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Tonight we are honored to present AMIA’s inaugural Legacy Award to Dr. Carla Hayden for her lifelong commitment to access and to the idea that preservation is dynamic, inclusive, and forward-looking—guiding how future generations will understand their world. https://loom.ly/lSsdy
December 3, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Tonight we are honored to present AMIA’s inaugural Legacy Award to Dr. Carla Hayden for her lifelong commitment to access and to the idea that preservation is dynamic, inclusive, and forward-looking—guiding how future generations will understand their world. https://loom.ly/lSsdy
The registration bags are ready, badges are all lined up, and we're looking forward to seeing you in Baltimore! https://loom.ly/Mh_GHUE
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December 1, 2025 at 2:21 PM
The registration bags are ready, badges are all lined up, and we're looking forward to seeing you in Baltimore! https://loom.ly/Mh_GHUE
Excited to welcome filmmaker Alex Ross Perry, director of Videoheaven, as a keynote speaker at #AMIA25 on Thursday, December 4th! https://loom.ly/wr9k8O4
2025 Keynote | Alex Ross Perry
Filmmaker Alex Ross Perry to Deliver Thursday Keynote Alex Ross Perry will deliver the Thursday keynote address on Thursday, December 4th. Perry’s presentation will center on his film Vide…
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November 28, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Excited to welcome filmmaker Alex Ross Perry, director of Videoheaven, as a keynote speaker at #AMIA25 on Thursday, December 4th! https://loom.ly/wr9k8O4
It’s been a tough year for many in our field. But today, we want to take a moment to recognize the wins — big and small — and to be grateful for the community that keeps showing up, supporting one another, and moving the work forward. #community
November 27, 2025 at 2:21 PM
It’s been a tough year for many in our field. But today, we want to take a moment to recognize the wins — big and small — and to be grateful for the community that keeps showing up, supporting one another, and moving the work forward. #community
AMIA is honored to welcome Robert R. Newlen, Acting Librarian of Congress, as the Opening Keynote of #AMIA25. https://loom.ly/wpJPaEQ
2025 Keynote | Robert Newlen
Acting Librarian of Congress Robert R. Newlen to Deliver Opening Keynote at AMIA 2025 Annual Conference AMIA is honored to welcome Robert R. Newlen, Acting Librarian of Congress, to d…
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November 25, 2025 at 2:21 PM
AMIA is honored to welcome Robert R. Newlen, Acting Librarian of Congress, as the Opening Keynote of #AMIA25. https://loom.ly/wpJPaEQ
Practicing Gratitude While Wanting More from the AV Preservation Field. This week's Screening Room is the 2020 keynote from Erica Titkemeyer. Look for the link in your inbox.
November 21, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Practicing Gratitude While Wanting More from the AV Preservation Field. This week's Screening Room is the 2020 keynote from Erica Titkemeyer. Look for the link in your inbox.
Adam Savage tours through the Paramount Pictures film archives, where Executive Director Chuck Woodfill shows us the many types of media inventoried and preserved for digitalization and restoration. https://loom.ly/JNapBWA
November 20, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Adam Savage tours through the Paramount Pictures film archives, where Executive Director Chuck Woodfill shows us the many types of media inventoried and preserved for digitalization and restoration. https://loom.ly/JNapBWA
How do we trust what we see? Like a surging viral outbreak, A.I.-generated video has suddenly become inescapable. The work to ensure authentic materials includes the Trust in Archives Initiative. https://loom.ly/q342ddA
November 19, 2025 at 2:21 PM
How do we trust what we see? Like a surging viral outbreak, A.I.-generated video has suddenly become inescapable. The work to ensure authentic materials includes the Trust in Archives Initiative. https://loom.ly/q342ddA
Final call 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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November 18, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Final call 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
UNESCO launches the Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Objects, the first of its kind worldwide. It brings together over 240 stolen and missing cultural objects in 2D and 3D from 50+ countries. https://loom.ly/arw9hZc
UNESCO Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Objects
Discover the UNESCO Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Objects.
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November 18, 2025 at 2:21 PM
UNESCO launches the Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Objects, the first of its kind worldwide. It brings together over 240 stolen and missing cultural objects in 2D and 3D from 50+ countries. https://loom.ly/arw9hZc
Director Wes Anderson has opened his archives, releasing thousands of film props—kept in storage for nearly thirty years—for a major retrospective at the Design Museum in London. https://loom.ly/k6G1HCY
‘Wes Anderson: The Archives’ Retrospective Exhibition Set for The Design Museum in London
Items will range from original storyboards, polaroids, sketches, and famed costumes worn by much-loved characters, to stop-motion puppets.
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November 17, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Director Wes Anderson has opened his archives, releasing thousands of film props—kept in storage for nearly thirty years—for a major retrospective at the Design Museum in London. https://loom.ly/k6G1HCY
How files and essence coding systems were originally created, the file format wars that mimicked the incompatible physical media formats, and how certain file types prevailed in this week's Screening Room: Lessons Learned from the Format Wars. Look for the link in your inbox.
November 14, 2025 at 2:21 PM
How files and essence coding systems were originally created, the file format wars that mimicked the incompatible physical media formats, and how certain file types prevailed in this week's Screening Room: Lessons Learned from the Format Wars. Look for the link in your inbox.
Bill Morrison will deliver the closing keynoteat #AMIA25. His keynote will feature a special screening of his Academy Award–nominated film Incident with a discussion of his creative process and the evolving role of archival media in contemporary filmmaking. https://loom.ly/ifQLvOc
November 13, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Bill Morrison will deliver the closing keynoteat #AMIA25. His keynote will feature a special screening of his Academy Award–nominated film Incident with a discussion of his creative process and the evolving role of archival media in contemporary filmmaking. https://loom.ly/ifQLvOc
Everything old is new again—or, maybe, made new again. In recent brand campaigns from brands including Columbia Sportswear, Gushers, Pringles, Tootsie Roll, and Acuvue, marketers have dug back into the brand archives.
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‘A safe bet’: Brands are digging into their ad archives for creative inspiration
Gushers, Pringles, and Acuvue are betting that blasts from the past will resonate with consumers.
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November 13, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Everything old is new again—or, maybe, made new again. In recent brand campaigns from brands including Columbia Sportswear, Gushers, Pringles, Tootsie Roll, and Acuvue, marketers have dug back into the brand archives.
https://loom.ly/hmJAL18
https://loom.ly/hmJAL18
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.
amianet.org
November 12, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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
In the years since the premature death of the former Off-White and Louis Vuitton creative director, Virgil Abloh, a small team of Midwest archivists has tirelessly tracked down and catalogued one of the most remarkable private fashion collections ever assembled. https://loom.ly/63KKvqA
Inside the Top Secret Virgil Abloh Archive
In the years since the premature death of the former Off-White and Louis Vuitton creative director, a team of archivists has tirelessly catalogued one of the most remarkable private fashion collections ever assembled. We’re revealing it here for the first time.
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November 11, 2025 at 2:21 PM
In the years since the premature death of the former Off-White and Louis Vuitton creative director, Virgil Abloh, a small team of Midwest archivists has tirelessly tracked down and catalogued one of the most remarkable private fashion collections ever assembled. https://loom.ly/63KKvqA
Making plans for AMIA 2025 in Baltimore? There's a lot to see and do and the local committee has been busy with lots of recommendations! https://loom.ly/iNDSbKM
2025 | Things to do in Baltimore!
A few suggestions from AMIA locals while you’re in Baltimore! Baltimore Street Car Museum Great Blacks in Wax Museum Enoch Pratt Free Public Library Walters Art Museum American Visiona…
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November 10, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Making plans for AMIA 2025 in Baltimore? There's a lot to see and do and the local committee has been busy with lots of recommendations! https://loom.ly/iNDSbKM
Film material from The Terry Jones Archive has been donated by the Monty Python star's family to the BFI National Archive for preservation. https://loom.ly/8JeFW1c
The Terry Jones Archive donated to BFI National Archive - British Comedy Guide
Film material from The Terry Jones Archive has been donated by the Monty Python star's family to the BFI National Archive for preservation.
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November 10, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Film material from The Terry Jones Archive has been donated by the Monty Python star's family to the BFI National Archive for preservation. https://loom.ly/8JeFW1c
This week's Screening Room looks at production strategies in the modern era of gigabytes, terabytes, and file based cameras. Who is the custodian of the camera original files and how much do we need to preserve? All takes, circle takes, directors cut and final or just the final? From DAS 2014.
November 7, 2025 at 2:21 PM
This week's Screening Room looks at production strategies in the modern era of gigabytes, terabytes, and file based cameras. Who is the custodian of the camera original files and how much do we need to preserve? All takes, circle takes, directors cut and final or just the final? From DAS 2014.
The Moving Image Call for Submissions: Videotape in the Archive. https://loom.ly/CjFjs20
The Moving Image: Special Issue
This special issue will articulate the unique logistical, technological, and legal challenges of videotape preservation while introducing The Moving Image’s readership to the idiosyncratic character of videotape archives and the history of videotape as a medium.
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November 6, 2025 at 2:21 PM
The Moving Image Call for Submissions: Videotape in the Archive. https://loom.ly/CjFjs20
The Thai Film Archive has opened its digital vaults, releasing a selection of historical newsreel footage that captures the boundless royal grace and work of Her Majesty Queen Sirikit The Queen Mother. https://loom.ly/glen2jY
Thai Film Archive Offers Free Access to Rare Newsreels of Queen Sirikit The Queen Mother
A collection spanning 1959 to 1975 documents Her Majesty's royal duties and international visits, providing a priceless look into modern Thai history
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November 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
The Thai Film Archive has opened its digital vaults, releasing a selection of historical newsreel footage that captures the boundless royal grace and work of Her Majesty Queen Sirikit The Queen Mother. https://loom.ly/glen2jY
The Trust in Archives Initiative (TAI) unites archivists, researchers, and creators to safeguard the integrity of media collections and maintain public trust. Join the conversation. https://loom.ly/rIFUb8A
November 3, 2025 at 9:56 PM
The Trust in Archives Initiative (TAI) unites archivists, researchers, and creators to safeguard the integrity of media collections and maintain public trust. Join the conversation. https://loom.ly/rIFUb8A
The Nontheatrical Student Essay Award is a collaboration between the SCMS Nontheatrical Film and Media SIG and AMIA. Submissions for this year's award are due by February 15th! https://loom.ly/mHUZlzk
Nontheatrical Student Essay Award
Designed to recognize outstanding graduate student scholarship founded upon archival nontheatrical research, this award underscores both organizations’ commitment to mentorship and professional development, connecting award-recipients with mentors to guide them through the process of crafting journal-ready manuscripts. The award-winning essay will also be published (subject to revisions) in The Moving Image.
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November 3, 2025 at 2:21 PM
The Nontheatrical Student Essay Award is a collaboration between the SCMS Nontheatrical Film and Media SIG and AMIA. Submissions for this year's award are due by February 15th! https://loom.ly/mHUZlzk
For Halloween, this week's Screening Room is Mostly Lost: The Lost Origins of Silent Horror Icons. About 70% of American silent feature films no longer exist. Lost along with them is the genre’s history. From AMIA 2020 - look for the link in your inbox.
October 31, 2025 at 7:21 PM
For Halloween, this week's Screening Room is Mostly Lost: The Lost Origins of Silent Horror Icons. About 70% of American silent feature films no longer exist. Lost along with them is the genre’s history. From AMIA 2020 - look for the link in your inbox.