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A Framework for Remembrance: NARA Contributes Holocaust Films to EU Project

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The project, called Visual History of the Holocaust (VHH), is multi-faceted, with goals of providing access to the footage itself and and tools to analyze the images and curate collections for research and education. . Stills from Death Mills ( 111-OF-19 ). Stay tuned for more updates as the work progresses!

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Introducing Films of State, a Conference on Government Films

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In addition to the academic sessions, we’ll have an evening screening with films and clips related to the presentations and a panel on the practical uses of government film, from its role as historical evidence to reuse by educators and television documentaries. Moving Images and the Military. Government and the People.

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How the U.S. Army Served its Movie-Mad GIs during World War II

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Before home video and streaming, transporting films as physical objects demanded careful logistical coordination. The military went to tremendous lengths to supply a steady diet of fiction and nonfiction film to its troops with great speed. Inside an army film library. envision the labor of media distribution.