Though many archival digital objects were not digital film archives are now becoming important resources for digital scholarship as a consequence of digitization. Moreover with advancements in digital research methods involving video annotation visual analysis and GIS affecting the way we look at archival films material stylistic histories and circulation new research practices are more important than ever.Visualizing Film History is an accessible introduction to archivebased digital scholarship in film and media studies and beyond. With a combined focus on the history of film historiography archiving and recent digital scholarshipcovering a period from the wave of film archiving in the early 1900s to recent data artthis book proposes ways to work critically with digitized archives and research methods.