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Clip #: TFA-83E
Length: 9:53
Year: 1942
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1940s
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A review of life in our nation's capital operating under the stress of war. Reports on the sudden increase in the city's population during wartime. Shows President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Cordell Hull receiving visiting dignitaries, including Winston Churchill and Vyacheslav Molotov....
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Clip #: TFA-235D
Length: 19:37
Year: 1936
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1930s
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Created by the Department of the Interior in 1936, "In the Wake of the Buccaneers" is a wonderful travelogue about St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands and Nassau, Bahamas.
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Clip #: SF-2F
Length: 13:18
Year: 1913
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1910s
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Joe Hardy, a young farmer of good standing, proposes to, and is accepted by Jessie Barnes, daughter of a neighboring farmer, When Joe brings the matter to the attention of Mr. Barnes, he receives a flat refusal. Joe, being a hot-tempered man, goes to the saloon, and in the presence of several...
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Clip #: MF-1A
Length: 22;37
Year: 1913
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1910s
Description:
A meeting of the Grand Lodge B.P.O.E. (Elks) in Rochester New York in July of 1913
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Clip #: TFA-132B
Length: 7:50
Year: 1927
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1920s
Description:
A celebration of the 100th anniversary of the B & O Railroad, held outside Baltimore in 1927.
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Clip #: TFA-392A
Length: 25:36
Year: 1936
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1930s
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The Plow That Broke the Plains is a 1936 short documentary film which shows what happened to the Great Plains region of the United States and Canada when uncontrolled agricultural farming led to the Dust Bowl. It was written and directed by Pare Lorentz. The film was narrated by the American...
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Clip #: TFA-275C
Length: 7:50
Year: 1905
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1900s
Description:
Footage from 1905 of various brands of cars and motorcycles being driven in the first Glidden Tour from New York City to and from the Mt. Washington House in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire.
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Clip #: SF-8B
Length: 22:44
Year: 1916
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1910s
Description:
A lovable scoundrel is busted for gambling and thrown into jail, where he dreams of playing poker - but even in his dreams, he loses.
Director: Bert Williams
Writer: Bert Williams
Stars: Bert Williams, Wes Jenkins
Our story centers upon the activities of a Negro fraternal organization, the...
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Clip #: TFA-278A
Length: 26:57
Year: 1976
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1970s
Description:
A tour of the Virgin Islands in the mid-1970s.
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Clip #: TFA-110B
Length: 9.32
Year: 1939
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1930s
Description:
A tour of the 1939 New York Worlds Fair
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