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Librarian Interviews - History of the Recording Lab
MCU male librarian dressed in brown tweed inside the music archive at the Library of Congress, talking about Archibald MacLeish & the Carnegie Foundation.
Librarian Interviews - History of the Recording Lab
DO NOT USE: photos of Archibald MacLeish
Librarian Interviews - History of the Recording Lab
MCU male librarian dressed in brown tweed inside the music archive at the Library of Congress, talking about Archibald MacLeish.
Librarian Interviews - History of the Recording Lab
DO NOT USE: Various album covers of library field recordings
Music Historian/Librarian Interview - Vinyl Records
Music Historian/Librarian Interview - Vinyl Records
Music Historian/Librarian Interview - Vinyl Records
MCU young male music historian holding onto a banjo, reminiscing about listening to Library of Congress folk music recordings on red vinyl.
Music Historian/Librarian Interview - Vinyl Records
CU male librarian dressed in brown tweed inside the music archive at the Library of Congress, talking about Harold Spivacke & his insistence in using red vinyl for LOC recordings, pan out to MCU as man shows a red vinyl record.
Music Historian/Librarian Interview - Vinyl Records
MS woman inside LOC music listening room, first she dusts a black vinyl record, than places it on the turntable (record player). CU record spinning on turntable.
Radio Broadcast Photos
DO NOT USE: Photos of radio broadcasts & radio listening
Librarian Interview
Librarian Interview CU male librarian dressed in brown tweed inside the music archive at the Library of Congress, talking about preservation, pan down to show original cut sound recording disk, he talks about how all the disks will be transfered to tape.
Recording Lab Photos
DO NOT USE: LOC Recording Lab Photos
The Lawmakers April 12, 1984
Cokie Roberts in studio begins report on crime laws in Congress, a highly charged issue, partisan splits, difficulties in reaching political consensus on crime legislation.
The Lawmakers April 12, 1984
Police detectives entering a home, cop cars, lights flashing. Washington DC Police blocking a crime scene at night.
The Lawmakers April 12, 1984
Senator Joseph Biden (D - Delaware) It s an issue that we have refused to deal with. The conservatives deal with it in terms of literally abrograting the Bill of Rights. And the liberals have said, let s not deal with it unless we deal with the causes of crime. When folks like me have been saying look, you ve got to do something in the meantime. We ve gotten that through the Senate.
The Lawmakers April 12, 1984
Flipping through pages of the bill. Voiceover discusses the bill.
The Lawmakers April 12, 1984
External shot of United States Capitol building.
The Lawmakers April 12, 1984
Assistant Attorney General Steven Trott says, And I think if the people over there in the House take a look at these bills, they will understand that they are not un-Constitutional. They are not some Draconian measure that will deprive people of Civil Rights. They are measured responses to specific problems, clearly Constitutional, balanced in an approach and will be fairly used by the Federal judges in this country.
The Lawmakers April 12, 1984
Prisoners crossing parking lot moving toward old brick prison building. Cell door sliding open.
The Lawmakers April 12, 1984
DO NOT USE Prisoner using mirror to look down cell block corridor.
The Lawmakers April 12, 1984
Prisoner looking through tiny window of jail cell door.
The Lawmakers April 12, 1984
Over a graphic, voiceover summarizes provisions of bill, more than 40 changes in arrest, detention, and punishment.
The Lawmakers April 12, 1984
House Committee, staff, TV cameras, in meeting to deliberate on bill. Voiceover says most parts of bill will never see light of day. Representative Harold Sawyer (R - Michigan) The Chairman of the Criminal Justice Sub-Committee, happens to be John Conyers of Michigan. John s principal interest in life are police brutality, violence in sports and corporate crime. And virtually noting else ever moves out of his committee. It s sort of repository for bills that don t want to be moved.
The Lawmakers April 12, 1984
Assistant Attorney General Steven Trott, I don t know what we re going to do about John Conyers. I d like to talk to John Conyers. I d like to believe everybody up there is a person of Good Will. And I would hope that people, after they study the problem, will see the wisdom of the initiatives that we have up there.
The Lawmakers April 12, 1984
DO NOT USE Still photo of John Conyers, who declined comment. Cokie Roberts summarizes a letter from Conyers expressing his dissent with the bill.