Tonight at 7pm at the Parkway Theatre - see the 4k restoration of The Wiz! Jen O'Leary Hashida will introduce the film and talk about the restoration of the film. https://loom.ly/2DolhHg

Have a TV collection but not sure what to do with it? The Good Practice for TV Archives Management Grid is a simple roadmap that helps you figure out where your collection stands—and what to do next. https://loom.ly/R43SXCU

Tonight we are honored to present AMIA’s inaugural Legacy Award to Dr. Carla Hayden for her lifelong commitment to access and to the idea that preservation is dynamic, inclusive, and forward-looking—guiding how future generations will understand their world. https://loom.ly/lSsdy

The registration bags are ready, badges are all lined up, and we're looking forward to seeing you in Baltimore! https://loom.ly/Mh_GHUE

Excited to welcome filmmaker Alex Ross Perry, director of Videoheaven, as a keynote speaker at #AMIA25 on Thursday, December 4th! https://loom.ly/wr9k8O4

It’s been a tough year for many in our field. But today, we want to take a moment to recognize the wins — big and small — and to be grateful for the community that keeps showing up, supporting one another, and moving the work forward. #community

AMIA is honored to welcome Robert R. Newlen, Acting Librarian of Congress, as the Opening Keynote of #AMIA25. https://loom.ly/wpJPaEQ

Practicing Gratitude While Wanting More from the AV Preservation Field. This week's Screening Room is the 2020 keynote from Erica Titkemeyer. Look for the link in your inbox.

Adam Savage tours through the Paramount Pictures film archives, where Executive Director Chuck Woodfill shows us the many types of media inventoried and preserved for digitalization and restoration. https://loom.ly/JNapBWA

How do we trust what we see? Like a surging viral outbreak, A.I.-generated video has suddenly become inescapable. The work to ensure authentic materials includes the Trust in Archives Initiative. https://loom.ly/q342ddA

Final call media archivists, media librarians, and all those who preserve or provide access to audiovisual media to participate in the 2025 Annual Salary & Demographics Survey of the Field! https://loom.ly/K9ytzhM

UNESCO launches the Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Objects, the first of its kind worldwide. It brings together over 240 stolen and missing cultural objects in 2D and 3D from 50+ countries. https://loom.ly/arw9hZc

Director Wes Anderson has opened his archives, releasing thousands of film props—kept in storage for nearly thirty years—for a major retrospective at the Design Museum in London. https://loom.ly/k6G1HCY

How files and essence coding systems were originally created, the file format wars that mimicked the incompatible physical media formats, and how certain file types prevailed in this week's Screening Room: Lessons Learned from the Format Wars. Look for the link in your inbox.

Bill Morrison will deliver the closing keynoteat #AMIA25. His keynote will feature a special screening of his Academy Award–nominated film Incident with a discussion of his creative process and the evolving role of archival media in contemporary filmmaking. https://loom.ly/ifQLvOc

Everything old is new again—or, maybe, made new again. In recent brand campaigns from brands including Columbia Sportswear, Gushers, Pringles, Tootsie Roll, and Acuvue, marketers have dug back into the brand archives. https://loom.ly/hmJAL18

Inviting media archivists, media librarians, and all those who preserve or provide access to audiovisual media to participate in the 2025 Annual Salary & Demographics Survey of the Field. https://loom.ly/K9ytzhM

In the years since the premature death of the former Off-White and Louis Vuitton creative director, Virgil Abloh, a small team of Midwest archivists has tirelessly tracked down and catalogued one of the most remarkable private fashion collections ever assembled. https://loom.ly/63KKvqA

Making plans for AMIA 2025 in Baltimore? There's a lot to see and do and the local committee has been busy with lots of recommendations! https://loom.ly/iNDSbKM

Film material from The Terry Jones Archive has been donated by the Monty Python star's family to the BFI National Archive for preservation. https://loom.ly/8JeFW1c

This week's Screening Room looks at production strategies in the modern era of gigabytes, terabytes, and file based cameras. Who is the custodian of the camera original files and how much do we need to preserve? All takes, circle takes, directors cut and final or just the final? From DAS 2014.

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

The Thai Film Archive has opened its digital vaults, releasing a selection of historical newsreel footage that captures the boundless royal grace and work of Her Majesty Queen Sirikit The Queen Mother. https://loom.ly/glen2jY

The Trust in Archives Initiative (TAI) unites archivists, researchers, and creators to safeguard the integrity of media collections and maintain public trust. Join the conversation. https://loom.ly/rIFUb8A

The Nontheatrical Student Essay Award is a collaboration between the SCMS Nontheatrical Film and Media SIG and AMIA. Submissions for this year's award are due by February 15th! https://loom.ly/mHUZlzk

For Halloween, this week's Screening Room is Mostly Lost: The Lost Origins of Silent Horror Icons. About 70% of American silent feature films no longer exist. Lost along with them is the genre’s history. From AMIA 2020 - look for the link in your inbox.

Join us in Baltimore for #AMIA25 hands-on workshops and behind-the-scenes tours - in addition to three days of sessions, screenings, roundtables, posters, and more! https://loom.ly/Mh_GHUE

Stiller and Meara curated the archive themselves, preserving public and personal artifacts from their long careers and private lives. https://loom.ly/sJpqBmI

“Part of what we’re doing with the film is helping Chris in his mission to reframe this archive, not as a nice-to-have, but as an essential piece of history.” https://loom.ly/TZwCgFQ

For nearly four decades, millions of students in the U.S., Canada, and elsewhere watched such 10- to 30-minute academic films to learn about wide-ranging topics like volcanoes, Charles Dickens, and U.S. anti-discrimination laws. https://loom.ly/MZuHOIs

Happy World Day for Audiovisual Heritage! The Texas Archive of the Moving Image spotlighted regional archives as part of the CCAAA and UNESCO celebration of #WDAVH2025. https://loom.ly/pbw5S7A#WDAVH2025

Happy 20th Anniversary of #WDAVH2025! Created for the 2007 World Day for Audiovisual Heritage celebration, this short includes footage from archives around the world. https://loom.ly/84IAuOI

An alternative film centre, a restoration unit, an archive, a space for filmmakers. Cimatheque is many things, but perhaps it is defined by a lack of anything similar, the lack of a reference in Egypt and the wider MENA region. https://loom.ly/yzaxlPU

Happy Internet Archive Day! https://loom.ly/xqyxUaI

Andrea Kalas on the technical and cultural evolution of film preservation. https://loom.ly/jiO909c

The Call for Abstracts for JTS 2026 has been extended to October 29! If you've been considering submitting, now's your chance. Take advantage of the extra time to submit your proposal and be part of the technical forum for the global preservation community. https://loom.ly/-RmH5vM

Since 2017, the NFI has restored over 350 films and digitized hundreds more. Many are available on Filmio, the national streaming platform, and on a nationwide online catalogue for schools. https://loom.ly/joZWLY0

Our media heritage opens a window to the world, sharing generations of unique stories that reveal the ingenuity of the human spirit and the power of imagination. How will you celebrate on October 27? https://loom.ly/Z6sWqII

In this week's member Screening Room Brian Foo, data artist, former b-boy, and a 2020 Library of Congress Innovator in Residence discusses the philosophy and development of Citizen DJ. Look for the link in your inbox.

Applications for #AMIA25 travel grants close on October 18! Travel Grants are open to members and to those who engage or plan to engage with the AMIA community. http://bit.ly/42CLgxm

Workshops kick off #AMIA25 with deep dives into 16mm Bolex filmmaking, small archive film restoration, and FFMPEG, and then close out the week with a Community Archiving Workshop in Baltimore. Register before October 30! https://loom.ly/vKIxbmA

The BBC Archive video was filmed in 1974 and catches up with Fred Gandolfi, who gives the camera crew a tour of the workshop in London. Fred, who speaks in a thick old-school London accent, explains how he custom-makes cameras for customers. https://loom.ly/sjIRgrE

From lectures by Stephen Hawking to the letters of British politician Neil Kinnock – it's a race against time to save the historical treasures locked away on old floppy disks. https://loom.ly/Ymf_h7M

In his view, a good movie poster was like bait on a fishhook. The challenge, he told The Times in 2021, was to “capture the essential: that moment, that glance, that attitude, that movement that says everything and condenses the entire story.” https://loom.ly/mVkp0Gk

This week's member Screening Room asks: Medics on the Move: Traveling Doctors, Tourists, Witnesses, or Prospectors? Look for the link in your inbox.

The year John Travolta introduced "Adele Dazeem" at the Oscars, Apple sneaked a look at its new watch, and you couldn't go anywhere without hearing Pharrell WIlliams singing "Happy". And in 2014, AMIA was Savannah for the conference and Los Angeles for the Reel Thing.

Workshops kick off #AMIA25 with deep dives into 16mm Bolex filmmaking, small archive film restoration, and FFMPEG, and then close out the week with a Community Archiving Workshop in Baltimore. Register before October 30! https://loom.ly/vKIxbmA

Have a TV collection but not sure what to do with it? The Good Practice for TV Archives Management Grid is a simple roadmap that helps you figure out where your collection stands—and what to do next. https://loom.ly/R43SXCU

Through the center’s Media History Digital Library, online visitors can view millions of pages of historical books and magazines focused on film, broadcasting and recorded sound. https://loom.ly/E2JuatU