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.

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. https://loom.ly/vqFqWsc

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

St. Patrick's Day 1917 - from the IFI Archive Player https://loom.ly/faMQkto

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

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.

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. https://loom.ly/KckZG98

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. https://loom.ly/hWQnmgM

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

“I also want to assure you this is not an experimental approach. Over 60 state and local archives nationwide have partnerships with Ancestry,” https://loom.ly/mZtAbGc

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

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.

Amateur Movie Day is March 12th! https://loom.ly/2Gh7i9I

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." https://loom.ly/RIPkpDw

Myrient, one of the largest online video game archives, has announced that it will shut down on March 31, 2026. https://loom.ly/EGVMQQQ

Coming up in March! Check out trustarchives.org and AMIAonline.org for more information.

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

The University of Connecticut is home to some 1,000 protest buttons, about 400 of which have been digitized. https://loom.ly/D-f-FFQ

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

The Joint Technical Symposium is next week! A great lineup of speakers in Canberra, and virtual registration is still open. https://loom.ly/DyoTTjk

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.

It cites a change in its content management system as the reason for pulling the plug. https://loom.ly/SQy4AzQ

The discovery of the lost files was born out of two coincidences, almost 80 years apart. https://loom.ly/zaN-F4U

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 Community feedback is invited here: [email protected].

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

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.

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

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

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

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. https://loom.ly/gwhEFic

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.

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

“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.” https://loom.ly/YIYdKEI

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. https://loom.ly/Y0yVfro

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

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.

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

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

"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

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

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. https://loom.ly/3phdMa8

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

The Moving Image Call for Submissions: Videotape in the Archive. https://loom.ly/CjFjs20