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Film Library CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Franklin Roosevelt and Benito Mussolini, the Newsfilm Library has since received several other film collections, most notably the local television newsfilm collec tion. “Several of the local stations here in South Carolina have do nated their newsfilm collections to us, which are basically about events or personalities here in South Carolina from the late ’50s through the late ’70s,” Murdoch said. “As a former boss of mine said, lots of famous people came to South Carolina, so we’ll have George Bush Sr. talking about the Watergate crisis in 1973, Martin Luther King speaking about the need to get out and vote in 1966, and others like that,” he said. After it receives the film, the Newsfihn Library staff works to convert the film from the unsta ble nitrocellulose film to modern safety film for better preservation. “Safety film has been around as long as nitrate film,” but ni trate film is cheaper and more re silient, said Murdoch, who added that nitrate film was used until 1951. “So if you’re going to make multiple copies to send to all your theaters,” he said, “and they have to run through a projector multi ple times, you want something that’s cheap and something that’s strong, and who cares about yes terday’s news?” Although the library was cre ated mainly for academic purpos es and allows USC students to use the film free for class purposes, it relies heavily on commercial users. The Newsfilm Library has been used in various projects, doc umentaries and feature films, in cluding Ken Burns’ “The Civil War,” PBS’ “The American Experience” series and the movie “A League of Their Own.” “It’s a wonderful resource for faculty, students and clients from around the world,” said Linda Allman, director of the film li brary. “It’s a true asset because it has unique film footage of an era that has gone by.” Scott Allen, telecine colorist and digital compression special ist, said th§ library’s work is im portant to preserving this histo ry. “In some ways, it’s just like starting the clock over because then, you’ve got a new film copy and the aging process starts all over again,” Allen said. “You’re just starting afresh with some thing that’s close to the original, as close as you can get.” To aid with the expensive pro cess of preservation, USC has re ceived several grants, most re cently a half-million dollar film preservation grant. Half the grant is from the National Endowment for the Humanities. An addition al $101,000 is from USC’s Film Library, and the rest is from USC’s Office of Research. Murdoch said that because a lot of the material might be the only existing film on its topic, it must be handled carefully. “It is a historical artifact, so you don’t want someone that’s careless with that or doesn’t have an appreciation for that particu lar piece of history,” Murdoch said. He said one of the best parts of his job is the discovery of examin ing new films. “Oftentimes, it is a process of discovery,” Murdoch said. “You’re the first one to see this in 80 years.” Allman agreed that such dis coveries make the Newsfilm Library exciting. “Sometimes, we do find pieces of film that we didn’t know we had in the collection,” Allman said. “It’s obviously not exciting every day—just the idea that we’re pre serving history.” Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockudesk@hotmail.com PHOTO BY SPECIAL TO THE GAMECOCK Stan Loliis, a worker at the Newsfilm Library, inspects a piece of nitrate film. The library contains films of speeches by Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Benito Mussolini. Politics CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 said fourth-year marketing stu dent Tranaka Oglesby. The fish fry is open to the pub lic and will last from 7:30 until 12:00 p.m. Oglesby, who is in charge of getting students to participate in the weekend’s activities, said student involvement would like ly be decreased because the event falls at the end of the semester. “It’s sad to say, but a lot of stu dents won’t come because it is the end of the year and it is exam time,” she said. “I think the point is just knowing that stu dents are invited.” Oglesby said the students who are interested in the debate will meet Saturday at 6:30 p.m. on Davis Field and walk to the debate together. Staff writer Kevin Fellner contributed to this report. Comments on this story? E-mail gamecockudesk@ hotmait.com U.S. troops open fire during protest outside Baghdad, killing 13 BY ELLEN KNICKMEYER THE ASSOCIATED ERBSS FALLUJAH, IRAQ — U.S. para troopers fired on anti American protesters during a nighttime demonstration, and a hospital reported Tuesday that 13 Iraqis were killed and 75 wounded, inclucjing three young boys. Soldiers said armed men had mixed into the crowd and fired at them from nearby buildings. The deaths outside a school in Fallujah, a conservative Sunni Muslim city and Baath Party stronghold 30 miles west of the capital, highlighted the tense and precarious balance as Americans try to keep the peace in Iraq. Americans and Iraqis gave sharply differing accounts of Monday night’s shooting. U.S. forces insisted they opened fire only upon armed men — infil trators among the protest crowd, according to Col. Arnold Bray, commanding officer of the 1st Battalion, 325 Regiment of the 82nd Airborne Division, whose troops were involved in the shooting. “Which schoolkids carry AK 47s?” Bray asked. “I’m 100 per cent certain the persons we shot at were armed.” ♦ iUlcblcla iiioioicu men demonstration was unarmed and peaceful. Dr. Ahmed Ghandim al-Ali, director of Fallujah’s general hospital, said the clash killed 13 Iraqis and injured about 75. The dead included three boys ages 8 to 10, he said. Some residents put the death toll higher, at 15. Survivors said the dead were buried quickly Tuesday morning, in accord with Islamic custom. No Americans were injured. Other developments Tuesday in Iraq: ♦ Two Iraqis on the U.S.-led coalition’s 55 most-wanted list — a weapons expert nicknamed the “Missile Man” and the gov ernor of the southern province of Basra — have surrendered, the U.S. military and Iraqi op position sources said. ♦ An Iraqi lawyer who helped U.S commandos locate and res cue prisoner of war Jessica Lynch has been granted asylum in the United States, Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge said. ♦ The U.S. Army paid sever al thousand Baghdad policemen $20 each $nd promised to bring in 4,000 more of their own offi cers, as Iraqis at a tdwn hall style meeting told the U.S. ad ministrator that security is their top priority. ♦ Professional thieves appear to have slipped in among the bands of looters in Iraqi muse ums, curators said as they urged U.S. authorities to tighten bor der security and stop the flow of stolen treasures. ♦ U.S. forces have made sig nificant progress in restoring electricity and water to Baghdad and hope to resume television and radio broadcasts by week’s end, the commander of U.S. sol diers in the city said. ♦ U.S. military officials say the United States has moved a regional air operations center to Qatar from Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia, part of the reorganization that will take place in the aftermath of the Iraq war. The Iraqi dead and wounded in hospital wards and homes also included women and chil dren shot inside their walled residences in the neighbor hood. “They shot everyone who moved,” Rafid Mahmoud, a cousin of one woundbd man, said at Fallujah hospital Tuesday. He stood in front of the bed of his brother, who stared at visitors, his foot newly ampu tated. /VllltJl leans ai C x,x nmuaio, said 37-year-pld Ebtesam Shamsudein, her leg bandaged. Her seven children surrounded her, one boy wearing clothes smeared with bloody palm prints. U.S. Central Command said paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne Division were fired on by about 25 armed civilians mixed within an estimated crowd of 200 protesters outside a compound troops were occupy ing. “The paratroopers, who re ceived fire from elements mixed within the crowd and positioned atop neighboring buildings, re turned fire, wounding at least seven of the armed individuals,” the Central Command state ment said. A Central Command spokesman, Lt. 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