Behind the veil: establishing a new canon of marginalized voices at the AFI catalog [the american film institute (AFI) upholds the first tenet of its original mission -- to preserve the history of the…

The American Film Institute (AFI) received a three-year, $750,000 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program.

Through this funding, AFI will undertake an effort to document and provide intellectual access to short films from the silent and early sound film eras (1910-1933) as part of its authoritative AFI Catalog online resource. By including these short films, the AFI Catalog will illuminate the artistic contributions of women and people of color in early film, whose work has traditionally been omitted from history due to a lack of scholarly resources on short films. This landmark project will allow researchers to gain a more comprehensive understanding of America's true cultural legacy by looking behind historical biases and bringing marginalized artists' works into view.

Behind the veil: establishing a new canon of marginalized voices at the AFI catalog [the american film institute (AFI) upholds the first tenet of its original mission -- to preserve the history of the motion picture -- through the AFI catalog, an authoritative online resource recording the first century of american film (1893-1993). AFI respectfully requests a three-year, $350,000 grant from the national endowment for the humanities in support of a landmark project to include short films in its AFI catalog database for an unprecedented effort to study the artistic contributions of women and people of color in early film. By documenting short subjects from the silent and early sound eras (1910-1933), the AFI catalog will illuminate the work of diverse storytellers that have traditionally been omitted from history due to a lack of scholarly resources about short films. The inclusion of short films in the AFI catalog will allow US to look behind the veil of historical bias to reveal the true diversity of america?S cultural legacy and bring marginalized artists into view.]