Journal of Film Preservation:
Latest Issue - #114, April 2026
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EDITORIAL
Oliver Hanley | 5
OPEN FORUM
Guilt, Triggers, and Responsibility: How to Engage Audiences With “Difficult” Films
Jay Weissberg | 13
Who’s Interested in Silent Film Today? Report on the Cinema’s First Nasty Women Audience Demographics Survey
Russell Zych, Maggie Hennefeld, and Laura Horak | 23
Mapping Italy’s Non-Fiction Archival Landscape: An Overview of the “SAFE” Research Project
Rossella Catanese and Simone Venturini | 33
Stewarding Film Heritage and the World Around It: Environmental Responsibility in Film Archival Practice
Daniela Currò | 43
HISTORY
Asian Film Archive: The Journey
Karen Chan | 57
We’ve Got Our Eye on You: The Legacy of Polish Cinematography Pioneer Kazimierz Prószyński and His Oko Camera
Monika Supruniuk | 67
D’une section grenobloise des Amis de la Cinémathèque française à la Cinémathèque de Grenoble
Vincent Sorrel | 79
"I Change I Am the Same”: On the History and Present of an Institution
Stefanie Schulte Strathaus | 89
ARCHIVES AT WORK
The Bulgarian National Film Archive at a Crossroads: Legislative Stabilization, Digitization, International Repositioning, and Institutional Challenges Mariana Hristova | 105
Presenting the New Lab of the Greek Film Archive
Maria Komninos, Electra Venaki, and Céline Ruivo | 113
Chilling Evidence: How Scientific Research at the Paul Scherrer Institute is Helping Magnetic Film Sound Preservation at the British Film Institute
Jack Harrison, Charles Fairall, Robert Ewart, and Sebastian Gliga | 123
The Gold Rush at 100: The New Restoration (and Multiple Lives) of Charlie Chaplin’s Timeless Masterpiece
Cecilia Cenciarelli and Elena Tammaccaro | 133
REVIEWS
The Archival Afterlives of Philippine Cinema
Mary Kareen L. Gancio | 146
The Archival Impermanence Project: Film Restoration Poetics, Case Studies, and Histories
Martin Koerber | 148
El cinematógrafo en España (1896-1906)
Esteve Riambau | 151
Doing Digital Film History: Concepts, Tools, Practices
Paolo Cherchi Usai | 153
Finding Birt Acres: The Rediscovery of a Film Pioneer
Bryony Dixon | 156
June Givanni: The Making of a Pan-African Cinema Archive
Arike Oke | 158
La película de mi vida. Memorias
Valeria Camporesi | 161
Stretching the Archive: Towards a Global Women’s Film Heritage
Nikolaus Perneczky | 163
Champagne & Caviar: Four Weimar Comedies (1931–1932)
Elise Thora Volkmann | 166
Sept films du cinéaste portugais Paulo Rocha
Samantha Leroy | 169
Three Revolutionary Films by Ousmane Semebène
Amadou T. Fofana | 172
István Szabó: Mephisto, Colonel Redl (Redl ezredes), Hanussen
Michael Brooke | 176
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