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Reading room · Finding aid
The stories here probably didn't happen.
This is the finding aid for the collection. It describes what is held, how it is arranged, and the conditions of access. Please read it before requesting a reel.
Scope and content
Archive Fictions tells short, probably made-up stories over public domain archive footage: old newsreels, government films, and home movies. The narrator is dry. The events probably didn't happen. The towns, the people, and their decisions probably never existed.
The footage is real. It was filmed for other reasons, by people who had no idea what we were about to say over it. The original films, their makers, and the people who appear in them have no connection to these stories.
About the catalog cards
House accession and reel numbers (for example Acc. 1954.001) are assigned by this reading room. They are not the numbers of any other institution. Scope notes describe the story on the reel. Source reels are public domain films as catalogued by the Internet Archive. They supplied pictures only.
Using the reading room
Reels are issued one at a time. Each is filed in the catalogue under a catalogue number and an accession number, with its source films credited on the card. A card stays sealed until its record has been retrieved. Retrieved records are held for indexing until the next weekly archive index.
Reading Room: enter a code
Each reel and file in this collection holds one code and three marks. The code is seven characters, shown in plain view; pausing is permitted. Marks and codes are filed in violet; other inks are ordinary paperwork. Enter a code in the Reading Room on the cross-reference card below and its record is retrieved and filed in the catalogue. Records open in order, and each one names where the next code is kept. Every record retrieved raises your Clearance Level by one. Codes the archive does not hold return “No record found.” Codes are never printed in this finding aid, and readers are asked not to post them; mark spoilers as spoilers.
Clearance levels
Each record you retrieve raises your clearance by one level. Clearance is noted in your own browser, not with the archive. There are no accounts, and clearing this site’s data returns you to the front desk.
Discovered By
The first retrieval of each record is logged, and whoever makes it is told they are its discoverer. Discoverers are credited on the cross-reference card by public username, once the find is matched to the earliest timestamped public comment. Credit is entered by hand. Entering a code alone leaves no name on file.