Susan P. Etheridge

Biography

Susan P. Etheridge works as the lead film technician for the Hearst Newsreel Project. The project is a joint enterprise, supported by Packard Humanities Institute (PHI), Los Altos, CA, and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), CA, to digitize 27 million feet of the Hearst Newsreel collection, held by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Susan got her start working as a film technician at Colorlab in Rockville, MA, which led her to obtain her master’s degree in Moving Image Archive Studies at UCLA. After graduating in 2014, she briefly worked at FotoKem, in Burbank, CA, as a film technician, before transferring to the UCLA Film and Television Archive, and later PHI. Susan has also carried out freelance research work for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, for their visual history interviews that focus on motion picture film laboratories. Susan received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Corcoran College of Art and Design in Washington, DC.