Research request for the Washington, DC area.

I'm in desperate need of a researcher in the Washington, DC area to help search at the National Archives for three films by Norman Weissman. Expenses for me to travel and do the research personally are prohibitive at this moment.

This is the information I received personally from Mr. Weissman:

Your best bet is to find out what happened to the USIS film Libraries collection of 16mm prints....Were they destroyed? Or turned over the National Archives which has a separate film archive or depository in the Washington area.

And additional clue is the possibility that a portion of the longer "Wilderness Library" film was edited into the USIA Newsreel, a monthly news magazine like the "March Of Time".

So in searching the archives look into the USIA Newsreels of 1952-53.

If anyone lives in the DC area or is traveling there for business/research could contact me directly at dennis@wildernesslibrary.com for additional information. I will gladly reimburse the researcher for any costs incurred for obtaining copies of the films from the National Archives.