A Guide to the State Records Film Collection, 1948-1986

Access and use

Location of collection:
Library of Virginia
The Library of Virginia
800 East Broad Street
Richmond, VA 23219
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Archives Reference Services
Phone: (804) 692-3888
Restrictions:

For preservation purposes, patrons may not view the original film. Arrangements can be made to create a viewing copy upon request. Costs associated with the transfer of any film titles lacking an access copy will be borne by the patron.

Terms of access:

There are no restrictions.

Preferred citation:

State Records Film Collection. 2007. Accession 43563. State government records collection, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Va. 23219.

Summary

Creator:
The Library of Virginia
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

State Records Film Collection. 2007. Accession 43563. State government records collection, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Va. 23219.

Background

Scope and content:

The collection consists of motion picture films created for K-12 classroom education and for documentary purposes. Films include works produced by the Virginia Department of Education as well as variety of state and national production companies. Highlights include a promotional film documenting the opening the Wise County Public Library and the Virginia Bicentennial Commission production of "The Past is Prologue." Some of the films have been digitized. Click here to access the films: State Records Films

Colony Productions.

Commonwealth Films, Inc.

Walter J. Klein, Ltd.

United States National Audiovisual Center.

Virginia Department of Education Film Production Service.

MGM.

National Geographic Society.

National Geographic Society.

Chesapeake Bay Foundation.

Handel Film Corp.

Rudisill, Inc.

Charlotte Schrader.

Guggenheim Productions, Inc.

I.Q. Films.

United States National Audiovisual Center.

Mount Vernon Ladies Association.

Barr Films, Pasadena.

Walter J. Klein Co., Ltd.

Commonwealth Films, Inc.

Handel Film Corp.

United States National Audiovisual Center.

Virginia Department of Education Film Production Service.

Virginia Department of Education Film Production Service.

Films Incorporated.

I.Q. Films.

Bullfrog Films, Inc.

McGraw-Hill Films.

Encyclopaedia Britannica Films.

Virginia Department of Education Film Production Service.

McGraw-Hill Films.

Guggenheim Productions, Inc.

Mirage Productions.

McGraw-Hill Films.

United Virginia Bank.

Click here to access the films: Richmond Remembers 200 Years film

Virginia Department of Education Film Production Service.

Guggenheim Productions, Inc.

Macmillan Films, Inc.

Macmillan Films, Inc.

Macmillan Films, Inc.

Encyclopedia Britannica Corp.

McGraw-Hill Films.

Coronet Films.

National Geographic Society.

United States National Audiovisual Center.

Presented in Commemoration of Our Nation's Bicentennial to the Commonwealth of Virginia by First and Merchants Corporation, April 28 1975

Virginia Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries.

Virginia Department of Education Film Production Service.

Virginia Independence Bicentennial Commission.

The Libary of Virginia.

United States National Audiovisual Center.

Phoenix Films, Inc.

Biographical / historical:

Films were originally part of a Library of Virginia circulating collection created to supply public libraries, schools, and the general public with educational film resources

Acquisition information:
In-house transfer
Arrangement:

28 min.

27 min.

30 min.

30 min.

14 min.

16 min.

59 min.

59 min.

30 min.

25 min.

20 min.

43 min.

20 min.

27 min.

48 min.

13 min.

28 min.

33 min.

30 min.

29 min.

30 min.

14 min.

21 min.

18 min.

25 min.

48 min.

28 min.

27 min.

11 min.

30 min.

22 min.

29 min.

28 min.

27 min.

30 min.

52 min.

30 min.

30 min.

30 min.

22 min.

33 min.

17 min.

26 min.

13 min.

27 min.

14 min.

28 min.

10 min.

28 min.

30 min.

Physical location:
State Records Center
Physical description:
58 16mm reels