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AVMPI-Media

Smithsonian Libraries and Archives

Browse and watch selected audiovisual collection items from across the Smithsonian's Audiovisual Media Preservation Initiative (AVMPI) partner museum units and research centers.


  • Human Studies Film Archives 172 Filter by term plus Exclude term minus
  • National Museum of African American History and Culture 69 Filter by term plus Exclude term minus
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  • Michael Holman Family Collection 30 Filter by term plus Exclude term minus
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  • The Cabell “Cab” Calloway III Collection 5 Filter by term plus Exclude term minus
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Cab Calloway Home Movie #5

Deaf Folklore at the 1981 Smithsonian Folklife Festival

Selena interview, 1994

Alexander Graham Bell's Voice, Recorded April 15, 1885

Black Journal: 22; The Black G.I.

Construction of Mount Rushmore National Memorial (ca 1927)

Count Us In

All the Signs from Houston to Galveston and Back

Harold M. Anderson Black Wall Street Film Collection

Rev. S.S. Jones Home Movies: Reel 1

1946 Mexican-U.S. Border -- Mexico

Historic footage of Bamiyan statues

J. Max Bond, Sr. Home Movie #1: Afghanistan

Rope Skipping--Basic Steps (1965)

Murals and other artworks of the 1939 New York World's Fair, part 1 of 2

Murals and other artworks of the 1939 New York World's Fair, part 2 of 2

Michael Holman Family Home Movie #18

Black Journal: 5; The World of Julian Bond

A People's Convention

Black Journal: 23; The Nation of Common Sense

South Africa Uncensored

Cornelia Chapin home movies, Paris studio and zoo, 1934-1936

1976 Nagoya, Japan Part 1

The Bronze Buckaroo

Field trip to Gordon Matta-Clark's "Splitting" house, circa 1974

Ages of Time

Dark Manhattan

Historic Footage of Pennsylvania Colliery, ca. 1930-1940

Black Journal: 26; Alice Coltrane

Juke Joint

Amateur films from Mexico, 1935-1941

Tomb of Queen Nefertari, Valley of the Queens, Egypt, ca. 1920's

Home movie footage taken in Hunts Point, NY

Black Journal: 9; Tribute to Malcolm X

Cab Calloway Home Movie #4


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