In recognition of #Juneteenth today, we’re sharing scans of General Order No. 3, the document that informed enslaved people in Texas that they were free on June 19, 1865, carrying out the Federal Government’s final execution of emancipation. 📜

Read the text in scans based on the original handwritten records preserved by the U.S. National Archives and saved to the Internet Archive ⤵️
https://archive.org/details/general-order-3-juneteenth-details

#History #Archives #BlackHistory

🎩✂️ Public domain culture inspires new creations!

For our recent screening 📽️ of MOROCCO (1930), artist Freya Morgan remixed imagery from the film into a delightful new work: Marlene Dietrich in "Morocco": Public Domain Paper Doll Collection. 🌹

Now available and preserved on the Internet Archive, this paper doll shows how film history can be reimagined, shared, and brought to life through art.

Download and create your own Marlene look 👇
https://archive.org/details/public-domain-paper-doll-marlene-dietrich-morocco

#FilmHistory

💳 Who should decide what content is acceptable online? Banks?

In TRANSACTION DENIED, author Rainey Reitman joins Annalee Newitz to discuss why content moderation decisions shouldn't be made by financial institutions. 💵💷💴

As banks, payment processors, and credit card networks gain influence over who can participate online, questions of speech become questions of financial power. ⚖️

🎧 Listen & subscribe to the Future Knowledge #podcast ⤵️
https://futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/transaction-denied

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🧵1️⃣/2️⃣ Thousands of educational filmstrips are deteriorating faster than they can be digitized. 🎞️

Archivist Mark O’Brien explains why preserving these overlooked materials has become a race against time and why they remain an invaluable record of 20th century American culture.

📚 Read O’Brien’s essay in VANISHING CULTURE from the Internet Archive.
🔗 https://archive.org/details/vanishing-culture-2026/page/108/

CONGRATS AGAIN to "HOW’S THE PLAY GOING?" by Noel David Taylor, an Honorable Mention in the Internet Archive’s 2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest 🏅

An absurd comedy with a confused main character in disjointed settings.

Noel David Taylor is a filmmaker known for their alchemy of homemade nightmare comedy and an absurdist sense of tragedy.

Watch the full short film ⤵️
https://archive.org/details/hows_the_play

#PublicDomain #PublicDomainDay

"Smile!" Summer vacation used to mean film cameras, limited shots, and the long wait to see how the pix actually turned out. 📸☀️

#Kodak helped define photography, building systems that made memories printable, shareable, and permanent.

With digital photography, Kodak slipped from public prominence. But today, film cameras are making a quiet comeback. “Smile!” hits different when every shot counts.

Find snapshots of Kodak's web #history on the #WaybackMachine ➡️ https://web.archive.org/web/19960815000000*/kodak.com

🧶 Today is World Wide Knit in Public Day 🌍, a reminder that preservation is not passive. It's made stitch by stitch.

Check out Mlle. Riego de la Branchardière’s THE KNITTING BOOK (1848), part of our Victorian Knitting Manuals collection 👉 https://archive.org/details/krl00402915/mode/2up

#WWKIPDay #Knitting #TextileHistory #CulturalHeritage #FiberArts

🎉 Welcome to the Public Domain, THE LADY OF SCANDAL (1930) 🎩

This pre-Code romantic drama follows a young actress whose rise into high society pulls her between ambition, reputation, and love, where scandal follows every step. 💍📰

🎾 Featuring Basil Rathbone in one of his early film roles, the picture showcases the screen presence that would later make him famous as Sherlock Holmes.

Watch it now ➡️ https://archive.org/details/the-lady-of-scandal_1930

#PublicDomain #PublicDomainDay #CopyrightFree #ClassicCinema

CONGRATS AGAIN to "DREAM A LITTLE DREAM OF ME REIMAGINED" by Talissa Mehringer, an Honorable Mention, Internet Archive’s 2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest 🏅

A short music-film remix celebrating 1930s choreography, lavish sets, and the versatility of early screen performers.

Watch the full short film ⤵️
https://archive.org/details/dream-a-little-dream-of-me-reimagined-talissa-mehringer-2026

#PublicDomain #PublicDomainDay

Those sparkle emojis ✨ in AI apps aren't just decoration. They're part of a broader design language that encourages us to see software as more human, capable, and autonomous than it really is.

Policy researcher Caroline De Cock joins Glyn Moody to unpack how anthropomorphic design shapes public perceptions of AI in AI TOOLS, NOT GODS on the Future Knowledge #podcast.

🎧 Listen & subscribe 👉 https://futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/AI-tools-not-gods

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