Moving Image Research Collections is the film/video archive @ Univ of S. Carolina. One of the largest motion pic archives in U.S. w/ over 6000 hours of footage.
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Happy World Day for Audiovisual Heritage! Check out this video from the Co-ordinating Council of Audiovisual Archives Associations featuring some of our film! #AudiovisualHeritage #Archives #FilmPreservation #CulturalHeritage #AudiovisualArchives #CCAAA
Join us October 19th at 6:30 at the @NickTheater for Home Movie Night! nickelodeon.org/events/flick…
Nobel and Pulitzer Prize–winning author #ToniMorrison speaks in the program Writer’s Workshop, produced in 1983 by the #UniversityofSouthCarolina.
#WomensHistoryMonth
The Year of the #FireHorse – which occurs only once every 60 years – begins today. Celebrate #LunarNewYear and its rich traditions with this clip from our Chinese Film Collection!
Dr. Ronald E. McNair answers questions at a 1978 press conference. One of the first African Americans selected to become an astronaut and the second to fly into space, he died in the 1986 explosion of the Space Shuttle #Challenger with six other crew members. #BlackHistoryMonth
#HomeMovieDay2025 is next week! Join us to share your memories and discover how to preserve your #familyhistory. Watch our #GrandTour program and explore #travel and #memory. Saturday, Oct 18, 10am-2pm, @NickTheater. Free Admission. nickelodeon.org/events/homem…
Happy #InternationalLiteracyDay! For decades, starting in the 1930s, Faith Cabin Libraries brought books to Black youth in rural South Carolina and Georgia, when public libraries excluded them. Our Buffington collection documents their history.
Catch MIRC on SC Public Radio this afternoon at 5:44 p.m. #publicradio
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People gather in Piazza San Pietro to receive papal blessing Urbi et Orbi, following the election of Pope Pius XI, 6 February 1922. From our Fox Movietone News Collection. #Pope #Vatican #UrbiEtOrbi #HabemusPapam #whitesmokewatch
Cardinals enter through la Porta detta degli Svizzeri for opening of Papal Conclave, 2 February 1922. #SwissGuard #Vatican #PapalConclave From our Fox News Collection.
In remembrance of President Jimmy Carter, this film documents his 1976 presidential campaign visit to the South Carolina State House. #Carter #JimmyCarter #1976 #goodbye
Fashion artist Russell Patterson says pajamas foreshadow an elegant outline for Christmases Future!
#RussellPatterson #pajamas #fashion #flapper #ArtDeco #ArtistsAndModels
“Trains" by Maciej Drygas wins best film and best editing at @IDFA . This film was entirely created from archival footage including footage from @UofSCMIRC. #trains
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Thank you everyone who celebrated #HomeMovieDay2024 @NickTheater with us last Saturday!
Join us on Saturday Oct. 19th from 10-2pm at @NickTheater on Main Street for some nostalgia and fun at #HomeMovieDay! MIRC will be screening a curated selection of home movies from our archives, featuring themes of performance and play.
Attention all Moo Deng fans! At MIRC, we have our very own baby hippo too! Meet Libby, born at the @bronxzoo in 1923!
#MooDeng #babyhippo #pygmyhippo #AnimalLovers
Poet Nathalia Clara Ruth Crane-filmed 100 years ago, after publication of her first book. Her works' high quality & mature insights subjected the very young writer to accusations that her book was a hoax or that she was a fraud-even a literary "medium". #poetry #WomenInLiterature
We're saddened to learn of Joe Pinner's passing. A beloved Columbia legend and friend of MIRC, Joe brought joy to countless children as Mr. Knozit. We will remember him laughing and smiling, as in this footage from a 1968 parade. RIP, Joe. 🙏 #RIPJoePinner #WISNews10 #MrKnozit