Nice To Meet...Me...

Hi everyone, my name is Lauren Hubbs, I am a fourth year in the Museum Studies program. Before I found this program I was majoring in Motion Picture Science where I quickly learned I was not cut out for coding. My interests lie with film, film preservation and film archiving; and Museum Studies was the perfect place to start to learn all the basics with museums and archiving. 

I didn't start falling in love with Rochester until my third year and I'm glad I fell in love because my plans for graduate school have me staying in Rochester. The Selznick School of Film Preservation is where I want to be after this year. Fingers crossed. 

This summer, 2017, I worked at the Visual Studies Workshop (VSW) in their film archive inspecting magnetic tape, digitizing tapes, and cataloging film. I also was beyond thrilled to get an internship at the George Eastman Museum working in the Moving Image Department working directly with the Collections Manager, Deborah Stoiber, and a couple of students from the graduate program. I did hands-on work with film, doing inspection and inspection reports, creating catalogue records, film labels, and viewing films on a Steenbeck flatbed. Overall, one of the best and most unforgettable summers I've ever had. I'm hoping my work at VSW and the Eastman Museum will help me produce a thesis idea...soon.

Below is a picture I took from a portion of the film "Garden of Allah", which you can tell is in rough shape. This is a film blister caused by a projector light. This is a rare shape for a film blister to look like a smiley face :) 

Wishing you all the best this semester!

Lauren