The Al Larvick Fund is grateful to partner with these prestigious labs, vendors and organizations doing like minded work to preserve personal heritage.

SPONSORS

A/V GEEKS

A/V Geeks has over 30 years of experience in media digitization and are happy to talk about anyone’s media transfer needs. They are based in Raleigh NC, but have safely digitized materials from all over the world. We’ve digitized film and video for hundreds of people, universities, government agencies, documentary filmmakers and others.

Additionally, A/V Geeks operates an archival footage site with a collection of over 200K stock footage clips sourced from archival collections - individual collectors, home movie collections, historical and regional archives. It is maintained by A/V Geeks LLC and also respresents Orgone Cinema Archive, the Center for Home Movies, Craig Baldwin, Cinema Bomar Archive and others.

Media burn ARCHIVE

Media Burn Archive is a 501(c)3 nonprofit in Chicago that collects, produces, and distributes documentary and experimental media created by artists, activists, and community groups. Our mission is to use archival media to deepen context and encourage critical thought through a social justice lens. 

Media Burn provides critical archival services for artists and media makers all over the United States. Through our digitization efforts, we have saved thousands of irreplaceable works on videotape, all of which would be lost to decay and technological obsolescence without our efforts. We have made decades of history of art, politics, and culture available to watch and to provide the basis for countless new works.

Our full collection of more than 9,000 videos is available for free at mediaburn.org. They have been viewed more than 20 million times online by students, teachers, filmmakers, and the general public. In addition to watching videos in our expansive online collection, you can be part of our community by joining us for virtual and in-person events; subscribing to our mailing list; using our educational materials and digital exhibits for teaching, learning, and research; utilizing our archival consulting and digitization services; or by adding your knowledge or videotapes to our growing collection.

We’re pleased to sponsor the Al Larvick Fund National Grant in order to preserve and share our national audiovisual heritage.

the mediapreserve

The MediaPreserve was founded in 2006 as an audiovisual laboratory designed for the digital age. It was built specifically to meet the needs of clients with complex audiovisual collections: whether due to machine obsolescence or degrading tape quality, these collections have slowly become unusable. Our broad collection of analog playback equipment allows us to work successfully with all forms of analog audio, video and film. We provide careful, cost-effective and efficient transfers, and are committed to creating customized programs based on the needs and infrastructure of each client.

To accommodate the full range of possible media, we have developed two types of studios: multiple ingest studios for cassette-based media and specialized studios for fragile or difficult legacy formats. The multiple ingest rooms were designed to accommodate large collections of common analog formats. In addition to providing accurate and efficient transfer through multiple ingest, The MediaPreserve offers studios for the careful transfer of difficult or unusual formats. These studios are devoted to items requiring special handling, including artistic content and/or content found on difficult or fragile media.

The studios at The MediaPreserve are designed so that we can quickly and easily transfer playback decks and capture cards, allowing for project customization. Studios are noise environment treated with NC15 for air conditioning or heating noise and STC 60-65 for wall, ceiling and door absorption isolation between studio rooms. Each room is equipped with an individual climate control system allowing temperatures to be raised or lowered as required by each project.

PRESERVE SOUTH

Founded in 2018, Preserve South is a woman-owned small business focused on digitization and preservation of moving image and recorded sound collections. Preserve South was formed in January of 2018 following the closure of Crawford Media Services. Carolyn and Burt Jones, of Backporch Broadcast, recognized the void that was left in the southeast by that announcement. In response, Jones’s first hires were Emily Halevy, National Accounts Manager, formerly of Crawford, and Nathan Lewis, Media Engineer, also formerly of Crawford. With their extensive experience servicing clients in this industry, coupled with Jones’ 30-plus years of engineering experience, Preserve South was able to build out a new facility and bring several former employees, as well as several clients over from Crawford seamlessly. 

Pro8mm

Pro8mm is applauded for being a one-stop shop where Super 8 and 16mm cameras, film, processing, digital mastering and scanning of treasured legacy footage services come together for production and archiving.

Now celebrating our 45th year in business, the company is viewed as leading experts in the archiving and preservation of small format film, home movies and archival footage.  Our products and services have been used in hundreds of professional projects for the entertainment industry, including major motion pictures, documentaries, music videos, television shows, commercials, as well as archival projects for the Presidential Libraries, numerous archives and museums.

Pro8mm uses state of the art data scanners to digitize film to digital files.  Our output includes scanning in Standard Definition, High Definition, 2K, 4K and 5K. All services are performed in house and on site , which allows our dedicated team to provide the fastest turn around times possible with the best quality control for your filmmaking or archiving needs. Please read our recent blog posts on Why Pro8mm For Scanning Your Home Movies and New Scanning Options for Home Movies And Legacy Footage to learn about our workflow and see some examples of our work.

We are proud to be sponsors for the Al Larvick Fund National Grant and helping to raise the consciousness of the importance of amateur films and home movies.

secure media transfer

Established in 2009 and based in Sierra Madre, California, Secure Media Transfer has a passion for helping families preserve and share their memories and businesses to archive their histories.

Secure Media Transfer operates as a boutique media transfer company with personal attention to detail. They work with many individuals, various celebrities and large corporations to achieve their clients preservation goals.

They are happy to sponsor the Al Larvick National Grant for its analog videotape conservation and digital capture needs.