NHF's fifth annual Summer Film Symposium took place July 30 and 31, 2004 at the Alamo Theatre in Bucksport, Maine. The Moving Image as Biography was an exploration of individual and community biographies on film. Screenings included footage from Cherryfield, 1938 and Adele Ray's short documentary, El Paso Vietnam. The differences between community films made by residents of that community and community films made by outsiders were also examined.

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2004 Symposium presenters are listed below:

Michael Aronson, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies, University of Oregon

Local Views, Developing a Larger History of American Cinema

Maree Delofski

Macquarie University Research Associate, Centre for Screen Studies Research, AFTRS

Archival Footage and Storytelling in THE TROUBLE WITH MERLE

Jan-Christopher Horak, Ph.D.
Editor, The Moving Image
Professor, UCLA Critical Studies

Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania

Jane D. Johnson

MIC Project Manager, Library of Congress

Moving Image Collections: A Window to the World’s Moving Images

Janna Jones

Associate Professor, Communications, University of South Florida

Moving Images, Biography, and the Archival Impulse

Eric Schaefer, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Department of Visual and Media Arts, Emerson College

The Moving Image as Biography

Dwight Swanson

Independent Scholar

Moving Images, New Media and Autobiography