iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Nontheatrical Film and Media Scholarly Interest Group SCMS @nontheatricalscms.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Big news! The Indiana University Libraries Moving Image Archive has digitized + made available 450 film catalogs from Professor Gregory A. Waller's collection. Catalogues represent 16mm film sector, mostly between 1940s to '70s. Explore them here! digitalcollections.iu.edu/collections/...

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Dr. Gregory A. Waller film catalog collection, 1915-1992, bulk 1940-1971 // Digital Collections

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Nontheatrical Film and Media Scholarly Interest Group SCMS @nontheatricalscms.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

We are pleased to share CFP for our annual Nontheatrical Student Essay Award. Due Feb 15 2027. Winner’s essay will appear in THE MOVING IMAGE journal. Please share widely! amianet.org/wp-content/u... @scmstudies.bsky.social @necsusjournal.bsky.social @orphanfilm.bsky.social @amianet.bsky.social

Call for Papers: Nontheatrical Student Essay Award 2027

In collaboration with AMIA (Association of Moving Image Archivists) and its journal, The Moving Image, the SCMS Nontheatrical Film and Media SIG is delighted to announce its fifth annual 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.

Eligibility: Applicants must be enrolled in a recognized graduate program at the time of entry.

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Submissions will be due 15 February 2027 and can be sent to nontheatricalessayaward@gmail.com. The award winner will be contacted in March 2027, and announced at the 2027 SCMS Annual Conference.

The Moving Image is the journal of the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA). It explores topics relevant to both the media archivist and the media scholar. The Moving Image deals with crucial issues
surrounding the preservation, archiving, and restoration of film, video, and digital moving images. It features detailed profiles of moving image collections; interpretive and historical essays about archival materials; articles on archival description, appraisal, and access; behind-the-scenes looks at the techniques used to preserve, restore, and digitize moving images; and theoretical articles on the future of the field.

The Nontheatrical Film & Media scholarly interest group of the Society of Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) provides a setting for scholars working in this area to collaborate, share research tips, and debate methodological issues. Moreover, this SIG acts as another connection between the academic and archival worlds, and between other SIGs and committees within SCMS, such as the Media Archives Committee. The mission of the Nontheatrical Film & Media Scholarly Interest Group is to facilitate discussion, consolidation, outreach, and inclusion.

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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

If you'd like to join me in a making a small donation to Imagination Library Colorado in celebration of the life and generosity of Dolly Parton: www.coloradogives.org/story/Wordof...

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Support WORD OF THANKS-Imagination Library Colorado on ColoradoGives.org

Help put 45,000 books in the hands of Colorado children ages 0–5

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Chris Levesque @levesque-chris.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

It's alive! The Preservation Lab is now open! The Library Media Preservation Lab provides you with access to the tools and education needed to preserve digital and analog materials (like VHS and 8mm film) in a large variety of formats. uwf.edu/library/plac...

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Library Media Preservation Lab (Reservable) | University of West Florida

The Library Media Preservation Lab provides UWF students, faculty, and staff with access to the tools and education needed to preserve digital and analog materials in a large variety of formats.

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Andy Uhrich @andy-uhrich.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Everyone in the comments who is understandably concerned about losing legacy public media should, if they're able, consider donating to the American Archive of Public Broadcasting: americanarchive.org. Support your local and national media archives! Save public media! Free the tapes!

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American Archive of Public Broadcasting

A collaboration between GBH and the Library of Congress with a long-term vision to preserve and make accessible significant historical content created by public media.

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Library Juice Academy @libjuiceacademy.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Library Juice Academy is proud to co-sponsor the new program from Southern Memory Workers, “Save Your Progress: Archival Training for Social Justice Organizations.” To learn more about the program here: ow.ly/eRcW50ZxCUT

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

I fundamentally believe that higher ed reform needs to begin by protecting the mission and labor of libraries

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Andy Uhrich @andy-uhrich.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Yes, large newspaper database. I did want to search for "botox global" instead of the storied newspaper, "Boston Globe."

Screengrab from a database search spell check that reads "Showing results for: Boston Globe. Did you mean: botox global."

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Vinzenz Hediger @vinzenzhediger.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

USMNT now the Reflecting Pool of Football.

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Andy Uhrich @andy-uhrich.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Watching a Roxy Music video on the YouTube that's gone through an AI remastering filter. Wondering when people will be nostalgic for the artificial sheen of mid-'20s AI visuals.

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Andy Uhrich @andy-uhrich.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Hoop Dreams on an original 35mm print!

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Kathleen Fitzpatrick @kfitz.info · 12/06/2026

I would love to talk with librarians & others worried about the future of their repositories. Is there a potential role for Knowledge Commons/KCWorks in mirroring institutional repositories such that they're protected against uncertain futures?

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Andy Uhrich @andy-uhrich.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Would a gender swapped Sherlock Holmes be Shelock Holmes or Herlock Holmes?

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Andy Uhrich @andy-uhrich.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

I wish that there was a program like "60 Minutes" that could investigate this travesty of media ethics.

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Andy Uhrich @andy-uhrich.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Excellent point! Also, like in the '80s, New York was seen as a place of danger and decline so the concept made sense. What is the threat of New York now? High rent? Mamdani?

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Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Colln, UGA Libraries @brownmediaarchives.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

@tanyagoldman.bsky.social You will be interested in the film room scene of TOMORROW'S CAREERS: THE LIBRARIAN that we recently scanned. 13:11 in bmac.libs.uga.edu/index.php/De...

Image of a female librarian winding and inspecting a film reel at a rewind bench with shelves of 16mm films behind her.

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

The real solution to helping historians do research is actually pretty simple: give archives more money. Money for conservation, preservation, storage (physical an digital), climate controlled facilities, and staff (paid at a living wage). You don't need LLMs, you need money.

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Andy Uhrich @andy-uhrich.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Another anti-academic action by my PhD alma mater. Unacceptable collusion from what was once a respectable uni.

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Andy Uhrich @andy-uhrich.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

This series on projectionists is wonderful.

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Andy Uhrich @andy-uhrich.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Libraries counter doom spiraling. Support your local memory institution.

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Andy Uhrich @andy-uhrich.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

A must watch if you haven't seen it. And why not rewatch it if you have.

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Alex Kittle @alexxkittle.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

I also think Nolan and PT Anderson should find projectionist schools/internships if they’re gonna keep releasing all these 70mm prints and not have enough experienced projectionists to run them which is legit a problem but that’s a whole other convo 😏

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Andy Uhrich @andy-uhrich.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

The Brown Media Archive does it again. They're a superstarchive.

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Tanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

The great @andy-uhrich.bsky.social (with his colleague Jamie Marie Wagner in absent spirit) presents an unfinished anti-nuclear 1979 documentary held at University of Colorado Boulder #orphans2026 @orphanfilm.bsky.social

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Andy Uhrich @andy-uhrich.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

The only thing I didn't like about moving to St. Louis is that no one calls it "Miss-ur-uh."

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Nontheatrical Film and Media Scholarly Interest Group SCMS @nontheatricalscms.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Another #Orphans2026 preview just dropped. Andrea Callard & Ana Marie on video works from New York City artists’ group Collaborative Projects Inc. (COLAB) + Monday/Wednesday/Friday Video Club (MFW). Works preserved by XFR Collective. 📼 @orphanfilm.bsky.social wp.nyu.edu/orphanfilm/2...

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Robert Daniels @812filmreviews.com · 28/03/2026

It was a pleasure speaking with @allyfield.bsky.social about her incisive new book LABOR OF LOVE: BLACK PERFORMANCE AND THE KISS THAT CHANGED FILM—a work I find to be equally revealing and thrilling. Our conversation via LA Review of Books.

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Labor of Love | Los Angeles Review of Books

Allyson Nadia Field discusses her new book’s exploration of hidden moments in Black film history and the rejuvenating contexts that expand their meaning.

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Andy Uhrich @andy-uhrich.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

If you're at #SCMS26 I'm speaking at 11am today about collectible film strips like this for "Sinners" and the economics of first run analog film exhibition in 2026.

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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 10/03/2026

one more time, before I try to let this issue go for the week: please read and share this list of concerns CU faculty, students, and staff have about the deal recently signed with Open AI. it also includes ways to organize and get involved---> docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Talking Points on CU-ChatGPT

Talking Points on CU-ChatGPT On December 15, 2025 the CU System signed a one year contract with Open AI for $2.1 million, with plans to launch a system-wide ChatGPT Edu access for faculty, staff, and ...

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Andy Uhrich @andy-uhrich.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

If you're in Springfeild, MO you still have time to make it to this fantastic screening of amateur cinema.

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Andy Uhrich @andy-uhrich.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Courtney! Willeman! Perhaps two of the top ten film archivists around though it's a close competition.

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Andy Uhrich @andy-uhrich.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

This is why we do this work. Support your local archivist.

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Nontheatrical Film and Media Scholarly Interest Group SCMS @nontheatricalscms.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

📣 We hear the @orphanfilm.bsky.social 2026 schedule just dropped! April 8-11 in Columbus, Ohio. 📣 wp.nyu.edu/orphanfilm/2...

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Presenters for Orphans 2026 – Orphan Film Symposium

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Andy Uhrich @andy-uhrich.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Here's a 1989 interview with Rev. Jackson from Eyes on the Prize II. He discusses Harold Washington, the 1972 National Black Political Convention, and much more. Thank you, Rev. Jackson. Preserved by the Film &Media Archive at the @washulibraries.bsky.social. repository.wustl.edu/concern/vide...

A close up of the Reverend Jesse Jackson.

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Andy Uhrich @andy-uhrich.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

This is why I love Library and Information Science.

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Andy Uhrich @andy-uhrich.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

We can add this new show to Star Trek's long history with media preservation. Here's an overview on the topic by Ashley Blewer: bits.ashleyblewer.com/startrek/

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Signal Loss

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Mike Mashon @mikemashon.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Great article that doubles as a powerful testament to film preservation. Kudos to Katie Trainor, Greg Pierce, and the crew at Colorlab.

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Rediscovered Warhols That Warhol Never Saw

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Andy Uhrich @andy-uhrich.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Preserved by the very awesome Film & Media Archive in the very awesome @washulibraries.bsky.social.

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🏳️‍🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩 @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

You can watch the whole The Urban Crisis and the New Militants series on HBOMax.

"Never at any time was I between the police and the people they were attempting to control. Or, in the case of the soliders, not control. But they knew they were doing something wrong. It was documented. There were pictures showing what was going on. I made them. And they didn't want them. They didn't want them made. That's my opinion of what happened."

Harrowing first person account from a photojournalist who was beaten for just doing his job while documenting the violence perpetrated by the state against protestors. Things never change.

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Richard Whittaker @rmwhittaker.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

First, two of the most important film preservation groups - the American Genre Film Archive and the Texas Archive of the Moving Image @texasarchive.bsky.social share an office and a mission of preserving movie history from the grind house to the home movie. www.austinchronicle.com/arts/film-pr...

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Film Preservationists Share a Space and a Goal • The Austin Chronicle

There are two dominant philosophies in film preservation. Some follow French curator Henri Langlois, who believed that every frame has value. Others hew closer to British archivist Ernest Lindgren, wh...

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Andy Uhrich @andy-uhrich.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Celebrate Dr. King Day by watching an interview from "Eyes on the Prize." WashU's Film and Media Archive has digitized them all and is sharing them online. Link to first series interviews: repository.wustl.edu/admin_sets/e.... Second series: repository.wustl.edu/spotlight/ey...

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Eyes on the Prize II | Eyes on the Prize: America at the Racial Crossroads, 1965-1985 - Washington University - Digital Gateway

183 original interviews conducted during the making of Eyes on the Prize: America at the Racial Crossroads 1965-1985, commonly referred to as Eyes on the Prize II. These interviews narrate the complex...

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nilesessanay.bsky.social @nilesessanay.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Saturday, January 10th, 7:30pm CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF JON MIRSALIS PLAYING SILENT FILMS! Jon Mirsalis, Kurzweil Keyboard Accompaniment PETER PAN (1924) Preceded by an onstage interview with Jon Mirsalis. We have a trailer! www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMqt...

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Peter Pan (1924) trailer -- See this classic film at the Edison Theater on Saturday, January 10th!

YouTube video by Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum

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Andy Uhrich @andy-uhrich.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

If I lived in New York, this would be high on my to-do list.

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Andy Uhrich @andy-uhrich.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Yes, Harry, she does. RIP, Rob Reiner, you and Nora Ephron clearly understood the importance of caring for your personal media collections. Happy New Year.

A frame from When Harry Met Sally where Harry confronts Sally about her home video cataloging system. In this frame he states, "You have all of your videotapes..."

A follow up frame from When Harry Met Sally where Harry confronts Sally about her home video cataloging system. In this frame he states, "...alphabetized and on index cards."

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 15/11/2025

We gotta learn how to fight

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Andy Uhrich @andy-uhrich.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

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.

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Andy Uhrich @andy-uhrich.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

If I was applying to PhD programs, studying with Lori Emerson and Josh Shepperd and the rest of the Media Studies Department at CU Boulder would be pretty darn ideal.

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