Library of Congress

Duration: 800 ft.

Year Published: 1945

Creator: US Office of War Information

Complete Record: Looks at the collections and activities of the Library of Congress. Tells how the library serves Congress, scholars, other libraries and copyright applicants. Rural house book mobile parked out front. Little boy looking at books with mothers/older women. Exterior/Interior Library of congress. Old footage of Woodrow Wilson. Men and women searching card catalog. CU of cards. Packaging book cards. System in which card gets put in tube and book is retrieved in storage stacks and sent up through vacuum tubes to library customer. Footage of black/african american musicians in south playing the blues and recording from a microphone onto a record. Old record recorder. Guitar player and harmonica player playing “Roll on Red River”. A white folk musician playing in the back of a truck also recording on a record. Music division of library. Origial score of Bach cantata, Mozart quintet, Beethoven script and string quartet manuscript. Moving shot of library goers studying/reading. CU Budapest String Quartet. Shot of audience watching quartet and WS of theater. Shot from side and from rear of Coolidge auditorium. Shot of the Declaration of Independence and library goers looking at/reading the document on the wall. Closing shots of book mobile in farms of Virgina. Little boy walking away into farm with book in hand.