Resources

Filmstrips: A Practical Guide (pdf)
This guide draws on discussions from our international workshop with archivists in November 2025 and feedback from archives across Europe and beyond. It aims to strengthen archival practice for filmstrip collections while offering a model for preserving other obsolete and overlooked media formats.

To cite the guide: Anushrut Ramakrishnan Agrwaal, Johannes Praetorious-Rhein, Tom Rice, and Vinzenz Hediger, Filmstrips: A Practical Guide (Relocating Filmstrips, Remapping Europe, 2026)

Best Practices in Filmstrip Archiving (pdf)
This report documents the discussions and outcomes of our international workshop with archivists in November 2025. It captures current practices, shared challenges, and recommendations for the preservation of filmstrip collections.

To cite the report: Johannes Praetorious-Rhein, Anushrut Ramakrishnan Agrwaal, Tom Rice, and Vinzenz Hediger, Best practices in Filmstrip Archiving: Report (Relocating Filmstrips, Remapping Europe, 2026)

International Film Strip Collection Hamburg
Extensive private collection of filmstrips from Germany and around the world. With comprehensive historical information and access to hundreds of filmstrips.

Le graphisme pour l’écran : diapositive, film fixe, cinéma, télévision (1945-1980)
The SNSF research project “Graphic Design for the Screen” (2024–2028) investigates Switzerland’s pioneering role in mid-20th-century film-based graphic design for screens, aiming to expand the history of the Swiss style while tracing how graphic arts shaped early audiovisual communication and design education.

Call for Papers: Filmstrips, slides and beyond: Entangled histories of projected images in Europe, 1945–2000
Check out this call for papers for a special issue of TMG Journal of Media History. The aim of this special issue is to shed light on previously overlooked media practices for image projection, such as slides and filmstrips, in educational, industrial, informational, artistic and commercial contexts throughout the post-war period in Europe.

Uncommon Ephemera
Mark O’Brien’s Uncommon Ephemera is one of major American filmstrip digitisation projects. It has digitised over 1,300 filmstrips and made them freely available on the Internet Archive.

Useful filmstrip literature (journalism and scholarship)
The filmstrip is still an under-researched object but we have complied a list of journalism and scholarship that might be a useful place to start.

List of archives and their filmstrip holdings
Since the Relocating Filmstrips, Remapping Europe project has commenced we have helped archives discover filmstrip materials and connected histories. We have put together a list of their extensive holdings here. The list is regularly updated, as many archives are now regularly searching for filmstrips and filmstrip-related objects.

Featured Image: UNESCO’s filmstrip catalogue (1966). Courtesy UNESCO Archives