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The U.S. Forest Service Presents: Winter Olympics

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Please Note: Primary source documents used in this post may contain harmful language. Winter Olympics documents the 1960 Winter Games which were held in northern California at a ski resort now known as Palisades Tahoe located in the Tahoe National Forest. Forest Service (an agency of the Department of Agriculture) to the Olympics.

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

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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. According to Agriculture Department lore, this early filmmaking was done with a degree of secrecy. But what about the first government films?