Some of History's Best Kept Secrets are Buried Deep Within America's Film Vault

Film-sleuth Phillip W. Stewart is at it again! This unassuming investigator of the befuddled and bewildered has penetrated the mystery surrounding the scope and location of thousands of historic documentary motion pictures preserved in the National Archives. After years of digging, probing, and analyzing the evidence, he has produced a 300-page report, AMERICA'S FILM VAULT: A Reference Guide to the Motion Pictures Held by the U.S. National Archives.

Crestview, FL (PRWEB) May 27, 2009 -- With the publication of this valuable information, Mr. Stewart, a detective of sprocket-holed celluloid, reveals a treasure trove of over 360,000 film reels documenting the 20th Century of American history. AMERICA'S FILM VAULT exposes 349 Government and Donated records that have motion pictures buried within them, discloses how these vintage films are organized and where to find them, uncovers and specifically identifies more than 1,460 film titles and provides topical references to thousands more, and sums it up with a comprehensive 2,130 item subject index that sheds light on the vast variety of subjects and titles of these extraordinary films.

Since relatively few Americans know that these historically significant films exist and even fewer know how to find them, the goal of Mr. Stewart's investigative work was to uncover and highlight this National treasure. It is also his goal to provide educators, historians, genealogists, and students of film a guide to find them.

"…a convenient overview of National Archives and Records Administration's motion picture holdings, one difficult to obtain from any other source," says William T. Murphy, former Chief of the Motion Picture, Sound, and Video Branch of the National Archives.

So, if you're ready to play detective, to take a crack at the combination, to investigate the catacombs of the National Archives, you'll need a guide…and this is it! You'll find this book an indispensable reference to the thousands of motion picture titles in AMERICA'S FILM VAULT.

AMERICA'S FILM VAULT: A Reference Guide to the Motion Pictures Held by the U.S. National Archives (ISBN 978-0-9793243-0-7, $39.95, trade paper, pms press, 2009) is the third book in The Historic Footage Project. More information is available at the author's website at http://www.pwstewart.com/. All of Mr. Stewart's books are available from Amazon.com.