Reels

The new product, called Reels, is embedded in the Instagram app and permits users to create 15-second videos set to music from a predetermined music library.

Reels employs Instagram’s preexisting augmented reality effects, which let users overlay images and filters onto their videos.

“The National Archives holds over 15 billion pages of textual records, over 18 million maps, charts and architectural drawings, more than 43 million images, more than 365,000 reels of film and over 110,000 videotapes, to say nothing of the billions of electronic records,” says Meghan Ryan Guthorn, acting deputy chief operating officer of the agency.