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Tag Archives: United States Information Agency
Celebrating America: The USIA Young Filmmaker Bicentennial Grant Project
The United States’ Bicentennial celebration was huge. America’s 200th birthday saturated popular culture in the mid-1970s, with Bicentennial-themed products and media. In addition, years of planning by the American Revolution Bicentennial Administration culminated in a year of more formal events … Continue reading
Posted in Motion Pictures
Tagged animation, Bicentennial, experimental film, psychedelic, United States Information Agency, USIA, Vince Collins
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Favorite Film Finds of 2016
This post was written with Heidi Holmstrom. In the past year, staff in the motion picture preservation lab handled millions of feet of film. Films might come to us for inspection and repair, photochemical duplication, or digitization. To follow up … Continue reading
Posted in Motion Pictures, Uncategorized
Tagged alcohol, digitization, favorite films, gas masks, United States Information Agency, Women, World War I, World War II
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The True Story of a Blind Electrician: “Born a Man” as a Document of Disability Rights
This week we’re happy to welcome guest blogger Brian Real to The Unwritten Record. Brian recently received his PhD in Information Studies from the University of Maryland. Brian regularly visits the research room in College Park so we’re used to seeing his … Continue reading
Wealth Comes in Many Forms: William Greaves’ USIA Films
This post was written by Criss Kovac. Criss is the supervisor of the National Archives Motion Picture Preservation Lab. I’m fortunate that my job allows me to make a difference every day. Most days it’s because I’ve preserved a piece of … Continue reading
Photographs Relating to the Marshall Plan and Post-WWII Economic Recovery in France
In 1973 the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) transferred to the National Archives approximately 31,000 negatives and corresponding prints created by the Economic Cooperation Administration (ECA) and its successor, the Mutual Security Agency (MSA), to document economic recovery in … Continue reading
Restoring Nine from Little Rock
This post was written by Criss Kovac. Criss is the supervisor of the National Archives Motion Picture Preservation Lab. The Restoration Nine From Little Rock was commissioned by George Stevens, Jr., head of the United States Information Agency (USIA), and directed … Continue reading
Posted in Motion Pictures
Tagged Carlotta Walls, Central High School, Charles Guggenheim. Civil Rights, Elizabeth Eckford, Ernest Green, Film preservation, film restoration, Gloria Ray, integration, Jefferson Thomas, Melba Patillo, Minnijean Brown, Nine from Little Rock, Terrence Roberts, Thelma Mothershed, United States Information Agency
With Strings Attached: Rice, Murder, and Awkward Communist Puppets
This post was written by Heidi Holmstrom. Heidi works in the Motion Picture Preservation Lab, which is responsible for performing conservation and preservation work on motion picture records held across the National Archives. Let’s suppose you have a child, and that child … Continue reading
Images of the Week: USIA Paper Shows
This week I’m posting several examples of posters from the series Paper Show Exhibition Poster Sets, ca. 1974 – ca. 1994 (306-PSP). These posters were created by the United States Information Agency for exhibits they referred to as “Paper Shows”, … Continue reading
Protecting Your Past–It’s What We Do Here: The Preservation and Restoration of The March
Today’s post is from Criss Kovac. Criss is the supervisor of the Motion Picture Preservation Lab, which is responsible for performing conservation and preservation work on motion picture records held across the National Archives. Recently, she completed a digital restoration of The … Continue reading
Making The March
Today’s post is from Criss Kovac. Criss is the supervisor of the Motion Picture Preservation Lab, which is responsible for performing conservation and preservation work on motion picture records held across the National Archives. Recently, she completed a digital restoration … Continue reading
Posted in Motion Pictures, Preservation
Tagged Civil Rights, Edward R. Murrow, Film, James Blue, March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Martin Luther King Jr., Motion Picture Preservation, Motion Pictures, National Archives, National Film Registry, restoration, United States Information Agency, USIA
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