London’s Earliest Cinema Will Return
posted July 16, 2012
In a £6-million project, Westminster University is restoring and reopening the late-Victorian Royal Polytechnic theater that housed Britain's first film presentation. The Regent Street Cinema will open in 2014 with state-of-the-art projection and sound.
Dear Moving Image Archivist: Are You a Good Archiver of Your Own Stuff?
posted July 11, 2012
At the most recent annual meeting of the Association of Moving Image Archivists, we asked several members of the profession: “Are you a good archiver of your own stuff?” Here’s what they said / admitted: http://youtu.be/dccKZaTbrCE
New from the BFI
posted July 2, 2012
At the BFI National Archive, a routine search for footage has uncovered an all-but-forgotten 1924 film that featured two of Britain’s most famous Olympic athletes, Harold Abrahams and Eric Liddell, whose lives served as the basis of the Hugh Hudson’s Oscar-winning 1981 film Chariots of Fire.
Hauling Out Chariots of Fire for the Olympics
posted July 2, 2012
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
Hitchcock’s Directorial Debut, Restored
posted June 29, 2012
The British Film Institute has issued its painstaking restoration of Alfred Hitchcock's directorial debut, "The Pleasure Garden," of 1925.
European TV Memories
posted June 20, 2012
CALL FOR PAPERS Journal of European Television History and Culture ‘European TV Memories’ Deadline: September 6 2012 The Journal of European Television History and Culture welcomes paper proposals for its third issue dedicated to “European TV Memories” and guest-edited by Jérôme Bourdon (Tel Aviv University) and Berber Hagedoorn (Utrecht University). The journal is the first peer-reviewed multi-media e-journal
Final EUscreen Conference
posted June 20, 2012
Television Heritage and the Web 13-14 September 2012 ELTE University, Budapest, Hungary EUscreen, the best-practice network for Europe’s television heritage, has announced its third and final international conference on Television Heritage and the Web. The programme consists of two workshops, a plenary session with keynotes, and case studies. Attendance is free but online registration is
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
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.
Instant Cinema: Experimental Media Art Online
posted June 13, 2012
Instant Cinema is a platform for experimental film, video, and computer art designed “to compensate for half a century of under-exposure ... by exhibiting some of the great classics of recent history, side by side with the work of today’s most talented media artists.”