George Blood LP

08/19/2025

We are exhibiting at Archives * Records 2025 in Anaheim, CA from August 25-26! Stop by our booth for some fun giveaways and to talk to one of our project managers and our data manager!

06/18/2025

Our friend and colleague B George's Archive of Contemporary Music has a new home!
http://arcmusic.org
https://bit.ly/ARCmusicnews

05/02/2025

Come visit our booth at MARAC until 5 pm today at the Hilton in Harrisburg, PA!

05/02/2025

02/24/2025

Nitrate film is classified as a hazardous material and thus has strict packing and shipping regulations. Certification must be renewed every two years.

Register here: https://bit.ly/nitrateshipping
March 28, 2025
11:00 AM - 5:00 PM EST
8:00 AM - 2:00 PM PST

This full day workshop will provide attendees with all the relevant regulatory information and required certification to be able to pack and ship nitrate film. Here is a chance to train new employees or to renew your existing DG/hazmat training without incurring the cost of a personal training session. Sponsored by George Blood LP, the class is exclusively about Nitrocellulose film shipping. The workshop is open to any level of expertise.

Environmental Resource Center will lead the formal regulatory training. This virtual workshop will be a monitored streaming session. A certificate will be issued to each registrant who passes the test.

You must attend the full session to receive certification.

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12/30/2024

PRESERVATION ASSISTANCE GRANTS FOR SMALLER INSTITUTIONS application deadline is JANUARY 9, 2025! Learn more details in their profile.

12/30/2024

DEADLINE APPROACHING! Applications for NEH’s Preservation Assistance Grants for Smaller Institutions program are open through Jan. 9, 2025. For more information, visit https://ow.ly/C6uN50UvWvT.

12/24/2024

Happy Holidays, Everyone!

Here's a snapshot of George spreading holiday cheer to everyone at GBLP!

For everyone out in the world, please enjoy American Archive of Public Broadcasting archival audio of Quick Silver Radio Theatre’s retelling of A Christmas Carol from 2007, contributed by Kansas Public Radio
https://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-5f1d47949e7

12/24/2024

Looking forward to next year's International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives conference! We will see you there?

Save the Date! The 56th IASA Conference will be held in Honolulu, Hawai'i, from September 8th to 11th, 2025! Registration and Calls for Submissions are coming soon!

12/12/2024

Latinos in Heritage Conservation's Latinos in Heritage Conservation grant is an amazing opportunity generously supported by Mellon Foundation to support Latinx Heritage Projects. They are offering webinars today and December 17th to support the work!
Grant deadline is February 15, 2025! Learn more at https://www.latinoheritage.us/grants

12/10/2024

We can't wait to learn with and from our colleagues at ARCHIVES*RECORDS 2025 this upcoming August! Submissions for proposals has bee extended to Friday!

The deadline for proposals for ARCHIVES*RECORDS 2025, taking place next summer in Anaheim, CA and online, has been EXTENDED! Proposals are now due December 13. Learn more and submit. https://ow.ly/8Rwf50TPZqk

12/04/2024

If you're attending Association of Moving Image Archivists, don't miss George's session on FRIDAY, DEC 6 at 11:00 AM!

🎞TALK ABOUT TALKIES 🔈
In the moving image preservation community there’s a lot of concern about and discussion of image quality, resolution, and formats.

What about the sound?

As film scanners have improved over time, they have added features and functionality. A decade ago sound film was scanned in two passes – once on a telecine to capture the picture, then again on a sound reproducer – which then required assembling the two elements together in an editing program. Now most film scanners will scan both sound and picture in one pass. Is this a good thing?
Have we compromised performance for this convenience and labor/cost savings?
📽🎞
At last year’s AMIA, we presented on the factors impacting image capture, and showed the results from different models.

This year, we present our findings on the sound reproduction, both mag and optical, of three high end film scanners.