:
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Current, Ira B.;Photographer
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Resource Type:
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Moving Image
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Genre:
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Amateur films
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Genre:
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silent films
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Place Created:
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[New York]
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Date Created:
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1948/1957
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Date Captured:
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2020-02-24
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Language Term:
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English
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Extent:
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1 film reel (11min., 10sec.)
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Form:
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color film (film, material)
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Internet Media Type:
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video/mp4
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Form:
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16mm (photographic film size)
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Abstract:
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Hand-edited images of Ira Current's home workshop and camera equipment projects, including close-up metal working, camera and projector parts and accessories, technical sketches and a microphone. Also includes titles from the film Narrow Gauge Holiday, the Current family's home projection set-up, and footage of Michael and Susan Current playing with in the yard.
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Note Type:
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Segment sequence
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Note:
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00:00:00 Black-and-white view of photography equipment on a table and several strips of negatives hanging on the wall in Ira Current’s worksho. 00:00:19 Close-up of newspaper article with headline that reads “Fight for Narrow-Gauge Train Will Continue” and another headline that reads “Narrow Gauge Near Durango a ‘Dead Duck.’” 00:00:35 View of a machine Ira Current might have built is sitting on a table. 00:00:53 Opening credits appear on the screen with a view of Garden of the Gods in the background. Next scene begins with a close-up of the cover of a magazine titled "Holiday" issue "March 1947" and reads “Mexico.” The book opens to show a picture of a train and text that reads “Narrow Gauge Holiday.” 00:01:23 A woman holds a pamphlet titled “Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad – thru the Rockies – not around them – issued March 21, 1949.” The film continues to show a map of train routes and stops; “The end” title card appears. 00:02:04 Close-up of tools and materials on a workbench. A machine appears to be spinning and shaving or shaping metal. 00:03:30 Film changes to color film and shows a box with a counter on it. 00:04:09 A man loads a camera with a camera lens filter. A man winds up a reel of film while a woman sets up a screen. 00:05:43 Film changes to black-and-white and shows a close-up view of belts on machinery and other small parts of a camera. 00:07:56 Newspaper headline that reads “Ira Current Wins Movie Contest.” Title card reads “The following motion picture was awarded FIRST PRIZE in a contest of the Binghamton Camera Club, February 16, 1948.” The scene changes to the beginning of the film which shows drawings of machine parts scattered on a table. The film continues to show the machine built and running. 00:09:45 Scene changes to show children watching images on a screen. 00:10:05 Ira’s young children, Michael and Susan play outside on the lawn with wooden lawn mowers. 00:11:10 End of recording.
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Subject Topic:
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Photography--Developing and developers
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Subject Topic:
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Workshops
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Subject Topic:
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Machinery
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Subject Topic:
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Children
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Subject Name:
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Current, Michael
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Subject Name:
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Current, Susan
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Subject Temporal:
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Twentieth century
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Identifier:
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U183050990807_narv_currentIra_projects1_a.mp4
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Identifier ARK:
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https://ark.colorado.edu/ark:/47540/m71q0m78q1dd
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Physical Location:
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University of Colorado Boulder Libraries Rare and Distinctive Collections
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Shelf Locator:
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COU:491
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Access Condition:
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This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).
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Access Condition URI:
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http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
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