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I travelled to Bloomington, Indiana two weeks ago at the invitation of Brian Graney, formerly of UCLA Film & Television Archive, to attend the conference “Regeneration in Digital Contexts: Early Black Film” (November 15-16, 2013).

Stacks of archived footage
November 15, 2013 - 8:00 am
November 15, 2013 - 8:00 am

At last week’s Association of Moving Image Archivists conference in Richmond, VA., the Nitrate Committee chaired a panel, which presented some research on nitrate flammability, done at the University of WisconsinMadison, by the Wisconsin Historical Society, the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research, and

This week I had some enforced rest and took the opportunity to watch the next film in my Netflix queue, which happened to be John Brahm’s The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima (1952). I have been chasing after this film for over thirty years, ever since I interviewed Brahm in his Malibu home in the Summer of 1975.

Stacks of archived footage
October 18, 2013 - 9:00 am
October 18, 2013 - 9:00 am

This year, due to scheduling issues, Los Angeles celebrated “Home Movie Day” at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences' Linwood Dunn Theater in the Pickford Center on October 12, 2013, while in much of the rest of the nation the event occurs a week later, on Oc

Stacks of archived footage
October 4, 2013 - 9:00 am

The Mexican cinematographer, Gabriel Figueroa, is revered in his native country as a national treasure, an artist/muralist who chose film as his personal medium of expression.

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