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circa 1968-1970; 1978; 1982-1983; 1985-1987; 1994-1995
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13.04 cu. ft. (11 record storage boxes) (1 document box) (2 tall document boxes) (1 film box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 02-212
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of materials documenting 13 productions created by Smithsonian Productions. 1) "The Sawyer and His Mill" was a 1969 exhibition film shown in the National Museum of American History's Agriculture Hall. The 4:50 minute film compared ancient and modern sawmills. It won the Bronze Medal at the International Film and TV...
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1969-1983
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5.5 cu. ft. (11 document boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 589
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This record unit consists of master audio tapes for Smithsonian Galaxy editions 77-125, 1981-1983, and Radio Smithsonian programs 534-574, 1980; and scripts of Radio Smithsonian programs 1-400.
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1984-1992
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0.5 cu. ft. (1 document box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 07-085
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records documenting the production and distribution of the motion pictures "Yesterday's Tomorrows: Visions of the Future on Film;" "Quadrangle;" "Our Biosphere: The Earth in Our Hands;" "Enter Life;" and "Big Cats and How They Came to Be." Contracts include agreements with Pyramid Films, inc. regarding films animated...
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circa 1984-1995
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1 cu. ft. (1 record storage box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 14-208
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of audiovisual elements created during the production of several films featuring the research of Walter H. Adey, Curator/Research Scientist in the Department of Botany and the Marine Systems Laboratory at the National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) and filmed by Karen Loveland, Producer in the Office of Telecommunicat...
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circa 1963-1988
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7.5 cu. ft. (7 record storage boxes) (1 document box)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 586
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records primarily document the activities of OTC under Director Nazaret Cherkezian. A small amount of records were created by Paul B. Johnson. There are also a few records created by OTC's predecessor offices. The records include correspondence, memoranda, proposals, contracts, budgets, reports, newspaper clippings, press releases, ...
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circa 1978-1988
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3 cu. ft. (3 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 91-066
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession includes the records of Paul B. Johnson, Director, Office of Telecommunications (OTC), and the production files of Karen Loveland, Deputy Director. The production records document work on "American Picture Palaces" and the "Wilkes Expedition Film." Some files also pertain to Nazaret Cherkezian, former director, producer, an...
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circa 1976-1994
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4 cu. ft. (4 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 95-003
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession includes the records of Jean B. Quinnette, secretary to the Director of the Office of Telecommunications (OTC), 1974-1976; Assistant Production Coordinator, 1977; Production Coordinator, 1978-1979; Telecommunications Specialist, 1980-1985; and Audio Visual Production Specialist, 1986-1994. Records document work on OTC production...
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Smithsonian Institution. Office of Telecommunications
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1981-1991, 1996, 1999
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15.5 cu. ft. (15 record storage boxes) (1 document box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 08-084
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of videotapes and audiotapes created during the production of "Here At The Smithsonian" ("HATS"), an eight volume series of television productions. The series was conceived by Nazaret Cherkezian, Director, Office of Telecommunications (1976-1986) and produced by Ann Carroll (Volumes I-IV) and John P. Meehan (Volumes V-V...
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Smithsonian Productions
- Dates:
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1984-2001 and undated
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2 cu. ft. (2 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 07-150
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of footage taken by Smithsonian Productions and its predecessor units, Smithsonian Press/Smithsonian Productions and Office of Telecommunications, of various events in the careers of Secretary Sidney Dillon Ripley, 1964-1984; Secretary Robert McCormick Adams, 1984-1994; Secretary Ira Michael Heyman, 1994-2000; and Secre...
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1970, 1995-1996, undated
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3 cu. ft. (3 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 06-250
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of audiovisual materials created during the production of exhibition films. "Rube Goldberg: Or Doing It the Hard Way" accompanied a 1970 retrospective of Rube Goldberg's work at the National Museum of History and Technology, titled "Do It the Hard Way: Rube Goldberg and Modern Times." Goldberg was an engineer, inventor,...