JPL Moving Image Collection, [motion pictures], 1940-1997.

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JPL Moving Image Collection, [motion pictures], 1940-1997.

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The JPL Moving Image Collection includes finished motion picture films (and the parts from which they were made) of news release materials and popular JPL productions made for public distribution or internal presentation. They were made between about 1940 and 1997. The collection also includes some camera original film never known to be used in a finished JPL motion picture. The vast majority of the collection's films are 16mm with a few in 35mm format. Included are release prints (some with optical sound), A and B printing rolls, separate optical and 16mm magnetic sound tracks, and camera original film, in both positive and negative form. Individual items range in length from less than a minute to over 30 minutes. The subject matter of the collection is highly varied: historical materials from the 1940s, report films made by JPL for U.S. Army Ordnance and NASA, flight project films (some with planetary images), and time lapse construction films. All-in-all, they are various pieces made for many different purposes by people in the JPL Photolab, privately contracted production companies, and the JPL Digital Image Lab. A few items come from outside JPL. There are about 1068 boxes (111.86 c.f.) in the collection with 1065 descriptions. The sequence of box arrangement is arbitrary. Each box contains 1 to about 8 reels of film, each reel of varying length and wound on a plastic core. At maximum, a box may hold two 30 minute films.

111.86 cubic ft. (1068 film boxes, including 1065 original film descriptions).

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Jet Propulsion Laboratory Library and Archives

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Jet Propulsion Laboratory (U.S.)

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The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is a research and development center and NASA field center in Pasadena, California. The JPL is owned by NASA and managed by the nearby California Institute of Technology. The laboratory's primary function is the construction and operation of planetary robotic spacecraft, though it also conducts Earth-orbit and astronomy missions. It is also responsible for operating NASA's Deep Space Network. Among the laboratory's major active projects are the Mars Scien...

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Gregoire, John D.

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Rowe, William J.

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