Primary Source Learning: Film & Video
Analyzing Primary Sources: Learning from Video Recordings
Teaching with the Library blog posts
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Adding Sound to the Silence: Students Build on Silent Films March 16, 2023
- All-American News: Newsreels for African American Audiences February 7, 2019
- Explore Library of Congress Professional Development Videos April 11, 2017
- Exploring America’s Cinematic Heritage through the National Film Registry December 17, 2015
- Football Through Film and Other Primary Sources January 31, 2019
- Inspiring Citizen Action with the National Screening Room November 1, 2018
- Multimedia Moment: Analyzing Film in the Classroom October 29, 2015
- Multimedia Moment: Documenting WWI Film Analysis Using Video Editing Software April 21, 2016
- Multimedia Moment: Exploring Actuality Films in the Classroom October 5, 2015
- Multimedia Moment: A Mystery Sparked by a Century-Old Film May 3, 2016
- Politics on the Screen: Using Moving Images to Win Votes October 4, 2018
- Primary Sources: Is Seeing Always Believing? April 4, 2013
- Scientist and Inventor Thomas Edison February 9, 2017
- Stereotypes and Humor in Historic Films from the Library of Congress March 21, 2013
- Student Filmmakers Inspired by the Omar Ibn Said Collection April 2, 2019
Collection Connections: primary source activities
- Before and After the Great Earthquake and Fire: Early Films of San Francisco 1897-1916
- Buckaroos in Paradise: Ranching Culture in Northern Nevada 1945-1982
- Inside an American Factory: Films of the Westinghouse Works 1904
- The Last Days of a President: Films of McKinley and the Pan-American Exposition 1901
- The Life of a City: Early Films of New York 1898-1906
- Origins of American Animation
- The Spanish-American War in Motion Pictures
Timelines & background info
- Inventing Entertainment: the Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies
- Selections from the Katherine Dunham Collection
- Theodore Roosevelt: His Life and Times on Film