Oddball Films is a unique stock footage company specializing in providing offbeat and eclectic footage for feature films, documentaries, broadcast television and other projects. We acquire, archive and supply footage for major creative projects across the globe.

***This is a Fall Internship***

We are searching for exceptionally motivated individuals to train in researching, film and digital image archiving, film and video logging, off-line time code editing, database entry and other technical and related media skills. This is not a production position. This position is unpaid. College credit is required.

What You Will Learn

• Digitizing, archiving and making accessible archival materials

• Cleaning, repairing and archiving 16mm and 35mm film elements.

• How to maintain digital databases

• Principles of time code 

• Logging and metadata procedures

• How to work with digital files

• Off-line editing

• Researching our analog and digital archive¬

Requirements 

• Tech and computer savvy

• Basic knowledge of film and video systems

• Basic understanding of migrating analog (tape) and digital files

• Background in archiving, history, library science or moving image studies

• Self directed and the ability to work independently

• Organized and detail-oriented

• Excellent written and communication skills

• Reliable and dependable

• Goal-oriented

**Minimum commitment required

**You must be currently enrolled in either an undergraduate or graduate college or university program and earn credit for your internship

Building Your Future

This is a intensive hands-on internship. You will be trained and leave here with real world skills. Past interns have received scholarships to New York University’s Moving Image Preservation Program, furthered their studies at the L Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation at the George Eastman House, received grants from the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) and now have positions at Oddball Film+Video, the Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences, Lucasfilm, Witness, Canyon Cinema, the Stanford Archives of Recorded Sound, Current TV and the National Archives.