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Film Library
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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.”
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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
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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.
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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.
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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. Mark Kitchens,
said coalition forces “have con
sistently demonstrated their ef
forts to avoid civilian casualties
and practice restraint. Any al
legations to the contrary are
simply not based on fact.”
Air Force Maj. Gen. Gene
Renuart, U.S. Central
Command’s operations director,
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