Archival footage brought to you by the Walt Disney Imagineers. Hat tip to the Getty Museum for this great web find. I got sucked into watching the whole series just now of time-lapse photography of the building of Disneyland in Southern California, circa the 1950s.

Heard around the Commons:

• Be a Friend with Benefits! the Brooklyn Museum tells how.
• Congrats to Smithsonian Science, Voice of America’s website winner of the week!
• When Good People Love Bad Pictures, some musings on photos and the internet, by Marvin Heiferman of the Smithsonian Photography Initiative
• How to build an 8-foot-tall light bulb out of LEGO bricks, from the SI’s National Museum of American History.
• The Prisoner of Zenda – read all about George Eastman House’s newest nitrate motion-picture acquisition (with great stills, too!).
• The Swedish National Heritage Board weighs in on social media. They also discuss bicycling to work.
• The New York Public Library has some tips for midlife job hunters.
• Read all about the White Gloves Tour in the Granite Belt region at the State Library of Queensland, Australia’s blog.
• Coming Soon: DCPL Discovery Packs for SirsiDynix Libraries, from the D.C. Public Library.
• Scientist Scott A. Braun Discusses “Peering Into the Storm: NASA’s Exploration of Hurricanes” on 16 September, at the Library of Congress.
• The Oregon State University Archives brings you The Legend of Llao Rock. Also, check out the story of Mt. Mazama.
• Put The Source from the National Library of New Zealand on your reading list; it’s news about digital libraries and library innovations from around the web.
• Starting 11 September, the National Library of Wales brings us Ken Elias: A Retrospective – a celebration of 40 years of painting.

Tags: Brooklyn Museum, George Eastman House, Library of Congress, National Library of New Zealand, New York Public Library, Oregon State University Archives, Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian Photography Initiative, Swedish National Heritage Board

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