The Newsfilm Collection at MDAH contains the following materials from a television station in Jackson, Mississippi: unedited 16mm news film (black & white and color), news scripts, photographs, and audio tapes. The 635 reels of news film in the database contain approximately 550,000 feet of film. The collection has been transferred to 8mm videocassettes, which can be viewed in the Mississippi Department of Archives and History library.
The subject content varies widely—legislative activities, election campaigns and procedures, education, crime, entertainment, weather disasters, segregation, human interest, sports events, and civil rights movement activities. The collection consists of unedited news film, the footage shot by the film crews in the field [not the station’s edited news broadcasts].
WLBT footage for June 1971-October 1974 is at Mississippi State University's Mitchell Memorial Library, P.O. Box 5408, Mississippi State, MS 39762, tel. (662) 325-3060.