Results for "Documentary films"
It Suits Me
- Date: September 24, 2013
- Creator: Mary Markey
- Description: Changes in the way Americans dress over 30 years of group photos.
Recent Acquisitions - NMAI's Film and Video Center
- Date: July 25, 2017
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Highlighting the recent acquisition of the records of the National Museum of the American Indian's Film and Video Center in January 2017.
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Magical Mystery Tour
- Date: December 29, 2010
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: Recently, I read some interesting news about the National Public Radio blog, “The Picture Show,” that explores photographic images and issues.
Hot Topics in Archival Research
- Date: July 7, 2015
- Creator: Mary Markey
- Description: Quarterly review of topics researched at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.
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The Family of Man, as Told by the Family of Man
- Date: September 20, 2011
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: Periodically—given the fleeting nature of life and the ubiquity of photographic imagery—it’s seems like someone’s always trying to hatch another ambitious image-based cultural project to prove that, despite our differences, we’re pretty all much the same.
Hot Topix in Archival Research, Summer 2021
- Date: July 8, 2021
- Creator: Deborah Shapiro
- Description: Think your archival research is on hold while our reading room is closed? Think again!
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The Archives of Visibility
- Date: February 11, 2010
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
Remembering the Artist: Robert De Niro, Sr., and Joseph Hirshhorn
- Date: June 17, 2014
- Creator: Tammy L. Peters
- Description: A new documentary on the artist Robert De Niro, Sr. and De Niro's connection with art collector Joseph H. Hirshhorn.
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Link Love: 10/1/2010
- Date: October 1, 2010
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
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Archiving a Dream
- Date: December 7, 2010
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: Traditionally, when families gather for end-of-the-year holiday events, reminiscences are shared, new photos and videos get made, and/or old snapshots, home movies, and memories resurface. And while most family narratives are revisited in intimate settings, around kitchen tables or in living rooms, a handful may reach broader audiences, through one set of circumstances or
The Archival Legacy of Devra Kleiman
- Date: May 25, 2010
- Creator: Jennifer Wright
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
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Publicity, Politics, and Physics
- Date: March 10, 2010
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: Long ago and far away, before gray hairs and creaky knees, before history became my passion, I was an undergraduate physics major. Physics seemed fascinating and beautiful, if difficult. Later, after career paths led into history and science policy, I learned that physics, however elegant, did not reside in a cultural vacuum. Its people and discoveries coexisted with