Film

African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship

The African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship showcases the Library's incomparable African American collections. Displaying more than 240 items, including books, government documents, ...

America’s Story from America's Library

A web site designed for children and families. The site combines kid-friendly graphics with the incomparable American historical collections of the Library in more than 1,000 stories about our nation’ ...

Before and After the Great Earthquake and Fire: Early Films of San Francisco, 1897-1916

Site offers a perspective on the effects the San Francisco earthquake and subsequent fires of 1906 had on the development of the city. Seventeen films shot before the devastating events and seven shot ...

Buckaroos in Paradise: Ranching Culture in Northern Nevada, 1945-1982.

The Buckaroos in Paradise Collection presents documentation of a Nevada cattle-ranching community, with a focus on the family-run Ninety-Six Ranch. The documentation was largely the work of the ...

Edison Motion Pictures

Edison's laboratory was responsible for the invention of the Kinetograph (a motion picture camera) and the Kinetoscope (a peep-hole motion picture viewer). Most of this work was performed by Edison's ...

The Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920

Documents the historical formation and cultural foundations of the movement to conserve and protect America's natural heritage, through books, pamphlets, government documents, manuscripts, prints, ...

Explorations in Black Leadership

Digitization of text, video and audio documenting the personal and professional lives of prominent African-American leaders, supporting a program co-sponsored by the Virginia Institute for Public ...

Film Literature Index

A July 2002 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities provided for converting to electronic format 700,000 entries of an authoritative paper-based film and television literature index, 1976 ...

Gone with the Wind

An online exhibit about the making of the film derived from items in the David O. Selznick Collection which includes 5,000 acid free boxes, half million feet of nitrate film, one million feet of ...

Inventing Entertainment: The Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies

Features motion pictures, sound recordings, photographs, and original magazine articles. Includes histories of Edison's invention and manufacture of motion pictures and sound recordings, and a special ...

J. Willis Sayre Collection

The collection consists of a selection of 9,856 images from more than 24,000 photographs of theatrical and vaudeville performers, musicians, and entertainers who played in Seattle between about 1900 ...

The Last Days of a President: Films of McKinley and the Pan-American Exposition, 1901

Presents twenty-eight films from the Paper Print Collection of the Library of Congress. Produced by the Edison Manufacturing Company from March to November 1901, these actuality motion pictures ...

The Life of a City: Early Films of New York, 1898-1906

Site contains forty-five films from 1898 to 1906 highlighting the character of New York City around the turn of the century. A selected bibliography and information about early cameramen are also ...

Origins of American Animation

Offers information on the origins of American animation from 1900-1921, provided by the U.S. Library of Congress. Details the animation of such subjects as automobiles, boys, family, flowers, World ...

Pictorial & Graphics Collections

The moving image collection contains film and video of a wide variety of formats. The film collection contains films dating back to 1914 and includes 35mm, 16mm, 8mm and Super 8mm formats. The ...

Prosperity and Thrift: The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy, 1921-1929

Assembles a wide array of Library of Congress source materials from the 1920s that document the widespread prosperity of the Coolidge years, the nation's transition to a mass consumer economy, and the ...

Silicon Genesis: An Oral History of Semiconductor Technology

The Silicon Genesis project was the inspiration of Rob Walker, Silicon Valley native and engineer, who has been involved with semiconductors since the 1960s at Fairchild, Intel and as a founder of LSI ...

The Spanish-American War in Motion Pictures

68 motion pictures produced between 1898 and 1901 of the Spanish-American War and the subsequent Philippine Revolution. The Spanish-American War was the first U.S. war in which the motion picture ...

Television News of the Civil Rights Era 1950-1970

This digital archive is based on an extensive collection of 16 mm news footage from the Roanoke TV station, WSLS. The Virginia Center for Digital History is experimenting with using the GDMS for ...

Theodore Roosevelt: His Life and Times on Film

Theodore Roosevelt was the first U.S. president to have his career and life chronicled on a large scale by motion picture companies (even though his predecessors, Grover Cleveland and William McKinley ...

Veterans History Project

With Public Law 106-380, signed by President Bill Clinton in October 2000, Congress directed the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress to develop and coordinate a program to collect and ...

The View from Here

Digitization of materials in a variety of formats - audio, video, text and images - documenting the local manifestation of events or movements of national importance (the Vietnam War, Civil Rights, ...