A running commentary is on a second audio track and can be listened to separately while watching the film. Certain segments reproduced from films at the U.S. National Archives.
Contents:
The return of Martin Guerre -- Molders of Troy -- Women of summer -- The cutaway and the editing of television news interviews -- The plow that broke the plains -- "The daisy spot" -- Universal and Movietone newsreels -- See it now; report on Senator McCarthy -- CBS evening news, December 3, 1979 -- The birth of a race -- Für uns --Life of an American fireman -- A corner in wheat.
Summary:
Demonstrates how moving images can be studied within the larger framework of traditional historical methodology.
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