media preservation

Patrick Feaster

May 31, 2012

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IU sound media historian Patrick Feaster accomplishes the seemingly impossible task of creating sound from century-old images. He’s uncovered and played back what may be the world’s oldest record.

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Preserving Orson Welles

May 15, 2012

“As long as they let me have a camera, I’ll grind it.” So says Orson Welles in this audio excerpt below from a recording made after the premiere of Welles’s landmark film Citizen Kane. The recording, which exists on a lacquer disc in the Orson Welles Collection at the Lilly Library, was one of the [...]

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