Description: How has the Smithsonian been portrayed in popular culture – fiction writing, movies and television, over the last 160 years and has its popular imaged changed?
Description: An Academy Award winning film where FBI Agent Clarice Starling investigates a serial killer known as Buffalo Bill. She must turn to Hannibal Lecter – a serial killer known for eating his victims – to save a Congresswoman’s daughter.
Description: One of the 1st female moving image archivists in the U.S., Pam Wintle, founded the Human Studies Film Archives (now the National Anthropological Film Collection) in 1981 which contains over 5,000 hours of moving images spanning most of the 20th century. #Groundbreaker