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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). Researchers for the most part came to Washington, D.C.,

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Caretakers of the Sky: The Wright Brothers and Recording the Aerial Age

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Photograph of the Wright Brothers’ Camp in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina,” Records of the US Army Air Forces, Record Group 18, National Archives Local Identifier: 18-WP-48625. According to the National Park Service, in 1900 the Wright’s contacted the U.S. to record an airplane in flight at his own expense.