world war i. , whichf bond rallies were hosted by very popular charlieke mary pichler, chaplin, douglas fairbanksso there is a fair amount of coverage of world war i in our collection. much of that world war i footage good --rcher mark had a footage is thanks to researchers. most of that footage we had is in the public domain. so now that we have these digital tools available to us, it makes for good access copies. we are going to preserve the failed to want to make -- preserve the films. want to make sure the films are stored so they last for a long time, but does it is a is such a great -- digitization is such a great access to all to allow so many more people to see these world war i films we have in the collection. , fore collaborating with example, a worldwide consortium of archives that are trying to preserve and make available the world war i films. working, for example, very closely with a group in italy that is coordinating amongst many archives, both in the united states and in europe. especially among the combatant nations, to as much world war i film as possible to make it available o

rallies which, of course, were hosted by very popular stars like mary pickford, charlie chaplin, douglas fairbanks. there is a fair amount of coverage of world war i in our collection as well. much of that world war i footage is known to researchers. we have long had a good -- to all our world war i related material that is available in the reading room. so, scholars have been able to get access to it, but most of that footage we have is in the public domain. so, now that we have these digital tools available to us, it makes for good access copies. we are going to preserve the films. we want to make sure that the films themselves are preserved and stored in cold storage so they last for a long time. but digitization is such a great access tool. it allows many more people to see some of these world war i films that we have in the collection. we are collaborating, for example, with a worldwide consortium of archives that are trying to preserve and make available the world war i films. so, working very closely with the group in italy that is coordinating amongst many archives, both in the united stat