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Abrant/Drummond films

 Collection
Identifier: COD0000080-ACC undated-0012
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of nine 16mm WWII pilot films showing aerial attacks. The silent, black and white films depict the activities of the 19th Tactical Air Command and show gun camera footage.

Dates: 1944 May-1945 January

Bob Blair collection

 Collection
Identifier: COD0000063-ACC 2013-0005
Scope and Contents The Bob Blair Collection documents the wartime activity of a civilian newsreel cameraman, providing information about the policies governing the work of civilian reporters covering the D-Day landings. The collection also provides photo documentation of life as a NBC news cameraman in the early days of broadcast news. These records document the high points of Blair’s work in television news. The Blair Collection also includes significant equipment holdings that demonstrate the physical nature...
Dates: 1920-1993; Majority of material found in 1943-1960

Fox Movietone News collection

 Collection
Identifier: COD0000001-ACC 1980-0001
Scope and Contents The collection contains seven million feet of nitrate motion picture film and four million feet of safety motion picture film documenting the national and global politics and culture from 1919 through 1934 and from September 1942 through August 1944. Paper holdings provide detailed notes generated by original camera crews as well as ephemera related to individual stories.Within the collection are elements from two distinct newsreel products. One is a silent newsreel, Fox News,...
Dates: 1919-1944

J.B. Doty film collection

 Collection
Identifier: COD0000096-ACC 1993-0001
Scope and Contents

Six reels of 16mm black and white film (2,502 feet), probably filmed in the 1940s, depicting activities likely related to World War II.

Dates: 1940s

John Herchak home movies collection

 Collection
Identifier: COD0000082-ACC 1999-0002
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of one film donated by the film maker, John Bernard Herchak, showing life onbaord the USS Knox, stationed in the Pacific Theatre of Operations at the end of WWII.

Dates: Probably filmed between 1944-1946

Louis L. Hess collection

 Collection
Identifier: COD0000105-ACC 2013-0012
Scope and Contents

Business records, photographs, motion picture film and other materials related to the activities of newsreel cameraman, audio engineer and journalist Louis L. Hess.

Dates: 1923-1993

United States Marine Corps film repository

 Collection
Identifier: COD0000145-ACC 2015-0003
Scope and Contents

This collection is comprised of footage from 1941 to the mid-1970s. There are 12,300 reels of 16mm and 35mm film in the initial transfer. The footage was recorded by Marine Corps photographers and includes combat film from World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. The films also document training, testing, and public relations activities.

Dates: 1940s-1970s

Warren Lieb film collection

 Collection
Identifier: COD0000033-ACC 2010-0004
Scope and Contents

Collection contains four color 16mm films shot by newsfilm cameraman Warren Lieb, including a film covering the 25th anniversary of D-Day, and footage shot in Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and Hong Kong.

Dates: 1950s-1970s