Beautiful Buenos Aires

Clip #: TFA-151C
Length: 8:17
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
LS tall buildings across harbor. OS wide boulevard with cars, buildings and park. Large open plaza. traffic and busy streets. Casa Rosada in Plaza de Mayo. General Post Office building. Plaza de Republica obelisk monument, Calle Florida shopping street, streetcars, tracking shot down pedestrian ...

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A Journey To Normandy

Clip #: TFA-156C
Length: 10:47
Year: 1938
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1930s
Description:
Travelogue from 1938 of towns and historic sites along the French Normandy coast. Extensive footage of the port town of Le Havre (which would be heavily bombed during WWII) with ocean liners arriving to the port, vistas of the city, and 1930s old European street scenes. Resort towns such as...

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Pan American Highway

Clip #: TFA-237H
Length: 2:32
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1950s
Description:
A road trip from Texas to Mexico along the Pan-American Highway in the 1950's.

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Spain - The Land and The People

Clip #: TFA-237B
Length: 10:22
Year: 1949
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1940s
Description:
The people and varied culture of Spain in the 1940s.

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Montauk

Clip #: TFA-301B
Length: 15:17
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1960s
Description:
A lyrical short film about Montauk in Long Island, narrated by Ed Begley.

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San Diego

Clip #: TFA-335D
Length: 4:34
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1960s
Description:
Highlights from San Diego, one of the many routes of American Airlines.

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Rain in the City

Clip #: TFA-107B
Length: 13:44
Year: 1955
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
An impressionistic film about a rainy day in Germany.

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Construction of the John Hancock Building

Clip #: TFA-185B
Length: 8:52
Year: 1947
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1940s
Description:
A film made in 1947 about the construction of the 36 story John Hancock building at 200 Berkeley St in Boston. It is also known as The Berkeley Building and the weather beacon on the top is a Boston landmark.

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Around Paris

Clip #: TFA-161D
Length: 4:28
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1920s
Description:
Place de la Concorde, Church of La Madeleine, cars, automobiles, traffic, pedestrians, obelisk, Egyptian monument, French, Parisian, fountain, Place de la Revolution, lamposts, street lights, crowds, bus, autobus, horse carts, Fountain of River and Commerce, Hotel de Crillon, frieze, Corinthian ...

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This Is Israel - Jerusalem

Clip #: TFA-166A
Length: 10:33
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
Eddie Cantor introduces Action Day for Israel

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