The AVMPI staff like nothing better than sharing newly-digitized and rediscovered audiovisual collections with audiences. Our recurring AVMPI Presents streamcasts and events provides viewers around the world with some of the true gems from the Smithsonian's incredible moving image and recorded sound collections. Watch the most recent episode:
February 24, 2025
AVMPI Presents: Films By Lebert Bethune
Lunchtime streamcast to celebrate Black History Month and the filmic oeuvre of Jamaican-American Lebert Bethue. Co-hosted by NMAAHC's Media Conservator Bleakley McDowell.
Past Episodes:
September 16, 2024
AVMPI Presents: STRE-ames - Preserving Eames Films Made at SI
Lunchtime streamcast co-hosted by the Library of Congress's Amy Gallick and spotlighting the collaboration preservation of the 1970 Smithsonian exhibit short film, The Black Ships.
August 16, 2023
AVMPI Presents: The Black Ships (1970) and Killer of Sheep (1977)
A special Smithsonian Libraries and Archives 'friends and family' private screening at the Meyer Auditorium, in conjunction with the UCLA California Rare Book School.
May 25, 2023
AVMPI Presents: Lunch with Sally Ride
Lunchtime streamcast featuring recently-digitized audiovisual collections from the National Air and Space Museum's Sally K. Ride papers and Accessioning Archivist Patti Williams. This project received support from the Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative Pool.
March 15, 2023
AVMPI Presents: The View From Her
Afternoon streamcast featuring digitized works and stories by women from collections of the National Museum of African American History and Culture and Smithsonian Libraries and Archives.
January 17, 2023
AVMPI Presents: A Zoom with a View
Premiering the Audiovisual Media Preservation Initiative and featuring digitized collections from the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, the National Museum of African American History and Culture, the National Museum of American History - Archives Center, and Smithsonian Libraries and Archives.
Watch recordings of selected past AVMPI Presents streamcasts, below.