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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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  • Video recordings 242 Filter by term plus Exclude term minus
  • Home movies 47 Filter by term plus Exclude term minus
  • silent films 46 Filter by term plus Exclude term minus
  • color films (visual works) 45 Filter by term plus Exclude term minus
  • 16mm (photographic film size) 39 Filter by term plus Exclude term minus
  • black-and-white films (visual works) 23 Filter by term plus Exclude term minus
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  • HSFAFilmClips 172 Filter by term plus Exclude term minus
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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

Hawaii (ca. 1975)

Here At The Smithsonian: The Smithsonian's Giant Squid

1946 Mexico-Guatemala border- Mexico

New Orleans Jazz Parade - 1968

"Information Age" exhibition video, National Museum of American History

Bryson Jones Travelogue: Deep South, ca. 1940

Rev. S.S. Jones Home Movies: Reel 2

Dodge House 1916 (1965)

Highlights from the Festival of American Folklife in the Soviet Union, May 1990

George Tsutakawa: An Artist's Pilgrimage

Rev. S.S. Jones Home Movies: Reel 6

Home movies of Katherine Weems' Rhinoceros sculptures at Harvard University (1937)

Anne Waldman and Ted Berrigan read their poem "Memorial Day," ca 1973

1960 Paris, France Part 5

Art Discovers America (1943)

Trailing Lewis and Clark to Oregon (1963)

Black Journal: 23; New-Ark

Cab Calloway Home Movie #3

1946 Road to Panama -- United States

William M. Mann and Lucile Quarry Mann - 1940 Smithsonian-Firestone Expedition to Liberia

Hildreth Meiere's footage of Expo '58, Brussels, Belgium

Black Journal: 21; Ethiopia

Uxmal (Mexico), ca. 1937

Black Journal: 18; Malcolm X Liberation University

Michael Holman Family Home Movie #25

“Miss Mary Mack” Hand Games, 1974

The Golden Domes of Moscow (1979)

The Exile

J. Max Bond, Sr. Home Movie #3

Michael Holman Family Home Movie #22


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