If I was applying to PhD programs, studying with Lori Emerson and Josh Shepperd and the rest of the Media Studies Department at CU Boulder would be pretty darn ideal.

also I collected Mira Nair’s papers, including her handwritten notebooks for all films, at the Schlesinger Library at Harvard, FREE and open to the public. Much good work to be done. Finding aid here: hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu/repositories...

New York, NY: Curator, Moving Image & Recorded Sound, Schomburg Center at New York Public Library

I just donated to help preserve this film that put me on the path to being an indie music fan and media archivist. You should too. Here's the link: give.uga.edu/funders/insi....

If Julia Roberts is an assistant professor in this move and I am an asst professor how come her apt is so much nicer'n mine?

I also DIY digitized about five mini DV tapes from late ‘80s to mid ‘90s from my childhood and burst into tears at the moment I heard the voices of my deceased grandparents. TL;DR — save your home movies, especially when they are on videotape. Two of the other mini DV tapes had already degraded.

I bought it. You should too. Dorothy's work is an inspiration.

Ah, a journalism program that doesn't want its students to publish news. I am very disappointed in my alma mater. And more than a bit heartbroken.

Lovely piece on the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research! news.wisc.edu/a-global-hub...

The power of synchronicity when doing research. I randomly purchased the April 1952 "Popular Photography" from eBay for a project where I'm tracking the number of companies that were selling commercial films to the home market. This issue is not digitized as far as I can tell.

The @mediaburn.bsky.social Archive is an extraordinary primary source resource, filled with "Lost Objects" from video history that are fascinating, funny, and thought-provoking. If you've never kicked around it, go check it out. The latest in the Lint Trap. open.substack.com/pub/linttrap...

People dancing in Grant Park at the sixth annual Taste of Chicago in July 1985 🕺🏽 From a reel of Super 8 film in the Bill Stamets Collection.

Will McKinley's thread of public media job losses is sobering & depressing reading, but it's absolutely crucial to track the cultural and educational destruction that the current administration is purposely creating.

My favorite archive (tied for first with at least 10 other archives) is preserving my teenage self's favorite movie. Help out if you can.

Absolutely essential reading for archivists and folks interested in thinking about how we create the past. Can't wait to read it!

RIP, Mr. Stamp.

My next tattoo. From a "Boston Globe" article on film piracy from January 31, 1975.

Don't snub Snub.

On mediaburn's site you'll also find a large collection of Sykes' films, and yes all available to watch for free, if you're into Video Art and Experimental Cinema you need to check out this site, it's truly great. Make sure to spread the word and support! mediaburn.org/watch-videos...

This is very exciting news as someone that moved to the Denver area yesterday.

133-year old Kodak says it might have to cease operations www.cnn.com/2025/08/12/b...

Today the NFPF announced the 81 films and collections to be preserved in 2025, including an amateur version of Snow White (1945) by Knoxville, TN filmmaker Mildred Keister Dennis. Read more here: www.filmpreservation.org/blog/2025/8/5/81-films-to-be-preserved-by-2025-nfpf-preservation-grants

Alexander Dovzhenko‘s EARTH on 35mm w/ live accompaniment by Whine Cave. Tonight at 7pm at @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social

cpb.org/pressroom/Co... The corporation for public broadcasting shutting down is awful news for people looking to keep public media’s mission alive. a brief thread on what it means for public radio:

Excellent journalism and scholarly analysis about an impending disaster for Americans. In addition to shutting down rural public media stations, it will have a significantly deleterious impact on the production of new documentaries.

When we rebuild our public media up from the ashes it will need to be much bigger, bolder, and better funded -- not so dependent on private capital and corporate sponsorships, but truly public. It will need to be more democratic, more independent, and capable of withstanding two-bit fascist regimes.

Can someone, anyone, Bueller, please demand to know where these so-called fines are going?

At the Northeast Historic Film's Summer Symposium in Bucksport, Maine. Fantastic talks on collecting and private archiving. Lots of film projection including a film we made via direct animation.

That picture is from the U of Colorado Boulder campus and it symbolizes that I am starting there next month in the Department of Cinema Studies and Moving Image Arts. I'll be teaching classes on media preservation and such.

As an IU alum, I know the current admin won't care about what I am about to say. But this is a total betrayal of the people of Indiana. IU exists to better everyone who lives in Indiana. IU used to believe in making Indiana smarter, happier, richer and healthier. The state gov't doesn't.

It could easily become impossible for libraries to construct a corpus of 21c texts they own and can share forever with the public. There are legal initiatives trying to save this commons, but I can see why it's an uphill fight. 21c rightsholders are going to be strongly motivated to constrain use.

Flo Jacobs (1941-2025) A beautiful woman, a beautiful soul, passed peacefully at home under the skylight in the Chambers Street loft where she and her husband Ken lived & made art for some 60 years.

still love nitrate picture show, still going to try and go again in 2026, but i DO hope that they realize that this was lazy provocation under the guise of social experiment and i find that deeply dull both as a programmer and as an audience member

Chicagoans! Come to my queer and trans silent film series every Wednesday night in June! This Weds I'll be there in person introducing a program of shorts like you've never seen before!!! @facetschicago.bsky.social

SUPERB! The Film Atlas is a collaboration between the International Federation of Film Archives and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. It is - or aims to be - an interactive global map of the history of film technology. The site has just gone live and it is free to use for all. www.filmatlas.com

From a 1975 column in the Charlotte News on the ways that silent films originally tinted in color were shown on TV in black and white.

[1/5] We're launching a new thing @ the Metro NY Library Council: The Cross-Reference Coalition is an experimental school tracing exuberantly🤗 interdisciplinary links btw NYC's libraries + archives; connecting its knwldg workers, grad students, artists + designers; and creating an open publicatio

With Librarian of Congress Dr. Carla Hayden during the Library of Awesome exhibit in 2017. She is a Wonder Woman who broke ground for all of us. We will keep her spark of curiosity & intellect alive. Our history - and our progress - will not be erased. Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWyN...

This rad neon SMPTE countdown leader is from the head of a print of the 1981 short film MATTRESS.

Unreal. Hate it.

In a video recorded early last week, 14th Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden honored the work performed by the Library's staff, the heart of the institution. As the caretakers of our nation’s collective history, the staff will continue to serve Congress, the American public & users across the world.

And Happy Mother’s Day by Leacock and Chopra. Here’s Chopra editing with her daughter on her lap.

Donald Trump just fired my dear friend Dr. Carla Hayden—the Librarian of Congress—via email. This is disgraceful. The Library of Congress represents some of the best America has to offer. Equal access to learning for all.

Being even a tiny percent as awesome as Dr. Hayden has been my goal over the last decade plus.

Trump just fired Dr. Carla Hayden, Librarian of Congress. A complete tragedy and a scandal.

In some ways, the pitched battle over AI is *actually* the latest publicly available iteration of the war on libraries. How do we sort information? Who prunes the archive? What is the purpose of our collective understanding? Should our information tools be credible?

Amazing news. What a great lesson in how you keep smaller scale cultural heritage institutions alive and thriving.

“Amy Heller and Dennis Doros, made the unusual choice to give Milestone Films away. Their successor is Maya Cade of the Black Film Archive.”

I never thought there'd be a real world application for my dissertation on underground film collectors. But with the threatened tariff on movies, I am 100% ready to start up a bathtub film duping system to make bootleg copies.