Moving Image Research Collections, or

“We have a film archive?”(Hint: yes)

Ashley BlewerProject Cataloging Manager, Moving Image Research CollectionsUniversity of South Carolina

• History/Background

• Collections

• Using MIRC

History/Background

• Began with gift of Fox Movietone Collection in 1980• Top five biggest academic film archives in US• Second most nitrate holdings• 6000+ hours of material (and growing)• Great resource for early 20th Century moving image materials and Southeast regional film• Material is licensed to “big name” documentarians and television programs (i.e. Ken Burns)

Our Collections

News:

Fox Movietone collection

South Carolina television news

Television and cinema commercials

Educational:

Spartanburg Police Films collection

Chinese Film Collection

Personal/”home movies”:

Lula Belle and Scotty Wiseman

Lever-Karst family

Scott Nixon

Phelps sisters

Willie Lee Buffington

Itinerant filmmakers

Science and nature films

Using MIRC

• Curators!

• Online!

• Our catalog!

• Streaming media!

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Questions of Opulence: Perception of Women's Bodies Within Roaring

Twenties Newsreels

Ashley BlewerProject Cataloging Manager, Moving Image Research CollectionsUniversity of South Carolina

Fox Movietone News overview

- 1917–1963- Screened before feature films or in dedicated theaters- Cameramen- Follow a pattern

Our perception of the 1920s

Video

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“Sophie … never fit the typical Hollywood beauty mold, but presented herself and her body in an empowering way that shut down any preconceptions or superficial standards.”

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