Exploring LA City Archives
Ever wonder what 45,000 square feet of records looks like?
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TAMI Joins UH for National Women's Conference Commemoration
The Texas Archive of the Moving Image will join the
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AMIA Member AVPreserve receive award
DPN + AVPreserve Collaboration wins 2017 NDSA Innovation
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Archivists Promote AXF as Standard to End Metadata Issues
Migrating physical elements often leaves out information
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New Software Tackles Scratch Removal for Film Restoration
At The Reel Thing, an AMIA (Association of Moving Image
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The Strong Museum Has Set Out to Preserve (and Legitimize) Video Game History
“We’re really trying to capture the full sweep
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Who Needs Hard Drives? Scientists Store Film Clip in DNA
It was one of the very first motion pictures ever made: a
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Establishing a Corporate Archive at NPR
NPR has always valued archives and research. Read>
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Start the presses: How vinyl production was reinvented from the ground up
Until recently, the equipment used to make records in the
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The repatriation of Kenya’s musical heritage
"Many hundreds of recordings by an early generation of
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Preservation of civil rights documentary THE STREETS OF GREENWOOD is complete
In its brief 20 minutes, The Streets of Greenwood records
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Rare Uncut 35mm Print of Dario Argento's SUSPIRIA Discovered!
...this 35mm print of the original Italian cut of the film
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Brooklyn Academy of Music Puts 70,000 Archive Materials Online
Materials from the archive include press clippings and
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End of an era
It has almost become a cliche to now talk about the death
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Iowa man’s treasure trove of silents
Decades ago, Iowa history teacher Michael Zahs
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Audiovisual Archives of Monaco will celebrate their 20th anniversary
Digital technology now accompanies the backup and
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Videotapes Are Becoming Unwatchable As Archivists Work To Save Them
...colleagues meet in this loft in Tribeca in New York City
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Needles In the Film Stock
How the Co-Directors of Letters From Baghdad Scored Rare
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Walt Disney’s Recovered Original Disneyland Map to Be Auctioned
What is possibly the most important piece of artwork in
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Hollywood Archivists Can’t Outpace Obsolescence
“archive heroin—the first taste
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why cinema is having a monochrome moment
The new colour-free version of Mad Max: Fury Road is
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Peter O'Toole personal archive heads to University of Texas
The personal archive of Peter O’Toole, including
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Out of print, but free online and worth the read.
Karen Gracy's book Film Preservation: Competing
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For years, silent film enthusiasts thought the film was lost — until Richard Scott dug it out of his basement,...
Silent movie from 1924, on Library of Congress list of lost
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Hollywood Heritage Celebrates the 90th Anniversary of the Chinese Theatre
On May 1, 2017, Hollywood Heritage, the TCL Chinese
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Polish film archive gets funds to fix leaks, flooding
While the film archives have not been damaged, “the
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Dozens of Japan's Earliest Animated Films Put Online to Mark 100 Years of Anime
Japanese Animated Film Classics' features 64 of the
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NASA Unveils New Searchable Video, Audio and Imagery Library for the Public
Users can browse the agency’s most recently uploaded
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April 2 marked TAMI's 15th birthday!
...we wanted to share some of our favorite birthday footage
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A new theater opens in Portland, OR -- at the airport!
While other airports add yoga rooms and rooftops pool in
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Amateur Movie Database
The Amateur Movie Database (beta version) is now online at
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AMIA STATEMENT ON DIVERSITY, INCLUSION, AND EQUITY
Over the past year, AMIA members have worked on drafting a
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Announcing the George Blood, L.P. Women in Audiovisual Archiving and Technology Scholarship
AMIA is proud to announce a new 2017 scholarship!The George
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Robert Osborne, Host Of Turner Classic Movies, Dies At 84
...Osborne "grew up before the Internet made film
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Deluxe still painstakingly edits film by hand
Before being able to digitally edit entire movies on your
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Did you catch the premiere of TOWER as part of PBS's Independent Lens last month?
TAMI is a proud co-producer of the documentary, providing a
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Fourth Annual AV Archives Night Spotlights Social Justice
AV Archives Night has become an evening of entertainment
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Group’s rescue of old films preserves glimpse into past
Want to see an older movie? Good luck with
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Search Engines to Push Down Pirate Sites in Search Results in Britain
Google and Microsoft’s Bing have signed up to a
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Diehard Coders Just Rescued NASA’s Earth Science Data
Diehard coders are building robust systems to monitor
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Digital Cinematography Camera Makers Honored at SciTech Awards
During the awards ceremony, the film tech community
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The Met Places Over 375,000 Artworks into the Public Domain for Unrestricted Use
More info is
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WEATHERING TEXAS
A new web exhibit from the Texas Archive of the Moving Image
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A film printed on paper?
"...with its distinct marriage of digital and analog.
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David Shepard, Silent Film Preservation Giant, Dies at 76
He restored most of the silent films in today's DVD and
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Travel the Early-20th-Century World in Over 700 Films
The Digital Penn Museum is a new portal to thousands of
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Trump’s Win Revives Lost 1924 Film That Predicted Rise of Nazi Germany
“The City Without Jews,” an Austrian silent
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Rogue One Director Reveals he Used Unseen Footage From Original Star Wars
"We went to Skywalker ranch, and there's the
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Master Recordings — From Abbey Road to Born to Run — Could Be Lost Forever, Without Archivists' Help
Capitol's archives are well-cataloged and
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Paul Newman’s Lost Masterpiece
— And How We Rediscovered ItRead here
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This Movie Was Nearly Lost. Now They’re Fighting to Save It
When it debuted in 1982, “Cane River” was
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Stirring Re-Release Trailer For Abel Gance’s Newly Restored, 5 1/2 Hour Silent Epic ‘Napoleon’
Though it marked the fledging early days of the medium,
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Judging a book through its cover
New computational imaging method identifies letters printed
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Mystery Photos: Can you identify?
This week, in the Library’s ongoing series of unknown
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Travel Grant Deadline Extended to September 9th!
Our colleagues at Roundabout Entertainment have funded
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Digging up digital treasure from the floppy disks
Archivists trying to preserve material stored in obsolete
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Cloud Services Spending to Reach $195 Billion in Four Years
...global revenue from public cloud services will surpass
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Take a look at how a $50,000 cinema lens actually works
The Science Channel over on YouTube has a “How
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AMIA 2016 | Scam Alert
A word of warning...We received notice this morning that a
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So Long, VCR. We Hardly Knew You (Were Still Around)
The VCR is officially going the way of the Betamax and
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George Eastman Museum Acquires...
Key Items in Cinematography History.Read story here:
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Digital Town Square series
Entertainment Technology Center at USC held a symposium on
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Mostly Lost 5
Silent moving images, circa 1924, depicting frivolity at an
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The Hollywood Film That Hitler Didn't Want You To See
...hardly anyone has heard of James Whale’s
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AMIA 2016 | Call for Proposals - Deadline Extended to May 16th!
The AMIA Conference Committee invites proposal submissions
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Museum Gets Only Known Film of Louis Armstrong in Studio
The 33-minute, 16mm film captures Armstrong recording his
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This neural network ‘hallucinates’ the right colors into black and white pictures
The machine overlords of the future may now, if it pleases
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Obama Gifted With Restored Copy of 'Native Son' During Argentina Visit
The president received a complete and restored print of the
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Lights, Camera, Archive
Tucked beneath the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts,
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Rare Tape Of Wilt Chamberlain's 100-Point Game To Be Archived
The Library of Congress names 25 recordings to be added to
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Reels of classic films tend to melt into goo
If you care even a little about the art and history of
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Restored Movies By African-American Filmmakers Find New Audiences
Some of the earliest movies by African-American filmmakers
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Travel the World With Ennio Morricone's Evocative Film Scores
Celebrate the maestro's first Oscar with a musical trip
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These Glass Discs Can Store Data for Billions of Years
“Five-dimensional” data discs could be the
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When Harper Lee Visited the Set of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird
Jeff Pirtle, the director of NBCUniversal archives and
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Film's cinema comeback is driven by nostalgia, not logic
Digital is now technically as good and gives directors more
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Call For Papers - 20TH SEAPAVAA CONFERENCE
More here:http://seapavaaconference.com/call-for-paper/
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Super Bowl I Tape Was Erased Long Ago; Now The Game Will Air Again
After the first Super Bowl was played back in 1967, NBC and
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Trove of Marine Corps films from 1930s-1970s to be preserved
Never-before-seen films of Marines ramming artillery shells
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‘Star Trek’ Creator Gene Roddenberry’s Lost Data Recovered From 200 Floppy Disks
Documents written by “Star Trek” creator Gene
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THE HATEFUL EIGHT: The boys behind the booth
By now everybody knows that Tarantino’s
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Lost 1928 Walt Disney Film Uncovered in British Film Institute Archive
Lost 1928 Walt Disney film uncovered in British Film
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SMPTE 2015: Preserving and Archiving for the Next 150 Years
In addition to tackling issues related to new technologies
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Too many classic films remain buried in studios' vaults
“I would have to break the law to see that
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Rare Footage of FDR at NIH
Today, the National Library of Medicine is making the film
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Fox Offers 100 Films Digitally to Celebrate Century Mark
The shift away from DVDs and the collapse of the video
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AMIA Broadens Focus on Education with Launch of Webinar Series
The Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) will
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FDCP vigorously salvaging and restoring Filipino classic movies
FILIPINOS will get the chance to view more film
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North Dakota man inspires preservation of home movies
An unexpected type of film set a new course of activity in
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Zapproved Releases Third Annual Legal Hold and Data Preservation Benchmark Survey
The Industry's Most Extensive Study of Preservation
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The Internet Of Sound
Analog sonic codes can be found in unlikely places:
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• How High Def is Changing Your Brain – and Driving the Prop Master Crazy
Real life at 48 frames per second can blow your mind, or
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• Smithsonian Takes a Giant Step with Its First Kickstarter Campaign to Fund the Conservation of Neil Armstrong’s Spacesuit
On the 46th anniversary of the historic moonwalk, the
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• Forget 4K: This Low-Res Screen Creates Images Out of Thread
4K displays are tack-sharp, plentiful, and getting cheaper.
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Living Test Patterns: The Models Who Calibrated Color TV
The white women known in the 1950s as “Miss Color
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AP releases a million minutes of filmed history to YouTube
The collection of more than 550,000 digitised video stories
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IOC preserves a century of Olympics history
The archives captured some of the most iconic, and curious,
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This Nuclear Bunker Film Preservation Article Will Make You Respect Video Conservation
"All told, the preservation process can take anywhere
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Director Frank Borzage's 'transcendent view of love' fuels UCLA film series
In a career that spanned more than four decades, Borzage
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Rare, moving images of survivors of the 1915 Armenian genocide will be shown in Bologna
A significant historical source that was discovered
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EUscreenXL wants your opinion
EUscreenXL brings audiovisual heritage collections
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Storing Digital Data for Eternity
“People think by digitizing photographs, maps, we
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Call for Papers: View
VIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture,
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The Greatest Pie Fight in Cinematic History Has Been Found
ver the weekend, it was quietly announced at the Library of
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The Archive Thief
The Man Who Salvaged French Jewish History in the Wake of
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Man unearths dad's never-before-seen footage of JFK
When his father gave him a box of old home movies, Steven
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‘Glorious Technicolor: From George Eastman House and Beyond’
The centennial of the company’s incorporation in 1915
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Sony Pictures Entertainment Completes 4K Restoration of 1776
The Director’s Cut is based, in part, on an earlier
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AMIA Elections - Call for Nominations
It's June, and that means it's time to lock in
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Film Archivists’ New Supporting Role: Silent Film Preservation
Last week, Universal announced its continued commitment to
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AMIA Film Advocacy Task Force Store is Open!
The AMIA Film Advocacy Task Force store is now open
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Vote for AMIA's New Logo
This year, AMIA celebrates its 25th anniversary. And to
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Lost 'Sherlock Holmes' film shot in Chicago from 1916 found in France
One day in February 2014, a staff member of the
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The race to preserve disappearing data
Casablanca” and “Citizen Kane”are
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AMIA 2015 Call for Proposals: Deadline Extended Until Monday, May 18th at Noon (PDT)
The AMIA Conference Committee invites proposal submissions
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‘Vinegar rot' threatens library microfilm
RACINE – Recorded history has been slowly
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Live cast to dub Capra film at Silent Film Festival
New York Film Forum programmer Bruce Goldstein leads a cast
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DAS is this Friday at MoMA - case studies from Johns Hopkins, the FBI, HyperTED, WWE, HiPSTAS, and more
Read more about the program and register here:
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Film and Television Archive project to restore Latin American movies
“Casta de Roble” is the first film selected for
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“Citizen Kane,” “The Third Man” and “The Lady from Shanghai” will be screened during a centennial celebration of Welles
Cannes Classics Program Includes Orson Welles Tribute,
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State mulls archive for Marathi films
PUNE: The state's cultural affairs minister Vinod Tawde
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A look inside the restored St James Theatre
Auckland's St James Theatre has opened its doors to the
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Restoring Sights and Sounds Past for Future Generations
For the past 18 years, a lot of Singapore's history has
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Registration for Mostly Lost IV is officially open!
The fourth installment of this unidentified film event
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A Whole Lotta Data Going On
At the 2015 NAB show there were lots of drones, lots of
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Behind Vault Doors: Film treasures tucked away in Wisconsin Historical Society
Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research contains one
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102-year-old dancer sees herself on film for first time
During the 1930s and 1940s, Alice Barker was a chorus line
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A new documentary on the Khmer Rouge resurrects a lost Cambodia
Pol Pot might have anticipated that posterity would not
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VHS recordings are enjoying retro revival
A glance at the VHS tapes in a stash that, for Joe Pesch,
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Holocaust documentary whose horrors remained unseen reaches cinemas – after 70 years
In 1945, Alfred Hitchcock advised on a film that would
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The Dispute Over Preserving Gaming's Past Is Boiling Over
This week's gaming headlines may have been dominated
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The Unseen Seen: When film reels aren’t preserved perfectly, it makes them all the more interesting to photograph
When photographer Reiner Riedler began shooting film reels
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Preservation Week 2015: Introduction to Film Preservation with NYPL’s Reserve Film and Video Collection
Please join us for a presentation and screening from the
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The LA rebellion: when black film-makers took on the world – and won
Forged in the white heat of Vietnam and black-liberation
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The Film Collector
Berlin-based film and video curator Stefanie Schulte
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Nigeria: Archiving Nigerian History of Film, Socio-Cultural Values Through Digital
Professionals and Stakeholders within the Nigerian film
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Silent film night at Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum
Silence is silver -- silent movies on the silver screen,
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Czech films restored with help from abroad
The “Digital restoration of Czech film
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DAS 2015: New York - Join Us May 8 at MoMA!
DAS brings together speakers and casestudies providing a
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Canada’s Quebecor, Elephant Launch Elephant ClassiQ
Canadian telco/media giant Quebecor is teaming with
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AMIA Scholarship and Internship Applications are now available!
AMIA believes that the education and training of moving
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Of fading film and lost celluloid on National Film Day
As documentation of the nation's history, local films
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London Film Archive has a focus on new recruits
CREATIVE SKILLSET, the industry skills body for the
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The Sound of Music:' The Story Behind Its 4K Restoration
In celebration of The Sound of Music’s 50th
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Once thought lost, Harry Houdini's 'Grim Game' film reappears
For years, the only remaining footage of Harry
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Roger Mayer, Advocate of Film Preservation, Dies at 89
He started in the film industry in 1952 as a lawyer with
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Grand Finale For Cinefest
After 35 years, the Cinefest in Syracuse, New York has come
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Janus Films To Release Satyajit Ray’s Restored Apu Trilogy
After seven year restoration on three continents, the films
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The Scarface Suit and Other Awesome Movie Artifacts Are Hiding in This Secret Warehouse
To mark the 100th anniversary of Universal City this March,
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Vittorio De Sica’s ‘The Garden of the Finzi-Continis’ Freshly Restored Thanks to Fashion World Rescue
ROME — Italian director Vittorio De Sica’s 1971
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Italy’s Cineteca Di Bologna to Restore All of Buster Keaton’s Silent Films
ROME — Italy’s Cineteca di Bologna, the
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Yale library acquires blockbuster collection of ’70s and ’80s VHS tapes
Yale’s Sterling Memorial Library recently acquired a
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Christopher Nolan Urges Hollywood to Step Up Efforts to Preserve Film
In February, the Hollywood studios inked deals with Kodak
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How 'Grey Gardens' Was Restored to Its Squalid Glory (and Why You Need to See It)
It's ironic that a documentary about faded glamour
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AMIA Scholarship and Internship Applications are now available!
AMIA believes that the education and training of moving
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Younger Consumers Find Digital Video More Relevant Than TV
A recent study by Hunter Qualitative Research, commissioned
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Millennials love this newfangled photo technology called film
Film is dead. Long live film.The nostalgic have been
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‘Chaplin is one of the global icons of the 20th century’: Cecilia Cenciarelli
Shortly after Cecilia Cenciarelli joined the Cineteca di
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Lego Oscars Were a Major Hit During and After Academy Awards
While “The Lego Movie” did not bring home
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The forgotten interview with Cambridge spy Guy Burgess
An interview with Cambridge Five member Guy Burgess
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Alumnus preserves and shares film history
Sprinting around the classroom in Riddick Engineering
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Meet the Archivists Working to Preserve Classic Sex Films
Known as the “Godfather of Gore,” director
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NYU helps recover Houdini film
“The Grim Game,” a 1919 silent film starring
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Lost Home Movie Footage of Selma March Discovered by the Texas Archive of the Moving Image
Never seen before 16 mm color footage from the third Selma
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Why Hollywood is now trying to save film after all its digital trailblazing
The biggest Hollywood studios recently reached a deal
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A Painstaking Effort to Reunite Forgotten Films with Their Owners
Inside a 260,000-square-foot warehouse just over the
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Kodak Inks Deals With Studios to Extend Film's Life
Kodak has finalized deals with the major Hollywood studios
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Step Inside The Old Kings Theatre, Being Restored To Its Former Glory
The theater, which originally opened in 1929 and shuttered
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Sundance 2015 Is The First Year In The Festival's History With No 35mm Feature Film Screenings
"We started this in ‘02, and I was like,
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31 Rolls of Undeveloped Film from a Soldier in WWII Discovered and Processed
Photographer Levi Bettweiser is the man behind the Rescued
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Hollywood and CES Launches UHD Allieance
During CES, Hollywood and the consumer electronics industry
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AMC teams with MoviePass to Get Millennials Back in Theaters
AMC announced the partnership with MoviePass shortly after
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VR Films Are Expected to Make a Splash at Sundance Festival
At the Sundance Film Festival in Park City next month,
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Sales of vinyl music are (actually) breaking records
One of the fastest growing segments of the music business
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90 Year-Old Lost Film Survives in Found Cache of Still Photos
Story here:
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2014 Conference Presentations
Materials provided from speakers will be posted as they are
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LGBT Committee Dinner Outing and Official Meeting at AMIA 2014
Hello everyone,I would like to announce that the LGBT
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Visit our 2014 Vendor Cafe in Savannah!
Join us in the Vendor Cafe! Our supplier and service
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Libraries may digitize books without permission, EU top court rules
European libraries may digitize books and make them
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How Movies Synchronize the Brains of an Audience
HOLLYWOOD, California—Picture a movie theater, packed
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Are You Heading to Savannah for the Conference?
If you are going to our annual conference in Savannah,
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How Long Do CDs Last? It Depends, But Definitely Not Forever
Back in the 1990s, historical societies, museums and
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Heading to Savannah for AMIA's Annual Conference?
If you are going to Savannah for the conference don't
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Will you be at SAA?
AMIA will have a booth this year – so stop by and say
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These Photographs Would Die Without Him
Levi Bettwieser buys old cameras not for the camera itself,
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Historic Seaside Heights film 'Sun and Fun' gets new life with restoration
SEASIDE HEIGHTS - A long-lost film of the Seaside Heights
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North Carolina State Archives Awarded Grants to Preserve Films
RALEIGH, NC July 28, 2014 – Few media formats have
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Keeping Cinema Alive By Restoring Older Films
I've been going to the Il Cinema Ritrovato Festival in
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Drive-ins Use Creativity to Afford Digital Switch
Many in the movie industry feared the need to convert to
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Remarkable Woman - Nancy Watrous, film archivist
Being executive director of Chicago Film Archives has its
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Christopher Nolan Predicts the Future of Film
Bigger theaters, expensive projection and new directors
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Many L.A. movie palaces ready again for close-up
Los Angeles' downtown theater district once boasted the
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Archivist: IRS didn't follow law with lost emails
The Internal Revenue Service did not follow the law when it
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The HistoryMakers will become part of the Library of Congress
The small details of everyday life and more profound events
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The Forgotten Stars of Silent Film
Films that wowed audiences a century ago have been all but
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Debra Winger talks about the US 'facelift epidemic'
Accepting a lifetime achievement award in Transilvania,
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New online exhibit of WWII Propaganda Films: IU Libraries Moving Image Archive
In honor of the 70th anniversary of D-Day and the
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The Library of Congress goes digital
When the Library of Congress comes to mind, you probably
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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World Roadshow Restoration
Check out FotoKem's restoration
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Steps—not dance steps—to digitizing a collection
At the recent Texas Conference on Digital
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WATCH: Trailer for restored Beatles film A Hard Day's Night now online
The Beatles' first feature film has been digitally
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Permanent Midnight: You (Yes, YOU) Can Help Save Exploitation Cinema's Forgotten Gems From Extinction
The lucky few who caught the repertory screening of Miami
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Grave of Forgotten Silent Film Star Marked at Green-Wood Cemetery
Nearly 100 years after the death of silent film star
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Kickstart some art: Cool crowd-funding ideas in need
Once again, it's time for my monthly roundup of
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Cannes Classics 2014 Program Revealed
The Cannes Film Festival organizers have revealed the
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Beatles’ ‘A Hard Day’s Night’ Restored, Set for July 4 Release
A new restoration of the Beatles’ 1964 film “A
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A monumental movie makeover
Newly restored versions of some of the world's best
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Norway gives China only existing copy of 1927 silent film thought to have been lost
Norway will hand to China a copy of The Cave of the Silken
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SABC1 to broadcast restored South African classics during April
Starting on 13 April, and every Sunday after that at 20h30,
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Lost British silent film classic Love, Life and Laughter found in Dutch archive
There are few who can claim to have seen the 1923 film
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USC Film Archive Turns Up Rare Historic Baseball Footage
Nothing preserves history like film, especially the kind of
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35mm movies fades to black as digital takes over
FOR the first time, the Sydney Film Festival is unlikely to
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Internet Archive To Preserve Woman's Collection of 40,000 VHS and Betamax Tapes
A Philadelphia woman’s collection of over 40,000 VHS
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National Film Preservation Foundation Unearths Lost Silents in Pact with Dutch Museum
The National Film Preservation Foundation has found a rich
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Italo Auteur Marco Bellocchio Appointed Cineteca Di Bologna Prexy
ROME – Italo auteur Marco Bellocchio has been
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Technicolor Thailand To Close
Staff at the long-established plant have been told that
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The History of the Movie Trailer
Dating back to the first, simple trailers in 1913, to the
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Noir City at the Egyptian Theatre has a dark, international lure
Noir City at the Egyptian Theatre opens with a restored
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Stanley Kubrick’s '2001: A Space Odyssey' Returning to U.K. Cinemas
LONDON – Stanley Kubrick’s science fiction epic
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Digital Preservation’s Place in the Future of the Digital Humanities
Ensuring long term access to digital information sounds
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Lost joys: Directors reveal searches for missing movies
Three very different films thought to have been lost to
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A Conversation With Kurt Norton About Film Preservation, Production, and Funding In the Digital Age
Film is an art form based in technology and as technology
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Will the shift to digital destroy movies as we know them?
Digital movies are becoming more and more popular, but some
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'Takei,' 'Le Chef' to open RiverRun Festival in Winston-Salem
In previous years, RiverRun has had spotlight sections
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New Home for NZ's Oldest Films
The New Zealand Film Archive and Archives New Zealand
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Will Today’s Digital Movies Exist in 100 Years?
Think about your favorite movie: Is it a classic, like
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Silent movie discovered that captures Nacogdoches in 1938
A rare piece of Nacogdoches history has been unearthed this
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Use film to teach pupils about history, says Les Miserables star Eddie Redmayne
Actor Eddie Redmayne says schools could use film to teach
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How Criterion Collection Brings Movies Back From the Dead
There are few names that represent a commitment to the
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Illuminating shadows at the Berlinale
The Berlinale isn't only a window into the latest in
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Colorado Ski Museum lands a grant for film preservation
VAIL — The Colorado Ski & Snowboard Museum and
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Lack of resources hits film restoration: Robin Baker
Head curator for British Film Institute’s (BFI)
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The Last Film Lab?
"...will 2014 be the year we see the last film
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Now, NFAI to Archive Every Movie Made
Every film made in India, be it commercial, art or
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Unpublished Chaplin Novella to Be Released
On Tuesday, the Cineteca di Bologna, an Italian film
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Hardacre group buys Tipton theater
The silver screen may flicker once again at the Hardacre
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Boyd Theatre remains in limbo as hearing recesses without a vote
PHILADELPHIA The Fate of the historic Boyd Theatre, Center
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How'd They Shoot That? Here's the Cameras Used By the 2014 Sundance Filmmakers
"As you can see, the vast majority of filmmakers shot
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Bertelsmann Restores and Digitizes Film Classic, Dr. Caligari – 2014
Almost a century after its premiere, the 1920 silent movie
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Most Watched Movie in History Re-Mastered, Set to Open in Theaters
Viewed billions of times and serving as a global Christian
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Smut, Refreshed for a New Generation
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — Between a detention center and a
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"Restored Treasures" at HK Film Archive to screen four digitally restored gems from China
Hong Kong (HKSAR) - The Hong Kong Film Archive (HKFA) and
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S.F. film producer Ron Merk preserves reel history
Late in November, San Francisco film producer Ron Merk
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A Restored My Darling Clementine Returns to the Big Screen at Film Forum
John Ford is often called a great American filmmaker, but
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'Accidentally Preserved': Rare silent films come to DVD
Last month classic movie fans gasped at the results of a
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Paramount stops releasing major movies on film
It becomes the first big Hollywood studio to embrace
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Digital Cinema Conversion Nears End Game
'At the end of the first quarter this year, the
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Russian Cinema Museum Faces Uncertain Future
Moscow – Russia's planned cinema museum faces an
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'Umbrellas' gets 50th anniversary restoration
Beloved by movie buffs for a half-century, the French pop
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'Film curator only hope to preserve cinema history'
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FRIEDKIN'S "SORCERER" FULLY RESTORED; COMING TO BLU-RAY IN APRIL
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2014 Sundance Film Festival Announces 20th Anniversary of Hoop Dreams as ‘From the Collection’ Screening
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Seasons of Youth," which features a number about
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AMIA 2013 Early Bird Rates Extended!
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See Who's in the Vendor Cafe This Year
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Short film meant to accompany 'Empire Strikes Back' makes a comeback
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Video thrilled the radio star: Tracking the history of magnetic tape
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Lost Chinese Film Found in Norway
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Photographs capture the lost art of film projection
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'Hitler's reign of terror' : Film warning of dangers of Nazi Germany made by US railroad heir found after 75 years
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Trove of Mich. folk music unearthed in archive
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The cassette tape: reeling in the years
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Hand-painted movie posters are bygone Taiwan tradition
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Getting a Close-Up of the Silent-Film Era
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Moving NZ's film heritage to digital
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Vivien Leigh correspondence archived at V&A
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UVa Library Launches Online News Film Collection
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Early Film by Orson Welles Is Rediscovered
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Funding to preserve Yorkshire moments caught on film
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Cheryl Boone Isaacs elected to head film academy
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Seven restored classics to be presented at TIFF
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Bringing It All Back Home
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Music historian unlocks sounds from 1889 record engraving.
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Spitballing possibilities for the 40th annual Telluride Film Festival
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Opening Today: XFR STN, a publicly-accessible media conservation center
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First President Finally Gets His Library
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Rescuers rush to preserve TV shows shot on fragile videotape
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The Division of Preservation and Access Evaluates the Impact of its Humanities Collections and Reference Resources Program
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'India doesn’t value film heritage’
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Five more British silent films Unesco should register
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'Our Nixon'
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Alfred Hitchcock silent films added to Unesco register
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Lac-Mégantic casualties include Quebec town’s history
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Lab deal gives rare Kiwi films new life
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s secrecy the key to conflict resolution? It’s an
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'The Street of the Sun,' Korean War Movie, Gets First Screening In 6 Decades
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NAU to screen three Native American documentary films
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Quentin Tarantino To Receive Career Honor At France’s Lumière Film Festival
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Drafthouse Films Revives 1979 John Huston-Sam Peckinpah Sci-Fi ‘The Visitor’
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Storage Survey, The File Frontier
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Wanted: Tenant for one Capitol Hill movie theater, moviegoers for another
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Revisit Alfred Hitchcock's classic films in screenings around L.A.
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Oscars archive preserves movies for future film fans
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Gorgeous New Quad Poster for Cimino's 'Heaven's Gate' Re-Release
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A different sort of Klondike treasure
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Restoring Richard III: VistaVision to 4K
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Cinematic treasures: 'Lost' American films rediscovered in New Zealand
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Have You Seen This One Before? The Quest to ID Films With No Names
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Jack White Rescues Detroit Theater
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NFSA selects DFT’s Scanity for national archive project
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Cannes Winner Rithy Panh Launches Heritage Film Festival in Cambodia
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Ed Wood Statue: New York Man Wants To Erect Memorial To Hollywood Cult Figure
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‘Cleopatra’ feted at 50 with restoration, Cannes gala, Blu-ray
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Dead Media Beat: what are we going to do about the hardware?
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Group’s plan to restore Lichfield’s Regal Cinema could cost £3million
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BBC axes £98m technology project to avoid 'throwing good money after bad'
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Internet Archive to bring TV news footage to the public
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Colour footage of London in the 1920s
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Creature Features: Cinematheque pays tribute to Ray Harryhausen
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Mrinal-Ritwik-Tapan films in dire need of being restored
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John Gilbert, the silent era's talk of the town
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Site Specifics: Vine
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Archival footage on U.S. government’s “lavender scare”
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World's smallest stop-motion film made with individual atoms
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Emirati film history preserved for posterity
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'The Real Indies: A Close Look at Film Orphans' takes in strays
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Library of Congress' broad mission threatened by budget cuts
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Patrick Loughney on the need to preserve recorded history
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Small-town movie theaters threatened by shift to digital cinema
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Restored "Lawrence of Arabia" Wins FOCAL International Award
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BBC Attenborough Restoration Receives FOCAL Award
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BFI backs Christie's 4K platform and IMB
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Ray Harryhausen Dies At 92
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John Toll, ASC Goes Digital for Iron Man 3
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100 years of Indian cinema: The world of dreams is archived here
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BBC's troubled £133m digital video archive delays 'tapeless' future
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Restoration era of Indian cinema
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A.O. Scott and David Denby Discuss the Fate of Film and Criticism in Tribeca Talk Series
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Tampa Theatre moves to digital films
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Ohio Movie House Screens Its Last Reel-To-Reel
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Student Festival Establishes Film Archive
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The Future Home of Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive
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Careful where you point that: How the first portable film camera was based on a rifle
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Saving America for posterity at the Library of Congress
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LVMH : Sponsors the Digital Restoration of Jacques Demy's Film The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
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'SNL' Archive Going to Yahoo!
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Brewster's trillions: Internet Archive strives to keep web history alive
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Newsfilm, Tenite, Home Movies, and More: An Interview with Margie Compton
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The Cinema Guild to Release Restoration of Dominique Benicheti's Lost 1973 Film 'Cousin Jules'
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Mostly Lost: Silent Film Archaeology II
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'Funny Girl,' 'Big Parade' restorations at TCM Classic Film Fest
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Once Under Wraps, Supreme Court Audio Trove Now Online
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Century-Old Film Found
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Here's applause for the old movie theatres
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Pass it On: Preservation Week is April 21st-27th
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George Stevens Jr. speaks ourt on the 'Shane' controversy
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Company3 Ties with iDailies to Secure 35mm Processing in UK
the mid-term future of 35mm and 16mm film processing in the
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AMIA 2013 Scholarship & IPI Internship Applications Available
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Rare films uncovered in UGA media archives
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The End of Film Prints: Four by Variety
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The End of Film Prints: Four by Variety
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Scottish firm aims to preserve world's film archives
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ICA "Archives and Cultural Industries" Conference
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BU caught in middle as filmmaker, professor feud
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Screening the Future 2013
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Warner Brothers offers instant streaming of its film archives
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FujiFilm Discontinues Motion Picture Film Production
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‘Something Old, Something New’ screening series raises awareness, money for moving image archiving
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International Development of Archives (FIDA) Call for Projects!
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America's oldest documents getting digital archive
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UGA Libraries’ Media Archives preserves only known films of stage actress
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4K Restoration: Classic Films Make Awards Final
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CURATEcamp AVPres
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Premiere Restoration of Nëntori i Dytë (The Second November)
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Everything Wrong with Digital Copyright (And How to Fix It)
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As Jewish Leaders Meet With Pope, New Hopes On Pius XII Archives
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End of an era for Daily Variety
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End of an era for Daily Variety
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An Update from UNESCO
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National Archives cancels tours due to budget cuts
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The Copyright Rule We Need to Repeal If We Want to Preserve Our Cultural Heritage
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National Archives donates 1.2 million digital objects to Digital Public Library of America pilot project
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Knesset Archives Go Digital
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Library of Congress aims to reverse cultural tragedy
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Pacifica Historical Society seeks family films for historical archives
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Storing information in DNA: Test-Tube DNA
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Lossless in Seattle
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Festival of the Archives
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