The Business of Film: Production, Distribution, Exhibition
Contents Exhibit Introduction Making Pictures Move Muybridge: Modern Media Manipulator The Business of Film: Production, Distribution, Exhibition Case Study: Life of an American Fireman Lost Film Lantern Slides Related Resources The Business of Film:...Muybridge: Modern Media Manipulator
Contents Exhibit Introduction Making Pictures Move Muybridge: Modern Media Manipulator The Business of Film: Production, Distribution, Exhibition Case Study: Life of an American Fireman Lost Film Lantern Slides Related Resources Muybridge: Modern Media...Making Pictures Move
Contents Exhibit Introduction Making Pictures Move Muybridge: Modern Media Manipulator The Business of Film: Production, Distribution, Exhibition Case Study: Life of an American Fireman Lost Film Lantern Slides Related Resources Making Pictures Move The...
Living Photography: Finding Film History in the Archive
Twenty-three students enrolled in Matthew Solomon’s Winter 2024 section of FTVM 352 (Film History: Origins to the New Wave) were tasked with exploring these collections and creating this exhibition, which also serves as the capstone assignment for the course. Produced by a class dedicated to “hands-on” approaches to film history, we hope that visitors feel encouraged to watch, listen, touch facsimiles, move at a comfortable pace, pause, and revisit in whatever way makes the exhibit come most alive for you.

Clements Library Acquires Rare American Edition of Phillis Wheatley Peters Poems, Pursues Crowdfunding
The University of Michigan William L. Clements Library has acquired one of the most important American books of the late eighteenth century–the first American edition of the earliest book of poetry published by an African American author. Phillis Wheatley Peters’...
The Art of Resistance in Early America
This exhibit addresses the theme of the LSA Fall 2023 semester at the University of Michigan: “Arts & Resistance.” The items on display in this exhibit will show how people in the nation’s past shaped America into what it is today.

Pair 25: Eyewitnesses to War
Contents Building on a Century of Collecting at the Clements Library Pair 1: Columbus and Cuba Pair 2: The Power of the Unseen Pair 3: The Fabric of History Pair 4: From the Big Picture to Individual Lives Pair 5: Picturing African-American Identity Pair 6: Leadership...