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Clip #: TFA-253
Length: 28:40
Year: 1930
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1930s
Description:
Part II of a two part documentary that follows explorer Paul Hoefler as as he leads a safari into central Africa and films a swarm of locusts and warriors hunting lions who have killed a native man.
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Clip #: TFA-128B
Length: 16:59
Year: 1948
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1940s
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Produced by The Association of American Railroads, showcasing both steam and diesel passenger trains. Narrated by Ed Herlihy of newsreel fame. There are some very interesting locomotives: Alco PAs from the Pennsylvania Railroad Southern &...
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Clip #: TFA-242B
Length: 46:21
Year: 1929
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1920s
Description:
Commander George Miller Dyott explores the jungles of India on the back of an elephant.
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Clip #: TFA-245A
Length: 52:42
Year: 1937
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1930s
Description:
1937 propaganda film about The Spanish Civil War, directed by Joris Ivens, written by John Dos Passos and Ernest Hemingway and narrated by Hemingway.
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Clip #: TFA-41A
Length: 21:40
Year: 1933
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1930s
Description:
Early American Airways promotional demo film (1920’s) with audio and twin engine Curtiss Condor airplanes showing plane interiors and passengers, airport facilities, pilots and cockpit, map with destinations at that time, chart showing passenger growth from 1928 to 1933, plane flying and HAs...
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Clip #: MF-14A
Length: 12:44
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1920s
Description:
Part 4 of a Western Electric film about the positive benefits of electricity being brought to a farm in Pennsylvania.
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Clip #: TFA-281A
Length: 28:20
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
Two male tourists and a local guide travel through the Amazon in a dugout canoe rigged with a Johnson Outboard Motor on a piranha fishing expedition.
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Clip #: TFA-264A
Length: 24:22
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
The nomadic Aboriginals of Arnhem Land in Australia's Northern Territory.
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Clip #: TFA-338A
Length: 39:41
Year: 1934
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1930s
Description:
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-94C
Length: 11:11
Year: 1924
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1920s
Description:
The story of the parable of The Good Samaritan from the Bible, shot on location in Palestine in the 1920s. It is an excerpt from a 60 minute independently made silent feature film, released in the U.S. in 1925, called "The Man Nobody Knows", directed by Errett Leroy Kenepp and based on a book by ...
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