The American Museum of Natural History presents an annotated list of films made by museum staff members and by other scientists and explorers during the past 65 years. Films chosen for inclusion because of their archival, scientific, and historical importance are listed alphabetically by title and added entry (producers, filmmakers and…

The emphasis of archives is on the maintenance and preservation of materials for scholarly research and professional reference. Archives may be established as separate entities or as part of a library or museum. Film archives may include camera originals (positive and negative), sound recordings, outtakes, scripts, contracts, advertising…

Describes prominent film archives in the U.S., including several university collections. (PD)

Describes the facilities and holdings of three major film and television libraries and recounts how the resources available in such facilities were used to research a scholarly work on the making of the film "Citizen Kane." (CLB)

Approximately 11,000 still pictures, 300 sound recordings, and 125 reels of motion picture film relating to Indians in the United States are among the holdings of the Audiovisual Archives Division of the National Archives. The materials include Eskimos in Alaska, but not Eskimos in Greenland and Canada or Indians in Canada. The descriptions are…

Very briefly describes a workshop on film and television documentation that informed participants about available reference and resource materials for information about films and television shows. (CLB)

The recording of dance for archival purpose has spawned the mediation of dance for education, training, and artistic purposes as well; and video has naturally emerged as the recording medium. (Author/CMV)

This final report describes a pilot program for the simultaneous appraisal and description of concurrent television newsfilm from the holdings (dating from 1955 to 1972) of three Madison, Wisconsin television stations. The sections of the report are: (1) Project Background and History; (2) Problems of Estimating; (3) Evaluation of the Physical…

Describes the computerized film documentation system being developed for use in the Film Archives of the Netherlands Information Service. The organization of the films by historical periods, the film access system, content analysis of the films, and operation of the film retrieval system are discussed. Four figures accompany the text. (Author/JL)

In an interview with the archivist of the Motion Picture Unit in the National Archives, holdings of various libraries are discussed, as are potential uses historians may find for film. (JB)

Produced as part of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Records and Archives Management Programme (RAMP), this publication provides government and non-government archivists and records managers with a comparative study of past and present policies and practices for selecting moving images for…

A discussion of the three major functions of a film archive: input, storage and output. (HB)

The nations included in this guide are countries in Africa (non-Arab), Latin America (including Cuba, Mexico, and Puerto Rico), India, and Southeast Asia (including the Philippines). The organizations listed with descriptive information are either actively involved in Third World cinema, international cinema as a whole, or will serve as resource…

Television archiving is a new field involving the tasks of sorting, preserving, and filing in order to make records available to future historians. Only 5% of all television programing since 1948 exists today on tape or kinescope. Prior to 1968, not even the networks kept a comprehensive file of news shows. Although the DuMont Television Network…