{"id":121,"date":"2006-08-03T16:54:01","date_gmt":"2006-08-03T22:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lib-wordpress.iowa.uiowa.edu\/news\/2006\/08\/03\/rare-film-restored-available-at-ui-libraries\/"},"modified":"2006-08-03T16:54:01","modified_gmt":"2006-08-03T22:54:01","slug":"rare-film-restored-available-at-ui-libraries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/2006\/08\/03\/rare-film-restored-available-at-ui-libraries\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare Film Restored, Available at UI Libraries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A rare film produced by noted social psychologist Kurt Lewin, a member of the University of Iowa faculty over 60 years ago, has been restored thanks to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmpreservation.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">National Film Preservation Foundation <\/a>grant to the University Archives, Dept. of Special Collections in the University of Iowa Libraries.<\/p>\n<p>The film, \u201cExperimental Studies in the Social Climates of Groups, Parts I and II,\u201d was produced by Lewin in 1938 to demonstrate patterns of group behavior that result from different types of environments, according to a 1940 UI Extension catalog describing the film. His pioneering research at Iowa suggested that one\u2019s surroundings, not their individual traits, largely shape their actions.<\/p>\n<p>Lewin (1890-1947) fled his native Germany in 1933 following the rise of Hitler and was a member of the UI faculty from 1935 to 1944. After moving to Boston in 1944, he established the Research Center for Group Dynamics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A 1984 survey identified Lewin, with Sigmund Freud, as the greatest influence on the thinking of contemporary psychologists.<\/p>\n<p>The grant, for $4,760, provided for the cleaning and restoration of the original film, as well as production of digital and videotape copies for researchers to use.<\/p>\n<p>The UI Libraries has partnered with the <a href=\"http:\/\/hoover.archives.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum <\/a>on this project. The UI Libraries will maintain DVD and VHS copies of the film in Media Services, which will be available to researchers. The original film and a preservation master (Beta tape) will be located in a climate-controlled facility at the Hoover Museum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A rare film produced by noted social psychologist Kurt Lewin, a member of the University of Iowa faculty over 60 years ago, has been restored thanks to a National Film Preservation Foundation grant to the University Archives, Dept. of Special Collections in the University of Iowa Libraries. The film, \u201cExperimental Studies in the Social Climates<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/2006\/08\/03\/rare-film-restored-available-at-ui-libraries\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Rare Film Restored, Available at UI Libraries&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"syndication":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}