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Clip #: TFA-182C
Length: 33:29
Year: 1937
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1930s
Description:
Expeditions in Borneo by Mr. and Mrs. Martin Johnson show the terrain, flora, fauna and lifestyle of Borneo as the Johnsons search for a huge orangutan.
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Clip #: SF-11B-2
Length: 4:04
Year: 1907
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1900s
Description:
1907 silent drama directed by Edwin S. Porter
A miner's cabin in the mountains. Mines don't pan out, Gambler offers money for the hand of daughter. The insult. The stranger appears. The blow. Girl shows stranger to main road. They part. Stranger shot by gambler in ambush. Gambler escapes....
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Clip #: TFA-52C
Length: 7:05
Year: 1932
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1930s
Description:
A tour of Bali in the 1930's. PAN across picturesque tropical jungle landscape with farmer plowing rice paddy with team of oxen and palm trees and mountains. Man wearing straw hat and shorts leads two wheel ox drawn cart with milk pail down country road followed by Balinese women with baskets...
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Clip #: TFA-355D
Length: 10:25
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
An educational film about the Belgian Congo in Africa in the 1950s
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Clip #: TFA-261
Length: 45:42
Year: 1922
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1920s
Description:
Part II of the 1922 silent documentary film by Robert J. Flaherty, which follows the lives of an Inuk man, Nanook, and his family as they travel, search for food, and build an igloo in the Canadian Arctic.
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Clip #: TFA-336A
Length: 25:52
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1960s
Description:
Armand and Michaela Denis travel throughout Asia, experiencing aspects of traditional culture such as performances of Thai classical dance, sword fighting and the Thaipusam Hindu festival in Singapore.
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Clip #: TFA-134B
Length: 20:57
Year: 1948
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1940s
Description:
A report from the British "The Modern Age" series about reforms in the British colony of Nigeria. Released June,1948
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Clip #: TFA-338A
Length: 39:41
Year: 1934
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1930s
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The Song of Ceylon is a 1934 British documentary film directed by Basil Wright and produced by John Grierson for the Ceylon Tea Propaganda Board. Documentary chronicling the cultural life and religious customs of the Sinhalese and the effects of advanced industrialism on such customs. The first...
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Clip #: TFA-134C
Length: 15:32
Year: 1943
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1940s
Description:
Canadian Eskimo life in the early 1940s
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Clip #: SF-11E
Length: 13:20
Year: 1915
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1910s
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Bessie Graham has been a sort of maid-of-all-work in her mother's boarding house for years. Determined to make a change, she tells her mother that she is going to strike out for herself and try to get a position in the city. Arrived in the city, she rents a cheap room and starts to look for...
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