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Tanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.social · 11h ago

No one asked for this but here's a photo snapped by my colleague of me presenting at labor film distribution at Yale symposium a little over a week ago. Yes, Frontier Film's documentary NATIVE LAND (1942)—particularly its postwar distribution—will make a brief appearance in my monograph.

Tanya Goldman@tanyagoldman.bsky.social · 2w ago

Excited to celebrate "100 Years of Labor Films" at Yale conference later this week. As I'm (too slowly) completing my book on labor activist-turned-film distributor Tom Brandon, it's nice to return to early chapter of his career in Film & Photo League. Plus I'm intro'ing MILLIONS OF US (1935)!

Women and Film History International @wfhinetwork.bsky.social · 4d ago

Join us online on Friday, October 23 at 12:30pm ET for this cool event w/ @shelleystamp.bsky.social, @garloso.bsky.social, @marshagordon.bsky.social, @hahumiaomiao.bsky.social, @cinemiasma.bsky.social, Liz Czach, and Carolina Cappa!

UAW Archivist @uawarchivist.bsky.social · 3d ago

"Voting - Auto Workers Make Democracy Work..." Photo collages of delegates at the 1947 @uaw.org convention, voting in the union's elections. Seen in the pages of the United Automobile Worker newspaper. From the archives at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social.

Photo collage of UAW 1947 convention goers. People hold signs for their favored candidates.
"December, 1947
ACTION:
UNITED AUTOMOBILE WORKER
Caucusing, Studying, Sleeping, Demonstrating, Voting-Auto Workers Make Democracy Work ..•
Page T
402
ELECT
• REUTHER
• MAZEY
• GOSSER
• LIVINGSTONEA
IS OUR
LEADER
UAW-CIO Convention Photos by Clayton W. Fountain"

Photo collage of UAW 1947 convention goers.
"Page 6
UNITED AUTONOBILD WORKER
DECISION:
Delegates from the Plants Express the Membership's Will in UAW Convention .
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Reuther demonstration . ••
Keep talking, big shot, we've got open minds ...
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I wish the guys back home in the shop could hear this ..
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Chairman
AW-CIO Convention Photos by Clayton"

Nontheatrical Film and Media Scholarly Interest Group SCMS @nontheatricalscms.bsky.social · 22h ago

In new issue of @femmediahist.bsky.social, Jasmyn Castro shares how further archival research allowed her to clarify the identity of the WAC 16mm projectionist featured prominently in her previous essay "A License to Project." Let's celebrate Susie Baptist Hollowell! doi.org/10.1525/fmh....

Corrigendum“A License to Project: Black Female Projectionists and ‘Men’s Work’ in the US Women’s Army Corps”

After publication of “A License to Project: Black Female Projectionists and ‘Men’s Work’ in the US Women’s Army Corps,” further archival research clarified the identity and service chronology of the W...

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Tanya Goldman@tanyagoldman.bsky.social · last yr.

.@benspky.bsky.social + I edited new special issue of @femmediahist.bsky.social on "Nontheatrical Medias." I'll be showcasing some photos used by our contributors! Jasmyn Castro takes inspiration from this pic of an African American servicewoman projecting a 16mm training film for troops (c. 1950).

Nontheatrical Film and Media Scholarly Interest Group SCMS @nontheatricalscms.bsky.social · 2d ago

New and open access article of note! Hongwei Thorn Chen's "Useful and unfilmic: the geopolitics of film theory’s out-of-frame," Screen 67, no. 3 (Autumn 2026): 358-65. Part of "𝘚𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘯 and the global circulations of film theory" dossier. doi.org/10.1093/scre...

Useful and unfilmic: the geopolitics of film theory’s out-of-frame

De-imperialising film theory means more than granting equal space in academic film studies to theory from outside of Europe and North America. It also requ

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Tanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.social · 2d ago

I'm always cautious about "the first" narratives but this new research is so intriguing! Did the first talkie actually come from Scotland in 1926?! www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Scottish film could steal The Jazz Singer’s crown as ‘world’s first talkie’

Scots-written Till the Bells Ring premiered a year before the Hollywood film, which featured spoken words by Al Jolson

theguardian.com

Tanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.social · 2d ago

To celebrate the @femmediahist.bsky.social "Women of IMAX" issue, scholars Janine Marchessault, Jessica Mulvogue, Allison Whitney + artist Oliver Husain are leading a virtual panel discussion with Canadian astronaut Roberta Bondar on October 24. I'm excited to listen in! rmg.on.ca/events/imax-...

TALKS & TOURS

IMAX Panel Discussion with Canadian Astronaut Roberta Bondar
Oct 24, 2026, 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Join us for a virtual panel discussion on the history and future of IMAX cinema with special guest, astronaut Dr. Roberta Bondar. Dr Bondar will share her experiences with IMAX filmmaking in space, and how it continues to influence her work as a photographer and environmental advocate. Our panel will consist of scholars Janine Marchessault, Jessica Mulvogue, Allison Whitney, and artist Oliver Husain, whose exhibition I <3 Snail, on display at the gallery, draws on similar themes to the panel.

This event will also mark the publication of a special issue of the journal Feminist Media Histories on “Women of IMAX,” which investigates the transformative work of women as film directors, producers, museum managers, technical writers, and computing experts in the medium’s nearly fifty-year history.

This event is free and open to everyone. If there are ways we can support your participation, please contact Hannah at hkeating@rmg.on.ca.

Registration is required.

https://rmg.on.ca/events/imax-panel-discussion-with-canadian-astronaut-roberta-bondar/

Tanya Goldman@tanyagoldman.bsky.social · 2d ago

Had the pleasure of collaborating w/ Allison Whitney, Jessica Mulvogue, and other contributors to the new @femmediahist.bsky.social special issue on "Women of IMAX" to create a zine of 11 career profiles based on their research. Can't wait to get physical copies! online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/...

Image specs of IMAX technology in blue overlayed with pattern (yellow outlined vertical text reading "IMAX)

WOMEN OF IMAX title in large white letters

Neely O'Horror @feminaridens.bsky.social · 2d ago

getting @tjamesdobbin.bsky.social zine in the mail made my week!! if you read his (essential) substack you know his deeply researched & beautifully observed writing on animation his new zine on 1930/1931 american animation captures a medium in its infancy. an enormous task & a treasure to behold ❤️

Tanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.social · 2d ago

Had the pleasure of collaborating w/ Allison Whitney, Jessica Mulvogue, and other contributors to the new @femmediahist.bsky.social special issue on "Women of IMAX" to create a zine of 11 career profiles based on their research. Can't wait to get physical copies! online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/...

Blue and yellow imagery of IMAX schematics overlaid with black tesxt that reads:

Women of IMAX offers a glimpse into the range of women’s engagement with IMAX cinema from its invention to the present day, featuring research contributions from Monika Gagnon, Janine Marchessault, Jessica Mulvogue, Veronica Paredes, and Allison Whitney. We were inspired by the creativity and insights of Tanya Goldman’s Women of the 16mm Sector zine series, and were thrilled when she and designer John Munshour agreed to work with us on this project.

Sources for this research include archival materials from Library and Archives Canada, Media Commons at the University of Toronto Libraries, Centro Cultural Tijuana, Science Museum of Minnesota, McGill University Archives, and Ingenium – Canada Science and Technology Museum, and interviews with Roberta Bondar, Diane Carlson, Donna Cox, Mary Jane Dodge, Munro Ferguson, Ingrid Lae, and Cherie Rivers. We have also accessed recorded interviews and oral histories with Althea Douglas, Phyllis and Graeme Ferguson, and Toni Myers.

This project is supported by an Insight Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

— Jessica Mulvogue and Allison Whitney, 2026

Two-page spread with text and image description:

Phyllis Ferguson (née Wilson) (1950- 2021) was born in Quetico, Ontario, a status member of the Algonquins of Pikwàkanagàn First Nation. At 12, she was sent to live with her grandmother, Phyllis Tenniscoe, in Thun-der Bay, where she studied audio-visual broadcasting at Confederation College’s new radio and television program. In 1970, she was hired to assist the location manager of North of Superior, one of the first films shot in IMAX. She then hosted the National Film Board of Canada’s weekly “Challenge for Change” television slot, worked as a CBC radio announcer in Whitehorse, and contributed to an Indigenous community newspaper in Ottawa.
In 1974, she worked as a sound recordist on the IMAX-produced Man Belongs to the Earth (screened at the U.S. Pavillion of Expo ‘74), later returning to tele-vision as a location manager for the Canadian Broad-casting Corporation’s The Fifth Estate and CTV’s W5. Returning to Thunder Bay, she directed her 1977 docu-mentary Nishnawbe-Aski: The People and the Land, a pro bono film addressing the impact of development on Cree and Ojibwa communities and opposing clear-cut-ting. She married her creative partner Graeme Ferguson in 1982, the same year they produced Hail Columbia! which initiated a series of IMAX space films. Among them, she co-produced The Dream is Alive (1985), Blue Planet (1990), Mission to MIR (1997), and co-produced and co-directed Destiny in Space (1994).

Image: Woman standing in front of rocket. Phyllis Ferguson at NASA. Photo: Media Commons Archive, University of Toronto Libraries.

Tanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.social · 3d ago

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@amianet.bsky.social · 5d ago

Doreen Sayegh, who owns the five-screen cinema in Cranford, near New York City, will mark the centennial with a throwback screening of Padlocked, the silent film that opened the theater’s doors on November 29, 1926, with an accompanying organ player. https://loom.ly/44UjeAI

Tanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.social · 4d ago

Been working on this event for awhile! Glad it has come together! Thread for registration details (we’ve opened to non-members). I relish talking research methodologies + when it comes to my own research, have been pointedly asked many times: "why should we care about this person*?” soo here we go!

Women and Film History International@wfhinetwork.bsky.social · 4d ago

Join us online on Friday, October 23 at 12:30pm ET for this cool event w/ @shelleystamp.bsky.social, @garloso.bsky.social, @marshagordon.bsky.social, @hahumiaomiao.bsky.social, @cinemiasma.bsky.social, Liz Czach, and Carolina Cappa!

Tanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.social · 4d ago

Been working on this event for awhile! Glad it has come together! Thread for registration details (we’ve opened to non-members). I relish talking research methodologies + when it comes to my own research, have been pointedly asked many times: "why should we care about this person*?” soo here we go!

Women and Film History International@wfhinetwork.bsky.social · 4d ago

Join us online on Friday, October 23 at 12:30pm ET for this cool event w/ @shelleystamp.bsky.social, @garloso.bsky.social, @marshagordon.bsky.social, @hahumiaomiao.bsky.social, @cinemiasma.bsky.social, Liz Czach, and Carolina Cappa!

Tanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.social · 5d ago

Oh hello Missouri State University Library display of spooky DVDs! Great selection! #longlivephysicalmedia

Philip Leventhal @philipleventhal.bsky.social · 2w ago

With William Greaves's eagerly anticipated *Once Upon a Time in Harlem,* coming this Fall, now is the perfect time to pick up a copy of WILLIAM GREAVES: FILMMAKING AS MISSION, edited by Scott MacDonald and Jacqueline Najuma Stewart! tinyurl.com/8crh87zf @columbiaup.bsky.social

Tanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.social · 6d ago

Happy to share that "Sixty Years of Daisies: Perspectives on Věra Chytilová’s Anarchic Classic" is out now in @jcmsjournal.bsky.social. Essays by @hennefem.bsky.social, @aurspiers.bsky.social, Leana Hirschfeld-Kroen, Barbora Bartunkova, Dijana Jelača + Meta Mazaj, edited by Masha Shpolberg + me.

Tanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.social · 6d ago

JUST ONE?!

Horror & Coffee@foundfootagefan.bsky.social · 6d ago

What is the film that came out before you were born that you've watched the most times?

Another Gaze @another-gaze.bsky.social · 7mo ago

'While cinephilia seems to be back with new catching enthusiasm, in line with a certain ‘vibe shift’, it often resembles an old version, one that we set out to remedy ten years ago – masculine French cinephilia, encore' We are back with 12 new pieces of writing. www.anothergaze.com/another-gaze...

Editorial

The editors reflect on the Another Gaze project on the occasion of its relaunch.

anothergaze.com

Tanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.social · last wk.

Petty complaint: Listening to an audiobook and reader keeps referring to the German studio Ufa as U-F-A and it is driving me crazy.

Tanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.social · 2w ago

Next week in "Women Filmmakers:" WANDA ❤️+1970s US feminist documentary. For the latter, clips: UP AGAINST THE WALL MS. AMERICA GROWING UP FEMALE JOYCE @ 34 I AM SOMEBODY JANIE'S JANIE ...crying about all the others I need to cut. Will probably create an extra credit assignment in hopes a few bite.

Tanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.social · 2w ago

When one teaches Varda they must wear Varda merch. I don’t make the rules.

Tanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.social · 2w ago

I reallllyyy wish I lived in Minneapolis for this! But on a positive note my local arthouse (Moxie Cinema in Springfield, MO) is doing a screening of HÄXAN (1922) with live score next month! 🎹

Archives on Screen, Twin Cities@archivesonscreen.org · 3w ago

Formal attire not required for DRACULA IN INSTANBUL, but you will need a ticket! 🎟 30 seats remain. Got yours? ⚰️ www.trylon.org/film/dracula... Oct. 22 at @trylon.org.

Tanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.social · 2w ago

Happy Silent Movie Day! Need recs? Look no further than @ettletodd.bsky.social's "The 5 Best Films of Every Year Ever" podcast. He's compiled a list (currently through 1914) based on guests and listeners' picks. ⬇️ www.the5bestfilmsofeveryyearever.com/list

The List — The 5 Best Films of Every Year Ever

the5bestfilmsofeveryyearever.com

Tanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.social · 2w ago

Excited to celebrate "100 Years of Labor Films" at Yale conference later this week. As I'm (too slowly) completing my book on labor activist-turned-film distributor Tom Brandon, it's nice to return to early chapter of his career in Film & Photo League. Plus I'm intro'ing MILLIONS OF US (1935)!

Tanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.social · 2w ago

Op-ed author: "It will take courage to demand that students demonstrate active, participatory mastery of ideas." Revision: "It will take MORE INVESTMENT IN HUMAN LABOR (i.e., MORE INSTRUCTORS WITH PERMANENT POSITIONS) to demand that students demonstrate active, participatory master of idea."

New York Times Opinion@nytopinion.nytimes.com · 2w ago

“If I do not treat writing as essential for achieving thought, it is not clear why I should force my students to,” writes Joe Cruz.

@amianet.bsky.social · 2w ago

Archivist Daylon Orr was visiting a bookseller friend in Virginia this summer when, in the back corner of his friend’s warehouse, he noticed a giant stack of boxes. https://loom.ly/8Mnuwoc

A massive MTA archive ended up in a Virginia warehouse. A Brooklyn man brought it home.

The collection of documents comes from a subway obsessive.

gothamist.com

Tanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.social · 2w ago

Today in “Women Filmmakers” was in-class screening of Varda’s LE BONHEUR (my 1st time teaching it!). For attendance, students did quick 5-minute post-screening written reflections. We’ll have more thorough discussion of film + readings on Wednesday. Unsurprisingly, my students have BIG oPiNiOnS 🔥😉

Tanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.social · 2w ago

Makes me smile that a handful of my “Film History” students are opting to submit physical handwritten journals rather than typed entries! 📝 Vive la résistance!

Tanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.social · 2w ago

Apropos of nothing, my spouse just told me, via Wikipedia, that the father of an early Pink Floyd manager was in Flaherty’s MAN OF ARAN

Tanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.social · 2w ago

Such a great book!

Carly Goodman@carlygoodman.bsky.social · 3w ago

Had so much fun talking about this beautiful book with my grad students this afternoon!

Book:

SCATTERED and FUGITIVE THINGS
How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History

LAURA E. HELTON

Yellow cover with drawing of a Black book woman