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The Association des Cinémathèques Europénnes (ACE) and the FIAF Cataloguing and Documentation Commission have issued a Call for Presentations for their jointly organised workshop "Metadata Management in Film Archives - Putting the Ci

The international conference "The Birth of Military Cinemas (1914-1930)" (Namur and Brussels, 29-30 November and 1 December 2017) aims to analyse the birth of the military cinematographic services that ermerged in the world at the turn of the years 1914-1918.

Today, the FIAF Cataloguing and Documentation Commission (CDC) published the FIAF Moving Image Cataloguing Manual. The manual is available for free in PDF format here. The result of many years of labor and collaboration with numerous professionals in the moving image field, the manual is more than a simple revision of The FIAF Cataloguing Rules for Film Archives (1991).

Kinoteka na Makedonija is a new partner of the European Film Gateway and now gives access to a collection of 16 digitally restored films from the most interesting periods of Macedonian cinema.

A phD candidate from the University of Illinois in Chicago has uncovered previously unseen footage of the Eastland Disaster in Chicago digitised within the EFG1914 project. The footage from the collection of the EYE Film Institute (Amsterdam) shows the immediate aftermath of the disaster, which occurred when the Eastland capsized in the Chicago river in July 1915 and 844 people got killed.