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Oral history interview with Bill Foster
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- 1990 (Creation)
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Bill Foster was born around 1947. He was director of the Northwest Film Center in Portland, Oregon, now known as PAM CUT: Center for an Untold Tomorrow, from 1981 to 2018. He was involved in the founding of the Reel Music Festival and the Portland Jewish Film Festival, and in the development of the Northwest Filmmakers' Festival and the Portland International Film Festival.
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“End credits rolling for Bill Foster,” by Jason Vondersmith, Portland Tribune, August 20, 2018.
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Bill Foster was director of the Northwest Film Center in Portland, Oregon, now known as the PAM CUT–Center for an Untold Tomorrow, from 1981 to 2018. In this interview, conducted by Robert H. Peirce around 1990 at a restaurant in Portland, Oregon, Foster discusses the history of film as an art form, and talks about the creation of early film preservation organizations. He speaks about the history of the Northwest Film Center, about the development of the center’s programming, and about the center’s relationship with the Portland Art Museum and Portland State University. He closes the interview by describing the administrative structure and the funding sources of the film center. An unidentified woman was also present.
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Joint copyright for this interview is held by the Oregon Historical Society and the estate of Bill Foster. Use is allowed according to the following statement: In Copyright – Non-Commercial Use Permitted, https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-NC/1.0/
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- English