A new project from South Dakota Public Broadcasting is making rare film and video from the state’s past available to the general public. "Images of the Past" features both well-known and unknown people, places and events in some of the earliest film shot in the state. Each Thursday more historical film footage, along with additional information and images, is posted online on SDPB's "Images of the Past" page.
The first video in the project comes from 1913 and shows students and faculty at Spearfish Normal School, on the site of what is now Black Hills State University. You can watch it here.
South Dakota Public Broadcasting’s director of content Larry Rohrer and television and online services producer Brian Gevik joined Dakota Midday with more details.