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archivyrep · 1 year

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Archivists on the Issues: Classified Records, Archives, and Fictional Depictions [Part 2]

Archivists on the Issues is a forum for archivists to discuss the issues we are facing today. Today’s post comes from Burkely Hermann (me), Metadata Librarian for the National Security Archive and current I&A Blog Coordinator. There will be spoilers for each of the books, animated series, films, and other media he will be discussing. This was originally published on February 7, 2023 on the Issues & Advocacy WordPress blog.

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In the episode "The Underground Tennis Tournament: The Campbelldon", Loid examines a file of his target, a man named Cavi Campbell, who has a painting in the basement of his mansion. As the story goes, the painting was originally owned by a general who had compiled a dossier of explosive top secret information which could tip the scales and cause possible cause military conflict if revealed, and the painting has a code revealing the dossier's location.

Classified records have often been depicted in popular culture. For instance, there is an episode of The Crown about classified records showing Duke Edward VIII collaborating with Nazis. Such records are also major part of the Spy x Family series. The protagonist, Twilight (voiced by Takuya Eguchi), poses as a father named Loid Forger, with a wife and child. He is tasked with a secret mission to keep two countries from beginning a war. As a result, he is often passed information through a network of informants, spies, and others, or is given mission briefings by dedicated agents. The information he receives often includes classified records. Another pertinent example is the 13-episode anime, Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet. In one episode, "Deep Sea Secret", the protagonist, Ledo (voiced by Kaito Ishikawa), demands declassification of the record. What he learns causes an epiphany. It results in him questioning what he thought about the world and his life's purpose, causing a mental breakdown of sorts.

There are other examples, apart from the tongue-and-cheek U.S. Navy recording studio named "Classified Records" in The Simpsons, which included subliminal messages in their songs which encouraged people to join the Navy. For instance, classified archives of the CIA are shown in an episode of the TV series, Alias. Furthermore, classified, and restricted, records are a major part of the animated adventure series, She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, which has many archivy themes. In one episode, Mara, the previous She-Ra, learns that the Heart of Etheria project is classified, with Light Hope worrying about information being accidentally shared with Madame Razz. In many others, records are only accessible when specific words are spoken, or specific people are detected by computer systems. The same could be said about the records inside the data archives of the World Organization Of Human Protection which is shown in the Totally Spies! episode "The Yuck Factor", or the "healing center" for Pearls known as The Reef, which is a structure used to create, repair, or modify Pearls, shown in the Steven Universe Future episode "Volleyball". Both undoubtedly contain restricted or classified records.

In Star Wars Rebels and Star Wars: The Clone Wars, two animated series, there are records which can only be accessed through magic or other means. As such, they are classified, as a result. Accessing secret, and classified, records is a major plot point for live-action films such as Sneakers (1992), The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (2005), and My Fellow Americans (1996). In other cases, like in Joker (2009), the records are even stolen. In the latter film, the records clerk is implied as an impediment to protagonist Arthur Fleck, as are the bureaucratic requirements which require a signature from Fleck's mother, before he can take the file.

Samantha "Sam" Cross, a certified archivist who was part of the SAA Issues & Advocacy News Monitoring Team in 2018, has highlighted this on her blog, Pop Archives. She notes Carol Danvers (later becoming Captain Marvel) examining likely classified information in Captain Marvel and Loki trying to use his manipulation and charm in the Loki TV series to get classified files from a female character credited as an archivist. She also writes about a character in the Danganronpa game, Byakuya, who "read and study the classified information" in an archives-like room and states that many of the documents shown in Federal Bureau of Control, in the video game Control, are redacted, and classified. [7]

Other pop cultural critics in the library and information field note other examples. For instance, librarian Jennifer Snoek-Brown, known as the creator of the site Reel Librarians and real-life librarian at Tacoma Community College, noted classified records featured in Rollerball (1975), Soylent Green (1973), and likely ones in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011). [8] Elsewhere on her blog, she pointed out similar themes in Mercury Rising (1998) and WarGames (1983).

The over twenty popular culture examples described in this post only scratch the surface. There are as undoubtedly many more films, comics, and series which featured classified or restricted records. The examples noted in this article do not always feature archives, however, as some creators confuse archives with libraries. To add insult to injury, archivists are often not present, resulting in the characters, who have no archival training, to go through the records themselves. Very few depictions in popular culture reflect the current reality of classified records within archives. Hopefully, this changes in the future.

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[7] Cross, Samantha. "Archives in the Movies: Captain Marvel." Pop Archives, Aug. 20, 2021; Cross, Samantha. "Archives in Video Games: Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc." Pop Archives, Jan. 19, 2021; Cross, Samantha. "Archives on TV: Loki." Pop Archives, Jun. 24, 2022; Cross, Samantha. "Archives in Video Games: Control." Pop Archives, Aug. 20, 2021.

[8] Snoek-Brown, Jennifer. "A round-up of library, archives, and reel librarian scenes in MCU’s Phase Four TV series (so far)." Reel Librarians, Aug. 24, 2022; Snoek-Brown, Jennifer. "Reel librarians and archivists in 16 sci-fi films." Reel Librarians, Mar. 11, 2020; Snoek-Brown, Jennifer. "Reel librarians in ‘Rollerball’ | Analyzing the 1975 original film and 2002 remake." Reel Librarians, Feb. 1, 2017; Snoek-Brown, Jennifer. "Reader poll of runner-ups, Fall 2016: ‘Soylent Green’ and the Books." Reel Librarians, Nov. 30, 2016; Snoek-Brown, Jennifer. "First impressions: ‘Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy’." Reel Librarians, Jan. 23, 2012.

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lacypinafore · 4 days

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BACKSTREET'S BACK ALRIGHT

#american girl #agblr #josefina #addy #kirsten #fingers crossed for more outfits and an uncubed Samantha with her og stuff!!!!#ik it says this is a special edition thing (so was Kit but she's officially part of the lineup and her stuff is still there)#but let me be delusional that they will massively overhaul their historical line and restore it to its former glory #(hopefully w/o any retirements this time)#death to BeForever!!!!! vive la résistance!!!!

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rheasbrvtality · 5 months

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the girls <33

#rhea ripley #chelsea green #piper niven #nikki cross #maxxine dupri #ivy nile #shayna baszler #zoey stark #tegan nox #natalya #candice lerae #nia jax #indi hartwell #katana chance #kayden carter #jackie redmond #samantha irvin #wwe #wwe raw

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womenwwe · 23 days

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Superstars walk the red carpet at the 2024 WWE Hall of Fame: Photos

WWE Hall of Famers Paul Heyman, Bull Nakano, Thunderbolt Patterson, Mike Rotunda and Barry Windham, as well as Superstars such as Drew McIntyre, The New Day, Randy Orton, Charlotte Flair and CM Punk walk the red carpet at the 2024 WWE Hall of Fame ceremony.

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milesworld96 · 5 months

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AW LOOK AT THEM😭

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loverleah · 2 months

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MASTERLIST

* req are open in bio! please note i am not currently writing fics which include for than one romantic partner (example; alexia putellas x ona battle x reader) otherwise i am happy to write about any footballer :)

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sam kerr

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alexia putellas

kyra cooney cross

#arsenal wfc #leah williamson #woso x reader #katie mccabe #caitlin foord #matildas #arsenal #woso #alessia russo #chelsea #kyra cooney cross #alexia putellas #samantha kerr #jessie fleming #ona batlle #lucy bronze #masterlist

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rawsmackdownnxtdivas · 4 months

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Women of the WWE 💋

#shayna baszler #zoey stark #tegan nox #natalya #candice lerae #nia jax #indi hartwell #jackie redmond #samantha irvin #kayden carter #katana chance #ivy nile #maxxine dupri #nikki cross #rhea ripley #chelsea green #wwe #raw

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starberry-cupcake · 2 years

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Episode 1 of Astrid and Lilly Save The World has gone through all the stages of human emotion and I am so far living for the adventures of these two fat gals who are best friends and kill monsters to save the world, we’ll see how the rest of the season goes!

#astrid and lilly save the world #long post #Samantha Aucoin #Jana Morrison #luly rambles #fingers crossed hope it continues to be good

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creaturefeaster · 7 months

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Hello, as Young Sheldon Cooper. I wanted to ask something from you! What cq characters do you think would play Stardew Valley?

Hi Young Sheldon,

I think Samantha would play Stardew. She would love the characters, the world, and the cozy atmosphere therein. I think she would probably avoid going down into the caves as much as she could, though. She's not a fighter >_<;

Michael would probably play with her often, too.

I think that Jess and Penny though, Michael's mothers, would love to play such a game together. Probably more than Michael himself would play it.

I also think that if you put the game in front of Maggie, she would get so immersed in it you'd probably have to physically pull her away from the game to get her to stop.

#you know it just crossed my mind abt the fnaf ask last night.#i didnt even talk about the potential mimes who could enjoy fnaf #i was so busy thinking abt the living lmfao #brambleramble #i think Chickenstab could play it too but he'd be pretty focused on chicken farming and cave fighting #i dont think the game would keep his interest for very long though because of the repetitive nature of the farming #in this answer it was basicslly. samantha would love it. i GUESS other ppl play it too but samanthas where its at

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questwithambition · 1 year

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Me: has read two (2) books in the past month

Also me: I will definitely have time and energy to read all of these in the next few weeks :)

#ngl I do love the look of a stack of books #and tbf uni work has calmed down so fingers crossed more reading happens #questwithambition #studyblr #rambles #studyspo #books #bookblr #tbr #a day of fallen night #the priory of the orange tree #Samantha Shannon #fantasy

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brontes · 1 year

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I just don't know how to explain to the "edward and bella aren't healthy" crowd that that's literally not the point. They're soulmates. They're fated. They're star-crossed lovers. "They don't know that" sweetie this is a story and we do so it doesn't matter. Also the drama of it is fun that's how these things work <3

#samantha rereads twilight #like I have written essays on why their actual arguments are usually pretty wrong anyway #but like yeah they're co-dependent that's good for them because #they are also star-crossed fictional soulmates that's how it works #tts #ttsdiscourse #I'm shutting up and going to bed now I promise

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archivyrep · 1 year

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"If an item does not appear in our records, it does not exist": Star Wars and archives in popular culture [Part 1]

On the night of March 11, 2019, partially in preparation for the next week's discussion, on March 27th at 8 PM, of the SNAP (Students and New Archives Professionals), a division of the Society of American Archivists (SAA), which will be on "the representation of archives and archivists in popular culture" I watched Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, a film that came out 17 years ago. The movie itself has the theme of archives throughout at least part of it, as it is a major plot point. I don't wish to tread on the same ground as Samantha Cross, the archivist who combined her passion for pop culture and archives together on POP Archives, who wrote an article about how "two movies in the Star Wars franchise have made use of the archive as an important setting within the narrative" and in doing so "highlighted the importance of archives as institutions of memory and accountability while simultaneously showcasing the shortcomings of archives to protect the people they serve." She also focuses on Rogue One, but I'll talk about that in a later post on here. With that, I'll begin my post in earnest, focusing on the interconnection of archival themes with Star Wars Episode II. All images in this article are used under the fair use exception to U.S. copyright law, as they are used as a means of criticism and education, nothing more.

Reprinted from my Wading Through the Archival Stacks WordPress. Originally posted on Aug. 8, 2020.

The first mention of archives in the film is not when Jedi Master Obi-Wan (played by Ewan McGregor) comes to the archives of the Jedi Temple in Coruscant. Rather it is when he talked to his old friend Dex, who owns a small restaurant, complaining that the analysis droids in the archives were no help in identifying the poison dart fired from a bounty hunter, with Dex telling him it is from the cloners on Kamino:

While the photos above are not their whole conversation, the screencaps I show above are the most relevant parts. In fact, there is a deleted scene from the movie, where, according to Wookiepedia (the premier Star Wars encyclopedia), Obi-Wan has "the Kamino saber dart analyzed in the Analysis Rooms in the Jedi Temple," which he considers in some sense to be part of the archives!

#star wars #attack of the clones #rogue one #samantha cross #society of american archivists #snap #archivists #archives #kamino #coruscant #ewan mcgregor

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figureofdismay · 3 months

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not enough people hate me in this fandom yet so to be explicitly clear I do ship Mulder and Scully in the brother-sister incest way! And also in the oedipal subby-mommy-caretaker way, and in the sexually-assigned-father-figure way! And I also believe they should never be forced to take a single break from each other, because all of that is actually fine and works for them!

(instead of hanging around quietly for 2 years and becoming friends with a lot of people who will later call me names and cut me off for being 'gross' i'm taking a proactive, 'advertise early' strategy this time about my icky gothic subtext-and-text loving ways 💀)

#if you think i'm joking i am not #i also think teena and mulder's relationship was probably Inappropriate at times after samantha's disappearance #too close and too far apart. but I don't have a clear idea of which lines were crossed or not crossed as the case may be #but that kind of semi exploded bomb in his past makes sense with phoebe and diana #but that's a whole other post with its own content warnings #character theory: mulder #character theory: scully #character theory: johns #character theory: wendy darlings #txf

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roket-johnny · 1 year

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