Much of silent cinema is lost to us forever. In an illuminating report from 2013 titled “The Survival of American Silent Feature Films: 1912-1929,” historian and archivist David Pierce revealed that ...

Where do you go if you want to watch rare archive films such as a 1916 documentary about life on a German submarine or John Ford's 53-minute Western Bucking Broadway from the following year? Until now ...

Huge questions loom about the status of an archive of thousands of films that dates back to 1927. During the Taliban’s rule of Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001, women and girls were shut out of public ...

Ben Harry is working as a projectionist, screening a 16mm film print of "Miracle on 34th Street" pulled from the BYU Motion Picture Archives. He was hired in 2018 as the curator of media arts history ...

Sandra den Hamer — the president of the Association of European Film Archives and Cinematheques (ACE) — recently called for European film archives to make classic European films more available to the ...

WASHINGTON — The Library of Congress is not just a collection of books. The Library’s Audio-Visual Conservation Center in Culpepper, Va., is home to the world’s largest public collection of films, ...

Institutions working on film restoration around the world are deploying remarkable creativity to get the films they’ve restored into theaters – the Lumière Institute’s eponymous film festival ...

BYU's Motion Picture Archive presents the film "Shades of Difference." This was the first film in the archive restoration to celebrate the last 150 years of BYU. (Rachel Ravsten) BYU’s Motion Picture ...

The Smithsonian’s Human Studies Film Archive houses eight million feet of film which can help future generations reflect on the past. Abigail Eisenstadt There are over eight million feet of film in ...

The average consumer subscribes to 4.5 streaming services, many of which offer content that feels largely indistinguishable from one another. When Netflix disrupted film and television in the late ...

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences laid off a major contingent of staff members in its archive and library on Wednesday, including Academy Film Archive director of 24 years Mike ...

Roughly a quarter of the employees of the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Science’s Academy Film Archive were laid off this week, according to a report from IndieWire. Employees of the Archive—one ...