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11 Videocassettes (BetacamSP) (Total Running Time: approximately 5.5 hours)
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Box 1, Item OV 706.1-11
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Videocassettes (betacamsp)
Date:
1999 October 15
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Original BetaCam SP cassettes
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Ann Moore Innovative Lives Presentation and Interview, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
11 Videocassettes (BetacamSP) (Total Running Time: approximately 5.5 hours)
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Box 2, Item MV 706.1-11
Type:
Archival materials
Videocassettes (betacamsp)
Date:
1999 October 15
Scope and Contents note:
VHS master videos
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An interview with Ann Moore at her home in Colorado. She discusses her childhood in Ohio and how her experiences in nurse camps in Germany and Morocco inspired her to join the Peace Corps. Recounts her experience in Togo and how impressed she was by the calm babies. The way the mothers carried their babies on their backs inspired her to do the same thing when she gave birth to her daughter, Mandela. Elaborates on how she developed the Snugli with her mother, Lucy Aukerman. Outlines how the Snugli business grew throughout the 60s, 70s, and 80s, thanks to good press reviews and word of mouth advertising among mothers. Invention of the Snugli coincided with growing popularity of breast feeding and natural childbirth.
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A continuation of the interview on 706.1. Moore discusses how the Snugli fits into one of the goals of the Peace Corps, to bring back something from the developing country to the United States. Mentions that The Wall Street Journal listed the Snugli as one of the important developments of the millennium. Mentions importance of maintaining balance between work and family. In 1985, Moore sold the Snugli company and began work on an oxygen carrier backpack, called Air Lift, which she patented. She also made cases for scientific instruments. Discusses the launch of Weego, a baby carrier similar to the original Snugli but with modern improvements. Thinks of herself as a problem solver more than an inventor. At the end of the tape, she discusses her home, garden, and her family's love of music.
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Footage of the Moore home, including decorations, sheet music, harpsichord, and African photographs, drums, statues and masks. (10 minutes)
Ann Moore and a man hiking while he is wearing an Air Lift oxygen carrier. Discuss how the Air Lift allows him to be more active and how his lungs have improved with exercise. (12 minutes)
Ann and Mike Moore walking in and out of their house. (3 minutes)
Ann Moore talking to Robert Fittje, who needed 12 liters of oxygen when exercising. Designed a larger Air Lift backpack for him. (7 minutes)
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Continuation of Ann Moore's interview from 706.3. (6 minutes)
Ann Moore demonstrates how Togolese women tied fabric to carry their babies, then demonstrates how the original Snugli worked. (5 minutes)
Mike and Ann Moore sing songs they learned in Togo. The Moores discuss how they met in the Peace Corps, their love of music, and their work partnership. Mike Moore runs the business aspects of the company and Ann Moore is responsible for the product development. (13 minutes)
Ann Moore in her sewing area, taking the measurements of an instrument and beginning to sew a carrier on the sewing machine. (5 minutes)
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Continuation of the sewing scene from 706.4, including Ann Moore pantomiming sewing. (2 minutes)
A mother demonstrates the Weego and Ann Moore discusses its improvements. (6 minutes)
Footage of photographs of the Moore family and their travels. (5 minutes)
Ann and Mike Moore in their office looking at the Air Life website and discussing the Weego logo. (9 minutes)
Ann Moore's voiceovers against a blank screen. Discusses her work for Hewlett Packard designing cases for delicate instruments and her trial and error design process. (6 minutes)
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Continuation of Ann Moore's voiceovers from 706.5. Discusses photographs of Africa and of Mike Moore carrying Mandela Moore in the first Snugli. (4 minutes)
Footage of color photographs from Africa, photographs of Snuglis and people all over the world carrying babies on their backs, and a framed Wall Street Journal article about the Snugli. (3 minutes)
Ann Moore visits Patrick and discusses the production of an Air Lift. (4 minutes)
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Ann and Mike Moore's Innovative Lives Presentation at the National Museum of African Art to children from Burrville Elementary School in Washington, D.C., and Barrett Elementary School in Arlington, Virginia. Sondra Berger introduces the program. Ann Moore discusses her childhood, how she improvised to make toys, and why she joined the Peace Corps. Mike and Ann Moore show slides from their time in Togo, including a map of Africa, photographs of children in school, markets, Ann teaching a nutrition class, mothers carrying and nursing their babies, the Snugli, Ann Moore's mother Lucy Aukerman, and the Weego. They demonstrate a Togolese greeting and teach it to the kids. Sing African songs with the children accompanying on tambourines and rattles.
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Continuation from 706.7. Ann and Mike Moore sing African songs, and teach the children a song they learned while camping with the Boy Scouts in Togo. Discusses inspiration for Snugli, and how she had to continuously make changes to the Snugli design, for example adding adjustable straps so she could wear it over a winter coat. Mentions Weego and demonstrates Air Life backpack and fanny pack. Emphasizes how finding a solution to a problem can lead to an invention. The children ask questions about how Ann Moore got the idea for the Air Lift, why the African mothers didn't wear their babies on the front of their bodies, what kind of fabric was used for the Snugli, and how many inventions Moore created.
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Ann and Mike Moore's second Innovative Lives presentation, given to students from Seven Locks Elementary School in Bethesda, Maryland, and Jefferson Junior High School in Washington, D.C. Sondra Berger introduces the program. Presentation was shot with a handheld camera and shows more audience reaction. The presentation is almost exactly the same as 706.7-.8, although editing has been done.
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Continuation of 706.9. After the presentation, the children ask questions about how the Weego will be advertised, whether malaria was a problem in Togo, and what people ate and drank in Africa. The kids file out of the museum (16 minutes)
Close up shots of the slides that were shown during the Innovative Lives presentation. (13 minutes)
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