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Clip #: SF-18
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Year: 1922
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1920s
Description:
Reel two and three of a silent film starring Lon Chaney. Stooped over chinese man with bad posture, bowl haircut and chinese clothing standing on dock next to overweight boy in overalls and sailor hat. CU boy looking warily at piece of candy in his hand. CU chinese man smiling awkwardly, boy...
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Clip #: TFA-148D
Length: 10:50
Year: 1940
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1940s
Description:
Oxen with driven horizontal wooden water wheel below large tree, CU oxen with large horns between yoke, wheel with cans brings water to trough, CU wooden wheels with wooden gears, spokes and pegs, water spills into pool, agriculture, irrigation in fields, man with hoe, clears path for water in...
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Clip #: TFA-148A
Length: 16:20
Year: 1928
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1920s
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Children and adults eating lunch outside sitting on cars. 1928 Ford pickup truck. Girl carries picnic basket for meal. Dog brings leather case in mouth. Girls wearing knitted hats sitting on running boards with plates and food on laps eating and drinking. Smile and laugh at camera. CU knife...
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Clip #: TFA-150G
Length: 21:16
Year: 1949
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1940s
Description:
A nomadic tribe sets up camp and travels through the Moroccan Sahara Desert in the 1940's.
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Clip #: TFA-372F
Length: 09:45
Year: 1943
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1940s
Description:
A profile of Navajo/Diné social life, family structure, and culture. Activities shown: farming corn, sheep herding, preparing corn bread, children and family pets; weaving wool and yarn preparation, loom building, silversmithing, trading goods, and more.
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Clip #: TFA-347A
Length: 19:20
Year: 1943
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1940s
Description:
A Julian Bryan film for the United States Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs about Bolivia in the 1940s. Records the life of the Aymara workers at the Petaca potato hacienda on the Bolivian altiplano. Scenes of fishing in Lake Titicaca; women in mourning shawls, spinning wool,...
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Clip #: TFA-391A
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Year: 1950
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
A Canadian Pacific Railroad travelogue about canoeing and fishing in Canada.
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Clip #: TFA-262A
Length: 24:55
Year: 1955
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
Publicity film detailing how trains have kept the United States economy going by transporting passengers and freight.
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Clip #: TFA-2B
Length: 15:44
Year: 1910
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1910s
Description:
The town and the people of Oberammergau, in Bavaria, Germany who celebrate the Passion Play every ten years in thanks for God having spared them from the Bubonic Plague in 1634
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Clip #: TFA-304A
Length: 13:17
Year: 1948
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1940s
Description:
Traditional scenes of Tuareg life, including a young man's transition to manhood, wedding festivities and a camel salt caravan through the Sahara.
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