Images of Americans participating in the exchange of ideas through the free press featuring people performing the many jobs, tasks, and duties found in newsrooms.

Take a look at the behind the scenes activity on a Hollywood Film Studio in the 1950s.

Alger_Hiss_Wittaker_Chambers_Nixon_1948. Whittaker Chambers, aka Jay Vivian Chambers, an American writer-editor and former Communist spy in 1948, testified about Communist espionage in front of the HUAC in congress. Chambers was a principal figure in the Alger Hiss case, one of the most publicized espionage incidents of the Cold War.

A look behind the scenes of an active newsroom in 1973. Newspaper reporters, written, edited, and printed.

A short film about the behind the scenes goings on at a newspaper in the 1960s. Reporting of a local news event, showing the writing, editing, printing, and delivery of a newspaper. Describes the variety of news items, features, and advertising which the newspaper brings to a community each day.