Lynn and Louis Wolfson II Florida Moving Image Archives

10/12/2026

Analog Annie here. Today I’m featuring a 1987 clip from a Betacam videotape from the WTVJ news collection. This professional cassette format containing half-inch wide videotape was smaller (and way more portable) than the ¾” videocassette, becoming the electronic news gathering (ENG) standard after its introduction in 1982. This format was in use into the mid-1990s.

10/07/2026

Hello! This is Analog Annie, the Wolfson Archives’ guest social media content creator for the next couple of weeks while the Archives manager is on vacation. It’s also American Archives Month, so this is a great time to look back at some obsolete moving image formats. I’ll be searching through the Archives’ catalog for fun items to share that are originally on analog formats, such as this 1977 clip of Spiderman at the airport from the WTVJ news collection. The original format is a ¾” videotape, which was the TV news industry workhorse that was in use from the early 1970s through the mid-1990s. Is this my favorite professional analog videotape format? It might be! The Wolfson Archives has A TON of these videotapes in their collections.

10/06/2026

At Miami Film Festival GEMS celebration.😃

10/06/2026

Saturday, October 17 is Home Movie Day, the annual worldwide celebration of amateur films and filmmaking. We're teaming up with the Deering Estate and the Moving Image Alliance to present EXPANDED ARCHIVE, a free event at the Deering Estate from 2pm to 9pm that will include screenings of vintage home movies, information on how to donate your Florida home movies to us, and a live audiovisual performance. For more information, event schedule, and FREE tickets, please visit Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/expanded-archive-home-movie-day-miami-2026-tickets-2002559317827.

A day of home-movie preservation, local history, archival videos, experimental music, and an audiovisual performance at the Deering Estate.

10/05/2026

In 1966, Hurricane Inez hit the Florida Keys as a Category 2 storm after carving a path of destruction throughout the Caribbean. High winds were felt along the South Florida coastline, as shown in this WTVJ footage from Oct. 3, 1966, as Miami Beach prepared for Inez's arrival. Note the typical Florida-ing: masking tape on windows, swimming in the rough ocean, and trying to walk in the wind.

10/02/2026

October is American Archives Month, so we're celebrating ourselves and the work that we do to preserve Florida's history on film and video. Join us for a behind-the-scenes look at our preservation process!

10/01/2026

Our colleagues at Miami-Dade Public Library's AV Club are trekking north in October to the Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens for special 16mm film screenings of two of Kurosawa's famous films: Rashomon and Throne of Blood. When we say "16mm film screenings," we mean that literally. Join MDPLS' Katharine Labuda for two nights of FREE movies. Visit the Morikami's website for details and to RSVP:https://morikami.org/films/.

10/01/2026

09/30/2026

Join us for our next G.L.A.M. Bookworms book club meeting on December 9 at 7pm when we'll discuss THE CLOISTERS by Katy Hays. Be sure to RSVP for the Zoom link!

09/28/2026

Happy birthday to Ed Sullivan, born on this day in 1901. In this WTVJ footage from July, 1965, Sullivan celebrates the 50th anniversary of Miamah Beach as part of the annual South Florida origination of an episode of "The Ed Sullivan Show." The footage starts with Sullivan introducing a panorama across Biscayne Bay of downtown Miami and ending with a view of Miami Beach past the causeways.