my amazing film processing student Max

 

At the end of each term or year that my students work in the archives, I have them blog about their experience. Here is a blog from Max, one of my two excellent film processing students. 

I'm Maxwell Maksymowski, and I am a CMU Junior. I'm a Broadcasting and Cinema Arts Major and a Technical Theater Minor. I hope to work behind the camera on a television set, or to be a post-production professional.

I have been working at the Clarke as a moving film archivist for three years. I make sure that the film I work with, Channel 9 & 10 News raw film footage, is stable and able to be archived properly. I also watch the stabilized film (film that would not fall apart or degrade) on the film projector and describe what I see so that researchers can search for it and find it in the finding aid. This year we worked and finally processed all of the film from the 1980s, and moved onto 1981. Within the next year, hopefully all of Channel 9 & 10 done, and move onto the Eye on Michigan film. 

Outside of the Clarke, I was a sound designer for CMU's We Are the Tigers, and a light designer for the University's dance concert. I also ran sound for the New Venture Challenge for the school of business, and technical directed the Threads Fashion show.

I had a great time this year, and I cannot wait for another.