We now have about 30% of our digitization complete (300+ hours) for our CLIR-funded project, Broadcasting Baltimore: Digitizing Hidden Histories in the WJZ-TV Collection, and among the tapes digitized includes the series described as “WJZ’s nightclub on the air,” Shakedown! This series was executive produced by Michael Easterling, produced by Earnest Winbourne, and hosted by … Continue reading CLIR Update #2: Shakedown!
CLIR Update #1: City Line Is Digitized
Our three-year CLIR-funded project, Broadcasting Baltimore: Digitizing Hidden Histories in the WJZ-TV Collection began in September of 2022. The project’s goal is to digitize and describe 1000 hours of video from the WJZ-TV Collection that documents the voices of underrepresented communities in Baltimore City from 1977-2000. We began by digitizing the rest of the WJZ-TV … Continue reading CLIR Update #1: City Line Is Digitized
Digitizing Hidden Histories Begins!
Our three-year CLIR-funded project, Broadcasting Baltimore: Digitizing Hidden Histories in the WJZ-TV Collection begins this month! We will begin to digitize videos from the WJZ-TV Collection that document the voices of underrepresented communities in Baltimore City from 1977-2000. In the next three years, we will digitize 1000 hours. The first tapes we are digitizing for … Continue reading Digitizing Hidden Histories Begins!
MARMIA Receives a CLIR Grant!
We are extremely pleased to announce that MARMIA has been selected to receive a Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives: Amplifying Unheard Voices grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR)! Our three-year project, Broadcasting Baltimore: Digitizing Hidden Histories in the WJZ-TV Collection will fund an Audiovisual Archivist position for in-house digitization of … Continue reading MARMIA Receives a CLIR Grant!
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