Ever political ad. I am head of the moving image section at the library of congress. Packard are at the campus for audiovisual conservation. ,t opened in the summer of 2007 dedicated to preserving our audiovisual heritage. Favorites films that we have in the collection is what we believe is the very First Political ad, 1912, and which william in howard taft and Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt is running for the progressive party, bull moose party. Produced by the Democratic National committee, the old way and the new. It opens up with this rich, fat plutocrat who comes in to an office where one of his flunkies is dusting off portraits of Theodore Roosevelt and william of thetaft as an example old way. Money,he has lots of dispensing favors, all sorts of political corruption. They are contrasted with the new way of doing things, represented by Woodrow Wilson, the champion of the common man. The film actually inns with a plea for people to send one dollar to the Democratic National
Films, television, radio broadcast and sound recordings. American history tv visited the facility to learn about the paper print collection. Films from the earliest era of Motion Pictures produced between 1894 and 1912. Createder prints were for copyright purposes that cannot be projected. They must be scanned one frame at a time in order to be copied. Is mike mashon head atthe moving image section the library congress, the home of the largest collection of video and the world. Within this building, they have not only the film, video and sound recording of the library, but we also have preservation laboratories that are dedicated to making sure that all of this material is available for future generations. Campusry of the packard action begins in the late 1990s. Our benefactor David Packard was interested in creating a facility for the library that would house the collections and the preservation laboratories. There was a facility here in culpeper that would had gone up for sale. Use t
Them. You cannot write a meaningful history of film without referring to the films in the paper print collection, because it traces the evolution of cinema from a cinema of attractions and actuality through the development of the narrative form. Its such a wonderful resource to students and scholars of cinema. [classical music] you can view many of the earliest films and the library of congress by visiting loc. Gov. The library of Congress Packard packard campus for audiovisual conservation reserves 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 , the spanishamerican war, world war i, and the first ever political ad created in 1912 by the democratic party. Mike my name 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. To
Conservation in culpeper, virginia, preserves access to the librarys vast collection of films, television, Radio Broadcasts and sound recordings. , American History tv visited the facility to learn about the paper print collection. Films from the earliest era of Motion Pictures produced between 1894 and 1912. Over 3000 paper prints were created for copyright purposes but cannot be projected. They must be scanned one frame at a time in order to be copied. My name is mike mashon head of the moving image section at the library congress, the home of the largest collection of video and the world. Within this building, they have not only the film, video and sound recording of the library, but we also have preservation laboratories that are dedicated to making sure that all of this material is available for future generations. The story of the packard campus actually begins in the late 1990s. Our benefactor David Packard was interested in creating a facility for the library that would house t
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