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Finding Guide

Fond Description

Series IV: Video Material

Divided Into Series

Series I: Textual Material

+ 12.5 m of textual records

+ Created by Theresa Mowatt for Gunild Spiess (wife)

+ "Administrative history/biographical sketch"

I: Textual Material

"...is chiefly made up of scripts, storyboards,

production files, research files, correspondence, meeting notes, equipment files, technical

drawings, bylaws, cast/crew lists, contracts and proposals".

+ Bibliographic list

Accession No. 2006.011

II: Photographic Material

+ Detailed description of fond scope, contents and rights/access

+ 7, 835 photographs

+ 64 audio recordings

+ 337 video recordings

+ 153 cinefilms

+ 1, 945 sets of cinex strips

+ 115 graphic materials & artifacts

+ books (266 titles)

+ periodicals (38 titles)

III: Audio Material

Ex. Project Files: Disney Expo '67

IV: Video Material

V: Cinefilm/Cinex

VI: Artifacts

"...includes high quality dubs of the various

versions of the finished commercial productions, as well as production elements for those commercials shot on video."

* Books? Periodicals? Graphic material?

Time Span: 1941-1987

INF2311:

Assignment #2

Who Was Fritz Spiess?

Series V: Cinefilms/Cinex

Stored: Media Commons Vault

"Fritz was considered the dean of Canadian cinematography".

- Gunild Speiss, Wife (personal communication)

Fritz Spiess Fond

+ Born February 2, 1925 - Died March 12, 1998

Highly prestigious & respected:

+ cinematographer

+ television commercial director

+ documentary filmmaker

+ photographer

"...includes finished release prints of the various commercials as well as a number of short films by Spiess."

"He is a big part of still and moving image history in Canada; particularly within advertising".

- Rachel Beattie, Assistant Media Archivist, Media Commons Archives

Hygrothermograph

+ teacher

Courtney Cardozo

April 3rd 2013

Copyright Status

Series VI: Artifacts

Positives

Weakness: II

Weakness: I

Acid-free folders?

- Finding aid (not finding guide): overwhelming and hard to understand at first

- Separate PDF's, meant for a binder

- Complicated and has barriers

- No access restrictions BUT...

"...consists of examples of the tools that Spiess used to teach his students, as well as mementos of his involvement with the CSC".

- Collection is copious and in very-good condition (thanks to wife and daughter's efforts)

- Provenance and original order

- Archivists are very knowledagble about the collection and the whereaouts about material

- Material is easy to access

- Material is stored within a temperature/humidity controlled vault (monitored with hygrothermograph)

- Collection Level Description is understandable

- Follows Rules for Archival Description (RAD)

- No warning signs and no dangerous material like nitrate film within collection

- Legal permission needed for everything else

Weakness: I + II

Funding?!

Polypropylene or polyethylene cans?

- A piece of extremely important Canadian history

Paperclips!

Photos Retrieved From:

"Intellectual discipline, of course, is very conducive to producing good work. It is clear to see how Fritz' work exhibited this type of discipline."

- Gunild Spiess (Wife), personal communication

Introduction Slide: http://www.fritzspiessarchive.com/images/fritzat50withcamera.jpg

Slide 3: http://www.fritzspiessarchive.com/images/fritz%20teaching2.jpg

Slide 13: http://atinachan.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/copyright.jpg

Slide 16: http://kelliegardner.com/wp-content/uploads/ 2011/12/ no-money-300x300-1.jpg

* All other photos were taken for the purpose of this fond analysis/presentation. They will not be distributed.

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