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History 300: Film and the Cold War

Exercise 1

Use one of the following databases to find articles about a film you might want to research for this class. Experiment with searching in both the title and the controlled vocabulary fields.

Exercise 2

Find a newsreel related to the Cold War, and then answer the following questions:

  1. What is a newsreel?
  2. Where would consumers of newsreels most likely have encountered them?
  3. What is the title of the newsreel you found?
  4. How did you find this newsreel?