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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 #: SF-5A
Length: 29:55
Year: 1914
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1910s
Description:
Brute Force [a.k.a. Primitive Man] (1914) is a short silent drama film directed by D. W. Griffith, and starring Robert Harron and Mae Marsh. The film was shot in Chatsworth Park, Chatsworth, Los Angeles, California. It is a story of cavemen and dinosaurs, and perhaps the first live-action...
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Clip #: SF-1A
Length: 12:56
Year: 1909
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1910s
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A Corner in Wheat is a 1909 American short silent film which tells of a greedy tycoon who tries to corner the world market on wheat, destroying the lives of the people who can no longer afford to buy bread. It was directed by D. W. Griffith and adapted by Griffith and Frank E. Woods from a novel ...
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Clip #: SF-11C-2
Length: 7:53
Year: 1913
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1910s
Description:
Roscoe's sister brings her two boys over to his office -- he's a doctor in this one, with a nice beard, and a manner like Ford Sterling -- while she goes out shopping. He doesn't like them and they don't like him and spend a lot of time and effort in ruining his practice.
Directed by George...
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Clip #: TFA-354B
Length: 25:40
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1960s
Description:
A Voyage of the Yankee brigantine sailing ship around the world crewed by students.
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Clip #: TFA-255A
Length: 29:57
Year: 1951
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
A man and his teenage son travel to Wyoming, where they explore Yellowstone National Park and take a horseback pack expedition through the wilderness to fish for trout in Yellowstone River and Jackson Lake.
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Clip #: MF-21O
Length: 2:34
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
The United States Rubber Company has developed a rubber-asphalt-gravel compound used to repair battered highways.
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Clip #: TFA-304C
Length: 9:11
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1930s
Description:
The sights and culture of Madeira, from traditional attire and handicrafts to tourists being transported in hammocks, toboggans and ox carts.
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Clip #: SF-2C
Length: 16:23
Year: 1912
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1910s
Description:
When a Red Cross worker asks a prominent small-town banker for a donation to help fight tuberculosis the banker scoffs, saying that TB is a disease of poor people in the cities, not the kind of people you find in small towns. It's not long before he finds out just how wrong he is.
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Clip #: MF-31B-4
Length: 3:43
Year: 1955
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
1950s film about the tuna fishing industry in San Diego, California.
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