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AMIA Archival Screening Night Roadshow Edition 2

November 18, 2021

Grand Illusion Cinema
Seattle, WA

Seattle co-sponsor

We co-sponsored the Seattle in-person DCP screening of AMIA’s second-ever Archival Screening Night roadshow edition, featuring 100 minutes of shorts and selections from moving image archives in the US, Mexico, Thailand, Germany, and New Zealand.

The program was produced for the AMIA 2021 conference, which was held online. The Association of Moving Image Archivists is an international nonprofit association dedicated to the preservation and use of moving image media.

An Association of Moving Image Archivists release. Programmed by Brittan Dunham and Genevieve Havemeyer-King. Produced by Laura Rooney and Dennis Doros.

A veritable trove of treasures from the world’s archives and archivists, ASN Roadshow is 20+ astonishing films and videos in 100 minutes!

This cinematic Cabinet of Wonders features films from Mexico, Thailand, and New Zealand, an appearance by Louis Jordan and the Tympany Five, a dancing Bobcat (it’s not what you expect!), Baltimore Breakdancing including the Chocolate Boogie, Jack Lemon’s first screen appearance, and many more!

The Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) is an international nonprofit association dedicated to the preservation and use of moving image media. The Archival Screening Night has been the centerpiece of every AMIA conference since 1991. Normally a members-only event, this special Roadshow edition is being made accessible to the public. Don't miss this rare opportunity to see incredible, strange, astonishing, hilarious, and curious treasures from the world's moving image archives!

Promotional image for the AMIA Archival Screening Night Roadshow Edition 2 (Nov. 2021)A still from 'Pathé News Invades General Electric Experimental Laboratory' (1927)A still from 'Deyo', aka 'Gaiety Dance' (American Mutoscope Co., 1897)A still from Marlon Riggs interview clip from an episode of the PBS program 'In the Life' (In The Life Media, 1992)A still from 'Impasse' (Caroline and Frank Mouris, 1978)A still from 'Caldonia' (William Forest Crouch, 1945) showing Louis Jordan and band