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Clip #: TFA-157
Length: 01:36:51
Year: 1926
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1920s
Description:
Entertaining travelogue from 1926 promoting The French Line, a trans-Atlantic cruise line. This is
interspersed with narrative that focuses on a young middle-class couple who takes a trip on the ocean liner.
Extensive footage of passengers enjoying leisure time and activities on the sun...
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Clip #: TFA-319A
Length: 26:37
Year: 1930
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1930s
Description:
The lavish governmental, religious and military ceremonies for Emperor Haile Selassie’s coronation in 1930. While other US and European film crews were present, Burton Holmes was the only cameraman allowed inside the Royal Enclosure. Includes footage of the coronation, various foreign...
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Clip #: TFA-139B
Length: 14:34
Year: 1955
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
A beauty pageant for Miss California 1955 held in Santa Cruz, California
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Clip #: TFA-291
Length: 13:26
Year: 1964
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1960s
Description:
Prominent locations and sights around Paris in the 1960s, including bellydancers performing at the Algerian cabaret El Djazair.
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Clip #: TFA-233G
Length: 12:36
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1920s
Description:
The Spirit of Radio wakes up Rip Van Winkle and they visit WJZ, a radio station in New York City.
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Clip #: MF-4D-1
Length: 13:39
Year: 1954
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
Film presented by the Social Security Administration explaining how Social Security benefits apply to farm workers, after being extended to them in 1954.
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Clip #: TFA-52C
Length: 7:05
Year: 1932
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1930s
Description:
A tour of Bali in the 1930's. PAN across picturesque tropical jungle landscape with farmer plowing rice paddy with team of oxen and palm trees and mountains. Man wearing straw hat and shorts leads two wheel ox drawn cart with milk pail down country road followed by Balinese women with baskets...
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Clip #: TFA-251A
Length: 23:27
Year: 1960
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1960s
Description:
A look back at important events and daily life at Michigan State University from September 1959 - 1960, including students registering for classes, sporting events and graduation.
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Clip #: TFA-29N
Length: 3:30
Year: 1933
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1930s
Description:
A tour of the Paris pavilion at the 1933 Century of Progress World's Fair exposition in Chicago by Burton Holmes
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Clip #: TFA-139E
Length: 20:15
Year: 1961
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1960s
Description:
A documentary about France's role in Africa in the 1960s (sound is missing)
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