# Federal Public Service Recognition Week: George Willeman

For Public Service Recognition 2021 at the Library of Congress, George Willeman, the nitrate film vault leader, tells the story of how he found an original camera negative of "The Great Train Robbery," the iconic 1903 silent film, in a couple of film cans.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2021
- By: Library Of Congress
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/2024697487/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/loc/2024697487?play=1)