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External Resources for Archival Producers

The Archive ProjectThe Archive Project is a research platform that helps filmmakers, educators, creators, and researchers find and download authentic archival footage fast. All footage is sourced from the U.S. National Archives.

The Archive Room Podcast: Hosted by Dominic Dare and Sandra Coehlo, The Archive Room brings you conversations with the producers, researchers, curators, and detectives behind the reels. [Available on Apple, Spotify, and YouTube]

Archival StorytellingA Filmmaker’s Guide to Finding, Using, and Licensing Third-Party Visuals and Music

Association for Moving Images Listserv

Best Practices in Fair Use: A guide to what documentary filmmakers regard as reasonable application of the copyright "fair use" doctrine.

Copyright Term and the Public Domain

FOCAL International: A specialist, professional, not-for-profit trade association formed in 1985; the pre-eminent voice and leading authority on audiovisual archives.

Public Research Centers & ArchivesLibrary of Congress' comprehensive listing of Public Moving Image Archives and Research Centers from around the world.

Vanishing Culture: A Report on Our Fragile Cultural Record

What We Remember: A Reading List on Archives. An archivist digs and collects longreads on how objects and materials shape public memory.

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