New (old) name and new direction for archive.(Shortcuts)(ScreenSound Australia )(National Film and Sound Archive)

Dr Paolo Cherchi Usai, the respected writer, archivist and curator from the George Eastman House Film Archive in New York, who was appointed as Director of the archive in May and took up his position in September, recently announced a five point strategic direction for the institution. He also announced that the name of the archive would be changed back from ScreenSound Australia to its original title, the National Film and Sound Archive, the name that best describes its role. Dr Cherchi Usai, who had been concerned that name ScreenSound made the archive sound commercial, believes that this is a decision of great symbolic significance, in that it recognises the role of the organisation …