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Since 1995, the only archives in Georgia devoted solely to the preservation of audiovisual media. Concentrates on Georgia materials, but includes the SE U.S. & Peabody entries from all over. From 28mm to 9.5mm to 16mm, 8mm, Super8, & many other formats!
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The WAC campaign to date

More from me with details of progress (or lack thereof) in the campaign against the shutting down of access at the Written Archives Centre, and a summary of quite why this policy shift is, simply and straightforwardly, wrong.

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Defending the WAC: Our Rights, Their Wrongs: The WAC Campaign To Date by John Wyver
Just about exactly a year ago, on 19 November 2024, I e-mailed a group of colleagues expressing concern about the Terms of Use researchers had to sign up to it secure access to the immeasurably rich…
cstonline.net
November 14, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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3 Bob Ross paintings were auctioned to support PBS — and raised $662k.

27 more paintings will be sold, all to combat Trump's attempt to destroy public broadcasting.

"These funds will help local stations continue to serve their communities"

www.yahoo.com/news/article... #PBS #PublicBroadcasting
Bob Ross painted 'happy little trees.' His art sparked a bidding war at charity auction
Three of Bob Ross' 'cheesy landscape' paintings brought in $600,000 at a charity auction to help support public broadcasting following government funding cuts.
www.yahoo.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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Now available online!

A CENTURY IN 16MM: THE REMAKING OF CINEMA (eds. Gregory A. Waller + Haidee Wasson) from @oxfordacademic.bsky.social. Featuring 23 essays on diverse uses and applications of the small gauge format worldwide!

Available in print in early 2026.

academic.oup.com/book/61621
November 13, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Studs’ Place: The Lost Sitcom That Put Working-Class Life on TV. Our latest blog post by scholar and guest author Jason J. Nebergall offers an analysis of how Studs Terkel's radical, working-class ethos was translated into the emerging television medium. Read more at: https://loom.ly/JDD26kA
November 6, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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To help right this wrong, you can support the @brownmediaarchives.bsky.social restoration of the '80s alternative music doc "Athens, GA: Inside Out" that features an amazing live performance by the Flat Duo Jets: give.uga.edu/funders/insi.... Great band, great film, great archive.
In his Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame induction speech, Jack White shouted out over 30 acts that inspired the White Stripes – none of whom have been inducted

www.stereogum.com/2329132/whit...
November 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
November 7, 2025 at 8:24 PM
UGA Libraries' Special Collections building in her autumn finery. Another beautiful day in Athens, GA.
November 6, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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Is AI-generated "archival" footage the future of documentary?

A new documentary studio says it is, calling their fake footage of historical figures generated from still photos "filming the past."

variety.com/2025/tv/news... #FilmSky #AI
New Documentary Studio Unfeatured Films Plans to Use AI to Bring Archival Photos to Life and Restore Old Footage (EXCLUSIVE)
Filmmaker Daniel Clarke has launched Unfeatured Films, which will use AI animate archival photos and footage in documentaries.
variety.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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A beautiful autumn day on the UGA campus!
November 6, 2025 at 2:19 PM
News cameraman caught with his own Hazel Frederick in the frame, circa 1962. From our Telenews Collection.
November 5, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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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
www.nationthailand.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Come for a tour of the Georgia Music Collections installation at Athens' Akins Ford Arena on Thurs., Nov. 20th @ 6:30pm. Ryan Lewis, Special Collections' GA music curator, will talk about items on display & give a first-hand account of managing a historic (and growing!) collection. FREE!
November 5, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Really looking forward to Dr. Alice Lovejoy's talk tomorrow on her book about Eastman Kodak and its Tennessee chemical plant: calendar.uga.edu/event/eastma...
November 5, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Cordele, GA makes it into the NYT in a fun story! After you read the story, watch our 1936 town profile film by H.C. Kunkleman, "Things You Ought to Know About Cordele," on our website! bmac.libs.uga.edu/Detail/objec... 🎞️ &
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/b... 📰
November 4, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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When a large-scale restoration effort was halted by feds, history could not be forced back into the archives.
The first film made in Idaho was headed back to the big screen. Then DOGE intervened - High Country News
When a large-scale restoration effort was halted by feds, history could not be forced back into the archives.
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November 2, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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New York, NY: Curator, Moving Image & Recorded Sound, Schomburg Center at New York Public Library
New York, NY: Curator, Moving Image & Recorded Sound, Schomburg Center at New York Public Library
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November 3, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Check out Reveal's story on lost videos and how #ArchiveTeam and @archive.org saved the day! revealnews.org/podcast/inco...
Serious investigations into deeply unserious questions
Hear the first in our occasional series of “inconsequential investigations.”
revealnews.org
October 31, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Join us in Baltimore for #AMIA25 hands-on workshops and behind-the-scenes tours - in addition to three days of sessions, screenings, roundtables, posters, and more! https://loom.ly/Mh_GHUE
AMIA 2025 | Program
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October 31, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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From the master of mystery who brought us The Twilight Zone comes ROD SERLING’S NIGHT GALLERY: The Complete Collection (1970 – 1973)! 🌀

This Limited Edition Blu-ray Hardbox presents 93 chilling stories across the pilot film and 43 transfixing episodes.

1500 copies only. 📀
October 28, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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The Nat’l Film Preservation Foundation @filmpreservation.bsky.social has made five silent films available online, including two from UCLA starring Clara Bow & Richard Barthelmess: bit.ly/4gNDd6E

UCLA’s preservation of “The Toll of the Sea” starring Anna May Wong is also online: youtu.be/HInIK4k2na4
September 30, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Thanks to #MHDL and @archive.org's digitized Business Screen magazine, I can see that Harwald also made an Inspect-O-Film station and that the Natl Education TV & Radio Center in Ann Arbor got the "Mark IV" version in 1961. It used Protect-O-Film liquid to coat their prints.
October 27, 2025 at 6:52 PM
I came across some images from the early years of WGTV, our educational tv station at UGA's Georgia Center for Continuing Ed.
October 27, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Then there's this video that #CCAAA produced for #WDAVH2025. Now more than ever, we need to preserve and protect original a-v content. www.ccaaa.org/pages/events...
October 27, 2025 at 4:00 PM