Rafer Johnson, Olympic gold medalist, humanitarian, and actor, passed away on December 2, 2020. Johnson won the silver medal in the decathlon at the 1956 Olympics and came back to win the gold in 1960. After his athletic career was over, Johnson was instrumental in organizing and promoting the Sp...
The award-winning nonprofit production company Kartemquin Films is donating the physical materials in its archives to Washington University Libraries’ Film & Media Archive (FMA). Since its founding in 1966 by a collective of working filmmakers, Kartemquin has produced 70+ documentary films th...
The Washington University Libraries are proud to sponsor two screenings as part of the Henry Hampton Film Series in this year’s online version of the St. Louis International Film Festival, which takes place November 5–22. River City Drumbeat is a 2019 documentary by Anne Flatté and Marlon Johnson...
Washington University Libraries’ Film & Media Archive, in collaboration with University Archives, has received a National Film Preservation Foundation (NFPF) Basic Preservation Grant to preserve and digitize the short silent film The Maid of McMillan (1916). The NFPF awarded a grant of $7,630...
“It was the Freedom Riders in Parchman [the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman], where we created new songs as well as sang freedom songs. The joy of the place was there as we sang. Guards and so forth did not understand it. I remember making up songs one Sunday morning as we created our ...
Representative John Lewis died on July 17, 2020 after a battle with pancreatic cancer. He was a pivotal figure of Civil Rights Movement and was involved in several major campaigns and actions throughout his life. Interviews with him were featured in the documentary series, Eyes on the Prize, and ...
Virtual Adventure This morning, I attended a wonderful conference in Massachusetts. Well, technically, I was in St. Louis working from home (#ArchivesAtHome), and the Digital Commonwealth Conference 2020 was going out virtually from Massachusetts (with a keynote address from North Carolina). The ...
The Washington University Libraries’ Film & Media Archive has successfully completed the preservation and digitization of the film Listen to a Stranger: An Interview with Gordon Parks (1973). The project was completed with the support of a grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation ...
The exhibit It’s Complicated: Documents of Love features items related to love drawn from the Department of Special Collections at Washington University Libraries.
From love letters and poetry, to romantic comics, dance cards, and heartbreak, many stories and relationships are highlighted -- i...
The Washington University Libraries’ Film & Media Archive has successfully completed the project “Level Playing Field: Digitizing and Disseminating William Miles’ Black Champions Interviews.” The project was completed with the support of a 2018 grant from the National Historical Publications ...
