Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Colln, UGA Libraries
@brownmediaarchives.bsky.social
Since 1995, the only archives in Georgia devoted solely to the preservation of audiovisual media. Concentrates on Georgia materials, but includes the SE U.S. & Peabody entries from all over. From 28mm to 9.5mm to 16mm, 8mm, Super8, & many other formats!
#HappyThanksgiving Enjoy this footage of the award-winning Monroe, GA, Girls Corps performing in the #MacysThanksgivingDayParades of 1965, '66, and '69: bmac.libs.uga.edu/Detail/objec...
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November 26, 2025 at 6:58 PM
#HappyThanksgiving Enjoy this footage of the award-winning Monroe, GA, Girls Corps performing in the #MacysThanksgivingDayParades of 1965, '66, and '69: bmac.libs.uga.edu/Detail/objec...
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You'll be visited by three spirits."
November 26, 2025 at 3:20 PM
You'll be visited by three spirits."
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We love Typewriter Tom! ⌨️ Learn more about the man, the myth, the legend who supplied many of the typewriters you can find in Emory Libraries' current exhibit "Striking Characters", up through December 20th: www.ajc.com/arts-enterta...
Typewriter Tom fuels a growing interest in analog writing devices
Roswell's Tom Rehkopf owns about 1,000 typewriters, which he tinkers with at his workshop and happily shares with fellow aficionados, curious youngsters and even Tom Hanks.
www.ajc.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:28 PM
We love Typewriter Tom! ⌨️ Learn more about the man, the myth, the legend who supplied many of the typewriters you can find in Emory Libraries' current exhibit "Striking Characters", up through December 20th: www.ajc.com/arts-enterta...
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Good morning. This article by @alissawilkinson.bsky.social
about AI and documentaries is closely researched, often horrifying, and very important. I'm sharing a gift link because I hope everyone reads it. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/m...
about AI and documentaries is closely researched, often horrifying, and very important. I'm sharing a gift link because I hope everyone reads it. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/m...
Can You Believe the Documentary You’re Watching?
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Good morning. This article by @alissawilkinson.bsky.social
about AI and documentaries is closely researched, often horrifying, and very important. I'm sharing a gift link because I hope everyone reads it. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/m...
about AI and documentaries is closely researched, often horrifying, and very important. I'm sharing a gift link because I hope everyone reads it. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/m...
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It's never too late (until the sale is over) to pick up a copy of my book 80s ACTION MOVIES ON THE CHEAP on sale. Do it today. mcfarlandbooks.com/product/80s-...
November 16, 2025 at 5:42 PM
It's never too late (until the sale is over) to pick up a copy of my book 80s ACTION MOVIES ON THE CHEAP on sale. Do it today. mcfarlandbooks.com/product/80s-...
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CHRISTMAS IN CONNECTICUT (1945) screens at Regal Cinemas nationwide Dec 18 to celebrate its 80th anniversary.
Stanwyck on the big screen. What a Christmas!
www.regmovies.com/movies/hs25-...
#FilmSky #TCMParty
Stanwyck on the big screen. What a Christmas!
www.regmovies.com/movies/hs25-...
#FilmSky #TCMParty
November 14, 2025 at 11:40 PM
CHRISTMAS IN CONNECTICUT (1945) screens at Regal Cinemas nationwide Dec 18 to celebrate its 80th anniversary.
Stanwyck on the big screen. What a Christmas!
www.regmovies.com/movies/hs25-...
#FilmSky #TCMParty
Stanwyck on the big screen. What a Christmas!
www.regmovies.com/movies/hs25-...
#FilmSky #TCMParty
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A new Kickstarter seeks to preserve + release the PHILO VANCE radio series.
All 104 episodes will be remastered from original discs — including shows unheard since 1946.
Jackson Beck stars as the detective played on film by William Powell.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/bol... #OTR #OldtimeRadio
All 104 episodes will be remastered from original discs — including shows unheard since 1946.
Jackson Beck stars as the detective played on film by William Powell.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/bol... #OTR #OldtimeRadio
The Philo Vance Radio Program Digital Preservation Project
Digitally preserving 104 transcription discs (the complete series) of the radio program 'Philo Vance'
www.kickstarter.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:09 PM
A new Kickstarter seeks to preserve + release the PHILO VANCE radio series.
All 104 episodes will be remastered from original discs — including shows unheard since 1946.
Jackson Beck stars as the detective played on film by William Powell.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/bol... #OTR #OldtimeRadio
All 104 episodes will be remastered from original discs — including shows unheard since 1946.
Jackson Beck stars as the detective played on film by William Powell.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/bol... #OTR #OldtimeRadio
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The WAC campaign to date
More from me with details of progress (or lack thereof) in the campaign against the shutting down of access at the Written Archives Centre, and a summary of quite why this policy shift is, simply and straightforwardly, wrong.
cstonline.net/defending-th...
More from me with details of progress (or lack thereof) in the campaign against the shutting down of access at the Written Archives Centre, and a summary of quite why this policy shift is, simply and straightforwardly, wrong.
cstonline.net/defending-th...
Defending the WAC: Our Rights, Their Wrongs: The WAC Campaign To Date by John Wyver
Just about exactly a year ago, on 19 November 2024, I e-mailed a group of colleagues expressing concern about the Terms of Use researchers had to sign up to it secure access to the immeasurably rich…
cstonline.net
November 14, 2025 at 1:23 PM
The WAC campaign to date
More from me with details of progress (or lack thereof) in the campaign against the shutting down of access at the Written Archives Centre, and a summary of quite why this policy shift is, simply and straightforwardly, wrong.
cstonline.net/defending-th...
More from me with details of progress (or lack thereof) in the campaign against the shutting down of access at the Written Archives Centre, and a summary of quite why this policy shift is, simply and straightforwardly, wrong.
cstonline.net/defending-th...
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3 Bob Ross paintings were auctioned to support PBS — and raised $662k.
27 more paintings will be sold, all to combat Trump's attempt to destroy public broadcasting.
"These funds will help local stations continue to serve their communities"
www.yahoo.com/news/article... #PBS #PublicBroadcasting
27 more paintings will be sold, all to combat Trump's attempt to destroy public broadcasting.
"These funds will help local stations continue to serve their communities"
www.yahoo.com/news/article... #PBS #PublicBroadcasting
Bob Ross painted 'happy little trees.' His art sparked a bidding war at charity auction
Three of Bob Ross' 'cheesy landscape' paintings brought in $600,000 at a charity auction to help support public broadcasting following government funding cuts.
www.yahoo.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:19 AM
3 Bob Ross paintings were auctioned to support PBS — and raised $662k.
27 more paintings will be sold, all to combat Trump's attempt to destroy public broadcasting.
"These funds will help local stations continue to serve their communities"
www.yahoo.com/news/article... #PBS #PublicBroadcasting
27 more paintings will be sold, all to combat Trump's attempt to destroy public broadcasting.
"These funds will help local stations continue to serve their communities"
www.yahoo.com/news/article... #PBS #PublicBroadcasting
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Now available online!
A CENTURY IN 16MM: THE REMAKING OF CINEMA (eds. Gregory A. Waller + Haidee Wasson) from @oxfordacademic.bsky.social. Featuring 23 essays on diverse uses and applications of the small gauge format worldwide!
Available in print in early 2026.
academic.oup.com/book/61621
A CENTURY IN 16MM: THE REMAKING OF CINEMA (eds. Gregory A. Waller + Haidee Wasson) from @oxfordacademic.bsky.social. Featuring 23 essays on diverse uses and applications of the small gauge format worldwide!
Available in print in early 2026.
academic.oup.com/book/61621
November 13, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Now available online!
A CENTURY IN 16MM: THE REMAKING OF CINEMA (eds. Gregory A. Waller + Haidee Wasson) from @oxfordacademic.bsky.social. Featuring 23 essays on diverse uses and applications of the small gauge format worldwide!
Available in print in early 2026.
academic.oup.com/book/61621
A CENTURY IN 16MM: THE REMAKING OF CINEMA (eds. Gregory A. Waller + Haidee Wasson) from @oxfordacademic.bsky.social. Featuring 23 essays on diverse uses and applications of the small gauge format worldwide!
Available in print in early 2026.
academic.oup.com/book/61621
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Studs’ Place: The Lost Sitcom That Put Working-Class Life on TV. Our latest blog post by scholar and guest author Jason J. Nebergall offers an analysis of how Studs Terkel's radical, working-class ethos was translated into the emerging television medium. Read more at: https://loom.ly/JDD26kA
November 6, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Studs’ Place: The Lost Sitcom That Put Working-Class Life on TV. Our latest blog post by scholar and guest author Jason J. Nebergall offers an analysis of how Studs Terkel's radical, working-class ethos was translated into the emerging television medium. Read more at: https://loom.ly/JDD26kA
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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.
In his Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame induction speech, Jack White shouted out over 30 acts that inspired the White Stripes – none of whom have been inducted
www.stereogum.com/2329132/whit...
www.stereogum.com/2329132/whit...
November 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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.
November 7, 2025 at 8:24 PM
UGA Libraries' Special Collections building in her autumn finery. Another beautiful day in Athens, GA.
November 6, 2025 at 7:44 PM
UGA Libraries' Special Collections building in her autumn finery. Another beautiful day in Athens, GA.
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Is AI-generated "archival" footage the future of documentary?
A new documentary studio says it is, calling their fake footage of historical figures generated from still photos "filming the past."
variety.com/2025/tv/news... #FilmSky #AI
A new documentary studio says it is, calling their fake footage of historical figures generated from still photos "filming the past."
variety.com/2025/tv/news... #FilmSky #AI
New Documentary Studio Unfeatured Films Plans to Use AI to Bring Archival Photos to Life and Restore Old Footage (EXCLUSIVE)
Filmmaker Daniel Clarke has launched Unfeatured Films, which will use AI animate archival photos and footage in documentaries.
variety.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Is AI-generated "archival" footage the future of documentary?
A new documentary studio says it is, calling their fake footage of historical figures generated from still photos "filming the past."
variety.com/2025/tv/news... #FilmSky #AI
A new documentary studio says it is, calling their fake footage of historical figures generated from still photos "filming the past."
variety.com/2025/tv/news... #FilmSky #AI
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The Moving Image Call for Submissions: Videotape in the Archive. https://loom.ly/CjFjs20
The Moving Image: Special Issue
This special issue will articulate the unique logistical, technological, and legal challenges of videotape preservation while introducing The Moving Image’s readership to the idiosyncratic character of videotape archives and the history of videotape as a medium.
amianet.org
November 6, 2025 at 2:21 PM
The Moving Image Call for Submissions: Videotape in the Archive. https://loom.ly/CjFjs20
A beautiful autumn day on the UGA campus!
November 6, 2025 at 2:19 PM
A beautiful autumn day on the UGA campus!
News cameraman caught with his own Hazel Frederick in the frame, circa 1962. From our Telenews Collection.
November 5, 2025 at 7:36 PM
News cameraman caught with his own Hazel Frederick in the frame, circa 1962. From our Telenews Collection.
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The Thai Film Archive has opened its digital vaults, releasing a selection of historical newsreel footage that captures the boundless royal grace and work of Her Majesty Queen Sirikit The Queen Mother. https://loom.ly/glen2jY
Thai Film Archive Offers Free Access to Rare Newsreels of Queen Sirikit The Queen Mother
A collection spanning 1959 to 1975 documents Her Majesty's royal duties and international visits, providing a priceless look into modern Thai history
www.nationthailand.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
The Thai Film Archive has opened its digital vaults, releasing a selection of historical newsreel footage that captures the boundless royal grace and work of Her Majesty Queen Sirikit The Queen Mother. https://loom.ly/glen2jY
Come for a tour of the Georgia Music Collections installation at Athens' Akins Ford Arena on Thurs., Nov. 20th @ 6:30pm. Ryan Lewis, Special Collections' GA music curator, will talk about items on display & give a first-hand account of managing a historic (and growing!) collection. FREE!
November 5, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Come for a tour of the Georgia Music Collections installation at Athens' Akins Ford Arena on Thurs., Nov. 20th @ 6:30pm. Ryan Lewis, Special Collections' GA music curator, will talk about items on display & give a first-hand account of managing a historic (and growing!) collection. FREE!
Really looking forward to Dr. Alice Lovejoy's talk tomorrow on her book about Eastman Kodak and its Tennessee chemical plant: calendar.uga.edu/event/eastma...
November 5, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Really looking forward to Dr. Alice Lovejoy's talk tomorrow on her book about Eastman Kodak and its Tennessee chemical plant: calendar.uga.edu/event/eastma...
Cordele, GA makes it into the NYT in a fun story! After you read the story, watch our 1936 town profile film by H.C. Kunkleman, "Things You Ought to Know About Cordele," on our website! bmac.libs.uga.edu/Detail/objec... 🎞️ &
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/b... 📰
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/b... 📰
November 4, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Cordele, GA makes it into the NYT in a fun story! After you read the story, watch our 1936 town profile film by H.C. Kunkleman, "Things You Ought to Know About Cordele," on our website! bmac.libs.uga.edu/Detail/objec... 🎞️ &
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/b... 📰
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/b... 📰
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When a large-scale restoration effort was halted by feds, history could not be forced back into the archives.
The first film made in Idaho was headed back to the big screen. Then DOGE intervened - High Country News
When a large-scale restoration effort was halted by feds, history could not be forced back into the archives.
buff.ly
November 2, 2025 at 11:01 PM
When a large-scale restoration effort was halted by feds, history could not be forced back into the archives.
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New York, NY: Curator, Moving Image & Recorded Sound, Schomburg Center at New York Public Library
New York, NY: Curator, Moving Image & Recorded Sound, Schomburg Center at New York Public Library
archivesgig.com
November 3, 2025 at 5:26 PM
New York, NY: Curator, Moving Image & Recorded Sound, Schomburg Center at New York Public Library