Fox Movietone News Digitization Project, Phase I

FAIN: PW-51427-13

University of South Carolina Research Foundation (Columbia, SC 29208-0001)
Heather Heckman (Project Director: July 2012 to September 2016)

Digitizing approximately 14,000 newsreels from the Fox Movietone News Collection from 1919 to 1934, and making these recordings freely available on the Web.

This grant to University of South Carolina (USC) Libraries Moving Image Research Collections (MIRC) will fund Phase One of the two-part Fox Movietone Digitization Project. Phase One is a two-year project that aims to vastly increase access to the Fox Movietone News Collection, by making approximately 15,000 of the estimated 23,000 total titles in the collection available as streaming videos on the free web with robust descriptive metadata. It also aims to test the preservation functions of the MIRC-DVR, via ingest of high resolution digital surrogates for 1,000 titles in the Fox Movietone Collection.

Associated Products

Fox Movietone News Collection (Web Resource)
Title: Fox Movietone News Collection
Author: Moving Image Research Collections
Abstract: Thousands of videos from the Fox Movietone News Collection available for free, streaming access online. About the Fox Movietone collection: 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, which ran from 1919 into 1930. The other is the original sound newsreel, Fox Movietone News, which ran from 1927 through 1963. The majority of films in the collection were not used by the Fox corporation as part of a released newsreel. The collection does contain over 200 released newsreels from 1942 to 1944.
Year: 2015
Primary URL: http://mirc.sc.edu/islandora/object/usc%3Amirc
Primary URL Description: The Fox Movietone News Collection on the Moving Image Research Collections Digital Video Repository.
Secondary URL: http://mirc.sc.edu
Secondary URL Description: The Moving Image Research Collections Digital Video Repository.

Accessing the Audiovisual: Challenges, Solutions, and Funding Possibilities (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: Accessing the Audiovisual: Challenges, Solutions, and Funding Possibilities
Author: Heather Heckman
Abstract: MIRC Director & Project PI spoke about the project and our progress to date.
Date: 08/15/2014
Primary URL: http://www2.archivists.org/2014/schedule#.VjD0tq6rRBw
Conference Name: Society of American Archivists annual conference

The Fox Movietone News Digitization Project: Year One in Review (Blog Post)
Title: The Fox Movietone News Digitization Project: Year One in Review
Author: Amy Ciesielski
Abstract: A blog post describing progress on the project to date.
Date: 05/19/2014
Primary URL: http://library.sc.edu/blogs/mirc/the-fox-movietone-news-digitization-project/
Secondary URL: http://library.sc.edu/blogs/mirc/?s=fox+movietone
Secondary URL Description: Additional blog posts that link to material in the Fox Movietone News Collection digitized with NEH support.
Website: The Moving Image Research Collections blog

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