Historic Video Footage from NARA

(Title image from 1939 Department of the Interior Motion Picture "The Wapiti of Jackson Hole.")

Google has entered an agreement with the US National Archives and Records Administration to digitalize historic video footage. Google Video recently announced the inclusion and availability of 103 historic videos.

Highlights include

• The earliest film preserved in the National Archives holdings by Thomas Armat, "Carmencita--Spanish Dance," featuring the famous Spanish Gypsy dancer, 1894
• A representative selection of U.S. government newsreels, documenting World War II, 1941-45
• A sampling of documentaries produced by NASA on the history of the spaceflight program
• Motion picture films, primarily from the 1930s, that document the history and establishment of a nationwide system of national and state parks.
  

Read the press announcement here or see a sampling of the films here.