Word: film
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Georgia in Manhattan. With the backing of the university and $100,000 from the Library of Congress, he and his photographer traveled more than 55,000 miles, took 120,000 feet of film (the equivalent of about 2,000,000 pages). They lugged their cameras through legislative archives, university libraries, historical societies, rare bookshops, attics, basements, law courts and Indian reservations. They unearthed and photographed early court calendars, state lunatic asylum records, governors' letters, city treasurers' reports, letters of U.S. Indian agents and manuscripts of colonial legislation (among them: the famed Massachusetts Body of Liberties...
Blood Bank. Last week, on Study Deck 38 of the Library of Congress, surrounded by reels of film stacked high like giant coins, William Jenkins was sorting, indexing, and cataloguing his Monumenta Americana. When a 600-page inventory is published three months from now, historians will be able to locate material that few would ever have been able to see before, and scholars, schools and libraries can then order the documents themselves on microfilm...
...Academy Awards presentation, Hollywood's highest social rite is the full-blown premiére (pronounced pre-meer). Last week, close to the deadline for the annual Oscar sweepstakes, 20th Century-Fox shot the works on the premiere of its own contender, Darryl F. Zanuck's war film, Twelve O'Clock High. The result was the very model of the full, colossal treatment...
Afterward came the studio's biggest protocol headache: a party at Mike Romanoff's restaurant, which can hold only 250-of the very best people, of course. When it was time for comments about the film, everyone seemed to have enjoyed it. There was no need to fall back on the standard gambit of those who are forced to comment on a bad new movie: "What a picture! What a performance!" Fox figured that, all in all, it was well worth...