Tag: Universal Newsreel

Ice Skating at Rockefeller Center, 1937

by jkonicek, posted in Motion Pictures, Universal News Collection

This week, we’re excited to provide a sneak peek of a new series on our Media Matters blog. Starting in January, we’ll launch “This Week in Universal News”. Every Monday, archives technician Jim Konicek will feature a story from the National Archives’ Universal Newsreel Collection released that week in history. Today’s post features the iconic … Continue reading Ice Skating at Rockefeller Center, 1937

If You Can’t Take the Heat…

by US National Archives, posted in Motion Pictures

This week’s guest post is from Richard Green, an archives technician in NARA’S motion picture department in College Park, MD.  He is currently studying history and psychology at the University of Maryland and is looking forward to attending graduate school in the fall of 2013.  On July 24, 1959, Vice President Richard Nixon traveled to … Continue reading If You Can’t Take the Heat…