#filmphotography and @archive.org. hard to beat the combo. See below from 2024.
2/3 Filmstrips remain an invaluable record of 20th-century American culture, documenting how generations learned, worked, communicated, and understood the world around them. Preserving them means saving a unique historical record before more of it disappears.
CONGRATS AGAIN to "HOW’S THE PLAY GOING?" by Noel David Taylor, an Honorable Mention in the Internet Archive’s 2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest 🏅
An absurd comedy with a confused main character in disjointed settings.
Full short ⤵️
archive.org/details/hows...
#PublicDomain #PublicDomainDay
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3/3 Learn more in the Vanishing Culture report.
📖 Download & read: archive.org/details/vani...
🛒 Purchase in print: betterworldbooks.com/product/deta...
@uncommonephemera.org #VanishingCulture #FilmPreservation #DigitalPreservation #Archives #CulturalHeritage #InternetArchive
🧵1/3 Thousands of educational filmstrips are deteriorating faster than they can be digitized. 🎞️
Archivist Mark O'Brien explains why preserving these overlooked materials has become a race against time.
📚 Read the essay in VANISHING CULTURE from the #InternetArchiveL archive.org/details/vani...
"Smile!" Summer vacation used to mean film cameras, limited shots, and the long wait to see how they turned out. 📸☀️
Today, film cameras are making a quiet comeback. “Smile!” hits different when every shot counts.
See Kodak's web history on the #WaybackMachine ➡️ web.archive.org/web/19960815...
"Smile!" Summer vacation used to mean film cameras, limited shots, and the long wait to see how they turned out. 📸☀️
Today, film cameras are making a quiet comeback. “Smile!” hits different when every shot counts.
See Kodak's web history on the #WaybackMachine ➡️ web.archive.org/web/19960815...
