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Clip #: TFA-107C
Length: 28:09
Year: 1953
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
A farmer and teacher in Williston, North Dakota learns about the benefits of oil drilling when he is propositioned by an oil company who wants to drill on his farm.
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Clip #: TFA-297A-2
Length: 4:34
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
Male students from Manhattan’s Metropolitan Vocational High School learn about every aspect of life as a sailor in a floating maritime school on the SS John W. Brown, in preparation for careers in the merchant marine, the United States Navy and the United States Coast Guard.
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Clip #: TFA-92C
Length: 10:16
Year: 1959
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
A U.S. Information Agency film about the new state of Hawaii in the late 1950s
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Clip #: MF-28J
Length: 2:08
Year: 1955
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
Robert Shaw Controls Co makes thermostats for household appliances in the mid 1950s
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Clip #: TFA-148A
Length: 16:20
Year: 1928
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1920s
Description:
Children and adults eating lunch outside sitting on cars. 1928 Ford pickup truck. Girl carries picnic basket for meal. Dog brings leather case in mouth. Girls wearing knitted hats sitting on running boards with plates and food on laps eating and drinking. Smile and laugh at camera. CU knife...
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Clip #: TFA-110D
Length: 16:30
Year: 1941
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1940s
Description:
Housing problems in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the late 1940s.
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Clip #: TFA-230D
Length: 19:37
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
Alex d'Arcy travels the Riviera in his 1950's Studebaker convertible, meeting Charles Boyer, Sonja Henie, Maurice Chevalier, George Raft, Elsa Maxwell, Bob Stack, Buddy Rogers, Steve Reeves.
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Clip #: MF-20A
Length: 12:27
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
Grand Rapids, Michigan is one of the most renowned locations for furniture manufacturing in the United States and is even referred to as “Furniture City."
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Clip #: MF-21D
Length: 2:57
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
Furniture is manufactured at the Johnson-Carper Furniture Company in Roanoke, Virgina. Clip also includes short industrial film about America's increase in industrial capacity post World War II.
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Clip #: TFA-165B
Length: 14:03
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1940s
Description:
A film about Norway, Denmark and Sweden in the 1940s
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