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News items are drawn from contributions by FOCAL International's members, stories noted in the public and trade news plus important news coming out of FOCAL International itself.
Blinkx has signed a deal with AnyClip
16 May 2012
Lottery cash to boost film industry
16 May 2012
Roly Keating leaving BBC for British Library
11 May 2012
Academy Expands Film Preservation Efforts
10 May 2012
Irish Film Historian Dr Kevin Rockett
10 May 2012
Galleries and museums get funding boost
10 May 2012
The lost world of New York
10 May 2012
The UK Government's Consultation on Copyright
29 April 2012
We Lost It At The Movies
28 April 2012
Documentary Seeks The 'Marley' Behind The Myth
28 April 2012
Holocaust archives come to Penn
28 April 2012
870,000 New York archival photos go online
28 April 2012
99 years later, Raja Harishchandra (1913) goes 3D
28 April 2012
UAE's own film library and archive
28 April 2012
John Sergeant to host FOCAL International Awards ceremony 2nd May - Tickets on sale NOW!
20 April 2012
Film academy acquires Bison Archives photographs
17 April 2012
BFI National Archive acquires over 20,000 COI films
17 April 2012
The London Archive Film Festival 3-5 May
11 April 2012
Hammer searches for lost horror scenes
20 March 2012
World's oldest known Dickens-inspired film, The Death of Poor Joe, found in British Film Archive
20 March 2012
MARLEY premieres April 19th
20 March 2012
Professor preserves history through digital library
20 March 2012
Cinematheque Quebecoise at Risk of Bankruptcy
20 March 2012
Watching Movies in the Cloud
20 March 2012
SENNA: A Masterclass April 1st Brighton
2 March 2012
State Archives of North Carolina,
1 March 2012
Prime Focus Breaking News
22 February 2012
Battle of the Somme Tour 2012
21 February 2012
IASA: Application for Travel Grants now open
21 February 2012
HUNTLEY COURSE 5-6th March: PRINCIPLES OF FILM ARCHIVING
15 February 2012
Senna drives off with Bafta
15 February 2012
BFI selects Prime Focus for archive digital services
15 February 2012
Archivist Michael Pahn Free Associates Among the Smithsonian's Music and Film Collections
15 February 2012
The Kodak Fallout
15 February 2012
Debate on Saving Historic Films Explodes
15 February 2012
Film reels might hold historic 1968 footage of James Earl Ray
15 February 2012
The Artist, Hugo spotlight film preservation
15 February 2012
Rare HBC fur-trade films returned to Canada and will be screened
14 February 2012
Observations on Film Art
14 February 2012
As 35mm Film Dies, How Do Revival Theaters Cope?
11 February 2012
An Industry Beneath the Surface
11 February 2012
INA, Library of Congress exchange cinema and TV archives
11 February 2012
Database Cinema: An Instant Movie Mashup Generator
11 February 2012
Is cinema facing a digital dark age?
11 February 2012
BFI selects Prime Focus Technologies as preferred supplier for archive restoration services
9 February 2012
Steven Spielberg's Holocaust archive arrives in UK
31 January 2012
1919 film gives insight into life in northern Canada
31 January 2012
WINGS - First silent film to win Oscar released on DVD
31 January 2012
Historic San Francisco film emerges after 95 years
31 January 2012
The winners of the 2012 History Makers Awards are....
31 January 2012
EUscreen Conference: Television Heritage & the Web, 13 September
27 January 2012
Current UK may close after Sky decision
11 January 2012
Richard Hooper Calls For Evidence On Copyright Licensing
10 January 2012
2011 National Film Treasury Films Announced
6 January 2012
2011 Kodak Fellowship in Film Preservation named
6 January 2012
'Frankenstein' film clip turns up in Vatican archives
6 January 2012
RTÉ Libraries and Archives explored
6 January 2012
History Makers: Visual Researchers Delegation Announced
3 January 2012
Huntley Archives lost Mickey Mouse prototype film auctioned
21 December 2011
Jonas Mekas co-founder of Anthology Film Archives is tireless
21 December 2011
Sightsavers' rare film footage is restored
21 December 2011
Film reveals Paris crackdown of 1961 Algeria protest
21 December 2011
Cinema Komunisto: Living in Tito's vision
21 December 2011
International Military Film Competition
21 December 2011
Lost David Bowie footage to be screened in the New Year
21 December 2011
National Film Unit newsreels placed on Unesco register
21 December 2011
Rewinding the Past in the Peak
1 December 2011
Government committed to preserve cinematic heritage
1 December 2011
Returning Footage to the Rightful Owner
1 December 2011
Genocide archive expands mission
1 December 2011
