A Practical Introduction to Videohistory: The Smithsonian Institution and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Terri A. Schorzman

Krieger Publishing Company, 1993 - Photography - 243 pages

This book provides a history of the Smithsonian Videohistory Program, including its establishment as a formal pan-Smithsonian research program and its relationship with the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. It also surveys written literature and similar projects, addresses videohistory as a methodology by exploring the application of videohistory in historical research (based on 22 Smithsonian projects), and provides an overview of technical and archival issues. In addition, the appendixes provide a summary of all Smithsonian videohistory projects, as well as samples of documents needed for undertaking a videohistory project.

Contents

• Producing Visual Evidence: 19
• Technical Criteria and Archival: 47
• The Evaluation of Videohistory: 79

Bibliographic information

• Title: A Practical Introduction to Videohistory: The Smithsonian Institution and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation; Public History Series; Professional Practices in Adult Education and Human Resource
• Editor: Terri A. Schorzman
• Contributors: Terri A. Schorzman, Smithsonian Videohistory Program, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
• Publisher: Krieger Publishing Company, 1993
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Jun 6, 2008
• ISBN: 0894647253, 9780894647253
• Length: 243 pages
• Subjects: History / Historiography; Photography / Techniques / Cinematography & Videography; Technology & Engineering / Television & Video