A Western Reserve Public Media War and Peace Project
Help Document World War II Memories
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the videotape submission packet.
PBS and the Library of Congress’
Veterans History Project announce the launch of a national
video oral history campaign to collect and preserve memories
of World War II.
Locally, Western Reserve Public Media will host four
free workshops to teach community members how to collect videotaped
oral histories. After attending the workshops, participants
are encouraged to videotape oral histories of northeast Ohioans
who were World War II veterans or who have recollections of
living stateside during the war.
The videotaped oral histories may then
be submitted to Western Reserve Public Media for possible broadcast and
placement in the on-demand archives on the station’s
Web site. All submissions must be accompanied by a completed
videotape submission packet. Western Reserve Public Media will accept any
video submissions with the proper paperwork, regardless of
participation in a workshop.
The project is part of a national effort
sponsored by PBS and the Library of Congress’ Veterans
History Project (VHP) in association with the September 2007
release of Ken Burns’ World War II documentary, The
War. Western Reserve Public Media will forward all of its submissions
to the Library of Congress’ VHP for inclusion in the
national project.
This Western Reserve Public Media outreach project
is funded by a $3,000 grant from a coalition of national organizations
supporting outreach around Burns’ series: WETA (the
PBS station serving Washington, D.C.), the Corporation for
Public Broadcasting, PBS, Florentine Films and the National
Center for Outreach.
Download
the videotape submission packet. |
