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By 1936, attempts to collect and archive films in public institutions were already under way in Europe, despite the threat of war. It was apparent to Iris that her work in New York could benefit from mutual accords struck with film archive efforts elsewhere. Of equal importance, however, was a less...

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Published inLady in the Dark p. 213
Main Author ROBERT SITTON
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Columbia University Press 01.04.2014
Subjects
Anatomy
Anterior eye segment
Anthropology
Applied anthropology
Archives
Archivists
Armed conflict
Audiovisual archives
Audiovisual libraries
Authoritarianism
Behavioral sciences
Biological sciences
Biology
Body regions
Business
Communications
Cultural anthropology
Cultural industries
Cultural institutions
Cultural studies
Economic disciplines
Economics
Employment
Entertainment industries
Eyes
Fascism
Film archives
Film libraries
Film studies
Head
Industrial sectors
Industry
Information professionals
Information science
Iris
Labor economics
Libraries
Library collections
Library science
Mass communication
Military science
Motion picture industry
Movies
Moving image archives
Nazism
Occupations
Political ideologies
Political philosophy
Political science
Propaganda
Social sciences
Special libraries
War
War theaters
World wars
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Summary:By 1936, attempts to collect and archive films in public institutions were already under way in Europe, despite the threat of war. It was apparent to Iris that her work in New York could benefit from mutual accords struck with film archive efforts elsewhere. Of equal importance, however, was a less obvious and little-known agenda: Iris’s interest, as she put it, in getting her hands on any film which “might become politically or militarily useful to the United States in the event of our entry into the conflict” of World War II. With this objective in mind she approached the