National Archives and Records Service film-vault fire at Suitland, Md. : hearings before a subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives, Ninety-sixth Congress, first session, June 19 and 21, 1979 (1979)

Record Details:

Title:
National Archives and Records Service film-vault fire at Suitland, Md. : hearings before a subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives, Ninety-sixth Congress, first session, June 19 and 21, 1979
Date:
1979
Publisher:
Washington : U.S. Govt. Print. Off.
Volume:
National Archives and Records Service film-vault fire at Suitland, Md. : hearings before a subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives, Ninety-sixth Congress, first session, June 19 and 21, 1979
Leaf #:
000437
Language:
English
Subjects:
Washington National Records Center. Building A, Motion picture film collections
Collection:
Books and Government & Law
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Prelinger Library
Sponsor:
Internet Archive
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
July 19, 2022
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413 Purpose The purpose of this report is to outline the problems besetting the preservation of newsreels in the United States; furnish estimates of extant footage upon which to base further action; describe the major newsreel holdings; and recommend a program for a national effort to rescue ncv/s reels from certain destruction. This report focuses on the major newsreel repositories in the United States. Those in the private sector include Fox-Hovietone News, Sherman Grinberg Film Libraries, Hearst-Hetrotone Hews, and John E. Allen, Inc. Those in the public sector consist of the National Archives and Records Service and the Library of Congress. These "six organizations have custody of over 95% of the American newsreels extant today.. It' is virtually impossible to survey newsreels that may be in the hands of individual collector: or in small institutions; nevertheless, these smaller collectors have a role to play. Estimates, hovjever, must be based on the major holdings in order to develop realistic objectives. This report is not a history of the American newsreel. The origin and administration of the American newsreel have been chronicled in Raymond Fielding's admirable study, The American Newsreel 19 11 "196? (l972), vjhich provided invaluable background for the preparation of this report. Nor is the report primarily an argument for the preservation of newsreels. That newsreels must be preserved is the principal underlying assumption of this report. It is assumed that the group for v;hom this report is intended, namely, the archival community, accepts the principles that newsreels should be preserved as political, social, and economic evidence of the 20th ccntur/ that newsreels should be preserved in a format approximating what vns seen 51-332 0-79-27