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“I DIDN’T CONVINCE HIM OF ANYTHING, BUT HE DIDN’T CONVINCE ME OF ANYTHING EITHER” ~ WILLIAM MAULDIN, DECEMBER 3, 1991 (1) Seventy years after the end of World War II, the art of Bill ...

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Part 3 of 3 Chichen Itza Ca. 1937 16mm silent amateur film footage of Chichen Itza, a major Mayan center located on the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico.  In 1988, the Chichen Itza Cultural Heritage...

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Part 2 of 3.  Ca. 1937 16mm silent amateur film footage of Chichen Itza, a major Mayan center located on the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico.  In 1988, the Chichen Itza Cultural Heritage Zone was ad...

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Part 1 of 3. Ca. 1937 16mm silent amateur film footage of Chichen Itza, a major Mayan center located on the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico.  In 1988, the Chichen Itza Cultural Heritage Zone was adde...

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In celebration of October’s Archives Month and Home Movie Day!  PART 2:  ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXCAVATIONS, STARVED ROCK, ILLINOIS, CA. 1949 What is a home movie? Content? Location? Film gauge? Ca...

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PART 1: ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXCAVATIONS, STARVED ROCK, ILLINOIS, CA. 1949 In celebration of October’s Archives Month and Home Movie Day!  What is a home movie? Content? Location? Film gauge? Ca...

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THE TRUFFLE HOUND OF AMERICAN POETRY  Jonathan Williams reads his 1958 poem “O, For A Muse of Fire!” ———  I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by      madness, st...

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ROBERT LAURENT HOME MOVIES To celebrate Home Movie Day 2014, the Archives of American Art is sharing a few of the home movies from our collections. Here’s some video from Robert Laurent, wh...

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CORNELIA CHAPIN HOME MOVIES Here is video from the Cornelia Chapin Papers , where you can see how life imitates and inspires art.  In addition to clips of travel and work from the studio and h...

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The Archives of American Art is sharing some of the home movies from its collections to celebrate Home Movie Day, October 18, 2014 . Stay tuned for more to come as the date approaches. Katherin...

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For Earth Day 2014, the Archives of American Art shares a film from 1985 documenting the installation of the Four Corners Project created by Michigan artist David Barr. Barr travels the world wit...

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Anne Waldman and Ted Berrigan perform their collaborative poem “Memorial Day” as part of a reading series at 98 Greene Street Loft curated by the poet Ted Greenwald around 1973. The video w...

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Jam Handy produced this early promotional film for the Archives of American Art in Detroit, MI, where the archives was born. A real charmer! Still, I think maybe the Archives’ new promotional...

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Excited to see this beautiful new animated video, a fanciful take on what it’s like to do research at the Archives of American Art . It’s a real switch in tone from a promotional film called ...

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Smithsonian Institution Archives Accession 05-143 - Smithsonian Institution, Motion Pictures, c. 1927-1950 This video is Reel 3 of 3 of a silent, black-and-white 35mm film titled “The Cit...

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Smithsonian Institution Archives Accession 05-143 - Smithsonian Institution, Motion Pictures, c. 1927-1950 This video is Reel 2 of 3 of a silent, black-and-white 35mm film titled “The Cit...

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Smithsonian Institution Archives Accession 05-143 - Smithsonian Institution, Motion Pictures, c. 1927-1950 This video is Reel 1 of 3 of a silent, black-and-white 35mm film titled “The Cit...

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Panama Canal at the Pacific Ocean entrance with a demonstration of opening a canal lock is from Thayer Soule’s 1958 silent travelogue, Rainbow Lands of Central America , archived in the Huma...

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One sunny day around 1974, a school bus full of artists, art dealers, and friends led by Holly Solomon, took a field trip to a site-specific work of Gordon Matta-Clark in Englewood, NJ called Sp...

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National Museum of African American History and Culture “Shot Down in WWII ” 2011 This clip from NMAAHC features Tuskegee Airman Alexander Jefferson sharing his memories of being shot do...

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