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Clip #: SF-2C
Length: 16:23
Year: 1912
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1910s
Description:
When a Red Cross worker asks a prominent small-town banker for a donation to help fight tuberculosis the banker scoffs, saying that TB is a disease of poor people in the cities, not the kind of people you find in small towns. It's not long before he finds out just how wrong he is.
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Clip #: TFA-357B
Length: 41:59
Year: 1937
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1930s
Description:
Martin & Osa Johnson's last film about a trip to Borneo in the 1930s. Show the terrain, flora, fauna and lifestyle of Borneo as the Johnsons search for a huge orangutan.
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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-34A
Length: 9:14
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1950s
Description:
A Navajo indian reservation and gold miners in the old west.
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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 #: SF-18
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Year: 1922
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1920s
Description:
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 #: SF-2F
Length: 13:18
Year: 1913
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1910s
Description:
Joe Hardy, a young farmer of good standing, proposes to, and is accepted by Jessie Barnes, daughter of a neighboring farmer, When Joe brings the matter to the attention of Mr. Barnes, he receives a flat refusal. Joe, being a hot-tempered man, goes to the saloon, and in the presence of several...
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Clip #: TFA-261
Length: 45:42
Year: 1922
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1920s
Description:
Part II of the 1922 silent documentary film by Robert J. Flaherty, which follows the lives of an Inuk man, Nanook, and his family as they travel, search for food, and build an igloo in the Canadian Arctic.
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Clip #: SF-11A
Length: 12:31
Year: 1909
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1900s
Description:
The Lonely Villa is a 1909 American short silent crime drama film directed by D. W. Griffith. The film stars David Miles, Marion Leonard and Mary Pickford in one of her first film roles. It is based on the 1901 French play Au Telephone (At the Telephone) by André de Lorde. A group of...
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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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