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Clip #: MF-32C
Length: 9:45
Year: 1938
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1930s
Description:
Spectacles and amusements including turtle racing, the Powell amphibious boat traveling on land and water, and a high-wire walker crossing city skyscrapers.
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Clip #: SF-7B
Length: 11:40
Year: 1925
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1920s
Description:
The Coming of Amos (1925) is a silent film romantic drama produced by Cecil B. DeMille and distributed by his Producers Distributing Corporation. An Australian sheep rancher fulfills his promise to his dying mother by visiting his uncle on the French Riviera. He meets and falls in love with a...
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Clip #: MF-31B-1
Length: 2:31
Year: 1955
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
Newly constructed American factories and plants in Puerto Rico in the 1950s.
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Clip #: MF-22M
Length: 2:52
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
Mussel shells retrieved from the White River in Batesville, Arkansas are transformed into buttons at the Batesville Shell and Pearl Works.
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Clip #: TFA-83E
Length: 9:53
Year: 1942
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1940s
Description:
A review of life in our nation's capital operating under the stress of war. Reports on the sudden increase in the city's population during wartime. Shows President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Cordell Hull receiving visiting dignitaries, including Winston Churchill and Vyacheslav Molotov....
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Clip #: TFA-26B
Length: 9:20
Year: 1944
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1940s
Description:
A tour through the South Sea islands including Tahiti, New Zealand, Fiji, Pago Pago, Papua and Kalabahai
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Clip #: TFA-247
Length: 42:12
Year: 1914
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1910s
Description:
1914 film written and directed by Edward S. Curtis and acted completely by the Kwakwaka'wakw people of the Queen Charlotte Strait region of the Central Coast of British Columbia, Canada. It tells the story of Motana, the brave son of a chief, who amidst a spiritual journey, battles an evil...
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Clip #: MF-35A
Length: 22:37
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
A Bell Telephone film about telephone courtesy from the 1950s
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Clip #: TFA-36B
Length: 12:47
Year: 1939
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1930s
Description:
A tour of Washington, DC in 1939
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Clip #: TFA-21I-4
Length: 1:15
Year: 1938
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1930s
Description:
Home movies of a young girl playing outside and on the beach in the 1930s.
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