Much of silent cinema is lost to us forever. In an illuminating report from 2013 titled “The Survival of American Silent Feature Films: 1912-1929,” historian and archivist David Pierce revealed that ...
Huge questions loom about the status of an archive of thousands of films that dates back to 1927. During the Taliban’s rule of Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001, women and girls were shut out of public ...
On Sept. 1, Yale Film Archive opened in a newly renovated space on the seventh floor of Sterling Memorial Library. The archive, formerly known as the Yale Film Study Center, was originally located in ...
Bill Stamets is a local filmmaker and cultural anthropologist who made dozens of home-movie-style videos capturing Chicago history.
Ben Harry is working as a projectionist, screening a 16mm film print of "Miracle on 34th Street" pulled from the BYU Motion Picture Archives. He was hired in 2018 as the curator of media arts history ...
Where do you go if you want to watch rare archive films such as a 1916 documentary about life on a German submarine or John Ford's 53-minute Western Bucking Broadway from the following year? Until now ...
CLEVELAND, Ohio — As the Cleveland International Film Festival nears its 50th anniversary, its history is getting a permanent home. The festival has officially established archives at Case Western ...
Institutions working on film restoration around the world are deploying remarkable creativity to get the films they’ve restored into theaters – the Lumière Institute’s eponymous film festival ...
Roughly a quarter of the employees of the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Science’s Academy Film Archive were laid off this week, according to a report from IndieWire. Employees of the Archive—one ...
The independent filmmaking community is up in arms over the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences’ recent decision to gut its archive and library, with some calling the cutbacks “a huge step ...
Institutions working on film restoration around the world are deploying remarkable creativity to get the films they’ve restored into theaters – the Lumière Institute’s eponymous film festival ...