Dino Everett

Lecturer

Beginning as a teenager with running 35mm carbon arc projectors at a Drive-In in the 1970’s, to earning a Master’s in the MIAS program at UCLA. The first half of his life was spent as a touring punk rock musician, and when that no longer paid the bills he went to school and got a job at the UCLA Film & Television Archive for a number of years before taking over the USC HMH Foundation Moving Image Archive. He has published and presented articles on moving image technology, film preservation and film history, while actively supporting the safe use of archival material for public exhibition and was dubbed the punk rock archivist by the University of Indiana. His personal research interests include silent cinema, obsolete film formats and early moving image technology.

Departments

Department of Information Studies

Programs

Masters in Library and Information Science

Areas of Expertise and Advising Interests

Titles and Positions

Lecturer, UCLA School of Education and Information Studies
Curator, USC HMH Foundation Moving Image Archive

Education

Master of Arts, Moving Image Archive Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, 08/2006 – 12/2008
Bachelor of Arts, Critical Studies, School of Cinema and Television, University of Southern California, 8/2003 – 04/2005. (3.92 GPA Magna Cum Laude)
Pierce Community College, Woodland Hills, CA 8/2001-6/2003, (4.0 GPA, Full-time President’s List)

Awards, Honors and Fellowships

2018 AMIA William O’Farrell Volunteer Award
2002 LA Weekly Critics Poll Best Pop Rock Band The Excessories
1999 New Times Los Angeles, Readers Poll Best Hard Rock, Metal, Punk band – The Streetwalkin’ Cheetahs.

Select Publications

“The Grahame L. Newnham Collection and the University of Southern California HMH Foundation Moving Image Archive” Dino Everett, 9.5mm Film and Participatory Media Before the Digital Age. Edited by Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes, Zoë Viney Burgess. Routledge, 2025.
“Edison Home Kinetoscope” and “Smallest Camera of All: 3mm”, Dino Everett and Marsha Gordon, Tales from the Vaults: Film Technology over the Years and across Continents. Edited by Louis Pelletier & Rachel Stoeltje. FIAF 2023
“Dusting Off That Old Projector: Preservation Through Projection” Marsha Gordon and Dino Everett, The American Archivist (2021) 84 (1): 139–164.
“A Touch of the Orient”: Negotiating Japanese American Identity in The Challenge (1957) / Todd Kushigemachi and Dino Everett Screening Race in American Nontheatrical Film. Edited by Allyson Field and Marsha Gordon (Duke University Press, 2019) 175-193.
Amateur Movie Making : Aesthetics of the Everyday in New England Film, 1915–1960. Edited by Martha J. McNamara and Karan Sheldon, With Contributions by Dino Everett. Indiana University Press 2017 – Winner of SCMS Best Edited Volume 2018.
“3mm: The Smallest Gauge” Marsha Gordon , Dino Everett The Moving Image (2016) Fall 16 (2) 1-20.
“When Film Went to College: A Brief History of the USC Hugh M. Hefner Moving Image Archive” Jennifer Peterson , Dino Everett The Moving Image (2013) Spring 13(1) 33-65.
“Introduction to Bio-Fiction: Remix Methodologies and the Archivist.” Dino Everett The Moving Image (2008) Winter 8 (1): 14-37.
“Lionel Rogosin, Frederic Rossif, Finding Christa, Salt of the Earth” Encyclopedia of Documentary Film. Routledge, Inc. November 2005.