Explaining the Digital Dilemma
posted September 20, 2012
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
Jobs Jobs Jobs
posted September 20, 2012
The Association of Moving Image Archivists is looking for a managing editor for its journal, The Moving Image. The managing editor oversees all phases of the production process of two issues annually, coordinating with the editor-in-chief, book and film/DVD reviews editors, authors, the AMIA office, the copyeditors, and the University of Minnesota Press. The position
Tour LA’s Huge Pickford Archive
posted September 18, 2012
Want to take a tour of the vaults of the Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study, the largest independent film archive in Los Angeles – one large enough to house 250 million tons of film? You can, at least, follow along on Flicker Alley’s, in a post on its website. Clearly a phenomenal place.
Understanding 9/11
posted September 11, 2012
Last year, the Internet Archive, a California-based organization that collects audio, moving images, and Web pages for historical purposes, built a site collecting more than 3000 hours of television coverage by American networks and others from cities around the world. Titled Understanding 9/11: A Television News Archive, the site is designed as a resource for
Norman Mailer, Auteur
posted September 7, 2012
In a Criterion Collection essay, Michael Chaikin considers the films of Norman Mailer.
New Award to Honor a Valued Archivist
posted September 7, 2012
The Association of Moving Image Archivists has established a new award, named for one of its stalwarts.
Only All-Native American Silent Rediscovered
posted August 29, 2012
The Daughter of Dawn, perhaps the only all-Native American cast silent film ever made, has been rediscovered in "shambles" a century after it was made, restored, and now re-presented.
The Reel Thing XXIX
posted August 16, 2012
23-25 August 2012 Los Angeles Registration is still open, but space is limited, for The Reel Thing, one of the premier gatherings devoted to presenting the latest technologies in audiovisual restoration and preservation. It brings together laboratory technicians, archivists, new-media technologists, and preservationists. But the event has much to offer interested amateurs, too. Organized by
A Film Trove in Jordan
posted August 14, 2012
An American multimedia artist is heading a project to document and preserve a trove of feature and documentary films unearthed in a market garage in Jordan.
Work Continues on a Film Trove in Jordan
posted August 14, 2012
An American multimedia artist and colleagues are processing a film trove discovered in Jordan, hoping eventually to establish a moving-image archive in the country.