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 #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
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
Broadcasting Baltimore 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 Broadcasting Baltimore Update #1: City Line Is Digitized
ATHA Rocket Grant Fuels WJZ-TV Searches
Map of the Anacostia Trails Heritage Area (ATHA) Thanks to an Anacostia Trails Heritage Area (ATHA) Rocket Grant, we have enhanced the accessibility of our WJZ-TV collection through the creation of speech-to-text transcripts. MARMIA has digitized nearly 700 videos from our WJZ-TV Collection and all of them are available on the Internet Archive. While we … Continue reading ATHA Rocket Grant Fuels WJZ-TV Searches
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!
MARMIA Receives an Anacostia Trails Heritage Area (ATHA) Rocket Grant
We are excited to announce that MARMIA has received an Anacostia Trails Heritage Area (ATHA) Rocket Grant! With this grant, we will enhance the accessibility of our WJZ-TV collection through the creation of speech-to-text transcripts as well as find ATHA-related content! The ATHA encompasses over 100 square miles of Northern Prince George's County – bordered … Continue reading MARMIA Receives an Anacostia Trails Heritage Area (ATHA) Rocket Grant
Who Remembers Erol’s?
Two boxes of Erol’s Betamax tapes were donated to MARMIA a few years ago and prompted this nostalgic look back. Erol Onaran, once dubbed the "Video King," began his TV and electronics business in 1963 shortly after relocating to the DMV from Turkey. In 1980, Onaran added video rentals to his business and by 1984 … Continue reading Who Remembers Erol’s?
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