Kick off your pre-summer reading plan with this "art" mystery novel! Then, join the G.L.A.M. Bookworms as we discuss it on June 17 at 7pm. Everyone is welcome! RSVP for the Zoom link:[email protected].
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Tomorrow, May 14, is AV CLUB @ WOLFSON ARCHIVES! If you plan on attending, please be sure to RSVP via Eventbrite or email us at [email protected].
Event details including parking instructions are in the flyer.
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The face of Zoo Miami, Ron Magill, has retired, so today we're featuring an excerpt from a 1988 WSVN interview with Ron and "Wally" the adorable one year old chimpanzee. Hosts Julie Feldman and Peter Lundquist have a lot to say about Wally.
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We begin our celebration of America's 250th birthday with REWIND: A CULTURAL TAPESTRY to honor South Florida's diverse communities. We are truly a melting pot of global cultures and traditions. Join us every Tuesday and Thursday at lunchtime from Noon to 1pm starting May 12 in our Miami Dade College-Wolfson Campus facility.
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RSVP via Eventbrite for AV CLUB @ WOLFSON ARCHIVES, where we'll feature newly digitized selections from Miami-Dade Public Library's 16mm film collections as well as some art film surprised from our collections. See flyer for details.
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May the 4th be with you! Yes, it's "Star Wars" Day, so you'll be hearing that a lot today. If you're the one person who isn't familiar with this phrase, it's from the Star Wars movies ("use the Force. Luke..."), the first of which hit theaters in May, 1977. In this WPLG interview a month after the movie's release, Luke Skywalker...oops, we mean Mark Hamill talks about why the movie is so popular.
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SAVE THE DATE: May 14, 2026, 5pm: Miami-Dade Public Library's AV Club and the Wolfson Archives present an evening featuring recently digitized films from the Library's 16mm collection and a few art film surprises from the Wolfson Archives. Enjoy a tour of the Wolfson Archives and some refreshments before the program starts at 6pm. This celebration of film preservation and conservation is free and open to the public. Location: Miami Dade College's Wolfson Archives, 315 NE 2nd Ave., 4th Fl., Room 8401, downtown Miami. RSVP:[email protected]
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Happy birthday to the Empire State Building in New York! When it opened in 1931, it was the world's tallest building. Miami's own Daily News Tower (today's Freedom Tower) and the Dade County Courthouse were the tallest buildings in Florida in 1931, but they were still dwarfed by the Empire State Building. In this early 1990s aerial footage of downtown Miami from WPLG, you can see the Dade County Courthouse at the beginning and the Freedom Tower at the end of the excerpt. You'll also see a few landmarks that no longer exist.
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England's King Charles III and Queen Camilla are winding down their short official U.S. visit with a stop in New York City today. Though these royals won't be visiting Miami, Queen Elizabeth did, for about 10 hours back in May 1991. On the queen's itinerary that day was a visit to Booker T. Washington Middle School (it's a high school today) where she was met by protestors, as shown in this WPLG report by Bertha Coombs Sague. Once in the school, the queen greeted students, toured the school, and was serenaded by the band. Queen Elizabeth left Miami for Tampa.
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Today is Babe Ruth Day, so we're featuring this brief segment from a U.S. Postal Service film about the Babe Ruth commemorative 20 cent stamp issued on July 6, 1983. In this clip, Mel Allen, the "voice of the Yankees," talks about the image on the stamp featuring the Sultan of Swat.
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It's graduation season! Miami Dade College will host a day of commencement events tomorrow (4/25) at loanDepot Park starting at 8:30am. In June 1963, students graduating from Miami Dade Junior College and their guests could fit in the Dade County Auditorium, as shown in this WTVJ newsfilm. MDC has certainly grown by leaps and bounds since then, hence the need for a stadium to accommodate everyone tomorrow. Congratulations to all the graduates!
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For Earth Day, we're going back to c.1960 with a camping trip in the Everglades via this excerpt from one of our home movie collections. We don't know the exact location for this camp site, but conservation likely was not on anyone's radar at that time. Let's just hope they took their trash with them.
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