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  • 2024 Safer Together Archival Videos
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    2024 Safer Together Archival Videos

    IU Libraries Moving Image Archive invites YOU to create a short, compelling video using archival footage to raise awareness about alcohol misuse. Through a juried competition…
    December 21st, 2023
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    100 tales from the world's cinema vaults

    One hundred vivid tales of iconic, unique and historically significant cinematic devices from around the world fill a new bilingual coffee table book co-edited by Director of the IU Libraries Moving Image Archive, Rachael Stoeltje.
    October 26th, 2023
  • An image of a college campus in the 1970's is overlaid with text reading Because We're #Safertogether
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    Contest winner offers 30 seconds of safety

    IU sophomore Eva Stuart won the Safer Together contest, the first IU Libraries inaugural archival remix media project. In making her video, Stuart said she wanted to convey how not using safe road practices affects the entire community, not just oneself, and the staged crash victim clips were stark reminders of what could happen.
    August 31st, 2023
  • A reel of 2-inch Quad Tape on a tabletop with a ruler nearby
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    IU digitizes rare 1962 MLK interview

    Approximately 150 different two-inch quad tapes containing broadcasts from the 1960s and 1970s from a CBS affiliate in New York were part of the former IU Audio-Visual Center collections, and have now been digitized by IU Libraries Moving Image Archive and IU's Media Digitization and Preservation Initiative (MDPI).
    June 22nd, 2023
  • Scoop of Sealtest ice cream in bowl with a spoon.
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    Clio Awards Collection: Sealtest

    Research on the company Sealtest and its history within the civil rights movement conducted by Jorgensen Fellow, Noni Ford
    April 13th, 2023
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    Safer Together Archival Videos

    Indiana University Libraries Moving Image Archive invites YOU to create a short, compelling video using archival footage to raise awareness about street safety.
    March 23rd, 2023
  • Red logo for A Century of 16mm depicting film reels in the shape of a number 16.
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    Grant to Support 16mm Film Celebration

    IU Libraries' Moving Image Archive and IU's Media School have received a grant from the Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitable Foundation to support programming celebrating the 100th anniversary of 16mm film.
    December 5th, 2022