This Friday i went and saw the movie Coraline with some friends (trailer is here). While the movie sports an ordinary story - a cartoonish plot of evil lady trying to steal a young girls soul - it was extraordinary in the the way it looked in two ways.  First it was stop-motion, and second it was i...

Museums—especially history museums—often have a hard time keeping incorporating new technology into their staid exhibits. That is, museums that don't happen to be in Randers, Denmark. ......

From the web site: Perhaps because he is a historian rather than librarian by training, Robert Darnton regards the vast ocean of digital information that civilization has begun accumulating with relish rather than anxiety. Darnton delves into European archives to find raw material, boxes of cast-off...

Word is slowly spreading about Ancestry.com's new grant program for state archives.  Ancestry is promising to provide $1.5 million dollars in digitization services (though no money) to state repositories.  Best of all, it has promised to keep the application requirements simple.  The ...

In Tim Brook's excellent CLIR report Survey of Reissues of U.S. Sound Recordings , one finds the following statement: One notable component of the public domain for recordings is the body of recordings made by the companies of Thomas A. Edison between 1890 and 1929. Legal title to those recordings d...

Last February, a Senate hearing highlighted the sorry state of the Founding Fathers projects. While no one questioned the extremely high scholarly quality of the published volumes of papers that have been produced to date, the hearing noted the glacial production pace, high cost, and limited access ...

Filed under: DLP, Projector Keep an eye out for a new development at IMAX theaters near you, as it starts to roll out digital projection to its 296 theaters next month. Two sites in Washington and one in Philadelphia are first (not to mention those new theaters in Russia), with 50 expected to be com...

Jim Hill shares the latest news from ShoWest 2008. Where Jeffrey Katzenberg revealed that, as of March 2010, DA will only be produced digital 3-D films...(read more) This is a summary only, for more in depth info about the Walt Disney Company and the Entertainment Industry in general, visit JimHillM...