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Moved to McKissicl< Movieton By Teresa Blackwel) Nearly 10 years after becoming involved with Movietone News, USC is planning to make the collection more available to the public this fall, university officials say. "In the future, we hope to make it possible for all 40 years of film to be placed on videotape to benefit the students and allow these educational films to be seen by the general public," said Jim Jackson, head of the news film department at the Thomas Cooper library. The cassettes will be placed on a computerized system according to dates or events so that using the system will be similar to using a card catalog, Jackson said. The Movietone News collection is a set of newsreels dating from 1919 to 1963. These reels were produced by more than 1,000 cameramen who covered the globe in alliance with the United Press and its photographers, he said. The reels were produced fwirp wppk ly and were shown in theaters worldwide. They were translated into more than 50 languages. Soviets Continued from page BUT AFTER the 747 was shot down, Ta: had only a short, cryptic story that sai Soviet fighters had tried to help a jet lane but the jet continued toward the Sea c Japan. The Soviet Union also claimed the plar had no navigation lights on, which is unusu; fr\r Q nmVtt T'K ? * L * v? M WllllllViWlUl 1115111 I 115m. 111^11, 111 11 last few days Soviets began to tell their ve sion of the story. They said the plane was definitely on a sj The Univer Persona! C I and a Digital Fa< representative is to show you ho\ it can be to use A\A/n O + 1V/VVII U UiVjl IGI Demonstration 3 pm today!! ! *p^g|(eieeaMa#9is8esaHBa6*#emBFg!?QBWfie&!#*Ma?*MW Museums e News bee In 1927, it was Movietone News that introduced sound film to audiences with the coverage of Lindbergh's takeoff on his solo flight to Paris, Jackson said. THE COLLECTION will be ex hibited after minor construction work is completed on its new home in McKissick Museums. Newsreels are being placed in programs that will change periodically, he said. This collection contains more than 60 million feet of unduplicated film, 25 million feet of duplicated film, and 1.8 million index cards, making it the largest collection of its kind in the United States, he said. The University of California at Los Angeles has the second largest film collection of this kind with 27 million feet of film, he said. USC became involved with Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp., the moL-ar nf ~ I - 1 f\1A T*l inuiwt kji iiiwav ictis, ill i 7 / A Iicy discussed using the newsreels at Carolina, but a lack of funds made this impossible, Jackson said. Twentieth Century Fox then started a five-year study to find an en 1 s mission, and that missing navigal i was one indication it was a s\ , However, the United States rebi f assertion with a tape of the Sovi pilot who destroyed the jet. s On the tape the pilot said he coi 1 navigation lights. The United State z admitted a spy plane was in th< Sakhaline Island that night. y IN AN unusual press conferem A.I Afli II UVI sity Bookst omputers ai 'J/ wl omesmore ac thusiastic and progressive school to donate the collection to, and USC was chosen to be the recipient. 4'FROM THE start, we viewed the Movietone collection as a priceless educational resource, and I think Fox officials sensed our enthusiasm and excitement about its potential," USC President James Holderman said. On March 27, 1980, Holderman anc Jack Graybill, president of the USC Educational Foundation, accepted the gift from Dennis Stanfill, chairman of the board of Twentieth Century Fox in New York City. "When the Twentieth Century Fox /-* r r> /4 on I /4 f /\ r* o ^ ? i \j . uvviuv,u i \j uuiiaiv, inv Movietone News Film library to USC in 1980, the state and region gained an academic and historical resource of international importance," said Catherine Home, curator of exhibitions and assistant archivist at McKissick. USC PROFESSORS and educators from other institutions are planning research that revolves around the use of these films. Some professors arc I planning to use the films as a teaching tool in class, she said. > lion lights the chief of the Soviet general st py plane. pilot on the tapes was actually ta iffed that the navigation lights of anot iet fighter fighter and not the 747. lid see the "I think the United States ha: is has also craftily by letting the Soviets gi e area of sion before presenting our evide said. He also said that although it i: :e Friday, possible to use a passenger plane fT* 8T% m EJr un ore and Digite re holding op< 4 7^ ?L %* I V B cessible on tapes m&m Hi lm BR -x:..-. " KSSaflBL^^SfflHa "" " W ** * V " - - - ; ' - ; ' V - - r> >a - *-i ". ."; J?* il, ' ------- ^p| | >: _--_ -~r'-'-r LT - | ":--L: \ I I ' .. " h.y' ' &' : -. } Movietone News photo by Charles McCray The film collection was moved in August from the Byrnes Center to be displayed in McKissick Museum. aff said the it is not likely the United States was doing 11 - ! ^ L tKic IKlUg (1UUUI lino. her Soviet Smith said the event "does not tell us about their trustworthiness in an arms cons played this trol agreement. It doesn't tell us about the ve their ver- Soviet people." nee," Smith But he said the situation does reveal one s technically fact about the Soviet Union. "They may not ; for spying, be flexible in a crisis situation." ll 3n house ? V .' . ,"* ] - .' "'<'. /. '. : ' ' - ' .: r" Li \5 ^:r_ . 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