Conservation in culpeper, virginia, preserves and provides access to the librarys vast collection of films, television, radio broadcast home and found recordings. American history tv visited the campus to learn about the earliest Public Affairs films, including u. S. President s the , spanishamerican war, world war i, and the first ever political ad created in 1912 by the democratic party. My name my nigh is mike mashon head of the , moving image section of the library of congress, the home of the largest collection of video and the world. Today we are at the packard campus in culpeper, virginia, a facility that opened in the summer of 2007 dedicated to preserving our audiovisual heritage. In the late 1880s, edison started thinking about doing for the eye what the phonograph did for the ear. So began a whole series of experiments with Motion Picture film. Most of that work was done by his engineer, a guy named dickson,ennedy sometimes an unjustly forgotten figure in history. It was dic
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War effort expended the federal government and led to a booming industrial economy. This is about 20 minutes. Narrator on the eve of grave decision, on april 2, 1917, an anxious president Woodrow Wilson voices his forebodings. Lead his people into war, and they will forget there was ever such a thing as tolerance. To fight you must be brutal and ruthless. Conformity would be the only virtue. Days later, with the president leading as he must, america now at war. All doubts are now submerged all , separate voices drowned out by the great chorus of the war effort. Do your bit for the boys over there. The spirit of 1917 on the American Home front, a nation rallying to the war. Behind them keeping the spirit moved is the machinery of government, a new agency set up by the government, with a committee on public information, which will grow from a handful to 150,000. He tackles the war effort as a plain publicity proposition. The worlds greatest adventure in advertising. It will be an allstar
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