Benjamin Rubin

Experience

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  3 Generations

  Jun 2016 - Jun 2016

  Intern
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  American Museum of Natural History

  Jun 2017 - Aug 2017

  Intern
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  The Jewish Museum

  Jun 2018 - Aug 2018

  Intern

  • Assisted with preparations for the 2019 and 2021 NY Jewish Film Festival, an annual festival co-presented by the Jewish Museum and Film Society of Lincoln Center• Helped curate Television and Beyond, an exhibit which presents a rotating selection of television clips from the Museum’s Broadcast Archive

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  United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  Jun 2019 - Aug 2019

  Intern

  • Summarized and cataloged over 100 hours of undocumented primary film and video sources• Researched historical background of film documents for the Archive, Museum, and/or public use• Assisted with the storage of film and video elements adhering to Archival Collections Management standards

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  Lauinger Library, Georgetown University

  Jul 2019 - Aug 2019

  Intern

  • Helped conduct assessments of historical audio and video materials selected for specialized conservation treatment• Conducted in-depth historical research on a set of high-priority films from the University Archives• Wrote abstracts on archival films to generate descriptive metadata for a future digital collection• Assisted in performing quality control on recordings from the Georgetown Forum Radio Preservation, Reformatting and Digitization Project

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  Dartmouth College Library

  Jan 2021 - May 2021

  Intern

  • Facilitated a variety of projects for MEP’s digital lab which enables researcher access to archival moving image collections.

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  NYU Libraries

  Sept 2022 - May 2023

  Intern
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  University of South Carolina

  Mar 2024 - now

  Digital Film Technician