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A four-part webinar series that offers an introduction to the essential role of audio in moving image materials, with a focus on the formats, challenges, and practices involved in preserving and working with sound. https://loom.ly/egSesC0
Audio in Moving Images
A four-part workshop series.
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Among the treasures safeguarded by the Bolivian Film Archive is a copy of The Gold Rush, one of Chaplin’s most celebrated films. https://loom.ly/lOPwrzo
The Bolivian Film Archive Celebrates 50 Years of Memory - teleSUR English
On Tuesday, the Bolivian Film Archive marked its 50th anniversary with a colorful tribute that brought together dozens of children and adolescents dressed as
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For each film in the collection, Agata Zborowska conducts oral history–style interviews with surviving creators when possible, and relatives when not. https://loom.ly/tBgOXTw
Home movies tell the story of Chicago’s Polish diaspora - Chicago Reader
Film scholar Agata Zborowska’s “Not-So-Ordinary” project archives and restores amateur films from the city’s Polish immigrant community.
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This week's member Screening Room looks at Human Rights Watch’s Media Archive, which borrows methodologies from digital preservation, information security, and digital forensics to ensure data integrity. From DAS 2018, Look for the link in your inbox.
The collection, sourced from Cash's children and the John R. Cash Revocable Trust, will anchor a new Johnny Cash Learning Center within the Mike Curb College of Entertainment and Music Business. https://loom.ly/Osvy9RA
Belmont acquires Johnny Cash archives for $8.6M, plans Music Row learning center
Belmont University has acquired the personal archives of Johnny Cash for $8.6 million, the university announced Tuesday.
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In the residential neighborhood of Seijo, Setagaya Ward, a small team of 25 people at Toho Archive is working to preserve a physical record of Japanese film history. https://loom.ly/KF-Bg34
Inside Toho Archive’s mission to save Japan’s cinematic memory
Formed in 2023 as the direct successor to a film processing lab, Toho Archive is at the forefront of preserving Japan’s cinematic heritage.
japantimes.co.jp
The Last Museum brings together more than 5.8 million artworks from public museum collections around the world into a single free, searchable online archive. https://loom.ly/44kNH8M
This Free Digital Archive Lets You Explore 5.8 Million Museum Artworks in New Ways
Search by themes, colors, and vibes, to discover artwork you've never seen before.
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Abdiqadir Geedi Robleh, an archivist at Radio Mogadishu, threads a reel onto an old tape machine, connects it to a computer, and records the contents of each tape. https://loom.ly/-IruWxk
Somalia races to save Radio Mogadishu’s fading archive
A small team is working to digitise decades of Somali history in the country's main public radio station.
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Remembering Sam Neill, who was a director, an advocate for the arts and environment, and an insightful commentator on New Zealand's film industry. Thank you @ngataongasv. https://loom.ly/Heu1F_k
Cinema of Unease - A Personal Journey by Sam Neill
NZ On Screen is the online showcase of NZ television, film, music video and web series
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The dispute shows how memory politics can become strategic policy. For Ukraine, repairing trust with Poland is not a cultural side issue. It is part of maintaining the coalition that sustains its war effort and European path. https://loom.ly/7qqCFzw
Zelenskyy Opens Security Archives in Attempt to Repair Poland Rift - https://eutoday.net
Kyiv is using archives and exhumations to contain a historical dispute that risks damaging one of Ukraine’s most important wartime partnerships.
eutoday.net
85 per cent of Canadians under 35 are moviegoers, according to a 2025 Telefilm Canada report, compared to 54 per cent of those 35 and up. https://loom.ly/TPgQGL4
Young people grew up in the digital age. So why do they love movies on film? | CBC News
The entertainment industry was hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic and the actors' and writers' strikes after that, leaving executives scrambling in the years thereafter to lure audiences back into theatres. Young people may be behind an analog film renaissance at movie theatres, as they look for immersive, community-focused experiences in real life.
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For Bob Murawski, the restoration is the culmination of over 30 years of watching and thinking about “Cannibal Holocaust.” https://loom.ly/YF1i0eg
There Will Never Be Another ‘Cannibal Holocaust’ — and Now It’s Screening in Its Definitive Edition
INTERVIEW: Grindhouse Releasing's Bob Murawski talks to IndieWire about remastering the notorious horror classic and creating three new versions.
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Shivendra Singh Dungarpur believes successful conservation depends on adapting international expertise to local realities.https://loom.ly/cfIe9s8
Ghosts in the cellulose
Every archive begins with an act of faith.
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A four-part webinar series that offers an introduction to the essential role of audio in moving image materials, with a focus on the formats, challenges, and practices involved in preserving and working with sound. https://loom.ly/egSesC0
Audio in Moving Images
A four-part workshop series.
amianet.org
Physical media ownership in 2026 is an act of consumer self-defense and a vote of no confidence in a purchasing landscape that asks people to keep paying for access while denying them the comfort of certainty. https://loom.ly/34aY2Gw
Physical Media Matters, Now More Than Ever
From Sony's new removals to Netflix's old originals, here's why physical media, Blu-rays, DVDs, and film preservation matter more than ever.
indiewire.com
After three decades at the UCLA Film & Television Archive, Senior Newsreel Preservationist (and AMIA Spotlight Award recipient!) Jeffrey Bickel retired from his role in late 2025. Recently, he finished training and supporting knowledge transfer for his successor. https://loom.ly/T_Q4X4A
Senior Newsreel Preservationist Jeffrey Bickel Retires | UCLA Film & Television Archive
The UCLA Library creates a vibrant nexus of ideas, collections, expertise, and spaces in which users illuminate solutions for local and global challenges. We constantly evolve to advance UCLA’s research, education, and public service mission by empowering and inspiring communities of scholars and learners to discover, access, create, share, and preserve knowledge.
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In LA on July 18th? To herald the 250th anniversary of the USA, the NFPF will present eight shorts at the Eagle Theatre. https://loom.ly/kHqpER8
National Film Preservation FoundationAmerica 250: The NFPF’s Semiquincentennial Screening
These preserved gems, from archives around the country,
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This week's member Screening Room takes you on a tour of the Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection. Look for the link in your inbox.
Berlin-based archive producer Mona El-Bira is in The Archive Room for a deep, unfiltered conversation about archive-led documentary filmmaking — where history, ethics, and storytelling collide. https://loom.ly/QPIcZWY
Episode 5 – Mona El-Bira - ‘Leni Riefensthal & Julian Assange: The curse of the Pharoahs'
The Archive Room
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"We started with an idea to put younger generations in conversation with Black elders — people who remembered attending segregated schools, whose families marched during the Civil Rights Movement." https://loom.ly/vW3Y_HE
Why We’re Building a Black Oral History Archive
Today, Capital B is launching its biggest project ever. For the Record: A Black Oral History Archive is a collection of over 100 firsthand stories from Black Americans across regions, generations, and...
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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
Good Practice for TV Archives Management
A practical tool designed to help organizations assess the preservation status of their television collections and determine their next steps toward sustainable archival management.
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SAA' America 250 Task Force presents 250 for the 250th, an online repository that tells the story of our country in documents https://loom.ly/dRcc2rg
The year is 2002 - The Barefoot Contessa makes her debut, LinkedIn is founded, Canada's Women's Hockey Team wins gold at the Olympics, Tobey Maguire is Spider-Man, and AMIA 2002 was in Boston.
From 1966 – the year the main shoot ended – until his death, Welles changed his mind several times about his work, apparently disappointed with the result. https://loom.ly/lTPfB3U
Spanish Film Archive sets out to reconstruct Orson Welles's 'Quixote'
The Spanish institution is joining forces with the Cinémathèque Française, Italy’s Cineteca Nazionale and Munich’s Filmmuseum to recover lost footage from a legendary shoot that unfolded over 30 years in the Spanish heartlands that so captivated the filmmaker. #Cinema
euronews.com
Join us for Introduction to DaVinci Restoration Tools + a three part Film Restoration Essentials workshop practicum, starting July 6. https://loom.ly/4xm-ewQ
Film Restoration Essentials
Restoration Essentials for Small Archives & Nonprofits - A Workshop Practicum
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Records relocations are expected to begin within the next few months, with the transition expected to be completed in the next couple of years, according to the email. https://loom.ly/6t1mj7A
National Archives to transition out of three federal records centers | Federal News Network
The decision is expected to cut costs and reduce the agency’s real estate portfolio, but it’s not yet clear how the moves will impact NARA employees.
federalnewsnetwork.com
The broadcaster is the owner of more than six decades of Canadian news, music and entertainment history dating back to the 1960s. https://loom.ly/cmInN_c
Bell Media to Launch Digital Archive on YouTube Spanning Six Decades of Content
Starting this year, the broadcasting company will create an online database of content from MuchMusic, Etalk, W5 and more.
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Check out AMIA's upcoming online schedule, offer AI tools, film restoration, and audio essentials. https://loom.ly/boiKLGY
AMIA Online
July and August schedule.
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Congratulations to May Hong HaDuong, recipient of the 2026 Vittorio Boarini Award at the Cineteca di Bologna, presented each year to international figures who have distinguished themselves in the preservation and dissemination of cinematographic heritage. Well deserved! https://loom.ly/s3hjjxc
The Vittorio Boarini Award to May Hong HaDuong
Established in 2022 in honour of the founder of the Cineteca di Bologna and presented annually during Il Cinema Ritrovato to international figures
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Having lain unpublished and forgotten in a US archive, the memoir will be published on 6 August. https://loom.ly/GwqsujI
