Moving Image Archive News

15/03/2023

This Frenchman began experimenting with photography in his shed. An accident led to the invention of the world's first moving picture camera.

31/01/2023

A restored version of ‘We’re Alive’ — made by 3 UCLA film students — premiered Jan. 28.

31/01/2023

The negatives of the 1988 anti-apartheid South African film, Mapantsula, lying in a basement for 35 years, have now been restored, to be unveiled at the Berlin International Film Festival next month. FORBES AFRICA speaks to director Oliver Schmitz about the technical process, its enduring relevance....

11/01/2023

In surprising projects in Navajo country and in Australia, adaptations of hugely popular films into Indigenous languages are helping to preserve threatened

11/01/2023

BOSTON (January 11, 2023) – The Mellon Foundation has awarded GBH $16 million to support the American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB), a GBH collaboration with the Library of Congress, to dig…

02/01/2023

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In surprising projects in Navajo country and in Australia, adaptations of hugely popular films into Indigenous languages are helping to preserve threatened

31/12/2022

NEW TODAY from Moving Image Archive News

In surprising projects in Navajo country and in Australia, adaptations of hugely popular films into Indigenous languages are helping to preserve threatened

30/12/2022

Although there are still a few exceptions and holdouts, the vast majority of movies, cartoons and other cinema and broadcast content today is shot digitally. In the 20th century, though, digital wasn’t really much of a thing. At least, not until we got right to the very end of the century. Most mo...

18/12/2022

Home movies, donated to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, captured images of a man’s doomed neighbors in Poland

15/12/2022

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United States Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden has announced the annual selection of 25 motion pictures to be inducted into the National Film Registry.

07/12/2022

As the recent Sight and Sound poll further confirmed, while the current canon is an ideal starting point for any burgeoning cinephile, an entire world of filmmaking awaits, much of which has yet to…

04/12/2022

An interview with Film Heritage Foundation founder Shivendra Singh Dungarpur ahead of a preservation workshop and a Dilip Kumar commemorative event.

24/11/2022

A 101-year-old film featuring Patience Cooper, India's first Anglo-Indian actress and one of Bollywood's early superstars, has been restored in a Pari

09/11/2022

Silent film as it was – with music. From the Danish Film Institute.

Balletdanserinden Camille drømmer om en karriere som skuespiller. I mødet med den unge manuskriptforfatter Jean virkeliggøres hendes store ønske. I løbet af kort tid er Camilles navn på alles læber, og tilmed erobrer hun sin mentors hjerte. Det viser sig dog snart, at Jean spiller på flere h...

14/10/2022

Back in the early 1900s, director Joseph Byron Totten established his own movie studio in Voluntown. One of his productions was an adaptation of an O. Henry short story — and a primary filming locatio...

28/09/2022

Paramount released a new 4K restoration of Star Trek: The Motion Picture – The Director’s Edition earlier this month, and while producer David C. Fein hesitates to call it the definitive version of the sci-fi opus, he acknowledges that it’s as close as we’re likely to get for a few decades. ...

27/09/2022

The newly restored documentary film 'Ningla - A’Na' keeps the spirit of the Australian Aboriginal Tent Embassy alive. It will be released nationally on September 30, with screenings in capital cities.

A newly restored version of this powerful film recording the establishment of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Canberra is set for national release, reports Ben Radford.

25/09/2022

A tech-savvy artist unearthed video footage of people working hard to capture the perfect shot for Instagram. It is a lesson in the artifice of social media and the ubiquity of surveillance.

17/09/2022

The historic Barton Organ at the Michigan Theater, Ann Arbor Michigan.

The Michigan Theater Foundation is a non-profit organization focused on protecting the historic Michigan Theater and State Theatre located in the heart of downtown Ann Arbor. The Michigan and State serve as the community’s auditoriums for live events and cinema presentation and film culture.

12/09/2022

NEW TODAY from Moving Image Archive News
A Handbook for the Home Movie
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12/09/2022

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During those interminable family movie nights you were made to sit through, you probably never thought the media form would one day be desirable among

04/09/2022

04/09/2022

Superstar Krishna's Simhasanam, which was the first 70 mm 4 track Stereophonic sound movie in Telugu cinema, is now being prepared to be re-released on

03/09/2022

Hyderabad: Despite the advent of television and a spike in the number of private channels which attract viewers with innovative programs, the popularity of cinema remains unaffected. The mass euphoria and celebrations with theatres sporting festive looks during a movie release are still seen every F...

25/08/2022

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http://www.movingimagearchivenews.org/nfpf-grants-to-preserve-61-films/

The National Film Preservation Foundation has announced the winners of its 2022 federally funded grants. 28 institutions will use the awards to preserve 61

24/08/2022

The rise of the difficult and usually male 'genius' film director presented a huge hurdle for women in Hollywood, but things may finally be changing.

24/08/2022

India, whose cinema history goes back more than a century, has decided to undertake the world’s largest film restoration project under National Film Heritage Mission. The authorities have decided to include ten films by maestro Satyajit Ray in this project.

24/08/2022

The $18,830 grant will provide for ultrasonic cleaning, a 4K scan and scene-to-scene color/density corrections, among other tasks.

24/08/2022

Deaf Crocodile released a trailer for their restoration of the long-lost black crime film, Solomon King. The wholly independant flick was the work of writer/director/actor/producer/ Sal Watts way back in 1973/74. At the beginning of the year Deaf Crocodile formally announced...

24/08/2022

When you lose your head, your ass goes with it. Deaf Crocodile (what a fun name) has debuted an official re-release trailer for a 1974 film titled Solomon