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Motion picture journalism.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

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
Found in: Moving Image Research Collections (MIRC) / Bob Blair collection

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
Found in: Moving Image Research Collections (MIRC) / Fox Movietone News collection

Harry and William Birch collection

 Collection
Identifier: COD0000043-ACC 2012-0001
Scope and Contents Comprised of over 40 hours of motion picture film and video, photographs, paper records and equipment, this collection documents the careers of two distinguished news cameramen who were also father and son. Through home movies and photographs the collection provides rare insight into the personal lives of news cameramen from the silent and early sound period. It also provides a detailed look at life as a U. S. Army Signal Corp cameraman during World War II. The 16 mm film and video elements...
Dates: 1915 - 2011
Found in: Moving Image Research Collections (MIRC) / Harry and William Birch collection

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
Found in: Moving Image Research Collections (MIRC) / Louis L. Hess collection

WBTW-TV news collection

 Collection
Identifier: COD0000004-ACC 1996-0001
Scope and Contents

This collection contains outtake footage shot by the news crews of Florence, South Carolina's CBS affiliate from 1958 to 1977. Contains 16mm color silent and sound film, documenting people and events around the state of South Carolina.

Dates: 1958-1977
Found in: Moving Image Research Collections (MIRC) / WBTW-TV news collection

WIS-TV news collection

 Collection
Identifier: COD0000005-ACC 1984-0001
Scope and Contents

This collection contains outtake footage shot by the news crews of Columbia, South Carolina's NBC affiliate from 1959 to 1980. It includes 16mm color and black and white films, both sound and silent, documenting people, events, and the political and cultural history of South Carolina. The collection also contains teleprompter scripts for broadcasts dating from 1963-1979.

Dates: 1959-1980
Found in: Moving Image Research Collections (MIRC) / WIS-TV news collection

WLTX-TV news collection

 Collection
Identifier: COD0000006-ACC 1995-0001
Scope and Contents

This collection includes 16mm outtake footage shot by the news crews of Columbia, South Carolina's CBS affiliate from 1966 to mid-1976. The collection consists of black and white and color films, both sound and silent, comprising approximately thirty hours of footage. Materials document people, events, and the political and cultural history of South Carolina.

Dates: 1966-1976
Found in: Moving Image Research Collections (MIRC) / WLTX-TV news collection

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