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In this week's member Screening Room from DAS 2018 is a closer look at object storage and how it fits in to the expanding archive and a case study on the Montreaux Jazz Festival's digital project. Look for the link in your inbox.
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Scored live on musical instruments that line the back of the room, Gravey’s micro-venue doesn’t announce itself beyond some string lights and a curious invitation to check out the next showing.
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Meet the Punk-Rock Projectionist Showing His Own Films in a Tiny Theater on Wheels
Solar powered and scored live, Davey B. Gravey's Tiny Cinema screens Super 8 shorts in Silver Lake, Los Angeles.
https://www.indiewire.com/features/interviews/meet-davey-b-gravey-film-projectionist-tiny-cinema-1235178475/?utm_campaign=feed&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=later-linkinbio
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It holds more than 50,000 items of Scottish film and video sourced and donated over the years from private attics and garages, film clubs, councils, businesses and local museums.
https://loom.ly/vq4xFUk
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Inside the national Moving Image Archive where the silent age is golden
More than 50,000 clips which tell the stories of Scotland, its people and places are held in the archive
https://www.scotsman.com/arts-and-culture/inside-the-national-moving-image-archive-where-silent-movie-festival-hippfest-sources-its-material-5630782
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St. Patrick's Day 1917 - from the IFI Archive Player
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Saint Patrick’s Day – 1917
This newsreel set in London shows the Lord Mayor of London arriving at Saint Patrick's Church. It is the celebration for Saint Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland,
https://ifiarchiveplayer.ie/saint-patricks-day-1917/
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And there, on one film, was a black star painted onto a pedestal in the center of the screen. They were looking at “Gugusse and the Automaton,” a long-lost film by the iconic French filmmaker George Méliès at his Star Film company.
https://loom.ly/WyvVYRE
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Lost 19th century film by Méliès discovered at the Library | Timeless
Library conservators recently made a startling discovery in a batch of decaying film reels -- a long-lost 1897 film by early cinema icon George Méliès. The French magician-turned-filmmaker's
https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2026/02/lost-19th-century-film-by-melies-discovered-at-the-library/
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This week's member Screening Room is a look at object storage and the Montreux Jazz Festival from DAS 2018. The collection was inscribed on the 2013 UNESCO memory of the world register. Look for the link in your inbox.
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The New York Public Library hosted Guillermo del Toro for a tour of the Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, diving into historical materials related to Mary Shelley and Frankenstein.
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Guillermo del Toro Meets Frankenstein at The New York Public Library
The New York Public Library recently hosted filmmaker Guillermo del Toro for a tour the library’s Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle to explore and experience some of the historical materials in the collection related to Mary Shelley and “Frankenstein.”
https://ilovelibraries.org/article/guillermo-del-toro-meets-frankenstein-at-new-york-public-library/
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Belgian museum and a U.S. mining company backed by Bezos and Gates are clashing over who should digitize colonial-era Congo mining archives, raising questions about ownership, ethics, and access to historical records.
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Belgian museum, US mining company at odds over colonial-era Congo archive
Reuters.com
https://www.reuters.com/business/belgian-museum-us-mining-company-odds-over-colonial-era-congo-archive-2026-03-04/
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The next in our Legacy Equipment series is U-matic! You can still register for the series and receive links to the previous session recordings.
https://loom.ly/glwoYg4
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Legacy Equipment: U-matic
The hour long session covers basic U-matic deck maintenance, repair, and diagnosis.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/legacy-equipment-u-matic-registration-1982322695545?aff=oddtdtcreator
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“I also want to assure you this is not an experimental approach. Over 60 state and local archives nationwide have partnerships with Ancestry,”
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Council bill could allow Ancestry.com to host Philadelphia archives
Philadelphia is a step closer to digitizing its rich collection of historical records, after a City Council committee on Tuesday advanced a bill to give the job to Ancestry.com.
https://www.audacy.com/kywnewsradio/news/local/council-bill-ancestry-host-philadelphia-archives
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The Library of Congress will preserve Wellesnet’s 25 years of Orson Welles film scholarship, ensuring the website’s rich digital history remains accessible for generations of researchers.
https://loom.ly/A6fDawU
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Library of Congress archives 25 years of Wellesnet
The Library of Congress will preserve Wellesnet's content and Orson Welles scholarship in its archive.
https://wellesnet.com/library-congress-wellesnet/
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From AMIA 2022, this week's member Screening Room common misconceptions on how to digitize assets with a demonstration of a U-matic tape and EIAJ Tape Digitization and equipment. Look for the link in your inbox.
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Amateur Movie Day is March 12th!
https://loom.ly/2Gh7i9I
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Amateur Movie Day | AMDB
Check out participating locations ..
https://amateurcinema.org/index.php/amd
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Archivist Ted Ryan on Lego's visit to the archives - "My biggest takeaway through this whole process was to see the lengths that the LEGO Icons team went to ensure the historical accuracy of the kit."
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17 days ago
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Myrient, one of the largest online video game archives, has announced that it will shut down on March 31, 2026.
https://loom.ly/EGVMQQQ
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390TB video game archive being taken offline due to skyrocketing RAM, SSD, and hard drive prices — AI-driven supply squeeze results in closure of one of the largest online video game archives
AI has claimed another victim.
https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/390tb-video-game-archive-being-taken-offline-due-to-skyrocketing-ram-ssd-and-hard-drive-prices-ai-driven-supply-squeeze-results-in-closure-of-one-of-the-largest-online-video-game-archives
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Coming up in March! Check out trustarchives.org and AMIAonline.org for more information.
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This week's Screening Room is an interview with David Gibson, in which he explores the evolution of gaming and why preserving video game history matters.
https://loom.ly/nYLKFDU
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Changing Technologies: An Interview with David Gibson
David Gibson, Digital Project Coordinator for the Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress, National Audio Visual Conservation Center, interviewed by Hope O’Keeffe,…
https://vimeo.com/776488977
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The University of Connecticut is home to some 1,000 protest buttons, about 400 of which have been digitized.
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The Archive That Treats Protest Buttons Like Rare Books
Hundreds of pins document a century of progressive causes and cool typography.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/protest-button-archive
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This four-part webinar series provides an overview of basic maintenance, diagnosis, and safety considerations for a range of legacy formats. The next session focuses on VHS - join us March 5! Miss the session on CRT or Audio? Sessions are available on demand.
https://loom.ly/boiKLGY
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AMIA Online
Legacy equipment repair and maintenance series, addressing a range of formats.
https://amianet.org/events/webinars/
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The Joint Technical Symposium is next week! A great lineup of speakers in Canberra, and virtual registration is still open.
https://loom.ly/DyoTTjk
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JTS 2026 - National Film and Sound Archive
Join us for the full symposium experience — two days of sessions, discussions, and collaboration.
https://conlog.eventsair.com/jts2026/registration
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In 2018, a team of filmmakers premiered a four-episode documentary series on the 50th anniversary of Bobby Kennedy’s Presidential campaign. This week's Screening Room is a discussion of how these filmmakers explored a deep wilderness of archival media. Look for the link in your inbox.
29 days ago
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It cites a change in its content management system as the reason for pulling the plug.
https://loom.ly/SQy4AzQ
30 days ago
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The discovery of the lost files was born out of two coincidences, almost 80 years apart.
https://loom.ly/zaN-F4U
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Oldest known whale song recordings discovered in Cape Cod archives
The files, found on a bygone piece of audio recording equipment, may give scientists new evidence about how humans have changed the ocean.
https://www.wbur.org/news/2026/02/11/oldest-whale-song-humpback-recordings-discovered-whoi
about 1 month ago
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The C2PA for G+LAM Community of Practice has released the 𝐶𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝐴𝑢𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑃𝑟𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐴𝑔𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝐴𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝐼𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒. Download the report here:
https://loom.ly/-KaXo8E
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The Legacy Equipment Repair and Maintenance Series starts Wednesday with 1/4" Audio and Cassettes. This four-part series provides an overview of basic maintenance, diagnosis, and safety considerations for legacy equipment.
https://loom.ly/boiKLGY
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AMIA Online
Legacy Equipment Repair and Maintenance Series
https://amianet.org/events/webinars/
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This week's Screening Room features a Keynote Conversation between filmmaker Allison Anders and Maya Montañez Smukler, head of the UCLA Film & Television Archive Research and Study Center. Look for the link in your inbox.
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Amid the diaristic entries, which average thirty minutes in length, are spoken word poems, essays, interviews, and mentions of national and local politics and news.
https://loom.ly/dSCXFfU
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City Life Org - “Pandemic Diaries,” opens at The New York Public Library, a Collection of Oral Histories Documenting Life Under Lockdown
Photo by Andy on Unsplash Collected in real time by The Library, the audio collection captures the unprecedented lived experiences of New Yorkers and others during the COVID-19 pandemic. The New Y…
https://thecitylife.org/2026/02/09/pandemic-diaries-opens-at-the-new-york-public-library-a-collection-of-oral-histories-documenting-life-under-lockdown/
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Titled “Inside the Vault,” the traveling and virtual display launches in conjunction with the tour and draws from the Library of Congress’ Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II collections.
https://loom.ly/COd1mgY
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'The Sound of Music' National Tour Launches Rare Library of Congress Archive Experience
The Library of Congress has partnered with the national tour of The Sound of Music on a first-of-its-kind collaboration.
https://www.ticketnews.com/2026/02/the-sound-of-music-partners-library-of-congress/
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Archives continue to depend on legacy audio and video playback equipment that is no longer manufactured, increasingly difficult to service, and essential to ongoing preservation and access work.
https://loom.ly/iYSq9n0
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Legacy Equipment: 1/4 Audio & Cassette Decks
The hour long session covers basic 1/4 Audio & Cassette Deck maintenance, repair, and diagnosis.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/legacy-equipment-14-audio-cassette-decks-registration-1982310007595?aff=oddtdtcreator
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The Highland Theatre, which opened in 1925 as a vaudeville venue and movie house, was designed by architect Lewis Arthur Smith, whose other credits include the Vista Theatre in Los Feliz, the El Portal Theatre in North Hollywood and the Rialto Theatre in Pasadena.
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Kristen Stewart Buys Historic Movie Theater in Highland Park: 'An Antidote to All the Corporate Bulls--t'
The actress and director emphasizes that the restored space will be for the community and not just for pretentious Hollywood cinephiles
https://www.thewrap.com/creative-content/movies/kristen-stewart-buys-highland-park-theatre/?utm_campaign=feed&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=later-linkinbio
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A look back a decade: this week’s Screening Room revisits 2015 and looks at Designing and Building the Post-Analogue Audiovisual Archive. Keep an eye out for the link in your inbox.
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Looking back at a list of films released since 2000, that may now deserve a second look—or first-time discovery.
https://loom.ly/TyvRKFU
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The 50 Most Underappreciated Movies of the 21st Century
From 'Idlewild' and 'Bright Star' to 'The Magic Flute' and more, these are TIME's most underappreciated movies of the 21st Century
https://time.com/collections/50-most-underappreciated-movies/
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“I used to think, If homework is watching a movie, that is the best homework ever,” Craig Erpelding, a film professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, told me. “But students will not do it.”
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The Film Students Who Can No Longer Sit Through Films
The attention-span crisis goes to the movies.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/college-students-movies-attention-span/685812/?gift=ovFiHJLfhBnoqIIwOUUsCR9gh8mLrEnUL4h6rZ5pfKA&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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Very few documentary filmmakers have won two Academy Awards during their career. Among that rare group is Barbara Kopple, who has supervised and approved a new 4K restoration of American Dream.
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Barbara Kopple’s ‘American Dream,’ On Historic Strike At Hormel Foods That “Ripped Apart” Austin, Minn., Gets 4k Restoration, Theatrical Release
Barbara Kopple's Oscar-winning documentary 'American Dream' is getting a 4K restoration and theatrical release.
https://deadline.com/2026/01/american-dream-4k-restoration-theatrical-release-1236698088/
about 2 months ago
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The Nontheatrical Student Essay Award is a collaboration between the SCMS Nontheatrical Film and Media SIG and AMIA. The submission deadline has been extended to March 15!
https://loom.ly/mHUZlzk
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Nontheatrical Student Essay Award
Designed to recognize outstanding graduate student scholarship founded upon archival nontheatrical research, this award underscores both organizations’ commitment to mentorship and professional development, connecting award-recipients with mentors to guide them through the process of crafting journal-ready manuscripts. The award-winning essay will also be published (subject to revisions) in The Moving Image.
https://amianet.org/resources/moving-image-journal/nontheatrical-student-essay-award/
about 2 months ago
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The notion of preserving for the future such a low form of entertainment as film (‘an amusement fit for children and half-wits’) was once dismissed as pointless and unrealistic. This week's Screening Room examines at the beginnings of the archive movement. Look for the link in your inbox.
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The 25 films selected this year for the National Film Registry by @librarycongress date back to the silent film through 2014, all chosen for their cultural, historic or aesthetic importance to preserve the nation’s film heritage. See the full list here:
https://loom.ly/El3-q8U
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The model used by the astronomers, dubbed AnomalyMatch, scanned nearly 100 million image cutouts from the Hubble Legacy Archive, the first time the dataset has been systematically searched for anomalies.
https://loom.ly/Jt-ZdN0
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Scientists let AI loose on Hubble’s archives
It found 800 previously undiscovered ‘cosmic anomalies.’
https://www.theverge.com/news/869182/astronomers-ai-discover-cosmic-anomalies-hubble-archives
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"Roughly, we wanted to follow a timeline from its beginning to when the internet arrived, and it sort of lost its place in the world. But along the way, there were gazillions of amazing shows. So, did it have an archive that was preserved and available to us?"
https://loom.ly/NuCuAkU
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A Live Archive: David Shadrack Smith Talks About Wrestling With the Unwieldy History of his Sundance-premiering ‘Public Access’
David Shadrack Smith talks about assembling a wild, unwieldy archive in his Sundance doc, Public Access
https://www.documentary.org/online-feature/live-archive-david-shadrack-smith-talks-about-wrestling-unwieldy-history-his?fbclid=IwY2xjawPlGoRleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEemSGaLWdB7Z3qsZFhs1SI3L8-BK2FS0t1DWztRf_vg2sPATOUf3omQ640NA4_aem_G9IQ4Ez2lecmNPNm26hgkA
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At the upcoming IIIF online event: The on-going work in the cultural heritage community to incorporate digital object verification has been addressed by working groups such as the Digital Object Authenticity Working Group (DOAWG) and the Trust in Archives Initiative (TAI).
https://loom.ly/U298gEY
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The films — commissioned by the Department of Immigration in the 1960s — screened at embassies and High Commissions, particularly in the United Kingdom, to encourage migration to Australia.
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1960s films restored in hope of enticing new migrants to regional Australia
The National Film and Sound Archive has released 4K restorations of the 1960s film series Life in Australia, commissioned by the Department of Immigration to attract new migrants to regional Australia.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-26/nfsa-restoration-of-mount-gambier-life-in-australia/106117106
about 2 months ago
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This week's member Screening Room is from AMIA Online - tips and tricks on color remastering home movies across various formats and codecs using DaVinci Resolve. Look for the link in your inbox.
about 2 months ago
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A look back at 2007 - the first iPhone was introduced, Al Gore received a Nobel Peace Prize, Spider-Man 3 was tops at the box office, and AMIA was in Rochester for the annual conference.
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The program for JTS 2026 is now available! Since 1983, JTS has been organized to address the international scientific and technical issues facing the preservation and management of audiovisual collections. Check out the program and register (in person or virtual) here.
https://loom.ly/CiQLdaw
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Welcome - JTS 2026 - National Film and Sound Archive
Check out the program and register (in person or virtual) here.
https://conlog.eventsair.com/jts2026/
about 2 months ago
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One of the key features of the Arcade Archives series is its highly detailed screen settings, which are deliberately designed to recreate the feeling of staring into a dusty arcade monitor.
https://loom.ly/HL7I_TM
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Keeping Classics Alive: Arcade Archives Reaches 500 Titles with Space Invaders - Xbox Wire
500 games. 11 years. 1 legendary milestone. Arcade Archives reaches its 500th release with the iconic Space Invaders! Check out the exclusive interview with the team on the craft of preserving history.
https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/01/16/arcade-archives-500-space-invaders/
about 2 months ago
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Inspired by the Bicentennial Freedom Train, the tour is designed to make historic and consequential documents from America’s early history more accessible to the public,
https://loom.ly/K5j_2bQ
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Founding documents to visit American cities on Freedom Plane National Tour
The National Archives and Records Administration announced plans for a new traveling exhibition.
https://kval.com/news/nation-world/founding-documents-to-visit-american-cities-on-freedom-plane-national-tour-national-archives-constitution-documents-that-forged-a-nation-america-250
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Punk pioneer Tom Verlaine’s archives — including a trove of unreleased recordings — are now available to artists, researchers and fans at the New York Public Library.
https://loom.ly/HDps-CI
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NYC library gets punk icon’s archive, including unreleased tunes and 145 notebooks
The system’s Library for the Performing Arts has inherited the archive of Tom Verlaine, the front man of the seminal 1970s band Television that influenced decades of rock music and helped to put th…
https://nypost.com/2026/01/12/us-news/nyc-library-gets-punk-icons-archive-including-unreleased-tunes-and-145-notebooks/
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In the AMIA Screening Room this week: Michael B. Gillespie joins Van Peebles to discuss his body of work alongside his father’s groundbreaking Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song, examining its profound impact on American cinema. Look for the link in your inbox.
2 months ago
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In September 2024, ICCROM partnered with the US State Department to help safeguard Ukrainian cultural sites under threat from Russian attacks.
https://loom.ly/jzBpmLo
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Trump Withdraws From Major Culture Preservation Groups
Two entities focused on global heritage and arts policy are among dozens the White House deemed “contrary to the interests” of the United States.
https://hyperallergic.com/trump-withdraws-from-major-culture-preservation-groups/
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The Moving Image Call for Submissions: Videotape in the Archive.
https://loom.ly/CjFjs20
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The Moving Image: Special Issue
This special issue will articulate the unique logistical, technological, and legal challenges of videotape preservation while introducing The Moving Image’s readership to the idiosyncratic character of videotape archives and the history of videotape as a medium.
https://amianet.org/resources/moving-image-journal/the-moving-image-special-issue-2/
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