Missouri State Archives Launches YouTube Channel

JEFFERSON CITY, MO Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft announced the launch of a new YouTube channel by the Missouri State Archives. The platform offers the public unprecedented access to historic films created by Missouri state government, along with recordings of the State Archives’ Thursday Evening Speaker Series and other Missouri history-related content.

In celebration of the launch, the channel now features four new-to-the-archives films produced in 1931 by the Missouri Bureau of Public Information for the state’s Game and Fish Department, the precursor of today’s Missouri Department of Conservation and Missouri State Parks. The recordings include “Arrow Rock,” “Big Spring,” “From Whence the Rainbows Come!” about Bennett Spring State Park and “Meramec State Park.” They were all produced in black and white on silent 16mm film and are between six and eleven minutes in length.

The channel can be found on YouTube under Missouri State Archives.