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Clip #: MF-24A
Length: 16:06
Year: 1927
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1920s
Description:
Silent drama about the writing of the song "The Star Spangled Banner."
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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 #: MF-15C
Length: 11:21
Year: 1929
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1920s
Description:
An expectant father grows increasingly anxious while he waits for his baby to be born.
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Clip #: SF-1B
Length: 21:32
Year: 1910
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1910s
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A young girl looking for work, is hired by a farmer's wife to work as a maid. A smooth talking peddler comes by the farm, and flirts with the young maid. He gives the naive girl an engagement ring and promises to marry her. When the peddler runs up some gambling debts, he visits the maid again...
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Clip #: SF-6B
Length: 14:12
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1920s
Description:
Part I of "Playmates," a 1918 American silent comedy film inspired by Charles Chaplin's "Easy Street,” featuring Oliver Hardy and directed by Charley Chase.
Billy West - Kid
Oliver Hardy - Kid (as Babe Hardy)
Bud Ross
Fay Holderness
Ethelyn Gibson
Ethel Marie Burton
Myrtle...
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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-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 #: TFA-344B
Length: 24:44
Year: 1959
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
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Last Clear Chance is a 1959 American short film produced and directed by Robert Carlisle. Sponsored by Union Pacific Railroad, Last Clear Chance is a safety film intended to warn young drivers to be careful at railroad crossings.On the day young Alan receives his driver's license, Officer Hal...
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Clip #: MF-4C
Length: 11:34
Year: 1937
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1930s
Description:
A lesson in how wives should “properly” undress in front of their husbands, as demonstrated by the graceful and alluring Elaine Barrie Barrymore and conversely by the clumsy and uncouth Trixie Friganza.
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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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