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Canyon Cinema serves high schools, colleges, universities, museums and community centers throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. We have published eight comprehensive catalogs as well as regular supplements containing practical and descriptive information that are often used as a primary reference source for teachers, curators, students, writers and the general public. Canyon Cinema provides colleges and universities with films for their curriculum. Educators depend on us not only for access to rare film prints, but also for programming information and materials, which are essential for their research and course development. With the increasing importance of visual literacy in American education and the unfortunate liquidation of many public access film libraries, the continued existence of Canyon Cinema is imperative. In addition to Canyon's extensive involvement in education, we are committed to public outreach through a variety of our programs. Canyon Cinema offers a comprehensive internship program that allows college students academic credit for work in our office. We train interns in the cataloging and preservation of films and the processes of independent film and tape distribution. The staff of Canyon Cinema provides the invaluable service of communicating information and programming support to many curators and educators daily. We maintain a 16mm screening room used by the educational and exhibition community to preview film for research and programming purposes. We are also developing a web-site which will include new releases and membership information. Undoubtedly, Canyon Cinema has become synonymous with Bay Area independent and experimental film. As we have actively grown over the past 30 years, Canyon has chronicled the history of this unique genre. As with any non-commercial art form, experimental film requires an infrastructure that promotes, distributes and exhibits work. Canyon Cinema is one of the rare organizations that serves this function.