Adam K. Beckett DVD: the beginning

I was hired to work for the iotaCenter in October of 2010.  I had many tasks while working there, but the main project that I spear-headed while there was the DVD of the works of Adam K. Beckett, experimental animator, eccentric, VFX supervisor for Star Wars and Cal Arts Alumni.

It was a very long process and I came into it at the beginning of the DVD, but the middle of the entire Beckett Project.  The films had already been donated to the iotaCenter.  They were already restored with the assistance of the National Film Preservation Foundation and the Academy Film Archive.  And many of the materials had already been sifted through for a couple different events and screenings around Los Angeles.

Yet, I got there at the very beginning of the DVD.  So, I really got it before much had been done on specifically digitizing the films and coalescing all the materials and information.

Of course, I'm only realizing now that I should have had a blog going during the process to document what was going on and how we got everything done.  We being the iotaCenter founder and executive director, Larry Cuba, Beckett biographer and iotaCenter board member, Pamela Turner, Academy Film Archive avant-garde and experimental film Archivist, Mark Toscano, and myself.  So, I will try to include all the important details and all the photos I took through out the process.