Dav Pilkey: How to Draw Piggy and Barky McTreeFace
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Children's book author and illustrator Dav Pilkey has another couple of quick drawing lessons: Piggy and Barky McTreeFace, They're both from his "Dog Man" series.
Category: Video
Rosa Parks, In Her Own Words: A Short Documentary
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
Rare Film: Washington Senators Win the 1924 World Series
Posted by: Michelle Rago
The Washington Nationals and the Houston Astros will play Game One of the World Series tonight in Houston. Check out this rare footage, found in a garage, of the Washington Senators winning the 1924 World Series over the New York Giants in a Game Seven that went 12 innings! This film is now part of …
Winifred Phillips: The Music of the Game
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Winifred Phillips is a maestro in the world of video game music. She's composed soundtracks for major hits such as Assassin's Creed Liberation and The Da Vinci Code.
Posted in: Events, Technology, Video
The Library Goes Gamer: Augmented Realities Mini-Fest
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
New Online: Educating the Public about Education
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, Video
New Online: Rare Photo of Harriet Tubman Preserved for Future Generations
Posted by: Mark Hartsell
This post draws on the article “Building Black History: A New View of Tubman,” published in the January–February issue of LCM, the Library of Congress Magazine. The issue is available in its entirety online. A remarkable photo album brought two major institutions together to restore and preserve an important piece of American history. Today, the …
Posted in: Civil Rights, Civil War, LCM, Photos, Preservation, Video
New Online: Senate Watergate Hearings
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
This is a guest post by Amanda Reichenbach, a 2017 summer intern with the Junior Fellows Program in the Library’s Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division. She is a history major at Yale University. During her internship, she worked with newly digitized material from the 1973 Senate Watergate hearings and the 1974 House impeachment hearings, …
Posted in: Collections, Exhibitions, News, Video
Celebrating and Advocating #Preservation of America’s Audiovisual Heritage
Posted by: Gayle Osterberg
The advent of recorded sound and moving images has enriched our lives beyond measure. We have heard the voices of presidents and shared the beauty of piano concertos. We have watched tragedies unfold worldwide, and in our own backyards. We’ve been transported by movies that captivate, beguile, frighten and inspire. We have absorbed voices of …
Posted in: Audiovisual, Events, Film, Preservation, Video