17 research outputs found
Vietnam on film and television : documentaries in the Library of Congress /
Mode of access: Internet
Early motion pictures : the paper print collection in the Library of Congress /
Includes indexes.Mode of access: Internet
The Spanish-American War in motion pictures
Features sixty-eight motion pictures produced between 1898 and 1901 of the Spanish-American War and the subsequent Philippine Revolution. Made by the Edison Manufacturing Company and the American Mutoscope & Biograph Company, films depict troops, ships, notable figures, and parades, as well as reenactments of battles and other war-time events. Offered as part of the American Memory online resource compiled by the National Digital Library Program of the Library of Congress.Title from home page as viewed on Jan. 12, 2001
Origins of American animation
"The development of early American animation is represented by this collection of 21 animated films and 2 fragments, which spans the years 1900 to 1921. The films include clay, puppet, and cut-out animation, as well as pen drawings. They point to a connection between newspaper comic strips and early animated films, as represented by Keeping Up With the Joneses, Krazy Kat, and The Katzenjammer Kids. As well as showing the development of animation, these films also reveal the social attitudes of early twentieth-century America."Title from opening screen (viewed June 29, 1999)Text (HTML), digital image
Emile Berliner and the birth of the recording industry
Focuses on the work of Emile Berliner, a prominent inventor at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries who was responsible for the development of the microphone, flat recording disc, and gramophone player. Features correspondence, articles, lectures, speeches, scrapbooks, photographs, catalogs, clippings, experiment notes, motion picture components, and rare sound recordings.Title from Web page (viewed on May 3, 2002).Offered as part of the American Memory online resource compiled by the National Digital Library Program of the Library of Congress
Inventing entertainment the motion pictures and sound recordings of the Edison companies.
Features motion pictures, sound recordings, photographs, and original magazine articles. Includes histories of Edison's invention and manufacture of motion pictures and sound recordings, and a special biography page on Edison, inventor of the phonograph, kinetograph, and kinetoscope.Title from opening screen (viewed June 29, 1999
The Theodore Roosevelt Association film collection : a catalog /
Includes indexes.Bibliography: p. 257-263.Mode of access: Internet
