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Clip #: SF-12D
Length: 18:31
Year: 1915
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1910s
Description:
Jim Carson, a young Tennessee mountaineer, and Millie James, a mountain girl, are worried over the condition of Jim's mother. Millie nurses her tenderly. Jim's worry is increased by a note which he has received from John Calhoun, a miserly landowner, stating that, unless he pays the overdue rent ...
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Clip #: TFA-246B
Length: 20:33
Year: 1933
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1930s
Description:
Film producer J. Stuart Blackton narrates this history of the motion picture, which incorporates clips from early silent and sound movies as well as first attempts at animation.
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Clip #: MF-13A
Length: 21:55
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1940s
Description:
Educational film about Bell and Howell film projectors.
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Clip #: SF-9A
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Year: 1924
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1920s
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Will Rogers stars in "A Truthful Liar," a comedy short and finale of the Alfalfa Doolittle trilogy, produced by Hal Roach and directed by Hampton Del Ruth.
Directed by Hampton Del Ruth. With Will Rogers, Jack Ackroyd, R.O. Pennell, Jack Cooper.
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Clip #: TFA-9A-7
Length: 12:21
Year: 1936
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1930s
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17:59:29 a parade of natives and their royalty being carried on chairs on poles on men’s’ shoulders. Many people in parade. A royal funeral ??? Many men with a network of poles on their shoulders carry a heavy ornamental tent with people inside. Three men on a bovine statue are...
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Clip #: TFA-214B
Length: 24:44
Year: 1953
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
An award winning documentary short by John Barnes and Haskel Wexler which surveys the need for redevelopment of American cities and the forces which have created problems in urban areas; describes obstacles which deter the elimination of blighted areas and tenements and the relief of traffic...
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Clip #: SF-9B
Length: 14:40
Year: 1915
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1910s
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A young man tries to rescue his fiancee from kidnappers. Produced by Thomas Alva Edison. Bessie Learn, Warren Cook, Augustus Phillips, Harry Paddock, Carlton King.Unable to go to the pier to meet his daughter, Helen, who is expected on the Brazilian from Europe, the Hon. John Dearborn dispatches ...
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Clip #: SF-2E
Length: 18:29
Year: 1914
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1910s
Description:
From Journal of the Outdoor Life By National Tuberculosis Association February 1914:
The plot of this year's picture, "The Temple of Moloch," is laid in a small village, the chief industries of which are some potteries, owned by Harrison Pratt. He also owns a group of dilapidated tenements,...
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Clip #: TFA-389
Length: 42:08
Year: 1935
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1930s
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Contains footage from the Johnsons' 1933-1934 Flying Safari, as used in two episodes of the 1952 TV series called Osa Johnson's Big Game Hunt. Early 20th century naturalists and explorers, Martin and Osa Johnson journey across Africa in 1935 in two amphibious airplanes, encountering and filming...
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Clip #: SF-12C
Length: 08:45
Year: 1915
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1910s
Description:
A silent film about the kidnapping of a child.
Directed by Frank Cooley (as Fred Cooley)
Cast: Forrest Taylor - Black Pete, Ann Little - Carol Danforth (as Anna Little)
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