In a stroke of luck, the National Museum of American History has uncovered film footage, lost for more than two decades, of the singer Selena Quintanilla. A segment for Tejano USA, shot in 1994, the film shows the young singer talking about her “big year”—she had just won a Grammy and was on her way to the next level of fame and fortune.
After the singer was murdered in 1995, the production manager of San Antonio’s KWEX-TV, which created the segment, “looked everywhere” for this tape, according to the museum. But he never found it. It was only by chance that the footage ended up in the hands of the National Museum of American History.
In the past couple of years, the museum has started work to document the history of Spanish-language broadcasting in the United States. Although the museum’s collections include extensive television footage and artifacts, it only had a…
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