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50 Years Makes a Difference! How Film Research Has Changed Since the 1972 Conference on Audiovisual Archives

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You may have heard that the National Archives is partnering with the University of Maryland Cinema and Media Studies Program to present Films of State , an online conference on government-produced moving images (if not, check out my last blog post for more background). In addition, “access” meant something completely different at the time.

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The Bureau of Indian Affairs – Photographs Finding Aid: A Closer Look

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Today we will take a deeper dive into the new finding aid and explore the various search strategies that can be utilized to access these wonderful photographs. To access the BIA photographs, the Bureau of Indian Affairs – Photographs Finding Aid provides the user the options of searching by Tribal Nation, topic or state.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 5 – 11 February 2024

IT Governance

Further victims of last year’s Perry Johnson & Associates data breach identified Last year, the medical transcription company PJ&A (Perry Johnson & Associates) suffered a data breach in which an unauthorised third party was able to access its computer network. Alternatively, you can view our full archive.

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The Wright Military Flyer Soars on Celluloid: Uncovering the Story of Our Oldest Government Film

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The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is well known for preserving the first written records of our nation. The oldest known government-produced film in our holdings is First Army Aeroplane Flight, Fort Myer, Virginia , which captured daring test flights of the Wright Military Flyer. At that time, the U.S.

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Summer Road Trip 2019: San Francisco and Yosemite National Park

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Next on our summer tour of the National Archives’ non-textual holdings, we move on from Los Angeles to San Francisco. The area began as a military garrison built by the Spanish in 1776 and, after nearly 150 years as a U.S. As a happy coincidence, we digitized this film yesterday for an access request.

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“Edited by Laura Thornburgh,” Pioneer of Motion Picture Education

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One unexpected outcome of our work during the Covid pandemic was the discovery of Laura Thornburgh (Thornborough was used as a pen name) scattered through early film records held at the National Archives. She had access to education and travel, and wrote for a local newspaper. . But who was Laura Thornburgh?