STEM Ed+ Commons | Melanie Goulish | Activity https://stemedplus.hcommons.org/members/goulishm/activity/ Activity feed for Melanie Goulish. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 11:31:12 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 8fa01637d3d3effb3e24340bc9bf94a4 Melanie Goulish wrote a new post, Spotlight on Harvi Griffin, on the site Media Preservation at MSU Libraries https://mediapres.commons.msu.edu/?p=1184 Mon, 02 Feb 2026 17:53:46 +0000 Spotlight on…  is a new series focusing on the interesting individuals who can be found in the WKAR-TV Early Television Films collection. 

Newspaper clipping from The Bay City Times (Bay City, Michigan), dat […]

]]> 74648b9d74df9662121cdd2af3589803 Melanie Goulish wrote a new post, First look from the Scanstation, on the site Media Preservation at MSU Libraries https://mediapres.commons.msu.edu/?p=1095 Wed, 16 Jul 2025 17:59:45 +0000 There's been much to-do about our congressionally directed funding for the digitization of MSU Archives' WKAR-TV films from the 1950s, hasn't there? That grant has enabled us to do many things: hire our two […]

]]> be1e01647e474f1d0cfbeb672a88a893 Melanie Goulish wrote a new post, To close out pride month ..., on the site Media Preservation at MSU Libraries https://mediapres.commons.msu.edu/?p=1089 Fri, 27 Jun 2025 11:11:13 +0000 We did a quick little dive into the Vincent Voice Library's queer pride-related audio recordings available online, and wanted to highlight a gem we found from the i.Detroit series. From the site:

i.Detroit is […]

]]> 1afd8af8c874c13471a1ede83a8a634e Melanie Goulish wrote a new post, Students of WKAR: A Conversation with Garrett, Our Very First Student Employee, on the site Media Preservation at MSU Libraries https://mediapres.commons.msu.edu/?p=1046 Mon, 12 May 2025 19:23:44 +0000 Earlier this year, the Media Preservation Unit had the opportunity to hire its two very first undergraduate student employees. One of them, Garrett, agreed to have a conversation with us about what his experience […]

]]> 27192112ef8bc61849424ccb6ecd8965 Melanie Goulish wrote a new post, Meet the Residents, Part II: Alyssa Davis, on the site Media Preservation at MSU Libraries https://mediapres.commons.msu.edu/?p=1037 Fri, 11 Apr 2025 23:01:58 +0000 Joining us from Los Angeles is our second WKAR early television films preservation resident, Alyssa Davis!

Alyssa winds film at our inspection bench in the media lab.

Tell us about yourself! I think your […]

]]> 62d292dc49c400db468c839e9e2cf635 Melanie Goulish wrote a new post, Meet the Residents! An Interview with Leila Sherbini, on the site Media Preservation at MSU Libraries https://mediapres.commons.msu.edu/?p=1010 Fri, 14 Mar 2025 16:51:10 +0000 Recently, the Media Preservation Unit hired two Film Preservation Residents to assist with the digitization of the WKAR Early Television Films Project. Our first resident, Leila Sherbini (she/her/hers), has just […]

]]> 07aa0df6a5eb3ad1e099c5b37967ec28 Melanie Goulish wrote a new post, Black History Month: Cinema and Audiovisual records, on the site Media Preservation at MSU Libraries https://mediapres.commons.msu.edu/?p=1006 Fri, 28 Feb 2025 13:22:56 +0000 Today is the final day of Black History Month, 2025. To close out the occasion, we wanted to celebrate Black cinema and film history, as well as significant moments in Black history that played out on MSU’s own c […]

]]> 51a7e5bde8e9e2fed848991a4642a199 Melanie Goulish wrote a new post, CEDs (Capacitance Electronic Discs), on the site Media Preservation at MSU Libraries https://mediapres.commons.msu.edu/?p=847 Tue, 28 Nov 2023 20:09:46 +0000 In an alternate universe, movie buffs have Citizen Kane on vinyl. In that alternate universe, unlike in our own, Capacitance Electronic Discs, or CEDs, survived instead of being consigned to the same me […]

]]> 8ae8371e5ec5324f7dccdaa39a317534 Melanie Goulish wrote a new post, Nitrate Film at MSU Libraries: The Inventorying, on the site Media Preservation at MSU Libraries https://mediapres.commons.msu.edu/?p=839 Fri, 17 Nov 2023 17:50:28 +0000 (For the first post in this series, about our discovery of nitrate films at the MSU Libraries, please see Media Preservation Librarian Sarah Mainville's original write-up.)

In order to digitize audiovisual […]

]]> fa06f1df85b78c47ba74b7b8440f6ce0 Melanie Goulish wrote a new post, The Hardware/Software Necromancer: Cartrivision, the Long-Forgotten Forerunner to the VCR, on the site Media Preservation at MSU Libraries https://mediapres.commons.msu.edu/?p=831 Tue, 07 Nov 2023 20:11:43 +0000 In 1972, three years before Sony’s Betamax would hit the market, and four years before the VHS would become commercially available, Cartrivision—described by its developers as “an experience center” that could “ […]

]]> 1e0a6646fd6e80722e5adf33fb6691de Melanie Goulish wrote a new post, Happy Halloween!, on the site Media Preservation at MSU Libraries https://mediapres.commons.msu.edu/?p=803 Tue, 31 Oct 2023 19:55:16 +0000 Vincent Voice Library staff member James Voges demonstrates the gargantuan scale of the D-2 video format.

Happy Halloween! For this week's obsolete and now-obscure media format, we're highlighting a real […]

]]> a2ee3cbfcf13c3d3a54bd4108fcfe23a Melanie Goulish wrote a new post, "The imprudent idea of photographing the word", on the site Media Preservation at MSU Libraries https://mediapres.commons.msu.edu/?p=755 Tue, 10 Oct 2023 19:29:48 +0000 Edouard-Léon Scott de Martinville invented sound recording 20 years before Thomas Edison invented the phonograph, by conceiving of a machine that would do for the ear what the camera did for the eye. His […]

]]> 43f8f55d8837a0feee5b9576e6bdf5a6 Melanie Goulish wrote a new post, Who's afraid of 9.5mm film?, on the site Media Preservation at MSU Libraries https://mediapres.commons.msu.edu/?p=721 Tue, 26 Sep 2023 19:49:50 +0000 You’ve heard of film that’s 8mm, 16mm, 28mm, or 35mm, perhaps even 72mm—but have you ever heard of 9.5mm film? 

If you’re in the United States, it’s unlikely that you have. But in the 1920s, some of the most i […]

]]> 1f9c32d680bfe1fdb22db7096d244333 Melanie Goulish wrote a new post, Sound waves on cardboard? It's more likely than you think., on the site Media Preservation at MSU Libraries https://mediapres.commons.msu.edu/?p=692 Tue, 12 Sep 2023 15:16:16 +0000 Few things in the media preservation world tend to inspire more disbelief than cardboard transcription discs. The concept that sound waves could be written in spiral grooves, in a thin coating of varnish, on […]

]]> 88eaab9feeacc7244ccc8af979e57d25 Melanie Goulish wrote a new post, Polavision: The Demise of a Legend , on the site Media Preservation at MSU Libraries https://mediapres.commons.msu.edu/?p=683 Mon, 28 Aug 2023 16:24:25 +0000 Welcome to our new biweekly series! This semester, every two weeks on Tuesdays, we will be blogging about some of the most obscure media formats ever created. We will be focusing in particular on instant flops […]

]]> 1121d88edce8b510ed1096c52e507e93 Melanie Goulish wrote a new post, When Martin Luther King Jr. Came to East Lansing, on the site Media Preservation at MSU Libraries https://mediapres.msu.hcommons.org/?p=533 Mon, 17 Jan 2022 15:58:37 +0000 To commemorate Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the Media Preservation Unit is happy to share a digitization of open reel audio from MLK's visit to the MSU campus in 1965. "Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speaks at MSU […]

]]> 74176b66f4e4e77d8539bf662821679b Melanie Goulish wrote a new post, World Day for AV Heritage 2021, on the site Media Preservation at MSU Libraries https://mediapres.msu.hcommons.org/?p=484 Mon, 25 Oct 2021 16:34:05 +0000 Every year on 27 October, audiovisual archives around the world celebrate the World Day for Audiovisual Heritage with activities and  events that not only highlight the vulnerability of this heritage, but […]

]]> 298601e251dd440f30beeef8d5f2f954 Melanie Goulish wrote a new post, Voices and Legacies of Black Empowerment: Black Panthers in the Vincent Voice Library, on the site Media Preservation at MSU Libraries https://mediapres.msu.hcommons.org/?p=463 Fri, 18 Jun 2021 16:01:24 +0000 This Juneteenth, as we recall the history of the Black emancipation in the United States, we look forward to some of its legacies, and to the future of Black empowerment. And who better to speak to Black […]

]]> 744e297a89d13d9330ad54a92d2736d6 Melanie Goulish wrote a new post, Topics in Media Studies: New Queer Cinema, on the site Media Preservation at MSU Libraries https://mediapres.msu.hcommons.org/?p=410 Fri, 26 Feb 2021 16:54:12 +0000 "New Queer Cinema" may no longer be "new"—the term for the movement was first coined in 1992 by academic and film critic B. Ruby Rich in Sight and Sound magazine, regarding the preponderance of films made by a […]

]]> dd762a1619af2ed04271a8961840d253 Melanie Goulish wrote a new post, Indigenous Media Archives, on the site Media Preservation at MSU Libraries https://mediapres.msu.hcommons.org/?p=338 Wed, 25 Nov 2020 21:48:48 +0000 This Thanksgiving season, we wanted to highlight digital archives of audiovisual materials and oral histories showcasing Indigenous lives and voices. The holdings of the collections below are accessible online to […]

]]> 28131462993823e1513c5a6bb799b848 Melanie Goulish wrote a new post, Happy Halloween!, on the site Media Preservation at MSU Libraries https://mediapres.msu.hcommons.org/?p=331 Fri, 30 Oct 2020 13:46:31 +0000 Happy Halloween from MSU Media Preservation!

Don’t get eaten alive by flesh-eating media … keep your magnets in hand, not on the windowsill.

Who knew that media could be so haunted? From “Flesh Eating Film […]

]]> abcc96915eda91c075c25be27a6dd6a4 Melanie Goulish wrote a new post, Compact Audio Cassettes, on the site Media Preservation at MSU Libraries https://mediapres.msu.hcommons.org/?p=20 Tue, 29 Sep 2020 20:13:38 +0000 ABOUT THE FORMAT

Commercial Cassette

Compact cassettes, also known as audio cassettes or tapes, were introduced to the European public by Phillips in 1963 at the Berlin Radio Show. They were initially sold […]

]]> afb4ce61cfd86f6e8420d1615056f670 Melanie Goulish wrote a new post, 1/4" Open Reel Audio, on the site Media Preservation at MSU Libraries https://mediapres.msu.hcommons.org/?p=18 Tue, 29 Sep 2020 20:13:12 +0000 About the Format

1/4" Audio Reel

In the early 1900s, the American Telegraphone Company was the first to make a magnetic wire recorder commercially available—however, the technology proved unpopular, and s […]

]]> 2a25bf2737da2dd7b0bb1c5d2dd08d8e Melanie Goulish wrote a new post, Transcription Discs, on the site Media Preservation at MSU Libraries https://mediapres.msu.hcommons.org/?p=16 Tue, 29 Sep 2020 20:11:53 +0000 ABOUT THE FORMAT

Transcription discs are a type of grooved media popularized during the 1930’s as radio broadcasting corporations sought to record and distribute content to their syndicated radio s […]

]]> 7e3d82592dec8855860f7e6e78106084 Melanie Goulish wrote a new post, Half-Inch VCR Formats, on the site Media Preservation at MSU Libraries https://mediapres.msu.hcommons.org/?p=14 Tue, 29 Sep 2020 20:10:02 +0000 ABOUT THE FORMAT

3/4" U-Matic Tape viaWikimedia Commons

Up until the early seventies, the only viable VCR format was Sony’s ¾-inch “U-Matic” system.  The revolutionary video cassette design was based o […]

]]> 5ac42704082942ec7c01c6dac1801be8 Melanie Goulish wrote a new post, 16MM FILM, on the site Media Preservation at MSU Libraries https://mediapres.msu.hcommons.org/?p=8 Tue, 29 Sep 2020 19:50:51 +0000 ABOUT THE FORMAT

Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory in Lyon

The earliest formats of motion picture film were introduced in the late 1890s.  The most popular gauge, or width, of motion picture film at t […]

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