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Elena Rossi-Snook is the Collection Manager for the Reserve Film and Video of The New York Public Library. She has an M.A. in Film Archiving from the University of East Anglia and was the 2002 recipient of the Kodak Fellowship in Film Preservation. She has served as a curriculum consultant and instructor for the NYU Moving Image Archiving and Preservation MA program and on the Board of Directors of the Association of Moving Image Archivists. Publications include “Persistence of Vision: Public Library 16mm Film Collections in America” (The Moving Image), “Continuing Ed: Educational Film Collections in Libraries and Archives” (Learning with the Lights Off: a Reader in Educational Film), and “Don’t Be a Segregationist: Program Films for Everyone” (Screening Race in American Nontheatrical Film).  Elena’s documentary film We Got the Picture was made an official selection of the 2005 Tribeca Film Festival. Rossi-Snook also teaches film history at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, N.Y.  

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