AMIA | Assn of Moving Image Archivists

Love fictional archives, especially in movies and video games. They can be so hilarious and, occasionally, insightful. This one is the Armistice Archives in STARFIELD. Enjoy this 90-sec game-play visit to the repository. (Compliments of Bobbie Fox, a colleague and a game connoisseur.) The access provision is curious (certainly not typical): a user is granted access to the storage but only to a pre-authorized section. It’s like the secure-box-in-a-vault arrangement (Gringotts Wizarding Bank or the Da Vinci Code’s vault). The records are technology secrets that require multi-party authorizations. 

Magic on the screen at the San Francisco Silent Film Festival - "While these films are available on disc and streaming in excellent editions, the opportunity to see them on the screen with live music made them live again in a way that home viewings can’t capture."

The 12 restorations funded by MacFarlane were completed using unique original pre-print elements and/or print sources, mostly nitrate, held at UCLA Film & Television Archive.

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As we celebrate World Book and Copyright Day, a look forward at cartoon characters soon joining Mickey Mouse in the public domain. #copyright

Part of the IFI Irish Film Archive’s mission is to make the collections we preserve available to those who want to be educated and entertained by them. After all, what’s the point in cataloguing and preserving thousands of films that no one gets to see?

This week's Screening Room, open to everyone, is a deeper dive into ETC's second paper on long-term preservation from the perspective of a cloud-first. An ETC and Iron Mountain Media & Archive Services collaboration.

A look at the 21st century home from the view of the 1960s. Walter Cronkite narrates and tells us that research shows we'll have a 30 hour work week and month long vacations will be the rule .. see what else the future had in store (and how much has actually happened!) Watch what else: https://loom.ly/aBJNF78

PSI researchers are developing a technique that uses the special synchrotron X-ray light from the Swiss Light Source SLS to non-destructively digitise recordings from high-value historic audio tapes, #audiopreservation

Pickford was at the forefront of nearly every innovation in filmmaking for well over a decade, rejecting the histrionics popular in nineteenth-century melodramas and championing a natural style that audiences found believable and relatable.