Arcadia Funds UCLA Collection of Middle East Media

posted March 14, 2012

The University of California at Los Angeles Library has announced a gift from the Arcadia Fund of $3.4-million to help it to preserve “ephemeral media” including a wide range of media artifacts that are serving to capture the rapidly evolving political changes in the Middle East. The new International Digitizing Ephemera Project’s goal is to

Babylon Revisited

posted March 14, 2012

Kenneth Anger’s galvanizing Hollywood Babylon, revisited, along with gossip’s role in maintaining the movies’ media and public image. In London, on March 21, Little Joe Magazine looks back, at the Cinema Museum in London.

More Interviews

posted March 14, 2012

In today's interviews, Rob Byrne talks about the San Francisco Silent Film Festival, George Blood talks about the business of moving image preservation and restoration, and Jennifer Graves aspires to be a moving image archivist.

8th Orphan Film Symposium

posted March 13, 2012

Orphans 8: Made to Persuade 8th Orphan Film Symposium April 11-14, 2012 Museum of the Moving Image (Astoria, NY) The term “orphan film” refers to film in any form that has been abandoned by its owner or caretaker. For the eighth time since 1999, the Orphan Film Symposium will present a variety of daytime and

Have Film, Need to Preserve It?

posted March 10, 2012

You find a box of reels of film in your shed. Perhaps Grandad left it there, or Granma when his credits rolled. What do you do? First up, you can go to resources like this: It’s the Washington State Film Preservation Manual of Low-Cost & No-Cost Suggestions to Care for Your Film. No-Cost is good.

Interviews: Become an Archivist? Study in Amsterdam?

posted March 8, 2012

What it takes to work in moving image archiving, and why go to Amsterdam to study it.

Interviews: Some Favorite Moving Image Collections

posted March 7, 2012

Melissa Dollman, audiovisual archivist, Schlesinger Library, Harvard University, and Hannah Palin, moving image specialist at the University of Washington Libraries, describe some of their favorite collections.

Moving Image Archiving as Performance Art

posted March 6, 2012

Caylin Smith asks: What are the implications for moving image archivists – restorers and presenters of early films, for example – of the old saw, "a work of art can never be produced the same way twice?"