The Moving Image Archive

The Moving Image Archive is a collection of over 120,000 clips from almost 2300 archival films drawn from public domain collections.

The internet is full of forgotten films, and this archive is a growing library of that collection. When synthetic footage can now fabricate the past, preserving verifiable history matters more than ever before.

A few things I found while poking around:

• [Amateur film: Chicago World’s Fair] (1933). “This 1933 amateur film features Chicago’s Century of Progress World’s Fair and scenes of New York City.”
• Story of a City: New York (1946). “This 1946 film explains the historical and economic forces behind New York City’s growth into one of the world’s largest cities and its vital relationship to the rest of the United States.”
• Alice In Wonderland (1915). “This tinted, 42-minute cut of the 1915 silent fantasy film Alice in Wonderland, based on Lewis Carroll’s work, is available with a synchronized soundtrack sourced from an early vinyl recording or as a silent version.”
• Apollo 11 — 30th Anniversary (1999). “Marking the 30th anniversary of Apollo 11, the film combines mission footage with later interviews featuring Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins.”
• Story of Television (1956). “Story of Television traces the development of television from early experiments in transmitting images across distance to RCA’s electronic systems, which improved picture quality and expanded broadcasting nationwide.”
• A is for Atom (1953). “This animated film explains atoms as the fundamental building blocks of matter, identifying elements by the number of protons.”
• Space Shuttle: A Remarkable Flying Machine (1981). “This 1981 NASA film documents Columbia’s maiden space shuttle mission, from its April 12 launch at Kennedy Space Center through onboard tests conducted by astronauts John Young and Robert Crippen to its successful April 14 landing on Rogers Dry Lake in California.”

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