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amianet.bsky.social @amianet.bsky.social · 18m

The BBC Archive video was filmed in 1974 and catches up with Fred Gandolfi, who gives the camera crew a tour of the workshop in London. Fred, who speaks in a thick old-school London accent, explains how he custom-makes cameras for customers. https://loom.ly/sjIRgrE

Archive Film Shows Eccentric Brit Crafting a Handmade Large Format Camera

Gandolfi cameras were sought after.

petapixel.com

amianet.bsky.social @amianet.bsky.social · 1d

From lectures by Stephen Hawking to the letters of British politician Neil Kinnock – it's a race against time to save the historical treasures locked away on old floppy disks. https://loom.ly/Ymf_h7M

A digital dark age? The people rescuing forgotten knowledge trapped on old floppy disks

From lectures by Stephen Hawking to the letters of British politician Neil Kinnock – it's a race against time to save the historical treasures locked away on old floppy disks.

www.bbc.co.uk

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amianet.bsky.social @amianet.bsky.social · 2d

In his view, a good movie poster was like bait on a fishhook. The challenge, he told The Times in 2021, was to “capture the essential: that moment, that glance, that attitude, that movement that says everything and condenses the entire story.” https://loom.ly/mVkp0Gk

Renato Casaro, ‘Michelangelo of Movie Posters,’ Dies at 89

Few moviegoers knew his name, but directors like Sergio Leone, Sylvester Stallone and Quentin Tarantino considered his vivid work invaluable.

www.nytimes.com

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amianet.bsky.social @amianet.bsky.social · 5d

This week's member Screening Room asks: Medics on the Move: Traveling Doctors, Tourists, Witnesses, or Prospectors? Look for the link in your inbox.

amianet.bsky.social @amianet.bsky.social · 6d

The year John Travolta introduced "Adele Dazeem" at the Oscars, Apple sneaked a look at its new watch, and you couldn't go anywhere without hearing Pharrell WIlliams singing "Happy". And in 2014, AMIA was Savannah for the conference and Los Angeles for the Reel Thing.

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amianet.bsky.social @amianet.bsky.social · 7d

Workshops kick off #AMIA25 with deep dives into 16mm Bolex filmmaking, small archive film restoration, and FFMPEG, and then close out the week with a Community Archiving Workshop in Baltimore. Register before October 30! https://loom.ly/vKIxbmA

2025 | Workshops

All workshops must meet a minimum enrollment no later than October 30th. Any workshop that hasn’t met the minimum enrollment by October 30 will be cancelled and all fees refunded. Workshops r…

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amianet.bsky.social @amianet.bsky.social · 7d

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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amianet.bsky.social @amianet.bsky.social · 8d

Through the center’s Media History Digital Library, online visitors can view millions of pages of historical books and magazines focused on film, broadcasting and recorded sound. https://loom.ly/E2JuatU

A global hub for Hollywood history

UW–Madison’s Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research preserves priceless materials from the entertainment industry.

news.wisc.edu

amianet.bsky.social @amianet.bsky.social · 9d

Inviting media archivists, media librarians, and all those who preserve or provide access to audiovisual media to participate in the 2025 Annual Salary & Demographics Survey of the Field. https://loom.ly/K9ytzhM

Salary & Demographic Survey of the Field

We invite media archivists, media librarians, and all those who preserve or provide access to audiovisual media, whether analog or digital, to participate in the 2025 AMIA Annual Salary & Demographics Survey of the Field.

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amianet.bsky.social @amianet.bsky.social · 12d

This week's member Screening Room features the First Heritage Video Stored on DNA. A case study from AMIA 2020 - the International Olympic Committee and the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia used DNA to store video data, a world-first for Archives. Look for the link in your inbox

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amianet.bsky.social @amianet.bsky.social · 13d

A reminder of the power of amplifying creative communities and the necessity of sharing these stories. https://loom.ly/I7D8u08

Solange Knowles’ Saint Heron unveils a digital archive library

preserving rare works by Black and Brown authors and artists for future generations

www.ebony.com

amianet.bsky.social @amianet.bsky.social · 14d

Curator (and AMIA member) Steve Wilson was lured out of retirement to select the objects and organize the exhibit, which he estimates constitutes less than half a percent of the 500 banker’s boxes the Michaels family gave the University. https://loom.ly/LJhugbE

Lorne Michaels Entrusted UT’s Harry Ransom Center With His Archives. Now, We Get a Glimpse.

News, stories, and opinions on science, technology, health, education, business, policy, campus life, and more from The University of Texas at Austin.

news.utexas.edu

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amianet.bsky.social @amianet.bsky.social · 14d

Basically, if movies were people, whether foreign or Italian-born, Bologna is where they would choose to live. https://loom.ly/LtrmC3M

The Exacting Magic of Film Restoration

Each year, at a festival in Bologna, movies that were once lost or damaged come back to life.

www.newyorker.com

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amianet.bsky.social @amianet.bsky.social · 15d

As the bankruptcy of the University of the Arts and the fallout of its sudden closure last year continue to play out, its institutional records have found a permanent home. https://loom.ly/MCP2rus

UArts’ 150-year archive lives at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania

An estimated 1 million items, about 1,000 linear feet, trace UArts’ deep and wide connections to the city.

whyy.org

amianet.bsky.social @amianet.bsky.social · 16d

Gathering books from UCLA, UC Berkeley, and the Prelinger Library, the Internet Archive’s Cookbook and Home Economics Collection offers a compelling glimpse into how gastronomic culture has developed throughout the past several centuries. https://loom.ly/3hR9N7A

Whet Your Appetite With Nearly 13,000 Historical Cookbooks in This Sprawling Online Archive

Want to try your hand at an 18th-century recipe? This online archive has a cookbook for that.

mymodernmet.com

amianet.bsky.social @amianet.bsky.social · 19d

This week's Screening Room looks at the challenges of film scanning. As comparatively affordable film scanners have become available in the past decade, more institutions have initiated their own scanning programs. Look for the link in your inbox.

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amianet.bsky.social @amianet.bsky.social · 20d

Recorded by more than 130 New Yorkers using consumer camcorders, the footage captures both the devastation and the resilience of the city during one of its most challenging moments — long before social media reshaped how major news events are recorded and shared. https://loom.ly/Csq7bCs

City Life Org - The New York Public Library Acquires the CameraPlanet Archive, Historic 1,200 Hours of September 11 Video Archives

Archive Poster, Courtesy of The CameraPlanet Archive / NYPL Footage collected and preserved by filmmakers Steven Rosenbaum and Pamela Yoder documents the attacks, the aftermath, and the creation of…

thecitylife.org

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amianet.bsky.social @amianet.bsky.social · 21d

James Wheeler, who moved to Detroit from Arkansas during the Great Migration in 1958, spent decades collecting film posters, photographs, and memorabilia. https://loom.ly/u1p46Jk

Detroit siblings preserve father's legacy with Black media archive

Two Detroit siblings are working to preserve and share their late father's life's work: tens of thousands of historic artifacts tied to Black media and entertainment.

www.cbsnews.com

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amianet.bsky.social @amianet.bsky.social · 21d

Call for Proposals: JTS 2026 will bring together recent research, technical innovations and developments in the technology used to preserve audiovisual materials. https://loom.ly/-RmH5vM

Call for abstracts - JTS 2026

The Joint Technical Symposium will be at the National Film and Sound Archive in 2026.

conlog.eventsair.com

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amianet.bsky.social @amianet.bsky.social · 22d

Do you know someone who has made notable contributions to the field? Nominate them now! Awards include the Silver Light, the Stark Award, the O’Farrell Volunteer Award, and the Ray Edmondson Advocacy Award. Any member may submit a nomination.

AMIA Awards Awards

Nominate a colleague!

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amianet.bsky.social @amianet.bsky.social · 23d

Inviting media archivists, media librarians, and all those who preserve or provide access to audiovisual media to participate in the 2025 Annual Salary & Demographics Survey of the Field. https://loom.ly/K9ytzhM

Salary & Demographic Survey of the Field

We invite media archivists, media librarians, and all those who preserve or provide access to audiovisual media, whether analog or digital, to participate in the 2025 AMIA Annual Salary & Demographics Survey of the Field.

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amianet.bsky.social @amianet.bsky.social · 24d

Will you be in Sacramento next weekend? Sacramento on Film: Celebrating 15 Years of California Revealed!

#regionalarchives

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amianet.bsky.social @amianet.bsky.social · 26d

Schedule update: tomorrow’s CRT Repair & Maintenance workshop is moving to October 24, 2025. Same topic, same speakers—new date. Thanks for your patience! https://loom.ly/4tr_8MM

amianet.bsky.social @amianet.bsky.social · 27d

“For about 60% of the time, I am your regular, old subject department reference librarian. And then 40% of the time, I go out into the nearby community around the central library and sign people up for library cards, talk about our wonderful free programs and services.” https://loom.ly/uaVzMvA

LA librarian brings books, services to homeless patrons | KCRW Features

LA’s new homeless outreach librarian brings books and services to Skid Row and encampments. Some are “huge readers,” she says. “They’re patrons. They’re people.”

www.kcrw.com

amianet.bsky.social @amianet.bsky.social · 28d

The Disney archives celebrate 55 years with Pinocchio's help ..
https://loom.ly/ERNhZ6o

Celebrating 55 Years of the Walt Disney Archives with a Fantastical Short Film | The Walt Disney Company

To celebrate 55 years of the Archives, the team created a short film that tells the story of their work through the eyes of a Pinocchio animator’s model.

thewaltdisneycompany.com

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