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The Know Your Records program consists of free events with up-to-date information about

• ur
• holdings. Events offer opportunities for you to learn

about the National Archives’ records through ongoing lectures, monthly genealogy programs, and the annual genealogy fair. Additional resources include

• nline reference reports for genealogical research,

and the newsletter Researcher News.

www.archives.gov/calendar/know-your-records

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The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is the nation's record keeper. Of all the documents and materials created in the course of business conducted by the United States Federal government, only 1%–3% are determined permanently

• valuable. Those valuable records are preserved and are

available to you, whether you want to see if they contain clues about your family’s history, need to prove a veteran’s military service, or are researching an historical topic that interests you.

www.archives.gov/calendar/know-your-records

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June 1, 2017

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When the National Archives investigated the true identity of the flag raisers in Bill Genaust's footage of the first and second Flag Raisings on Iwo Jima and the iconic photograph by Joe Rosenthal, staffers discovered that the agency never received the original film shot

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February 23, 1945. Supervisory Motion Picture Preservation Specialist Criss Kovac provides information about Bill Genaust and how the film was shot, developed, assembled, and used during the World War II and throughout history.

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Criss Kovac

Supervisor of the Motion Picture Preservation Lab National Archives at College Park, MD

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The Winding Journey of Bill Genaust’s Iwo Jima Flag Raising Footage

Criss Kovac ~ National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)

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Scope of Collection 480,000 film reels 242,000 audio recordings 113,000 video recordings

Archives II and Research Room College Park, MD National Personnel Records Center, St. Louis, MO

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Marine Corps Holdings in NARA’s Motion Picture Collections

• Primary RG 127 collections estimated at 17,000 reels of motion

picture film

• Predominantly unedited; covers full spectrum of USMC

activities foreign and domestic

• Inclusive of raw and compiled combat camera footage
• ~12,000 reels of color 16mm film (WWII through 1980s)
• ~4,500 reels of black and white and color 35mm

(predominantly WWII and Korean War eras)

• Smaller percentage in edited training and documentary films
• Many additional training and documentary films in U.S. Navy

Record Groups

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Genaust Personnel File among NARA’s Military Service Records

• Provides details and summaries of Genaust’s military service
• Named among “Persons of Exceptional Prominence” files made

available digitally in 2014

• Contains Correspondence with family members and supporting

details

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Letter from Genaust’s Mother requesting his return home, October 14th, 1944

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Genaust’s Enlistment photo and dates

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The Preservation Lab

Six Staff Treats over 3,000 reels of film per year Full Photochemical Ability HD - 2K - 4K Film Scanning Responsible for determining which copies of a film record are permanently retained

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Our Mission

To identify and preserve the most original record copy To faithfully preserve the imagery in historically accurate manner To provide context to our records and make them accessible

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What Is NARA’s “Original?”

We do not have the camera

• riginal shot by Genaust.

NARA’s “originals” were made from the original, or copied from copies of the original. NARA holds it in two different record groups, three series, and within two reels in one record group (4 iterations total)

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What Do We Know?

Warrant Officer/ Division Photo Officer Norm Hatch ordered Staff

• Sgt. Genaust & Pfc. Bob Campbell

to film the second flag raising.

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What Do We Know?

Photo Officer Herb Schlosberg, of the 4th Marine Division, takes Genaust film from Iwo Jima on February 27th to be developed at the Naval Photographic Lab in Anacostia, MD.

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RANDUU TO:

• LtOol. George A. ROLL.

Subj ctz Itblol"J' of Photogrophic Oi'fic r' trip tr

TnI'g t to Y..o ·, Hawaii, then to

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shin8ton, D. c.

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What Do We Know?

Film reviewed for use in troop and public newsreels, and 7th War Loan Drive.

Used in To the Shores of Iwo Jima Original Kodachrome does not make it to NARA

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CITATION:

"For meritorious achievement in connection with

• perations against the enemy while serving a1 the

Photo2ranh1c Officer of a Marine division from 15 October 1944 to 22 June 1945. Throughout the

division training period, Warrant Officer HATC~, with expert professional and administrative ability,

planned and coordinated the training of all diY1 ion photographers in suoh an outstanding manner that t .

h y

achieved a peak efficiency .

A photographic pl n, whereby all agencies in the divislon were fully cov-

ered, was devised by Warrant Officer HATCH for the

IWO JIMA, VOLCANO ISLANDS, from 19 February to

26 March, a pictorial record was produced that va

the finest both in quantity and quality to haYe

emerged from the Paciti~

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up to that time.

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Officer HATCH detailed photographers to make co

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color motion picture coverage of medical, tank,

r- tillery, communications and infantry actiY1t1e

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!WO JIMA and the resulting films have been of ine t1-

mable value in training the units of his d1v1•1on.

On 8 Maroh, he was detached and proceeded to th

United States where he assisted in cutting and d1t- ing the publioally released film "To The Shore of

!WO JIMA 11 •

The unparalleled success ot his photo-

graphers and the high praise of the American Pr and Public are in direct proportion to Warrant Off1c r

HATCH' s professional skill and untiring devotion to

duty. His conduct throughout was in keeping with th highest traditions of the United States Na•al Ser 1c

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Digitization of the Genaust Footage

428 NPC 2924 was scanned at 4K resolution for inclusion in the Smithsonian Channel’s Documentary The Unknown Flag Raiser of Iwo Jima. The entire reel, including footage Genaust shot prior to, and after, the flag raising are also included. Much of this footage also made it into To the Shores of Iwo Jima. United News (for viewing by troops only in WWII) footage digitized. Joint restoration with the Academy Film Archive of To the Shores of Iwo Jima.

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Christina.Kovac@nara.gov

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Thank you for attending!