VIDEO REWIND “South Florida’s Aviation History”
“Welcome to Miami, South Florida’s Aviation History”
Wednesday, January 7, 2009 from 1PM to 2PM
Miami-Dade Public Library, 101 West Flagler Street, Miami, FL 33130
FREE Admission and Open to the Public
The Lynn and Louis Wolfson II Florida Moving Image Archive presents a Video Rewind Screening of “The Age for Space” and “T Minus 15 and Counting.”
A WCKT - Miami (WSVN) special programming of “The Age for Space” is a kinescope program from 1963. This special report examines the outlook for the State of Florida to retain and attract business in the technologically advanced space age. According to the program, the lack of advanced courses in science and technology at both the university and secondary levels has left Florida with a deficit of future workers trained in space science and technology. “The Age of Space” also looks at the plans of several South Florida communities and institutions of higher learning to improve their programs so that Florida can remain a gateway to space.
“T Minus 15 and Counting”, produced by Coronado Studios and sponsored by the Florida Department of Education circa 1963, is an educational film that focuses on the academic curriculum in South Florida schools and how it prepares students for careers in space technology. The schools began to feature marine biology, computer and electronics courses, and physical education in addition to programs in vocational education. The film includes a speech by Floyd T. Christina, Florida State’s Superintendent of Public Education.
The Lynn and Louis Wolfson II Florida Moving Image Archives’ mission is to collect, preserve and make accessible film and video materials made in or about Florida which reflect the history and culture of this region. An invaluable resource for researchers, film and video producers and the general public, the Wolfson Archives provides a year-round screening and seminar program featuring materials from our collection and other archives throughout the nation and abroad.
NEW VIDEO! “The Red Star II”
“MIAMI’S MISSION TO RUSSIA” PART II
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“The Red Star II” is a WCKT – Miami (WSVN) kinescope special program from 1959. This program intended to portray what life was like in Russia to American viewers. An overview of the socialist system and a tour of major points of interests in Russia are included. “The Red Star II” also discusses the industrialization of Russia, the educational system, and judicial system.
Private: National Grant Supports Preservation of Home Movies in Miami
The Lynn and Louis Wolfson II Florida Moving Image Archives has been awarded a grant from the National film Preservation Foundation to restore selections from its growing amateur and home movie collection. “ The NFPF is honored to have a role in advancing film preservation at the LLWII Florida Moving Image Archives, and looks forward to working with you on these important films”, stated Jeff Lambert, assistant director of NFPF. This announcement coincides with the Wolfson Archive’s annual celebration of International Home Movie Day, on Saturday, October 18, 2008.
The films selected for preservation in this grant focus on long-defunct roadside attractions and Miami Beach public parks as seen in the 1950’s, and were donated by the families of Adolf Frohn and Burnett Roth. Adolf Frohn, a pioneering Wometco employee who was director of Animal Training for Seaquarium, toured the state filming other roadside parks that featured animal attractions. Sites covered include Marine Studios, Ocean World, Aquatarium, and Floridaland. Burnett Roth, a former Miami Beach commissioner and civic leader who died earlier this year, show the early stages of many public spaces in Miami Beach in the 1950’s. We are featuring some of Mr. Roth’s footage in this month’s International Home Movie day at the Miami-Dade Public Library System’s auditorium on Saturday, October 18th at 4:30 pm.
The Lynn and Louis Wolfson II Florida Moving Image Archive has one of the largest home movie collections, with over 2,000 reels donated by over 260 families. Home movies are increasingly seen as primary historical sources, much as personal diaries are now perceived.
NEW VIDEO! “This is Russia”
“MIAMI’S MISSION TO RUSSIA” PART I
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This video features excerpts from “This is Russia”, a WTVJ – Miami kinescope program narrated by Ralph Renick in 1959. A group of Florida professional businessmen visited Russia to capture footage of everyday life in Communist Russia and briefly discuss the country’s history. Free health care services lead to over-crowded hospitals. Supermarkets and traffic are non-existent due to the poor economy. Khrushchev, the First Secretary of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union, is also interviewed about his country’s lack of intent to go to war.
“MIAMI’S MISSION TO RUSSIA” PART II
NEW VIDEO “Vote for Me…Again”
The Lynn and Louis Wolfson II Florida Moving Image Archive presents a Video Rewind Screening of an Election Year special. Two political documentaries from 1958 will shed light on how modern Miami Dade County was created and what elections were like 50 years ago.
“The Desperate Need for Home Rule” is a 1958 political documentary narrated by WTVJ - Miami News Anchor Ralph Renick and featuring Florida Governor Leroy Collins. The film argues the need for all Floridians to pass “Amendment 2”, the Home Rule Charter, during the November 1958 Election. The Home Rule Charter was concerned with making Miami-Dade County a home rule county, which would grant its citizens the power to adopt their own rules for governing the county’s affairs and to determine the method of electing commissioners.
“Election Returns” is a 1958 kinescope recording also from WTVJ - Miami and narrated by Ralph Renick. The documentary focuses on the election after the polls closed and includes reports on the tallying process and computing the results. The senator and local race results are included in this film.
NEW VIDEO! Camera Eye on Latin America
A SPECIAL ONLINE EDITION OF “VIDEO REWIND” scroll down for video
In the late 1950s, the Cuban revolution put a spotlight on Latin America, which would soon became an important economic and political focus for the United States. Over the years, the rising prominence of the Hispanic population in South Florida and our proximity to Latin America gave us an unique perspective on news coverage dealing with issues important to the region.
These videos are presented by the Lynn and Louis Wolfson II Florida Moving Image Archives during the Ocotober 2008 Hispanic Heritage Month. Each is South Florida television news documentary. They are transfers of original 16mm Kinescopes from WCKT (WSVN) Miami.
CUBA: DAYS OF DECISION from July 26, 1959. WCKT-MIAMI Special Report documenting the the period of unrest in Cuba just six months after the fall of the Batista regime. This report features interviews with prominent Cubans and Americans with insight regarding the turmoil in Cuba. See footage of Fidel Castro and his band of followers coming down from the mountains and parading through the streets of Havana after the defeat of Batista’s supporters. The program also debates whether or not Communism may flourish in Cuba.
OUTLOOK: Cuba, The Unfinished Revolution from 1964. A production of WCKT-MIAMI on the 5th anniversary of the Castro regime program that is hosted by Wayne Fariss. It’s an examination of Anti-American trends since 1800’s featuring a chronology of Cuban leaders.
Donate your Home Movies
If you have a box of old 8mm or 16mm home movies that includes scenes of Florida, the Lynn and Louis Wolfson II Florida Moving Image Archives in Miami accepts these invaluable vintage Florida images as a donation, and depending on the condition of the films, will transfer them to video and provide you a copy on DVD.
Wolfson Archive regularly receives donations of home movies, amateur films and related equipment and materials from all over South Florida and the Nation. These materials provide a comprehensive visual record and history of our community, and a look at Miami through home movies and amateur film from the 1950s.
Our collection of home movies and amateur footage encompasses not only South Florida but our entire state and beyond. Though all these films are silent, they speak volumes and document our region. Each of the individual reels is a piece of the mosaic that form to the story of our history and culture from a very personal perspective. The Lynn and Louis Wolfson II Florida Moving Image Archives contains one of the largest home movie and amateur film collections in the country, with the oldest images dating from 1910.
To donate home movies and amateur footage, please contact us.
Private: Home Movie Day
“Home Movie Day,” An International Celebration,
comes to South Florida on Saturday, October 18, 2008 at 4pm
Miami-Dade Public Library, 101 West Flagler Street, Downtown Miami
Admission FREE
The Lynn and Louis Wolfson II Florida Moving Image Archives joins other organizations around the country and abroad in taking part in International Home Movie Day, a celebration of 8mm and 16mm home movies and amateur film. Initially founded in 2002 by a small group of film archivists, Home Movie Day was first celebrated in globally 2003. In just a few years the event has grown to encompass events in the United Kingdom, Australia, Brazil, Italy, Japan, Canada and Singapore, as well as the United States.
“Home movies have increasingly become valued as primary source materials for historians,” says Don Chauncey, director for the Lynn and Louis Wolfson II Florida Moving Image Archives. “These films, like diaries of ordinary people, provide a unique view of family and society. In addition, they often are the only remaining images of people, events, and objects long gone. “
“Wolfson Archive has hosted Home Movie Day locally since it’s inception,” says Barron Sherer, curator at the archive. “While small gauge films are a fixture of our preservation efforts and screenings year round, Home Movie Day acknowledges the international interest in intimate, personal films that document our history and culture.”
At the screening of recently acquired home movies, the archive welcomes donors – the people who shot the film and their families –to share reminiscences about the people and places shown.
Wolfson Archive has been collecting home movies since 1986 and its collection of amateur film is recognized as one of the most significant in the country, containing one of the largest home movie and amateur film collections in the country, with the oldest images dating from 1910. Chauncey continues, “If you have a box of old 8mm or 16mm home movies that includes scenes of Florida, please donate them to Wolfson so we can save them for the future. If they are in good enough condition, we can make a DVD copy for your family to enjoy.”
DATE: Saturday, October 18, 2008
TIME: 4:00pm-5:30pm
LOCATION: Auditorium, Miami-Dade Public Library, 101 West Flagler ST, Miami, FL, 33130
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Link: Miami Herald Article on Home Movie Day
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Private: The Man Of Two Havanas pt. 2
Vivien Lesnik’s childhood was anything but ordinary. Born in Havana, Vivien came to Miami as a girl. In America, bombings, death threats and drive-by shootings were a daily occurrence at Vivien’s new home. The catalyst for this violence was Vivien’s father, Max. A friend and comrade of Fidel Castro, Max Lesnik left Cuba after ideological differences put distance between him and Castro’s government.
In Miami, Max Lesnik opposed both the Cuban regime and U.S. Cuba policy. In print and on the radio, he advocated open debate and, in time, dialogue and reconciliation with Cuba. Max Lesnik defied the political orthodoxies of Miami’s Cuban exile community and found himself, his family and his little girl at the storm center of Cuban exile politics.
Vivien Lesnik grew up to become filmmaker Vivien Lesnik Weisman. The Man of Two Havanas is her controversial and poignant exploration of her father’s fascinating story and her quest to understand her roots, her family, and the social and political currents that swirled around them.
After the World Premiere of The Man of Two Havanas packed houses at the prestigious 2007 Tribeca Film Festival in New York City, Lesnik Weisman’s documentary found enthusiastic audiences across America and picked up a number of awards.
But until now the filmmaker has not has not been able to arrange a screening in Miami, Vivien Lesnik Weisman’s tumultuous childhood home…The city where the film’s events took place.
During the making of The Man of Two Havanas the Wolfson Archives helped Lesnik Weisman tell her story, searching our collections and uncovering a wealth of archival footage which the filmmaker uses to document the events in her film.
For us screening the film is one way to increase public awareness of the value and fascination of historic film and video.
“We are always pleased to show films that make use of the invaluable historical resource that we have here at the Wolfson Archives, especially one like this that challenges us to revisit the past and deepen our understanding of the world around us,” says Donald Chauncey, Director of the Wolfson Archives. The screening is presented in cooperation with the Greater Miami Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida.
The Lynn & Louis Wolfson II Florida Moving Image Archive will present the Miami Premiere of The Man of Two Havanas at 7:30 pm on Saturday, September 20 at the Colony Theatre, located at 1040 Lincoln Road on Miami Beach. A discussion with filmmaker Vivien Lesnik Weisman will follow the screening.
Tickets are $10 for general admission and may be purchased at the screening or in advance through Ticketmaster — in person at Ticketmaster outlets, by phone at 305-358-5885 or 954-523-3309, or online at www.ticketmaster.com. Service charges apply.
Tickets may also be purchased in advance at the Colony Theatre Box Office, located at 1040 Lincoln Road. The Box Office is open from noon to 5:00 pm Tuesday through Saturday.
Archived Pages
Private: Moving the Images: From Archive to Screen
This panel discussion brings together several local filmmakers, including: Mark Baker, WPBT; Joshua Miller and Sam Rega, Good Cop Bad Cop Productions; in a forum designed to shed light on the methods (and madness) that goes into producing media works that utilize archival images. Moderated by Kevin Wynn, Miami-Dade TV Producer and one of the organizers of the 2008 Rewind Fast Forward Film and Video Festival.
The Panel
- Mark Baker, Senior Producer, WPBT
In 1976, Mark Baker began his television career as a cameraman at WPTV Channel 5 the NBC affiliate in West Palm Beach, Florida. He was promoted to Studio Supervisor then Director for weekend news and public affairs programs. In 1979, Mark joined WPBT Channel 2 in Miami for the studio production of two groundbreaking public television programs, ¿Que Pasa, U.S.A.?, the first bilingual sit-com, and Nightly Business Report. In 1989 he was promoted to Field Production Supervisor and worked as the director of photography for arts, cultural and historical productions. From 1983 through 1995 Mark also moonlighted as a freelance Steadicam operator and jib cameraman on numerous network sports and entertainment programs. In 2000, WPBT promoted Mark to Special Projects Producer for the magazine show, New Florida and national documentaries like The Flying Days of Riddle Field and Anatomy of a Hurricane. In 2007, he became Senior Producer and is currently writing and producing for the PBS series, Wild Florida while directing historical documentaries like Miami: Reflections on the River. Mark’s programs have earned many awards of distinction for WPBT.
- Joshua Miller & Sam Rega Writers, Directors, Producers, Editors, Good Cop Bad Cop Productions
As University of Miami Motion Picture majors, Joshua Miller and Sam Rega wanted to create their own personal project in addition to what is traditionally offered by the university. In late 2005, a panel was hosted by the University which detailed some of the media events related to Arthur Teele’s suicide. This panel piqued Miller and Rega’s curiosity to the controversial events surrounding Arthur Teele’s demise. They made a proposal to the School of Communication and were granted a budget to create the documentary. Two years later, the film premiered at the “Miami International Film Festival” on March 1, 2008.
During 2007, Miller and Rega produced an award winning independent film, “The Room,” which swept the “2007 Miami Canes Film Festival” winning 6 awards including “Achievement in Producing” and “Best Film.”
- Brooke Roberts Webb, ”War Comes To Miami Beach” and “Miami Beach: “Fabulous Fifties”
My relationship with the Wolfson Florida Moving Image Archive started when I worked as a Curator for the Historical Museum of Florida, most notably collecting historic footage for the exhibition “Shipwrecks and Rescues” (2004). In 2006 as a freelance filmmaker creating a project for the Historical Museum’s Miami Beach exhibit I again had the fortune to work with Barron. The resulting two pieces “War Comes to Miami Beach” and “Miami Beach: Fabulous Fifties” used extensive footage from the 1940s and ‘50s. Both of these projects were subsequently accepted to several film festivals, including The Palm Springs International Shorts Film Festival and the Delray Beach Film Festival.
Work: I work as a freelance editor and cameraperson. Projects include various local bands like Samantha Natalie and the Oscar Fuentes Combo, and internationally-known musicians Jet and Iggy Pop. Other clients include Amnesty International, Miami-Dade College and the Sabrina Cohen Foundation.
- Robert Rosenberg, Tigertail Productions
Robert Rosenberg is an independent filmmaker, film festival director and programmer, and arts presenter. Rosenberg’s credits include the feature film Before Stonewall, which received an Emmy Award for Best Historical program after a theatrical run in the United States and widespread international distribution. He has worked as a curator and producer for many film festivals and arts organizations, including most recently as the Founding Director of the Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, an internationally recognized event, and the Associate Director of Tigertail Productions, one of Miami’s foremost presenters of contemporary live performance. He has been a guest lecturer and instructor in film production, as well as director of film seminar programs, at a number of film festivals and institutions
August 23, Saturday from 2pm to 3:30pm
Miami Beach Public Library
227 22nd Street
Miami Beach, FL 33139
Private: Invasion of the Historians: Art on Film + Video
Let South Florida art historian and critic Helen Kohen guide you through the sketchy past of Miami’s art scene, back to the days (1960) when the Miami Museum of Modern Art was housed in a boom-era mansion and artist Bill Hutton protested Miami’s overdevelopment (in 1965!) with an art show at the Stuffed Shirt Lounge, all captured by local TV news, home movies, amateur films, video art and documentaries, selected from the ever-growing holdings of the Miami-Dade Public Library System’s Vasari Collection and the Lynn and Louis Wolfson II Florida Moving Image Archives. Reception to follow sponsored by Friends of The Library. Before the program, or during the reception, explore “Highly Variable – See Movie,” an intriguing exhibition of the art and/or science of South Florida artist Albert L. Robinson, on view at the Main Public Library.
Invasion of the Historians: Art on Film + Video
Art in Miami Before Art Basel…WAY Before Art Basel! Free Event!
Thursday, August 21, 7:00 pm. Free.
Miami-Dade Public Library, 101 West Flagler Street, Miami
Private: Major Dundee
Directed by Sam Peckinpah, and featuring scenes cut from the original release, Major Dundee stars Charlton Heston and Richard Harris as officers from opposite sides of the Civil War who band together to hunt down a band of Apache renegades. Sunday August 24, 7:00 to 11:00 pm.
Colony Theatre, 1040 Lincoln Road, Miami BeachTickets are Available from TicketMaster for $10.00
Private: Cut, Scratch, Splice and Spool: The Screening
Cut, Scratch, Splice and Spool: The Screening Sunday August 24, 1:00 pm. Free.
Handmade Movies World Premiere!
Take a first look at films made by hand at Cut, Scratch, Splice and Spool: The Screening! Handmade collage films created by young people in the 2008 Rewind/Fast Forward’s 16mm scratch film workshop will get their first screening 24 hours after their creation. Archive staff will inspect the films and transfer them to video overnight in time for The Screening – the first chance that you – and the workshop participants – will have to see these films on the big screen!
Sunday August 24, 1:00 pm. Free.
Historical Museum of Southern Florida,
101 West Flagler Street, Miami, 33130
Private: Curator Barron Sherer talks about the 2008 Rewind/Fast Forward Film Festival
View a video preview of the 2008 Festival on County Connection
Private: The Girl Can’t Help It
Marvel at a brand new Widescreen print of Frank Tashlin’s 1956 film, “The Girl Can’t Help It”
Starring Jayne Mansfield, with outstanding live performances by Little Richard, Fats Domino, Julie London, The Platters, The Girl Can’t Help It, based on book by Garson Kanin, tells the story of a gangster who hires down-and-out press agent to make his blonde bimbo girlfriend a singing star.
A CRITERION PICTURES RELEASE OF A 20TH CENTURY FOX FILM
Friday, August 22, 8:00 pm. $10.00. Advance Purchases at Ticketmaster
Colony Theatre
1040 Lincoln Road,
Miami Beach, FL 33139
Click here for a map
Private: Interama-O-Rama: The Inside Story
Invasion of the Historians
Interama-O-Rama: The Inside Story
2pm Sunday, August 24, 2008 FREE
Dr. Paul George, Miami’s walkingest, talkingest historian, invades the Archives in search of Interama, South Florida’s grandest, gaudiest boondoggle. Among his finds: workers creating detailed clay models of the site, billboards promising Interama’s imminent construction, and several directors of the project making promises nobody could keep. It’s a long, strange story, documented by local TV news, home movies, amateur films, video art and documentaries, selected from the ever-growing holdings of the Lynn and Louis Wolfson II Florida Moving Image Archives.
While at the Historical Museum, don’t miss “Interama: Miami and the Pan-American Dream,” a multi-sensory exhibition that recaptures Miami’s 1960s vision of a futuristic fair and crossroads of the Americas. See Interama drawings by such world-renowned figures as architectural renderer Hugh Ferriss and architects Marcel Breuer and Louis Kahn.
Historical Museum of Southern Florida,
101 West Flagler Street, Miami, 33130
Private: Cut, Scratch, Splice, and Spool: The Workshop
Cut, Scratch, Splice and Spool: The Workshop
Saturday, August 23, 2008
A workshop for young people who will make films by scratching, bleaching, splicing and manipulating film stock. where local Teenagers and Parents/Guardians learn the secrets of hand editing 16mm film. Let’s make a film! And let’s make it not with cell phones, not with handicams, not with digital cameras, but with…Hand tools. Hand tools? Today we all live in the digital moment and it’s hard to believe that at one time all media images were, to some extent, handmade. Cut, Scratch, Splice and Spool: The Workshop will introduce teens to the fun and nearly lost art of creating moving images with found footage, tape splicers, film reels and real motion picture projectors! Call 305.375.1505 to reserve your edit station! Space for Cut, Scratch, Splice and Spool: The Workshop is limited to teenager and parent or guardian pairs. The public can view these films the following day at a special screening.
$20.00 Pre-registration required, space is limited. Payment can be made electronically via paypal
OR…
Include this with Payment by money order or check
Saturday, August 23, 2008 10:00am to 1:00pm
Main Auditorium, Miami-Dade Public Library 101 West Flagler Street, Miami, FL 33130

Private: Video Art South Florida Redux
Video Art South Florida Redux
Restoration Premiere: Restored for Review After 25 Years!
Bass Museum of Art, 2121 Park Avenue, Miami Beach, FL, 33139
“Video Art South Florida” produced by Local videomaker Victor Velt in 1983, this survey of 10 independent video works by local artists has been digitally restored and transferred for a “repremiere” screening at the 2008 Rewind/Fast Forward Film and Video Festival. South Florida Artists on the program: Glenn Abbot, Mike Burger, Bill Cummings, Eileen Eliot, L.A. Hawks, Howard Mathis, Sam Rosenthal and Malgorzata Samek. Co-presented by the Miami-Dade Public Library System’s Vasari Project and Art Services and Exhibitions Department. $10.00 Pre-registration required, space is limited, includes Reception.
Private: Albert Robinson
The multi-channel video installations presented in Highly Variable – See Movie: Albert Robinson were created using digital transfers of Albert Robinson’s meticulously filmed documents of his sculptures. Photographed primarily between 1969 and 1974, Robinson’s nearly seven dozen, three minute films were made using the then popular amateur film gauges of Regular and Super 8mm. Wolfson Archives staff edited and layered portions of the digital transfers of fragile original films for these video projections.
Read “All That’s Solid Melts Into Film (PDF)“ an essay written for the exhibition by Contributing Editor for Art Papers, Gean Moreno. View a webcast produced by Miami-Dade TV and featuring Archive Director Don Chauncey discussing Robinson work in detail.
http://uvu.channel2.org/PublicSite/Video.aspx?id=2830&skin=2
The Lynn and Louis Wolfson II Florida Moving Image Archives, housed at the main branch of the Miami-Dade Public Library System, contains one of the largest home movie and amateur film collections in the country.
The Wolfson Archives regularly receive donations of home movies, amateur films and related equipment from all over South Florida and the Nation. Though many of these films are silent, they speak volumes and document our region. Each individual reel is a piece of the story of our history and culture from a very personal perspective. To donate your films, please contact us at 305.375.1505 or info@wolfsonarchive.org
Barron Sherer
Curator/Preservationist
bsherer@wolfsonarchive.org
Private: Paint With Conni Gordon LIVE!

On TV and in person, untold numbers of people have learned to paint the Conni Gordon way…And now it’s your turn. Artist and art teacher Conni Gordon brings her patented method of art instruction back to Miami Beach for an In-Person Paint Party. Even if you’ve never picked up a brush, Conni will have you painting like a pro. While Conni Gordon’s career as an art instructor and motivator has spanned the globe, Miami Beach has always been her home base. Now Conni’s back — to celebrate her life in art as only she can – with palette and paint!
-See Conni on County Connection Click Here!
In between lessons, check out “Think It, Ink It, Link It, Then Synch It”, an exhibition devoted to the art of Conni Gordon and her students. And watch Conni in action on-camera in vintage clips from Conni’s TV shows.
Saturday, August 23, 4pm to 6pm
Miami Beach Public Library, 227 22nd Street
REGISTRATION IS CLOSED, THANKS!
$10.00 “Supplies” Pre-registration required, space is limited. Payment can be made electronically via paypal or a money order or check can be sent to:
Lynn and Louis Wolfson II Florida Moving Image Archives
Miami-Dade Public Library, 101 West Flagler Street,
Miami, FL 33130
About Us
The Lynn and Louis Wolfson II Florida Moving Image Archives, an official moving image center and archive of the State of Florida, is one of the largest institutions of its kind in the United States. Located at the Main Library of the Miami-Dade Public Library System, the Wolfson Archive, named in memory of Louis Wolfson II, a Florida state legislature and leader in Florida’s communications industry, was founded in 1985 under the joint sponsorship of the Miami-Dade Public Library System, Miami Dade College, and the University of Miami. The Wolfson Archives’ mission, important to the state and local community and part of the broader national effort, is to collect, preserve, catalog, and make accessible film and video materials which document Florida’s history and culture. The Wolfson Archives are an invaluable resource for researchers, film and video producers, and the general public. The Wolfson Archives has a year-round screening program featuring materials from its collections, and those of other archives throughout the nation and abroad. In addition to contributions, the Wolfson Archives seek donations of any film or video materials.
Take a uVu Video Tour of the archive HERE!
Client Documents
Watch Video From the Archives
The Police In Miami - WTVJ 1983
Video from WTVJ of The Police Concert at the Orange Bowl in Miami in 1983
Orange Bowl Refugees WTVJ 1980
WTVJ Newsfootage of Orange Bowl Refugees 07/05/1980
History Mystery on WTVJ April 2004
Parts 1 and 2 of WTVJ news footage of a family that found home movies in their Miami home.
Snowball Fight University of Miami 1971 WTVJ
Jack Belt Special Report on Snow ball fight at University of Miami with students on January 7, 1971
1988 Yugo Review WTVJ
WTVJ’s Yugo Review. The Yugo is known for being one of the cheapest cars ever in the US Auto Market, it is also known for its awful reliability.
Upcoming Events
Video Rewind: Welcome to Miami, South Florida’s Aviation History
Wednesday January 7, 2009 1pm to 2pm; Free Admission
Miami-Dade Public Library
101 West Flagler Street
Miami, FL 33130
Click here for a map
Video Rewind: Black History Month
Wednesday February 4, 2009 1pm to 2pm; Free Admission
Miami-Dade Public Library
101 West Flagler Street
Miami, FL 33130
Click here for a map
Video Rewind: Seven Heaven
Wednesday March 4, 2009 1pm to 2pm; Free Admission
Miami-Dade Public Library
101 West Flagler Street
Miami, FL 33130
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Video Rewind: Jewish American Heritage Screenings
Wednesday May 13, 2009 1pm to 2pm; Free Admission
Miami-Dade Public Library
101 West Flagler Street
Miami, FL 33130
Click here for a map
Video Rewind: Caribbean Heritage Month
Wednesday June 3, 2009, at 1pm to 2pm; Free Admission
Miami-Dade Public Library
101 West Flagler Street
Miami, FL 33130
Click here for a map
2009 Rewind/Fast-Forward Film Festival
August 20 - August 23, 2009
Locations and Events to be Announced! Stay Tuned!
Private: The Man of Two Havanas pt. 1
The Man of Two Havanas
EXCLUSIVE MIAMI PREMIERE
Presented by the
Lynn & Louis Wolfson II Florida Moving Image Archives
Saturday, September 20, 7:30 PM at the Colony Theatre
Tickets on sale NOW! $10.00 online at www.ticketmaster.com. Service charges apply.
MEET FILMMAKER VIVIEN LESNIK WEISMAN & DISCUSS THE FILM FOLLOWING THE SCREENING! Read more…..




