Legacy Tobacco Documents Library: Multimedia Collection

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The Multimedia Collection contains more than 7,500 tobacco industry video and audio recordings including focus groups, internal corporate meetings, depositions of tobacco industry employees, government hearings, corporate communications, and commercials.

You can download or stream many items in the UCSF Tobacco Industry Video and Audio Recordings Collections on the Internet Archive.

Search for other audio or video tapes in the Multimedia Collection:

Multimedia Podcasts - a selection of historically significant tobacco industry audio and video clips from the collection.

Popular Videos:

Watch

The head of Philip Morris extol its corporate responsibility

See

Vintage Camel commercials

View

Tobacco executives testify at Congressional hearings

Observe

How the industry casts doubt on scientific research

Genre and Access Fields:

As with each text document in the collections, each item in the Multimedia Collection has an index record which contains descriptive information about that resource. In addition to the fields such as title, author, and date, the multimedia records contain two unique fields - Genre and Access. These two fields can be used in your search query to narrow your focus in the Multimedia Collection and find immediately available videos and audio tapes.

Genre - contains terms describing the specific kind of media content and is searchable using the following terms:

Access - contains information on the availability of the resource. See Access Sites below for detailed information on where to view these resources.

The Library plans to continue adding Multimedia Collection resources as they become available.

Access Sites:

	The Minnesota Depository
	The Minnesota Depository houses some 27 million pages of internal tobacco industry documents and multimedia materials which were deposited and made available through the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement (MSA). Items held in Minnesota contain the notation "Minnesota Depository" in the Access field. You may order multimedia materials directly from the Minnesota Tobacco Document Depository.

	University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)
	The UCSF Library Archives & Special Collections has acquired 680 video and audio tapes from the Minnesota Depository for preservation purposes. Roswell Park Cancer Institute added more than 2000 videos to the UCSF collection in 2007. The Library will continue to add titles to our collection, eventually making all items it has collected available for viewing on the Internet Archive. Items held by Archives & Special Collections contain the notation "UCSF" in the Access field. If an item in the Multimedia Collection is not yet available at the Internet Archive but has been acquired by UCSF, we may be able to upload it to Internet Archive at your request. Please use this contact form to submit requests or reference questions about individual items or about the collection in general. You may also phone us about the Multimedia Collection at (415) 476-1024.

	Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI)
	As a result of a successful lawsuit by the New York State Attorney General, Roswell Park has acquired and scanned the document collections of the Tobacco Institute and Council for Tobacco Research. Those collections also contained several thousand audiovisual tapes which focus primarily on tobacco industry public relations efforts. Items held by Roswell Park contain the notation "RPCI" in the Access field. Order RPCI multimedia materials directly from Roswell Park at http://roswell.tobaccodocuments.org.

	Internet Archive (IA)
	Video and audio recordings that are available for immediate streaming online will have the notation "View Now at Internet Archive" in the search result record. Click on the "Internet Archive" link to access the item on the Internet Archive where you may download the resource or stream it directly on your computer. You may also go directly to the UCSF Tobacco Industry Video Collection or UCSF Tobacco Industry Audio Recordings Collection at the Internet Archive and browse the multimedia materials by video keyword or audio keyword.

Acknowledgements

California Tobacco Related Disease Research Program (TRDRP)
The mission of TRDRP

is to support research that focuses on the prevention, causes, and treatment of tobacco-related disease and the reduction of the human and economic costs of tobacco use in California. TRDRP has provided generous funding and support for the acquisition and processing of the video and audio resources found in the Multimedia Collection.

Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI)
RPCI provides direct patient care as well as research and education into the causes and prevention of cancer. The Roswell Park Department of Health Behavior

focuses on tobacco control and is a source of information and assistance on tobacco issues for smokers, businesses, educators, and health professionals, as well as local and international organizations. As a result of a successful lawsuit by the New York State Attorney General, RPCI has acquired and scanned the document collections of the Tobacco Institute and Council for Tobacco Research. The content of the audiovisual collection focuses primarily on tobacco industry public relations efforts.

Internet Archive
The Internet Archive

is a non-profit organization, located in San Francisco, that was founded to build an "Internet library," with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format. The Internet Archive has given the UCSF Library a means to provide access to the unique digital resources of our Multimedia Collection. The Library will continue to add materials to Internet Archive as we process them.