University of South Carolina, Moving Image Research Collections( )
Airmail Service
(1926),
newsreel footage of Charles Lindbergh as a young U.S. mail pilot, one year before achieving fame for his solo flight across the Atlantic
(2000 Partnership Grants).
The Augustas
(ca. 1942),
Scott Nixon’s pilgrimage to some 30 places sharing the name of his hometown
(2008 Partnership Grants).
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England 1944
(1944),
a South Carolina cotton mill–owner’s footage of the war-ravaged English textile industry
(2022 Federal Grants).
France 1944
(1944),
a South Carolina cotton mill–owner’s footage of the war-ravaged French textile industry
(2022 Federal Grants).
A Frontier Post
(1925),
Fox Varieties newsreel portrait of the Buffalo Soldier regiment of Fort Huachuca, Arizona
(2011 Federal Grants).
Kate Gleason Collection
(1928-1931),
home movies from the pioneering engineer and businesswoman
(2014 Federal Grants).
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Native American Life
(1929),
Fox Movietone newsreel outtakes showing Chief Two Guns White Calf (who posed for the "Buffalo Nickel") and Navajo and Hopi life in the Southwest
(2000 Federal Grants).
Reunion of Confederate Veterans
(1930),
former soldiers and slaves retell their Civil War experiences in outtakes from Fox Movietone News
(1998 Partnership Grants).
Robert M. Weir Collection
(early 1930s–40s),
color amateur films of family travels through pre-war Nazi Germany
(2016 Federal Grants).
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Spartan Mill as a Community
(ca. 1938),
footage of a South Carolina cotton mill town, shot by mill owner Walter S. Montgomery
(2022 Federal Grants).
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William Fox Newsreel Outtakes
(1920s),
collection of newsreel outtakes documenting the personal and professional activities of William Fox, founder of the Fox Film Corporation
(2024 Federal Grants).
Willie Lee Buffington Collection
(1950s),
home movies from the founder of Faith Cabin Libraries, which built some 100 libraries for underserved African American communities in rural Georgia and South Carolina
(2013 Federal Grants).
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Women Aviators of the Silent Era
(1920s),
newsreel outtakes of Frances Grayson, Ruth Elder, Billie Brown, and other early women flyers and parachutists
(1999 Partnership Grants).