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December 2025
Browsing the Archive
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Calling All Filmmakers: Annual Film Remix Contest Submissions are Open
Celebrate Public Domain Day by joining our short film contest, open to filmmakers, artists, and creatives of all backgrounds and experience levels. Participants are invited to create and upload a 2–3 minute short film to the Internet Archive that reimagines works entering the public domain on January 1, including classic literature, early sound films, cartoons, music, and art from 1930, with encouragement to draw from the Archive’s vast collections.
Top films will receive prizes of up to $1,500, with winners announced during virtual and in-person Public Domain Day celebrations on January 21, 2026. All submissions will be showcased in a dedicated Public Domain Day Collection on the Internet Archive and featured in a post on our blog in the new year. Learn more about how to enter in our blog post, featured below.
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Join the Movement: Our Future Memory
Three leading North American library organizations—the American Library Association (ALA), the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), and the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL)—have joined a growing global coalition (Our Future Memory), endorsing the Statement on Four Digital Rights for Memory Institutions Online. By signing on, these organizations affirm the urgent need to protect libraries, archives, and museums’ ability to collect, preserve, provide controlled access to, and collaborate around digital materials. The recent signatories from ALA, ARL, and CARL emphasize that increasingly restrictive digital platforms and licensing agreements threaten core public missions, and demonstrate that libraries’ traditional operations collecting, preserving, and providing access to materials need be guaranteed in an increasingly digital world. With these high-profile endorsements, the movement to safeguard memory institutions’ essential role in the digital age gains significant new momentum.
For more information on Our Future Memory, and ways to get involved, visit the website here and learn more on our blog featured below.
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A Near Purr-fect Collection
With works dating back to 1820, the Cat Man (Booklet’s) – A Historical Cat Booklet Series, houses nearly 100, uniform-format booklets exploring the history, culture, and biology of domestic cats. The collection features predominantly German works, showcasing vintage art and is a treasure trove for cat lovers worldwide.
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Colossally Adventurous Fun
Colossal Cave Adventure is a text adventure game developed by Will Crowther and Don Woods in 1976. The program has spawned so many copies and variants over the years. Players start by standing “at the end of a road,” then using text responses to explore the environment—encountering snakes, dwarves, treasure and more.
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