The Man Who Filmed Early Anchorage
posted July 24, 2014
Little motion-picture documentation exists of life in pre-WWII Anchorage, Alaska, and far less from before 1930. The National Film Preservation Foundation has awarded a grant to Alaska Moving Image Preservation Association to look after some of the footage that has survived.
Coming to a Website Near You: Tornadic Vortex Signature
posted July 24, 2014
Thanks to a grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation, the National Severe Storms Laboratory will preserve footage of the 1973 Union City, Oklahoma Tornado that helped scientists improve the ability to forecast tornado activity
Robert Flaherty’s Irish Talkie Restored
posted July 7, 2014
Long thought lost, "Oidhche Sheanchais" (“A Night of Storytelling”), a 1935 work by Robert Flaherty that was the first “talkie” in irish Gaelic, and was made during the production of Flaherty's much better-known classic, "Man of Aran," has been restored and screened.
Watching the Beat Cops, at Wunderkino 2014
posted July 2, 2014
For the sake of house and home, “I Might Recommend Installing A Peephole.” At Wunderkino 2014 in Bucksport, Maine, Travis Wagner will talk about a set of police training films, and why some are more faded than others.
Wunderkino 4: Visions of House and Home
posted June 27, 2014
Just how wondrous film can be, in ways and styles that generally escape attention, is the constant theme of Wunderkino. The three-day event makes a winning summer jaunt to Bucksport, Maine.
The War Films of Indiana
posted June 8, 2014
Indiana University Libraries Moving Image Archive has launched a digital, online repository of propaganda films from World War II. “WWII Propaganda Films and IU: Audiovisual Production, Circulation, and Education in the 1940s”, whose opening has been timed to commemorate the 70th anniversary of D-Day and the Battle of Normandy, focuses on the university’s use of mass
Taking Aim at the Frackers
posted May 30, 2014
Take Anna Broinowski's word for it: If you want to make a great protest film, you can supercharge your agitprop with techniques you can learn from... North Korea?
The U.S. Library of Congress, from the Inside
posted May 10, 2014
The National Audio-Visual Conservation Center of the U.S. Library of Congress features its a huge collection of moving-image and sound recordings on a new blog, Now See Hear!
Peter Sellers Skips from a Dumpster
posted May 1, 2014
Two long-lost films from the beginning of Peter Sellers’ career that have not been shown publicly in almost 60 years have just been screened again. But only after surviving by unlikely good fortune.
British Pathé Throws Its Archive Up
posted April 23, 2014
To increase awareness and use of its archive of historic film news and information, British Pathé has placed its entire catalog of 85,000 films and clips on YouTube.