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Video of the Day: Archive of American Television

posted March 28, 2013

Andy Griffith in "No Time for Sergeants" in 1955, his first on-screen appearance.

In 1955, in the first on-screen appearance of his memorable career in television comedy, Andy Griffith appeared in a U.S. Steel Hour episode entitled “No Time for Sergeants,” a television version of his first stage success on Broadway, later the same year. Born Andy Samuel Griffith in Mount Airy, North Carolina, in 1926, the fine comic ...

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Video of the Day: Sing and Sling

posted February 15, 2013

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When The Arizona Kid galloped onto screens in 1939, Roy Rogers was making his eighteenth film appearance, but one of his first as Roy Rogers. He had debuted in 1934 as one of the Sons of the Pioneers, and his early credits were under the names Leonard Slye – the name he was born with ...

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New Books, and Lots of Them

posted November 26, 2012

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You’ll find descriptions of plenty of new and recent books relating to moving-image archiving on our books pages. You can also read about how authors went about the archival tasks needed to complete two of those books: The Cinema and Cinema-Going in Scotland, 1896-1950 and Reel Time: Movie Exhibitors and Movie Audiences in Prairie Canada, 1896 ...

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Explaining the Digital Dilemma

posted September 20, 2012

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Reducing to digital form everything written and published, and even said and thought, is surely going to produce as many cloud-stored ones and zeroes as there are grains of sand (ballpark estimate, only). For the rest of us, an essential aid in the monumental change in human affairs represented by gazillion-byte digitization will be generous experts ...

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Indiana University Posts 197 Educational Films

posted July 16, 2012

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From a woodchuck in doll clothes to a defense of the Korean War, 197 newly digitized films from the Indiana University Libraries’ educational film collection capture numerous aspects of American life from the 1940s through the 1980s. The Indiana University Libraries Film Archive has digitized 197 educational films produced by the university, and made them available ...

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Hauling Out Chariots of Fire for the Olympics

posted July 2, 2012

Harold Abrahams in the lead in "Running – A Sport That Creates Both Bodily and Mental Health" (1924). Courtesy of BFI National Archive

Seek and ye shall find. Wasn’t it an archivist, who said that? The admonition applied last week at the BFI National Archive. Officials there announced that a routine search for footage had uncovered an all-but-forgotten film Running – A Sport That Creates Both Bodily and Mental Health (1924), which features two of Britain’s most famous Olympic ...

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J-Film Goes Global

posted June 18, 2012

Anime, J-horror, and Japanese personal documentary and “ethnic cinema” have gone global, and that’s in good part due to the advent of digital technology. So writes Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano in Japanese Cinema in the Digital Age, just out from the University of Hawai’i Press. The associate professor of film studies at Carleton University in Ottawa explores the ...

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Digital vs Analogue for Film Preservation and Presentation

posted May 9, 2012

Digital vs Analogue for Film Preservation and Presentation

A much-vexed issue in moving-image archiving, as among movie aficionados, is the relative merits of analogue and digital film. Plenty of archivists viscerally cringe at digital projection, and wax fondly over the “analogue” medium of celluloid, for reasons that are not merely nostalgic. (See, for example, Brian Guckian’s post on the magic of celluloid.) But the ...

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Wonderful Alices, Throughout the Land

posted April 17, 2012

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Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland has been memorably adapted numerous times, as early as 1903 by Cecil Hepworth and Percy Stow (left). Throughout April, The Cinefamily, a hearth-warming, Los Angeles familiarizer of film, is presenting versions of the not-just-for-children classic. The selections are excerpted on the organization’s website. Included in the series are: Black Moon, Louis Malle’s 1973 ...

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In the News

posted March 30, 2012

Lillian and Dorothy Gish in ORPHANS OF THE STORM, 1921

With the volume of news about moving image archives, film and video restoration, and the like that appears, here and there, you might conclude that the zeitgeist is turning in favor of such undertakings. Perhaps it is. Perhaps little by little awareness is growing of just what could be lost, if efforts are not made. Among ...

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