Announcing the launch of The Hands-On Film History Project, a research and teaching resource dedicated to inspiring new ways of thinking about the cinema’s past! The project is the companion website to an undergraduate course developed by Colin Williamson, PhD, in the Department of Cinema Studies at the University of Oregon. With the generous support of a 2024-2025 Williams Instructional Grant, the course was designed to explore a guiding question: What can students learn about film history when their access to the past expands beyond viewing, reading, and writing to include experimenting, tinkering, and creating with and about the archive? The Hands-On Film History Project is itself an archive of how students have responded to that question. It also builds on the early cinema teaching initiatives that began at Domitor and are taking shape in conversation with those working in the field of experimental media archaeology. On the website you’ll find the first stages of research and teaching resources related to the class, along with collections of students’ work and documentation of the course’s exciting activities. The project is a living database that will grow with each iteration of the course. So, keep checking back for updates. And happy browsing!