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Clip #: MF-16C
Length: 18:46
Year: 1947
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1940s
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1947 action film about the son of a famous midget race car driver, who continues to race amidst many challenges, including a disapproving mother and rival racer. Along the way he falls in love with the niece of a mechanic and raises money to buy a gas station.
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Clip #: MF-4D-1
Length: 13:39
Year: 1954
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
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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 #: SF-11B-2
Length: 4:04
Year: 1907
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1900s
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1907 silent drama directed by Edwin S. Porter
A miner's cabin in the mountains. Mines don't pan out, Gambler offers money for the hand of daughter. The insult. The stranger appears. The blow. Girl shows stranger to main road. They part. Stranger shot by gambler in ambush. Gambler escapes....
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Clip #: SF-11E
Length: 13:20
Year: 1915
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1910s
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Bessie Graham has been a sort of maid-of-all-work in her mother's boarding house for years. Determined to make a change, she tells her mother that she is going to strike out for herself and try to get a position in the city. Arrived in the city, she rents a cheap room and starts to look for...
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Clip #: TFA-400A
Length: 9:32
Year: 1948
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1940s
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An educational film from the 1940s about a Dutch family who live on a farm near Middelburg, the Netherlands.
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Clip #: SF-9B
Length: 14:40
Year: 1915
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1910s
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A young man tries to rescue his fiancee from kidnappers. Produced by Thomas Alva Edison. Bessie Learn, Warren Cook, Augustus Phillips, Harry Paddock, Carlton King.Unable to go to the pier to meet his daughter, Helen, who is expected on the Brazilian from Europe, the Hon. John Dearborn dispatches ...
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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 #: TFA-224D
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Sound: Silent
Decade: 1960s
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Malaysian Delegate to the 18th Annual Herald Tribune Youth Forum Attends Brearley School 2/25/64
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Clip #: SF-18
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Year: 1922
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1920s
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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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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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