Results for "Historical films"
- Blog Post
Still Photographs That Make You Want Moving Ones
- Date: November 24, 2009
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: [caption id="attachment_3065" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Detail of a vinyl advertisement, Chennai, India, 2004, by Preminda Jacob."][/caption] It’s interesting to think about how shrewdly and often free still photography is used to get us to pay to watch motion pictures. Still photographs—often shot by special photographers on sound stages or on location, just
- Authority Record/EAC
Agency history, 1987-1996
- Date: 1987 1987-1996
- Creator: National Air and Space Museum (U.S.) Office of Cooperative Programs
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 09-069, Smithsonian Productions, Productions, 1985-1998
- Date: 1985 1985-1998
- Creator: Smithsonian Productions
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
You Asked, We Answered: 2015 Ask an Archivist
- Date: November 10, 2015
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: On Thursday, October 22nd, four of our archivists/conservators were available on the Smithsonian's Facebook page to answer questions about preserving your own archival collections. The four archivists at the Q&A have specialties in the preservation and organization of audio/visual material, photos, and digital records (email, digital video, etc.) This is our fifth year hosting
- Blog Post
Link Love: 9/3/2010
- Date: September 3, 2010
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: [caption id="" align="alignright" width="190" caption="Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr., NASA flight surgeon William Douglas and equipment specialist Joseph W. Schmidt leave crew quarters prior to the Mercury-Atlas 6 mission, February 1962, NASA on the Commons."][/caption] NASA has joined the Flickr Commons! Go and check out some of their historical images. Our readers and Flickr
Science Service, Up Close: Patent Parades, Silk Purses, and Snake Bite Remedies
- Date: March 30, 2017
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: Everyone loves a parade – especially one followed by a banquet. When scientists and politicians met in Washington, D.C., on November 23, 1936, to celebrate the centennial of the U.S. patent system, they listened first to a conventional program of speeches. Then, in the afternoon, Science Service director Watson Davis arranged something different: a “Research Parade” featuring
- Authority Record/EAC
Agency history, 1997-
- Date: 1997 1997-
- Creator: National Air and Space Museum (U.S.) Exhibits and Public Services Department Public Services Division
- Webpage
Conservation
- Date: March 14, 2011
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
- Document
Torch 06/1976
- Description: SIA Record Unit 000371, Smithsonian Institution., Office of Public Affairs, The Torch, 1955-1960, 1965-1988, 1976 Box 1 Folder 6
- Blog Post
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.
- Document
Torch 03/1977
- Description: SIA Record Unit 000371, Smithsonian Institution., Office of Public Affairs, The Torch, 1955-1960, 1965-1988, 1977 Box 1 Folder 3
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 06-225, Smithsonian Institution Office of Architectural History and Historic Preservation, Building Files, circa 1850-2006
- Date: 1850 1850-2006 circa 1850-2006
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution. Office of Architectural History and Historic Preservation
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives