Watch these collection highlights at https://tinyurl.com/BroadcastingBaltimore In 2022, MARMIA received a Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) grant to digitize and describe 1,000 hours of footage from our WJZ-TV Collection that documents the voices of underrepresented communities in Baltimore City from 1977-2000. Voices represented in the project include Black Americans, Native Americans, Asian Americans, … Continue reading Broadcasting Baltimore Update #9: 1,036 hours completed!
Broadcasting Baltimore Update #8: Eyewitness News
As we near the very end of our three-year CLIR-funded grant project, Broadcasting Baltimore: Digitizing Hidden Histories, we would be remiss if we did not do a whole blog post dedicated to Eyewitness News. The first Eyewitness News format began in 1959 at a local television station in Cleveland (now WKYC-TV), which was a Group … Continue reading Broadcasting Baltimore Update #8: Eyewitness News
Broadcasting Baltimore Update #7: Now & Then
In the WJZ-13 collection, there is a series called "Field Tapes." This series contains archival footage and camera-original recordings produced and recorded by Norman Vogel for use on a segment called, "Now and Then" which aired on the news. From what we can tell, "Now and Then" was a regular part of Eyewitness News and … Continue reading Broadcasting Baltimore Update #7: Now & Then
Broadcasting Baltimore Update #6: Prime-time People
Walter Flax (1896-1982) During the summer of 1976, a San Francisco CBS affiliate station (KPIX) owned by Westinghouse Broadcasting (Group W), premiered a local weeknight television news and entertainment series titled Evening: The MTWTF Show, eventually becoming Evening Magazine. The show was designed to add a local focus to the news. This show was created … Continue reading Broadcasting Baltimore Update #6: Prime-time People
Mellon Foundation NFF Investing in Resilience
We are thrilled to announce that MARMIA has been selected to be a part of the Mellon Foundation NFF three-year initiative, Investing in Resilience. This cohort includes Appalshop, Center for Asian American Media (CAAM), ENTRE Film Center & Regional Archive, Frameline, Media Burn Archive, Invisible Histories, Sacred Defense Fund, Third World Newsreel, and Warrior Women Project. … Continue reading Mellon Foundation NFF Investing in Resilience
Broadcasting Baltimore Update #5: Community Festivals
AFRAM (1978) Ethnic festivals started out as neighborhood parties and over the years grew into larger events that drew thousands of people from in and outside Baltimore. Largely funded by the city, different ethnic groups created an event to help celebrate Baltimore's diversity. Every summer people would look at the schedule to see the "Showcase … Continue reading Broadcasting Baltimore Update #5: Community Festivals
Describing the Ernest W. Ryan Home Movie Collection
This blog post was written by MARMIA’s 2024 summer intern Nora Dunne. Nora is completing her Masters in Library and Information Science at the University of Maryland, College Park. Nora lives in Baltimore by way of Chicago, and enjoys books, stained glass, and travel. Her summer project focused on creating a finding aid for one … Continue reading Describing the Ernest W. Ryan Home Movie Collection
Searching for Thunder Thigh Revue
Members of the MARMIA team recently received a tour of the Baltimore Museum of Art’s Joyce J. Scott: Walk a Mile in My Dream exhibition. Audiovisual records are notoriously difficult to search. They take time to digitize, watch, and describe. In 2022, we received an ATHA Rocket Grant which helped us create speech-to-text transcripts for … Continue reading Searching for Thunder Thigh Revue
Broadcasting Baltimore Update #4: Focal Point
Only a few hundred reels of film from WJZ-TV survived. People thought video was going to replace film and switched over without knowing that videotape would be a more volatile and short-lived material. Rumor has it that decades ago while repaving the WJZ parking lot, they buried the film library under the asphalt. In the … Continue reading Broadcasting Baltimore Update #4: Focal Point
Broadcasting Baltimore Update #3: WJZ-TV Collection Featured on Digital Maryland
We have officially launched another segment of our three-year CLIR-funded grant project, Broadcasting Baltimore: Digitizing Hidden Histories in the WJZ-TV Collection, by having our collection available to search in Digital Maryland. Digital Maryland is a collaborative, statewide digital preservation program of the Enoch Pratt Free Library/Maryland State Library Resource Center. Users can search and explore … Continue reading Broadcasting Baltimore Update #3: WJZ-TV Collection Featured on Digital Maryland
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