339: Kinemathek Update

Archival Spaces 339 Deutsche Kinemathek Update Uploaded 26 January 2024 The news took a little longer to arrive than initially indicated in my Archival Spaces 319 blog (https://archivalspaces.com/2023/04/14/319-deutsche-kinemathek/)), but it is good, indeed. As reported in April 2023, the Deutsche Kinemathek and Museum für Film und Fernsehen on Berlin’s Potsdamer Platz had lost its leaseContinue reading “339: Kinemathek Update”

329: Tales from the Vault

Archival Spaces 329 Tales from the Vaults: Film Technology over the Years and across Continents Uploaded 1 September 2023 When I was a post-graduate intern at George Eastman Museum in the mid-1970s, I was sent by the Film Department to Yonkers, New York, to deliver a 28mm print of The Yellow Girl (1915) to DonContinue reading “329: Tales from the Vault”

324: RIP Hans Helmut Prinzler

Archival Spaces 324: RIP Hans Helmut Prinzler 23 June 2023 On Tuesday, a friend in Berlin sent me a German newspaper digital clipping with the news that the former director of the Deutsche Kinemathek in Berlin, Hans Helmut Prinzler, had died on Sunday 18 June.  During the day I kept thinking about how our livesContinue reading “324: RIP Hans Helmut Prinzler”

315: Survey of American Archivists

Archival Spaces 315 A*CENSUS II: Archives Administrators Survey Uploaded 17 February 2023 Recently, ITHAKA and the Society of American Archivists published their findings of “A*CENSUS II: Archives Administrators Survey,” authored by Makala Skinner and financially supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Studies (IMLS). A*CENSUS II had previously published the „All Archivists Survey“ inContinue reading “315: Survey of American Archivists”