Say it with a GIF – a historic, animated one
The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration has found a new way to throw open the doors to history: They’ve turned them into an ever-expanding parade of animated GIFs.
They’ve distilled fragments from grand historic events, public service films and banal scenes down to an iconic moment caught in a perpetual loop -- and findable on Giphy.com.
This latest release is just one part of the agency’s three-year social media plan aimed at fulfilling its ongoing mission to make its collections available as the “nation’s record keeper.”
The contents range from the weighty and the weird to the downright delightful.
A sampling of my favorites (in no particular order):
So if you feel the need to punctuate a thought with a GIF, make that GIF a historic one, courtesy of the National Archives.
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