Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Anyone Wants Historic Footage ??



For as much as a DVD movie, $19.99, you can own a piece of history. Amazon has reached a deal with the National Archive and the first 6 DVD's are already being sold on Amazon. The avaliable footage will date from 1920 - 1967.
"While the public can come to our College Park, Md., research room to view films and even copy them at no charge, this new program will make our holdings much more accessible to millions of people who cannot travel to the Washington, DC area," Archivist of the United States Allen Weinstein said in a statement.

The first six DVDs are already selling on Amazon.com, said Stacey Hurwitz, a spokeswoman for CustomFlix.

The newsreels include scenes of the famous 1959 "Kitchen Debate" between then-Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev in a model American kitchen on display in Moscow. Other footage shows a youthful Fidel Castro after the communist revolution in Cuba, along with reports about Hawaii becoming a state.
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1 comment:

rsnlk said...

It always burns me when they say "communist revolution." Fidel and his cronies were the only commies.