Peter Greenaway: Film is Dead; Long Live Cinematic, Multimedia Art
posted March 2, 2013
Peter Greenaway asserts that cinema is dead and must be remade in forward-looking formats.
Video of the Day: Sing and Sling
posted February 15, 2013
"The Arizona Kid" is one of scores of films freely available for viewing on the site Classic Cinema Online.
Fit for a Restoration
posted February 2, 2013
A visit to Australia's National Film and Sound Archive serves as a reminder of what film restoration is all about.
When Women Made the Movies
posted January 12, 2013
In "Go West, Young Women: The Rise of Early Hollywood," Hilary Hallett explains how, thanks to immigrants seeking out futures and fortunes, Los Angeles became a burgeoning film city – and, in 1920, the only western city where women outnumbered men.
National Film Registry Additions for 2012 Announced
posted December 19, 2012
The Library of Congress today named 25 motion pictures that have been selected for inclusion in the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress. Among them is Sons of the Desert (1933), a riotous comedy that starred Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, along with comedian Charley Chase. Veteran director William A. Seiter for Hal
Wheeler Winston Dixon Tolls the Death of the Moguls
posted December 19, 2012
Wheeler Winston Dixon talks about how he went about researching his latest book, "Death of the Moguls: The End of Classical Hollywood," in which he describes the last days of the studio system and its “rulers of film” – moguls like Harry Cohn at Columbia, Louis B. Mayer at MGM, Jack L. Warner at Warner Brothers, Adolph Zukor at Paramount, and Herbert J. Yates at Republic.
Saving Albania’s Film Legacy
posted December 5, 2012
Archivists from Albania, North America, and elsewhere are collaborating on the Albanian Cinema Project to preserve the country's film legacy.
How Protestants Molded Hollywood’s Moral Qualms
posted November 30, 2012
Film-ratings systems in the United States have a history of contention. But one aspect of early attempts to impose a code, in the 1930s, has been largely overlooked, according to William D. Romanowski.
Soviet Witness to the Holocaust
posted November 29, 2012
Jeremy Hicks set out to expand the visual record of the Holocaust by seeking out Soviet contributions to it. In "First Films of the Holocaust: Soviet Cinema and the Genocide of the Jews, 1938–1946" he urges historians to take into account a corpus of film that the West has little heeded.
New Books, and Lots of Them
posted November 26, 2012
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 some of them.