The Library of Congress has a new online collection called the
National Screening Room. The National Screening Room currently contains 287 videos. The videos are digital copies of films made in the 19th and 20th centuries. You can browse the collection by date, location of the filming, and subject. You can also search for videos that are parts of other LOC collections. All of the videos in the National Screening Room can be viewed online and or downloaded as MP4 files.
Embedded below you will see a copy of
Jamestown Exposition, 1907 from the National Screening Room.
Applications for Education
In a press release Mike Mashon, head of the LOC's Moving Image Section, said, “The goal of this digital project is to present the public with a broad range of historical and cultural audio-visual materials that will enrich education, scholarship and lifelong learning.”
