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Clip #: SF-3A
Length: 13:01
Year: 1915
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1910s
Description:
William S. Hart, Rhea Mitchell, J. Barney Sherry
aka Mr Silent Haskins. When Rhea Mitchell arrives in town and discovers she has inherited a saloon with dancing girls, she shuts it down. However, both William S. Hart and crooked gambler J. Barney Sherry want to marry her, so they play poker...
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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 #: MF-24A
Length: 16:06
Year: 1927
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1920s
Description:
Silent drama about the writing of the song "The Star Spangled Banner."
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Clip #: MF-17D
Length: 7:19
Year: 1953
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
All-American Newsreel from 1953 which includes a United Nations General Assembly session, a luxury furrier and a cricket match in Van Cortland Park.
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Clip #: SF-1A
Length: 12:56
Year: 1909
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1910s
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A Corner in Wheat is a 1909 American short silent film which tells of a greedy tycoon who tries to corner the world market on wheat, destroying the lives of the people who can no longer afford to buy bread. It was directed by D. W. Griffith and adapted by Griffith and Frank E. Woods from a novel ...
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Clip #: TFA-320Q
Length: 2:27
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1930s
Description:
Italian ocean liner SS Rex departs New York City in the 1930s.
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Clip #: TFA-76C
Length: 10:41
Year: 1954
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
A boy takes his first trip on a passenger train.
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Clip #: TFA-420A
Length: 24:57
Year: 1942
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1940s
Description:
Part one of a 1942 documentary about an expedition to capture animals in the Brazilian jungle for zoos in the United States.
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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 #: MF-28M
Length: 2:18
Year: 1955
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
Bustling Pier 57 in New York City operated by The Grace Line
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