American Memory: Technical summary
The Spanish-American War in Motion Pictures,
1898
URL
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/sawhtml/sawhome.html
Collection Overview
- Description
-
Actuality motion pictures and recreations showing preparations for the
war of 1898, troops departing for the war, battle scenes (recreations),
and various parades and celebrations following the war, including
parades for Admiral George Dewey, the hero of Manila Bay. Also, one
drama about a soldier going to war and returning home.
- Source collection
-
Paper Prints Motion Picture Collection
, Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division
- Technical features
-
Silent motion picture footage originally shot at about 15 frames per second.
- Original material formats
-
- Number of original items
- 53 (initial release), 15 (second release)
- Status of collection
- Initial release online in February 1998.
- Public access
- The Library is not aware of any restrictions that inhibit public
access to this collection. See notes on rights and
restrictions provided by the Library to users of this collection.
Aids to intellectual access
- Type & granularity
- MARC bibliographic records. Each bib. record describes a single item.
- Linking to digital reproductions
- Bibliographic record contains identifier used in filenames for all
versions and segments of movie. MPEG and QuickTime files for motion
pictures longer than four minutes are divided into segments.
Digital reproductions
Total file-space for digital reproductions: 3.5
Gbytes (est.)
Motion Pictures |
Service file |
Service file |
Inline
thumbnail (still image) |
Marker |
Filename extension ".mpg" |
Filename extension ".mov" |
Filename ends "t" |
Formats |
MPEG-1 |
QuickTime |
GIF |
Data rate |
ca. 1.2 Mbits/sec |
ca. 640 Kbits/sec |
8 bit |
Image size |
320x240 pixels |
160x120 pixels |
300x100 pixels |
Frame rate |
30 fps |
10-15 fps |
n/a |
Color depth |
n/a |
24 bits |
8 bits |
Approx. file size range |
5-35 Mbytes |
3-18 Mbytes |
90 Kbytes |
Quantity |
~70 |
~70 |
68 |
Sample |
Sample MPEG |
Sample
QuickTime |
Sample
thumbnail |
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