A truly special list all coming from the archive of Czech Television, as archivist Martin Bouda lets us know his top archive-based films and series. 1. The uncertain future of the earth in the Sc… | Continue reading
This week expert Montserrat Bailac of Corporació Catalana de Mitjans Audiovisuals tells us the story behind her favourite archive-based films. 1. The historical “El Perro Negro” “… | Continue reading
With the royal wedding of Prince Harry and Megan Markle taking place little over a week ago; this months’ Video Collection reveals nine video’s of European royal weddings throughout his… | Continue reading
In this first part of a new serie, where we search for the best archive-based films, Krisztina Tajta of the National Audiovisual Archive in Hungary tells the story behind her top 5 archive-based fi… | Continue reading
The Many Lives of Sonja de Leeuw; Symposium and Farewell Lecture on May 16th, 2018 On the occasion of Sonja de Leeuw’s retirement, her colleagues Jasmijn van Gorp, Alec Badenoch and Eggo Müller org… | Continue reading
Recently we had the pleasure of talking with Prof. Dr. Katharine Sarikakis about the research project she supervised: The Governance of Cultural Memory Through Audiovisual Broadcast Archives. Prof.… | Continue reading
This year, two doctoral dissertations on the home movie as a twentieth-century cultural practice saw the light of day. Tim van der Heijden defended his dissertation Hybrid Histories: Technologies o… | Continue reading
Date: September 24 to 28, 2018 Location: Potsdam Organized by: Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF, Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam and Brandenburg Center for Media Studies Funded by: Vo… | Continue reading
“Jazz washes away the dust of everyday life”, said jazz legend Art Blakey. Although jazz is a difficult music genre to describe, it is also very recognizable. First developed around the… | Continue reading
We are very happy to announce that as of this month twenty-five items of Radio-television Vojvodina became available on the portal of Europeana. Working together with Radio-television Vojvodina was… | Continue reading
On March 8, 2018 Memoriav, the association in charge of fostering audiovisual archives preservation projects in Switzerland, held a training dedicated to quality management within digitization projects. Recently we had the pleasure of talking with Axel Roche-Dioré, project leader … | Continue reading
The Danish kangaroo bike, a popular folk sport and old clips of the Tour de France. In this video collection, you can see different sports in action, with videos dating from 1936 to 2009. A collection of nine videos from the EUscreen portal featuring an abundance of sports activi … | Continue reading
Heritage is a key component of the European identity. The study and preservation of cultural and natural heritage is a global challenge for science and the European society at large. The European Research Infrastructure for Heritage Science (E-RIHS) is a pan-European project aimi … | Continue reading
The evolution of preserving analogue through digital means is a recurrent subject and of great importance to the future of archiving. Do the people working in the archives have the relevant skills … | Continue reading
In my previous blog post, ‘Quantifying Autobiography‘, I introduced the ‘Me & Myself‘ (M&M) pilot project, for which I am a research assistant. In this post I will try to explain the role that we as a research team have within the larger CLARIAH project, and the shift in research … | Continue reading
This past November, the International Documentary Filmfestival Amsterdam (IDFA) hosted the panel discussion Industry Session: From Archive to Storytelling. The guests were archive-researcher James … | Continue reading
“Copyright (and) Culture: the governance of audiovisual archives” is written by Katharine Sarikakis, Olga Kolokytha and Krisztina Rozgonyi, all working at the Department of Communications of the University of Vienna. In this paper they ask the following research question: What ar … | Continue reading
Music in Movement (MiM) is an interactive guide to the life and work of the greatest composers of contemporary classical music. Reusing unique archival resources it highlights the richness of European contemporary music by tracing the stories of four eminent composers: Louis Andr … | Continue reading
European History Reloaded: Curation and Appropriation of Digital Audiovisual Heritage (CADEAH) is the title of a programme that is awarded a three-year research grant by the EC Horizon 2020 program… | Continue reading
Rock, Jazz or the romantic songs of Serge Gainsbourg: in this video collection we show musical gems dating from 1962 to 2012. A video collection from the EUscreen Portal featuring musical highlights such as performances, interviews and the arrival of legends in different cities. … | Continue reading
In the paper ‘Sharing killed the AVMSD star: the impossibility of European audiovisual media regulation in the era of the sharing economy’, Indrek Ibrus and Ulrike Rohn (Baltic Film, Media, Arts and Communication School (BFM), Tallinn University) focus on the challenges that the … | Continue reading
By Sergio Angelini, Head of Membership Services and Information and Hetty Malcolm-Smith, Head of Operations Learning on Screen will publish the second edition of Audiovisual Citation Guidelines in January 2018 after the launch at Learning on Screen’s Members’ Day event on 1st Dec … | Continue reading
Skylines, sights, and city life. In this video collection, you will see what Athens looked like in 1936 or Lisbon in 1960. A collection of 23 videos from the EUscreen Portal featuring 23 different cities! Enjoy browsing through the collection and discover more on EUscreen.eu. Ams … | Continue reading
Projects based on historical archives were the main focus of the 14th BAAC annual conference, which this year was hosted in Warsaw by the National Film Archive – Audiovisual Institute (FINA). Experts from the Baltic region and friends of the Baltic Audiovisual Archival Council (B … | Continue reading
Adriano D’Aloia, Marie-Aude Baronian and Marco Pedroni edited a special issue of Comunicazioni Sociali, Journal of Media, Performing Arts and Cultural Studies (January-April 2017), about audiovisual media studies and fashion. The issue, called ‘Fashionating images’, tries to expl … | Continue reading
Not lament, but fact: TV has changed. With it, the job of broadcast archivists. “Archivists need to change”, proclaimed Matt White at the opening talks of this year’s FIAT/IFTA World conference. White produced the box office hit The Beatles: Eight Days a Week, built from crowdsou … | Continue reading
Guest post by Eriona Vyshka, collection manager at the Albanian Film Archive (AQSHF). AQSHF recently published 300 video’s to Europeana via EUscreen. The Albanian Film Archive is responsible for managing (storing and maintaining) all historic film materials and receives deposits … | Continue reading
A guest blog by Rob Wegter, Student Assistant MA Digital Humanities at the University of Groningen, about his experiences during the research project “Me and Myself: Tracing first person in documentary history in AV-collections”. I must admit that before I started the Digital Hum … | Continue reading
The European Audiovisual Observatory, part of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, published a new report on the state of play of copyright law in Europe. This latest IRIS Plus report ‘Exceptions and limitations to copyright’, guides us through the complex process of the new Copy … | Continue reading
In the paper ‘Infrastructuring for Cultural Commons’, Sanna Marttila (Aalto University) and Andrea Botero (Universidad de Los Andes) reflect on their involvement in the design and development of two information systems: EUscreen and Fusion. Abstract ‘Fusion and EUscreen are both … | Continue reading
Sunday, July 23rd is the last day of the Tour de France 2017. Did you know the EUscreen Portal contains a lot of Tour de France footage? Most of the following videos are from our partner l’Institut national de l’audiovisuel (INA). They have a great collection of clips about the r … | Continue reading
One day symposium at Utrecht University (The Netherlands) on May 16th, 2018. The Many Lives of Europe’s Audiovisual Heritage Online Farewell Symposium Prof. Dr. Sonja de Leeuw During the past decade, a massive body of European audiovisual heritage has become accessible online: on … | Continue reading
In remembrance of jazz legend Louis Armstrong we collected different videos from the EUscreen Archive starring Armstrong. He died on the 6th of July 1971. Find more music video’s on EUscreen.eu! Armstrong in Stockholm A clip about Louis Armstrong visiting Stockholm. Provider: Kun … | Continue reading
Dr. Anna Sobczak (Poland/France), archivist and records manager, recently published her research ‘Traditional vs. Virtual Archives – The Evolving Digital Identity of Archives in Germany’. We … | Continue reading
Guest post by Shane O’Sullivan, filmmaker and lecturer in Filmmaking at Kingston University. Kingston University London recently partnered with BFI […] | Continue reading
To celebrate its fifth anniversary, the VIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture brings its readers a fully redesigned […] | Continue reading
An interview with historian, professor of Spanish Language and Literature and archivist researcher at RTV Slovenia Katja Šturm about her […] | Continue reading
Guest post by Mathy Vanbuel, Secretary of the Media and Learning Association. The Media and Learning Association has signed the […] | Continue reading
Europe’s galleries, archives, museums, and libraries (or ‘GLAMs’) are making their cultural, educational and scientific content accessible online. As a […] | Continue reading
On the 29th of April 2017 it’s International Dance Day. Watch this collection of videos from the EUscreen archive to celebrate! […] | Continue reading
Screened at the EUscreen Network Meeting in Paris, now on the blog! Find here the five most viewed EUscreen video’s. […] | Continue reading
On March 20 EUscreen and the FIAT/IFTA’s Media Studies Commission organized a joint seminar about ‘1968 in the Media’. The […] | Continue reading
Guest post by Mari Skarnes and Maja Wettmark, archive developers at the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK). NRK Archive The NRK […] | Continue reading
RTÉ Archives’ Liam Wylie during the 2015 EUscreenXL Conference. Photo Credit: Bartek Syta for Narodowy Instytut Audiowizualny. EUscreen is collaborating […] | Continue reading
Take a look at this collection of videos from the EUscreen archive in honor of International Women’s Day 2017: Women […] | Continue reading
The Media Studies Commission of the International Federation of Television Archives announces its forthcoming international seminar to take place in […] | Continue reading
Photo credit: (c) FremantleMedia Spain EUscreen publishes the open access journal VIEW, which explores Europe’s television history and culture. We’re […] | Continue reading
Photo source: Österreichischer Rundfunk. All rights reserved. This video collection is […] | Continue reading