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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: Neely Tucker
The Mystery Photo Contest is back with some of our photos that have been extremely difficult to identify.
Posted in: Film, Mystery Photo Contest
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Cary O'Dell at the Library's National Recording Registry is the maestro of our ever-popular Mystery Photo Contest. He's back with another round, featuring some of Hollywood's not-so-famous faces.
Posted in: Film
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The Library of Congress features movie houses, grand and small, in this month's set of Free to Use and Reuse photographs and prints.
Posted in: Film, Free to Use and Reuse, Photos
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
Poet Maya Angelou’s debut memoir, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” is her most famous work. The coming-of-age story has influenced writers and touched millions of people. Yet its title is not original to Angelou: She borrowed it from a poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar that he composed, at least in part, in response …
Posted in: Film, Poetry, Researcher Stories, Thomas Jefferson Building
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
Filmmaker Rocky Lang talks about how he recently teamed up with film historian Barbara Hall to publish “Letters from Hollywood: Inside the Private World of Classic American Moviemaking,” drawn on correspondence from several collections, including from the Library of Congress.
Posted in: Film, Manuscripts, Researcher Stories
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The writings and social activism of civil rights icon Rosa Parks, as read and remembered by Bryan Stevenson, Condoleezza Rice, Ken Burns, Jacqueline Woodson, Sharon Robinson and others in this short documentary.
Posted in: Civil Rights, Exhibitions, Film, Video
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
Giuliana Muscio teaches film studies at the University of Padova in Italy. She's using the Library to research her next book about Robert G. Vignola, an Italian immigrant who directed and acted in silent movies.
Posted in: Film, Researcher Stories
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Cary O'Dell at the Library's National Recording Registry is the maestro of our ever-popular Mystery Photo Contest, and he's back with another entry.
Posted in: Film, Music, National Recording Registry, Photos