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Posted by: Neely Tucker
Hannah Whitaker, interning this summer as a junior fellow in the National Audio-Visual Conservation Center, discusses her work in helping preserve live recordings from early in the 20th century, including performances by stars such as Bing Crosby, Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday.
Posted in: Audiovisual, Gazette, Junior Fellows Program, Library Work and Employees, National Audio-Visual Conservation Center
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Who was the mystery cameraman who shot the Library's newly discovered footage of the infamous 1969 Altamont Concert? The Library asks readers to help.
Posted in: Audiovisual, Concerts, Film, National Audio-Visual Conservation Center, Video
Posted by: Neely Tucker
George Willeman is the leader of the nitrate film vaults at the Library of Congress Packard Campus. Here, he tells about lost and nearly lost films he's discovered and helped preserve.
Posted in: Audiovisual, My Job, Preservation, Preservation and Conservation
Posted by: Neely Tucker
"The Battle of the Century," a Laurel and Hardy silent film thought to be lost forever, was found a few years ago and today was entered into the Library's National Film Registry.
Posted in: Audiovisual, Film, National Film Preservation Board, National Film Registry, Preservation and Conservation
Posted by: Carla D. Hayden
Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden announces the 2019 additions to the National Film Registry. Selected filmmakers comment upon the selection of their works.
Posted in: Audiovisual
Posted by: Neely Tucker
A short essay about "North Mississippi Homeplace," Michael Ford's new book of photography and folklore about one of the poorest regions in America.
Posted in: American Folklife Center, Audiovisual
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The Library of Congress is hosting a mini-fest, Augmented Realities, April 4-6, featuring industry stars such as Winifred Phillips and Rami Ismail.
Posted in: Audiovisual, Events, News, Technology, Video
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
This is a guest post by Amanda Reichenbach about a new American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB) collection covering education reporting on public television. The AAPB is a collaboration between the Library of Congress and the Boston public broadcaster WGBH. Reichenbach worked on the release while interning last summer at the Library’s John W. Kluge …
Posted in: Audiovisual, Education, Exhibitions, New Online, Video
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
This is a guest post by Stephen Winick of the American Folklife Center. It was first published on the center’s blog, Folklife Today. A companion post about circus life in Hugo, Oklahoma, is available here. The American Folklife Center (AFC) is delighted to announce the online presentation of an important new oral history collection documenting …
Posted in: American Folklife Center, Audiovisual, Collections, New Online