Blog

Bill Morrison Revivifies Dying Filmstock

posted December 29, 2010

Renowned experimental filmmaker Bill Morrison has an unusual relation to the world of moving-image archives: He uses decaying film stock as his raw material. He uses the qualities of deteriorating nitrate film stock for various artistic, expressive ends. He speaks here with MIAN.

Continue Reading »

A New Book on Tennessee Williams’ Movie Colleagues

posted December 29, 2010

Read about new books about moving image forms, and their archiving, on our New Books pages. In Tennessee Williams and Company: His Essential Screen Actors (Hansen Publishing Group), John DiLeo presents his study of 11 actors, including Marlon Brando, Madeleine Sherwood, and Anna Magnani (see cover photo, left, where she appears with Williams on the

Continue Reading »

The Rise of Nollywood

posted December 29, 2010

In a new book, researchers of contemporary African cinema describe the influence of French-language cinema of the 1960s, and what came after. Among many compelling perspectives on the film of the continent are those dealing with the extraordinary rise of “Nollywood” – cheaply made and highly popular films from Nigeria. Viewing African Cinema in the

Continue Reading »

Twenty-Five Films Added to the National Film Registry

posted December 28, 2010

The Library of Congress has named 25 motion pictures that are "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress.

Continue Reading »

New in Our Book Pages: The Life and Art of Busby Berkeley

posted December 27, 2010

When new books appear that relate to moving images in any format, Moving Image Archive News lists and describes them in the Books section. (If you know of any we’ve missed, please let us know through info@movingimagearchivenews.org.) We also ask authors to share their experiences of locating source material for their books – moving images

Continue Reading »

Historic Cricket Footage Found in a Shed

posted December 22, 2010

A family in England has discovered film from 1928-29 that is of great significance to both English and Australian histories of the game.

Continue Reading »

CPB Job Posting

posted December 20, 2010

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s American Archive Content Inventory Project (CIP) has advertised a job posting for archivists and librarians to help inventory archival public media assets nationwide. It is hiring “Saving What America Treasures” teams to visit archives, libraries, and public media broadcasting stations to inventory their collections. Information about applying is online. Deadline

Continue Reading »

San Francisco, Days Before the Great Earthquake

posted December 8, 2010

From the Better Late Than Never department: The CBS News program, 60 Minutes, aired a fascinating segment in October 2010 about historic 1906 film of San Francisco’s main thoroughfare, Market Street, just days before the street and much of city were devastated by the great earthquake of 1906 and subsequent fire. The segment was about

Continue Reading »

Media Art History 2011 – REWIRE

posted December 8, 2010

September 28-October 1 2011 Liverpool, England The fourth in a series of International Conferences on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology. Through keynote addresses, panels and poster sessions, the conference will address such issues as the British contribution to media art, the history of computing technologies in the UK and internationally, and the

Continue Reading »

Lennox Foundation Internship – Iowa State U

posted December 8, 2010

Iowa State University is accepting applications for the 2011 Lennox Foundation Preservation and Conservation Internship. The 12-week internship, with a stipend and paid expenses, lets graduate students and recent graduates of preservation or conservation programs apply their skills and knowledge of care and treatment of library and archives materials in an academic library. Interns learn about the

Continue Reading »

Moving Image Archive News