The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson, an Administrative Assistant at the Packard Campus. Thursday, November 12 (7:30 p.m.) William Wellman Double Feature Wild Boys of the Road (Warner Bros., First National, 1933) Historians estimate that more than 250,000 American teens were living on the road at the height of the Great Depression, …
The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson, an Administrative Assistant at the Packard Campus. Thursday, November 5 (7:30 p.m.) Lafayette Escadrille (Warner Bros., 1958) Relying on his own World War I service in the Lafayette Flying Corps, director William A. Wellman also wrote the original story for what became the final film released …
The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson, an Administrative Assistant and the Packard Campus. Thursday, October 29 (7:30 p.m.) Back to the Future Part III (Universal, 1990) The final installment of the Back to the Future trilogy finds Marty (Michael J. Fox) digging the DeLorean time machine out of a mineshaft to travel …
The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson, an Administrative Assistant at the Packard Campus. Thursday, October 8 (7:30 p.m.) The Errand Boy (Paramount, 1961) Following the great success of his directorial debut with The Bellboy (playing at Culpeper’s historic State Theatre in cooperation with the Library of Congress on October 9 as part …
Be sure to tune into the 57th Annual Grammy Awards this Sunday. We’ll be watching it with great interest here in the Recorded Sound Section at the Library of Congress as two members of our technical staff have been nominated! Robert Friedrich, Audio Preservation Specialist at the Library’s National Audio-Visual Conservation Center, has been nominated …
The National Audio-Visual Conservation Center has garnered a fair amount of media attention over the years and 2014 was no exception. Here’s a selection of print and broadcast stories from last year that, taken together, provide a good overview of who we are and what we do. The announcement of new additions to the National …
This blog post was co-written with Megan Harris, reference specialist for the Veterans History Project, Library of Congress. What you’ve just heard is from the Marine Corps Combat Recordings, an amazing and vivid accounting of the war in the South Pacific during World War II. Not only are these recordings one of the most historically …
In the United States, the first Monday of September is the holiday celebrating American workers. Labor Day became a legal holiday in 1894 and while it has morphed into a day of shopping, picnics, speeches and sadly, summer’s farewell, the true meaning of the day, celebrating the American worker, should not be forgotten. In its …
The following is a guest post from Carla Arton, a Processing Technician in the Recorded Sound Section. Here at the Packard Campus of the Library’s National Audio-Visual Conservation Center, we not only pride ourselves on providing excellent reference and preservation services for our collections, our staff also actively participates in ongoing professional development. In addition …
