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

NEW TODAY from Moving Image Archive News

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.