Guest author: Dr. Anne-Katrin Weber How to write the history of television’s forgotten actors and neglected technologies? The research project TVélargie has run for 4 years at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Led by Prof. François Vallotton and Dr. Anne-Katrin Weber, it digs into the history of Swiss television from 1960 to the late 1990s…
June 8, 2021
The Europeana XX: subtitle-a-thon is a crowdsourcing initiative with four sprint-like online events organised by the Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum – DFF (Germany), The Istituto Luce Cinecittà (Italy), the National Film Archive – Audiovisual Institute – FINA (Poland) and, the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision – NISV (The Netherlands). During the events, people with…
May 20, 2021
The global coronavirus outbreak brought a series of challenges and fast-paced changes for many sectors and communities. Like many sectors, audiovisual archives were also forced to adapt quickly to the new realm, acting in a dramatically changed operational context. With this in mind, in early October 2020, a group of IASA and FIAT/IFTA members from…
May 3, 2021
