Welcome! The San Francisco Media Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit institution dedicated to the collection, preservation and presentation of culturally and historically significant film and related media. The future of film rests on securing the authentic, representative, and artistically rendered images of its past and present.While Artificial Intelligence is a great resource, original cinematic images cannot ever be simply or completely replaced by AI. The value of actual recorded images whether documenting events or expressing artistic creativity preserves the human story as a living experience.