Reference Request
Finding Aids to Official Records of the Smithsonian Institution Archives
Accession 01-203
Smithsonian Institution. Office of Telecommunications
Production Records, 1967-1987, 1991-1992
Descriptive Entry
This accession consists of records created and maintained by Karen Loveland, Director of Special Projects for the Office of Telecommunications, documenting the planning, development, and execution of film, video, and television productions for general release, for accompaniment to exhibitions and exhibition halls, for training, and for television spots. Film, video, and television productions for general release include Smithsonian Video Collection; American Picture Palaces; Coral Reefs: How to Make Use of 400 Million Years of Evolution; John Bull; Maine Coast; Leaf Making: Or the Secret Life of Museum Plants; Smithsonian World; Changes: The Story of Evolution and Speciation; Quadrangle; Flue-Cured Tobacco Culture; The Big Cats and How They Came to Be; Indiana Engine Retrieval; Census: Accounting for the Nation; Enter Life; Thomas A. Edison and His Amazing Invention Factories; The Ghosts of Forever; Who Would Have Thought?; The Giant Panda Story; Shells and the Animals Inside; Columbus and His Time; Mirror of Kings: Tales from Kalila Wa Dimna; and Reunions: Memories of an American Experience.
Films and videos accompanied American Sailor, 1984-1985; Harry S. Truman Centennial: The Berlin Airlift, 1984; Clockwork Universe: German Clocks and Automata, 1550-1650 in 1980; Hall of Dynamic Evolution, beginning in 1979; Hall of Paleontology, beginning in 1982; FDR: The Intimate Presidency, 1982; Field to Factory: Afro-American Migration, 1915-1940, beginning in 1987; Festival of American Folklife; Hall of American Maritime Enterprise, beginning in 1978; the Communication Exhibition, beginning in 1977; Hall of Western Civilization, beginning in 1978; and It All Depends: How Man Affects and is Affected by his Natural Environment. Training films and videos include Communication and Security.
Materials include memoranda, correspondence, video proposals, scripts, interview transcripts, production and post-production schedules, computer editing forms, story boards, roll logs, budget summaries and expense reports, orders and requisitions for supplies and services, travel vouchers, invoices, notes, mailing lists for premieres, publications with articles about videos, clippings, press releases, fact sheets, copies of contracts, color and black and white negatives and transparencies of credits, and research materials.
See accession 01-230 for a 16 mm distribution print of the "Mirror of Kings:...".
Index Terms
This collection is indexed under the following access terms. These are links to collections with related topics, persons or places.
Name
- Loveland, Karen
- Indiana (Steamboat)
- National Museum of Natural History (U.S.). Hall of Dynamic Evolution
- Smithsonian Productions
- Museum of History and Technology (U.S.). Hall of American Maritime Enterprise
- National Museum of Natural History (U.S.). Hall of Western Civilization
- National Museum of Natural History (U.S.). Hall of Paleontology
- National Museum of American History (U.S.). Hall of American Maritime Enterprise
- Smithsonian Institution. Office of Telecommunications. Smithsonian Video Collection
- Harry S. Truman Centennial: The Berlin Airlift (Exhibition) (1984: Washington, D.C.)
- Clockwork Universe: German Clocks and Automata, 1550-1650 (Exhibition) (1980: Washington, D.C.)
- American Sailor (Exhibition) (1984-1985: Washington, D.C.)
- It All Depends: How Man Affects and is Affected by his Natural Environment (Exhibition) (Washington, D.C.)
- FDR: The Intimate Presidency (Exhibition) (1982: Washington, D.C.)
- Field to Factory: Afro-American Migration, 1915-1940 (Exhibition) (1987: Washington, D.C.)
- Festival of American Folklife
- Coral Reefs: How to Make Use of 400 Million Years of Evolution (Motion picture : c. 1981)
- John Bull: The World's Oldest Operable Locomotive (Documentary film : 1981)
- Maine Coast (Documentary film : c. 1982)
- Leaf Making: Or the Secret Life of Museum Plants (Motion picture : c. 1981)
- Changes: The Story of Evolution and Speciation (Motion picture : c. 1979)
- Quadrangle (Documentary film : c. 1984)
- Flue-Cured Tobacco Culture (Documentary film : c. 1983)
- Big Cats and How They Came to Be (Motion picture : 1976)
- Census: Accounting for the Nation (Motion picture : 1974)
- Thomas A. Edison and His Amazing Invention Factories (Motion picture : 1979)
- Ghosts of Forever (Motion picture : c. 1982)
- Who Would Have Thought? (Proposed documentary film : 1970)
- Giant Panda Story (Motion picture : c. 1974)
- Shells and the Animals Inside (Motion picture : 1978)
- Columbus and His Time (Motion picture : 1976)
- Mirror of Kings: Tales from Kalila wa-Dimnah (Motion picture : 1982)
- Tradition in Western Civilization (Documentary film : 1978)
- Communication: It's More Than Sound (Motion picture : 1982)
- Security (Motion picture : 1981)
- Berlin Airlift (Motion picture : 1984)
- Clockwork Universe (Motion picture : 1980)
- Consequences of Cultural Adaptation (Motion picture : c. 1973)
- Enter Life (Motion picture : 1986)
- FDR: The Intimate Presidency (Motion picture : 1982)
- Field to Factory: The Urban North, 1915-1940 (Motion picture : 1987)
- Web of Life (Motion picture : 1973)
- Full Speed Ahead (Motion picture : 1978)
- Gilgamesh (Motion picture : 1978)
- City of the Dead (Documentary film : 1978)
- Peril on the Sea (Motion picture : 1978)
- Phone Philm (Motion picture : 1976)
- Predator and the Prey (Motion picture : 1973)
- Sharing a Lifestyle (Motion picture : 1973)
- American Picture Palaces (Motion picture : 1983)
- Smithsonian World (Television program : 1984-1991)
- Reunions: Memories of an American Experience (Documentary film : 1979)
- Smithsonian World (Television program)
- Man's Use of the Earth (Motion picture : 1973)
Subject
- Video recordings -- Production and direction
- Intellectual property
- Museum exhibits
- Documentary television programs
Physical Characteristics of Materials in the Collection
Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 01-203, Smithsonian Institution. Office of Telecommunications, Production Records