Report on the 3rd Global Audiovisual Archiving Conference (Part I)

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In mid-June this year, I travelled to the Thai Film Archive to attend the 3rd Global Audiovisual Archiving (GAVA) Conference. Many attendees of this event also took the opportunity to participate in other conferences held in the same month: the annual conferences of the Southeast Asia-Pacific Audiovisual Archive Association (SEAPAVAA), held in Malaysia, and of …

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Cineteca di Bologna: Grand Opening of the New ARZ Film and Photography Archive

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Cineteca di Bologna has announced that the newly established ARZ – Renato Zangheri Film and Photography Archive (Archivio Renato Zangheri di Cinema e Fotografia) will officially open to the public on 13 June, with a community celebration. The highlight of this project lies in its adaptive reuse of space, as the new archive is converted …

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San Francisco Film Preserve Announces Upcoming Completion of Brand-New Restoration for ‘Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans’

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The monumental achievements of the classic film Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) require no introduction. In its latest project, the San Francisco Film Preserve (SFFP) has sourced multiple film elements from archives worldwide, restoring three uniquely valuable versions of the masterpiece: – The US Premiere Movietone Sound Version: Features a 1.19:1 aspect ratio, …

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