Preserving 120 years of U.S. cultural history

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When the Library of Congress comes to mind, most of us don’t think of movies, TV shows or old-school vinyl.

But the federal library has been collecting analog recordings of sound and moving images since the late 1800s: Early film reels from inventor Thomas Edison’s lab of the 1890s. Audio recordings of Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech. The original 35mm film stock of “Star Wars.”