[Amherst, Massachusetts]: UMass Amherst Libraries and Lichtenstein Creative Media announce the launch of The American Revolution Documentary Collection, a collaborative project between the producers of an upcoming documentary film, "The American Revolution," and UMass Amherst Libraries’ Special Collections and University Archives. The collection makes accessible to scholars and the community hundreds of hours of rare audio and video recordings and films; tens of thousands of photographs; letters, diaries, memoirs, and oral histories; posters; memorabilia; artwork; and other materials shared by the public and then digitized and cataloged by the Peabody Award-winning Lichtenstein Creative Media with UMass Amherst for use in the film. The American Revolution, due out next year for theatrical and public television release, looks at the underground radio station WBCN-FM during the late-1960s and early-1970s. The collection is a vast set of audio/visual material focusing on underground media in the Boston area and its impact on the profound social, political and cultural changes that took place during that time.
Posted on: Fri, 02 Aug 2013 22:05:06 +0000