WRC-TV Collection
Scope and Contents
Consists of local television news stock footage from WRC-TV. Contents include automobiles (mostly non-local), restaurants and bars, buildings and spaces, building exteriors, stores and shopping centers, airports and planes, protest and demonstrations, factories (not all local), aerials of the region, police, jails and prisons, drugs, drug scenes, trains, train derailments, metro stations and construction, gas stations, schools and colleges, construction, and offices.
Dates
- Majority of material found in 1975-2000
Conditions Governing Access
Local access is restricted due to the fragile nature of the materials and amount of staff available. Local research is available for a fee and must be scheduled far in advance. Access to digitized reproductions of materials is available for free online. Please contact avtech@marmia.org for more information.
Conditions Governing Use
MARMIA allows and encourages free non-commercial use of material in which we own the rights. We license for commercial use to support our ongoing work. Please consult the archive regarding what specific conditions constitute non-commercial use or if you wish to use the footage commercially.
Historical Note
WRC-TV (channel 4) is a television station in Washington, D.C. It is owned and operated by the NBC television network via its NBC Owned Television Stations division.
Extent
779 MII
11 DVCPRO
Language of Materials
English
May Contain Harmful Content
- Harmful Content (general) This material contains harmful content.
Arrangement
Tapes are largely organized in the way we received them from WRC-TV. Physical boxes are sorted by subject matter and is reflected in the Finding Aid.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
WRC-TV gave, transferred, assigned, and delivered to MARMIA all of WRC's right, title, and interest in and to the collection, including copyright in 2022.
Existence and Location of Copies
Digitized videos from this collection are available publicly at https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com
Processing Information
Processing of the collection is ongoing. Item-level description found in this finding aid is primarily transcribed from boxes and should therefore be considered shorthand, practical identifiers used by the station in the course of production. Descriptions are updated as items are digitized.
- Title
- WRC-TV Collection
- Status
- In Progress
- Date
- 2025-09-04
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Moving Image Archive Repository