Our SaveAFilm initiative allows free internet access to a number of our films.  See how you can view them and participate in our efforts.

We are researching the history and collecting the films and ephemera from Encyclopaedia Britannica's groundbreaking Je Parle Français, La Familia Fernández, and Emilio en España foreign-language instruction films of the early 1960s.

The Clifford West Preservation Project focused on preserving the film output of an important filmmaker whose work encompassed the art of Florence, Italy, and artists such as Edvard Munch, and Harry Bertoia.  

Lost & Found FilmKids identifies what some of the kids that appeared in academic films are doing today

Director Geoff Alexander has made several presentations at the annual conferences of the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA). Among them were two presentations at the 2002 conference in Boston. The first was as a panelist on Rethinking 'Educational' Films, where he described the differentiation between the Academic and the Guidance film, and called for increased awareness, scholarship, and preservation of the Academic Film.  The second  was a one-evening retrospective on the work of filmmaker Bert Van Bork.   He also made a presentation on the challenges of ensuring the survivability of film archives in institutional settings, along with recommendations, at the 2006 conference in Anchorage. In the Savannah, GA conference of 2008, he described how to provide free public access to films without formal funding, as well as processes and resources for documenting academic film. In Philadelphia in 2010, he hosted the first retrospective of the films of Carson Davidson, with the filmmaker and Academy Film Archive preservationist Brian Meacham.

The Morlam VCD Project represents the first effort by western researchers to document this important song form, originally from the Isaan (Esarn) area of northeastern Thailand, and now popular in Bangkok as well.  

Prior to founding the Academic Film Archive of North America, director Geoff Alexander initiated several non-film cultural projects  Among these were papers on Flamenco music, the history of the jazz organ, and a survey of Black preaching styles.  He was also a composer and performer of electronic avant-garde music for Farfisa organ and keyboards. 

KTAO was a freeform radio station headed by Lorenzo Milam in the town of Los Gatos, CA in the early 1970s. We are compiling its history as a special project.