A PBS 45 & 49 War and Peace Project
Help Document World War II Memories
Download 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, PBS
45 & 49 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 PBS
45 & 49
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. PBS
45 & 49 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. PBS 45 & 49 will forward
all of its submissions to the Library of Congress’ VHP
for inclusion in the national project.
This PBS 45 & 49
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. |
