Prelinger Archives has a couple of 50s newsreels.
Gary Jenkins lifedocumentaries.com 4442 Fairmount Kansas City, Missouri 64111 816-931-3535 816-931-2908 (fax) --- On Tue, 8/31/10, Tatar, Becky <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Tatar, Becky <[email protected]> > Subject: [Videolib] Newsreel rights > To: [email protected] > Date: Tuesday, August 31, 2010, 11:26 AM > Hi, everyone, > > We are going to be reading Seabiscuit for our Fox Valley > Reads this > year. For some of the programs, we're showing the > movie, plus the Marx > Brothers' A Day at the Races. We would also like to > show some newsreels > from the time - just like going to the movies in the good > old days. How > are newsreel rights covered? I know that a lot of the > titles issued > from the 1930s and 1940s have newsreels on them, but can > they be shown > separately from the movie? Or what about a title of > newsreels in > general? This is just a public showing - no > educational face to face. > I'm not sure where to go on getting permissions on > this. Thanks! > > Becky Tatar > Periodicals/Audiovisuals > Aurora Public Library > 1 E. Benton Street > Aurora, IL 60505 > Phone: 630-264-4100 > FAX: 630-896-3209 > [email protected] > www.aurora.lib.il.us > > > VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively > discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, > acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of > current and evolving video formats in libraries and related > institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an > effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a > channel of communication between libraries,educational > institutions, and video producers and distributors. > VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors.
