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Philip H. Reisman, Jr. collection, 1942-1951
105 scripts. 3 containers. 1.25 linear feet. -- Moving Image Research Center, National Audio-Visual Conservation Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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The Philip H. Reisman, Jr. Collection consists of 103 cutting continuities for RKO-Pathe's This is America series of non-fiction short films from 1942-1951, and for 2 specials which preceded and postdated the series.
Thomas Kimmwood Peters papers, 1896-1973
500 items. 3 containers. 1.2 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Motion picture producer, cameraman, and inventor. Correspondence, notes, writings, legal and financial papers, clippings, and printed matter relating to Peters's interest in scientific, educational, and travel films, and his work on behalf of film preservation.
Markham Starr collection, 2005-2019
1751 items. 18 documents : digital, pdf, doc, xls, and txt. 1665 photographs : digital, tif, jpg, black-and-white. 8 audio files : digital, wav. 56 video files : digital, mov, mp4, m2t, m2ts, avi. 4 volumes (.3 linear feet). -- American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Collection of 1747 digital files of graphic, moving image, sound recording, and manuscript format documentary works created by Markham Starr and four of his published monographs. The collection primarily documents northeastern fishermen and the fishing industry. Some records also document farming and dairy production. A majority of the works are part of larger themed documentary projects, and others are independent works.
Mana : Beyond Belief documentary film collection, 2000-2004
1,015 items. 200 documents in 51 folders : paper.. 47 document files in 13 folders : digital ; xls, doc, plain text, jpg, pages, pdf.. 145 videocassettes (HDCAM) : digital.. 435 video files : digital ; mp4, mov, mxf.. 94 sound cassettes (DAT) : digital.. 94 audio files : digital ; wav.. -- American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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The collection consists of moving image and sound footage shot between 2000 and 2003, which led to the documentary film MANA : Beyond Belief (2004). Paper and electronic documents created during production and post-production are also included (logs, translations, shot lists, and notes).
John Cohen collection, circa 1939-2019
approximately 32,630 items. 37 linear feet. 83 containers ; 17,300 sheets. 121 photographs : film negatives, black-and-white and color ; 35 mm. approximately 1750 photographic prints : black-and-white and color. 1,271 photographs : digital, TIFF files. 70 posters : black-and-white and color ; 24 x 33 in. and smaller. 379 paintings and drawings : black-and-white and color ; 22.5 x 28 in. and smaller. 10 oil paintings, watercolor and mixed media pieces : color ; 15 x 18 in. and smaller. 223 sound cassettes : analog. 107 sound wire reels : analog. 575 sound tape reels (5 in., 7in., 10 in.) : analog. 456 sound discs : analog, 45 rpm ; 7 in.. 34 sound discs (CD-R) : optical ; 4 3/4 in.. 20 sound discs (DVD-R) : optical ; 4 3/4 in.. 11 floppy disks : digital ; 3 1/2 in.. 43 floppy disks : digital ; 5 1/4 in.. 922 text and image files from CD-R, DVD-R, floppy disks : digital. 1 hard drive with 7,520 moving image, audio, still image files : digital. approximately 1800 film elements in 900 containers from 16 finished films. 16 films reels : color ; 16 mm. 1 banjo ; 5 string. -- American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Collection of manuscripts, sound recordings, graphic images, and moving images created and collected by John Cohen. The materials document Cohen's parallel careers as a musician (member of the New Lost City Ramblers) and writer during the 1960s American folk music revival, and his celebrated work as a documentary photographer and filmmaker, producer, and artist from the 1950s to the present. Includes interviews made by Cohen with John Hartford, Harry Smith, Roger McGuinn, Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, Gary Davis, John Summers, Cousin Emmy, Roscoe Holcomb, Charlie Higgins, Wade Ward, Friends of Old Time Music, High Atmosphere, and photographs of these and others including E. C. Ball, Clancy Brothers, Elizabeth Cotten, Willie Dixon, Jack Elliott, Woody Guthrie, Mary Frank, Lilly Brothers, Alan Lomax, Bill Monroe, Earl Scruggs, Mike Seeger, Stanley Brothers, Belle Stewart, Stony Mountain Boys, Merle Travis, Muddy Waters, Doc Watson and many others. The collection includes documentation of Greenwich Village and Harlem, New York City; Cohen's travels to Paris and Spain in the 1950s; and later to England, Wales, Scotland, Germany, Italy and Japan, and other countries. Notable is his research for his master's thesis on Peruvian textile weaving, and subsequent fieldwork in Peru. Subsequent projects in Peru incorporated sound recordings of Andean music, and films as well as books about weaving, music, festivals, and dance. The majority of Cohen's Peru photographs were taken during his first three trips there and focus primarily on indigenous Andean people in the Q'ero region.
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Bruce Jackson and Diane Christian collection, circa 1961-1988
approximately 3346 items. 5 containers. 27.5 linear feet. 5 containers; approximately 1400 items. 197 sound cassettes : analog. 1062 sound tape reels (5 in., 7 in., 10 in.) : analog. 10 photographs : film positives, color ; 35 mm. 3 photographs : prints, black and white ; 5 x 6 in. and smaller. approximately 614 film elements. approximately 60 videocassettes. -- American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Documentation of fieldwork conducted by Bruce Jackson in prisons in Indiana, Missouri, and Texas; recordings at concerts and festivals including the Newport Folk Festival 1963-1965, 1967-1968; interviews conducted at various events including Resurrection City, 1968; interviews with and performances by various blues artists, folk artists, and others including poets and literary figures, 1961-1980s; production footage for film documentaries on various topics by Bruce Jackson and Diane Christian.
Bess Lomax Hawes collection, 1894-2009
13,480 items. 45 containers. 394 folders in 31 boxes.. 38 sound tape reels : analog ; various sizes.. 68 sound cassettes : analog.. 11 sound discs (CD-R) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.. 189 sound files (WAV) : digital. circa 2,000 photographic prints : black and white, color ; various sizes.. circa 500 photographs : film negatives.. circa 200 drawings.. 8 videocassettes (VHS) : color, sound ; 1/2 in.. 2 video discs (DVD) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.. 38 video files (VOB, BUP, IFO) : digital. approximately 20 items ; various sizes.. -- American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Papers and audiovisual materials relating to the career and personal life of folk arts administrator, folklorist, filmmaker, musician, and teacher Bess Lomax Hawes.
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Vida Chenoweth collection, circa 1940-2000
15,686 items. 42 containers. 15.5 linear feet (31 containers).. 638 sound cassettes : analog.. 251 sound tape reels : analog ; various sizes.. 89 sound discs : analog ; various sizes.. 2 sound discs (CD-R) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.. 71 videocassettes (VHS and U-Matic) : color, sound ; 1/2 in and 3/4 in.. 5 videodiscs (DVD).. 10 film reels.. approximately 660 photographs : film negatives.. approximately 1200 photographic prints : black and white, color ; various sizes.. 730 slides ; color ; 35 mm.. 1177 half frame slides, mostly color.. 3 slides ; color ; 126.. -- American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Collection of papers and audiovisual materials representing the life work of ethnomusicologist Vida Chenoweth. Manuscripts, sound recordings, photographs, and films mainly of her work with the Usarufa and numerous other people in Papua New Guinea, but culture groups from other places are also represented, including Vanuatu, Indonesia, Solomon Islands, Cook Islands New Zealand, Kenya, Zaire, Ethiopia, Madagascar, Ivory Coast, Ghana, South Africa, Cameroon, Senegal, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Mali, Cameroon, Vietnam, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Mexico, Guatemala, Panama, Ecuador, Brazil, Peru, and the United States. Includes work done by her students at Wheaton College and colleagues at the Summer Institute of Linguistics. Includes recording logs, analysis, song transcriptions, song texts, theses, correspondence, Chenoweth's diaries (1980s), and field notes. Sound recordings include music and spoken word from various provinces in Papua New Guinea, such as Eastern and Western Highlands, Madang, Morobe, East New Britain, New Ireland, and Irian Jaya provinces. Moving images include Chenoweth family films, as well as documentation about music and practices from throughout Papua New Guinea, the Cook Islands, Vanuatu, and other regions. They also include content from the South Pacific Festival of the Arts in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.
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Aaron Ziegelman Foundation collection
approximately 23,599 items. 70 sound cassettes : analog. 153 videocassettes (Betacam SP and Betacam SP Mega) : sound, color. 144 videocassettes (VHS and VHS-C) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.. 8 videocassettes (Hi-8) : sound, color. 1 film reel (8 mm). circa 2200 photographs : black and white, color ; various sizes. 23 artifacts. 25 linear feet. 10 volumes. 31 floppy disks ; 3 1/2 in.. 4 zip disks. 2 discs (CD) : optical. -- American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Collection of audio and video recordings of oral histories conducted from 1994-2000 with family members of people who lived in Luboml, Poland (now in Ukraine) between World War I and World War II.
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Lewis Varick Frissell papers, 1917-1970
650 items. 5 containers. 2 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Explorer and cinematographer. Correspondence, diary, drafts of writings, film scripts and other production materials, business papers, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, and other papers relating chiefly to Frissell's explorations and the production of the films, The Great Arctic Seal Hunt (1928) and The Viking (1931). Later materials relate to Frissell's disappearance in a shipwreck while on location for The Viking and attempts by members of his family to ascertain and publicize the facts of his career.