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Clip #: MF-28I
Length: 2:41
Year: 1955
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
Greeneville, Tennessee transforms itself from a one crop tobacco growing town to balanced manufacturing.
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Clip #: TFA-15A
Length: 11:30
Year: 1917
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1910s
Description:
Follows a week-long, 180-mile trip on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal through the Potomac Valley from Cumberland, Md., to Washington, D.C. Includes scenes of the locks in operation; a mile-long, hand-dug tunnel which was built in 1840; coal barges plying the canal; Maryland farming country;...
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Clip #: AD-22
Length: 29:42
Year: 1937
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1930s
Description:
Documentary from 1937 filmed in the small Indonesian West Java town of Malabar. Follows the entire process
of tea manufacturing from being grown and harvested in the fields, ground and processed in the factory,
and eventually shipped out to countries around the world. Excellent footage of...
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Clip #: TFA-63A
Length: 10:08
Year: 1946
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1940s
Description:
An educational film about Immigration to America. Shows the origins and volume of immigrants entering the United States from colonial times until 1920, the reasons for immigration, the adjustment of immigrants to like in the U.S. and the drastic reduction of immigration caused by the Act of 1924.
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Clip #: TFA-59D
Length: 15:42
Year: 1956
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
An educational film about the development of canals and rivers in the U.S. for transporation and commerce
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Clip #: TFA-300C
Length: 26:00
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1930s
Description:
A film from the 1930s about the production of rubber by the United States Rubber Company in Sumatra.
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Clip #: MF-21F
Length: 3:50
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
A housewife returns to work at the Republic Aviation plant in Long Island.
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Clip #: MF-26A-7
Length: 3:33
Year: 1955
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
Mining of diatomite, aka diatomaceous earth in Lompoc, CA
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Clip #: TFA-166A
Length: 10:33
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
Eddie Cantor introduces Action Day for Israel
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Clip #: TFA-370B
Length: 15:23
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1940s
Description:
A promotional film by Chevrolet about trucks
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