Moving Image Archiving and Preservation

03/23/2026

Brian Cruz, former MIAP student. This earnest news from his wife Ashley.

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Hi everyone, We’re at the start of an unexpected journey after my husband Bria… Ashley Cruz needs your support for Standing with Brian Through His Battle

12/18/2024

Yvonne Ng ('08) with a moving acceptance speech when accepting AMIA 's Alan Stark Award, which "honors individuals who have made a significant contribution" to the profession.

*That's Andy Uhrich ('10) in the corner. He presented the award.

10/15/2024

Unforgettable Lillian Schwartz had a long life, one that will keep giving her back to us through her work and legacies. She was a pleasure to learn from and work with. Orphan Film Symposium 2012, The Flaherty film seminar 2011.

Computers and 16mm film, pens and electronic tablets; Emmy and CINE Golden Eagle aAwards; Bell Labs and Gershon Kingsley; AT&T and BB Optics; Mona Lisa and UFOs; Hiroshima and Salvador Dalí; from NASA to MoMA.

Lillian Schwartz, a computer art pioneer who awed scientists and curators alike, has died at 97.

10/05/2024

Sad to hear that Bob Rosen passed away. https://www.tft.ucla.edu/faculty/robert-rosen/

For the archive's 50th anniversary publication, I wrote this lede paragraph.

"The UCLA Film and Television Archive has been a regular influence on my career in film studies and later work with moving image archives, always distinguished by its penchant for access to rare material. My introduction came when Bob Rosen presented a program of restored UCLA film gems as a special event at the 1991 Society for Cinema Studies in Los Angeles. I remember the audible gasps from the audience of veteran cinephiles when the curtains parted and a reel from the three-strip Technicolor production BECKY SHARP (1935) hit the screen."

A distinctive voice and presence in the field.

07/24/2024

Alas, no e-version of the Sklar book available. The 1994 edition available via https://archive.org/details/moviemadeamerica0000skla_o8y4
is not available since Hachette v. Internet Archive went against the defendant. (Judges heard oral arguments in the appeal last month. Might be 2025 before they rule.)

05/10/2024

300,000 congratulations to alum Siobhan C. Hagan ( MIAP ‘10).

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MARMIA) is pleased to announce that we recently received $300,000 from the Mellon Foundation. support will fund a two-year project, Interface: Expanding Personal and Community Archiving in the U.S. Mid-Atlantic, aimed at empowering individuals and institutions with the knowledge and resources necessary to help ensure the longevity of the audiovisual materials within their collections. More info on our blog at the link in bio.

04/11/2024

Premiere of rediscovered Roman Vishniac films;
1930s amateur films by UK physicians;
Japanese movies made on PAPER preWWW 2;
Multicolor nitrate tests 1929;
16mm film from Nintendo FPS arcade games, 1970s;
And that’s just the morning.

03/18/2024

The whole shmear. . . .

03/13/2024

To convert that MOV or MP4 file (1080p) to DCP for the projectionist, what's the best method for neophytes?

Assume simple specs: mono or silent; short duration.

dcpomatic.com/ is OK?

DCP-o-matic is used across the industry by film-makers, projectionists, film festivals, subtitlists and cinema technicians.

01/26/2024

Excerpt from a 2008 MIAP newsletter.

"A true measure of the success and abilities of our MIAP students is the fact that all of this year's graduates stepped into full-time jobs of their choosing straight away. Lauren Sorensen followed her passions for experimental film back home to San Francisco, where she works for Canyon Cinema. Los Angelina Loni Shibuyama also returned home, where she is an archivist for the ONE National Gay & Le***an Archives, which is affiliated with the University of Southern California. Joshua Ranger accepted a Mellon Fellowship to work with the staff of NYU Bobst Library's preservation and conservation department. And Sarah Resnick turned her thesis project into a full-time position as musician David Byrne's AV archivist."

Here are the class of '07 at a special conference on the future of education in AV archiving, April 2007. Nederlands Filmmuseum, Amsterdam.

01/22/2024

Apply to MIAP by Monday, February 12th for Fall 2024 admission.

https://apply.tisch.nyu.edu/apply/