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Clip #: TFA-360E
Length: 13:44
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1940s
Description:
A B.F. Goodrich promotional film shows the U.S. Army of Engineers building the Alaskan Highway.
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Clip #: TFA-241B
Length: 11:54
Year: 1954
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
A British educational film about the port of Singapore.
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Clip #: TFA-281A
Length: 28:20
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
Two male tourists and a local guide travel through the Amazon in a dugout canoe rigged with a Johnson Outboard Motor on a piranha fishing expedition.
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Clip #: TFA-65A
Length: 31:20
Year: 1937
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1930s
Description:
Shows the importance of the Mississippi River to the United States, and how farming and timber practices had caused topsoil to be swept down the river and into the Gulf of Mexico in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Clip #: TFA-276C
Length: 9:16
Year: 1941
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1940s
Description:
Argentina, Peru and Brazil in the 1940s.
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Clip #: TFA-356B
Length: 34:18
Year: 1958
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
20th Century Vikings present The World School of Adventure about driving from below the Panama Canal to the tip of South America in the mid-1950s
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Clip #: TFA-311B
Length: 25:57
Year: 1954
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
British documentary that portrays how the construction of the Sennar Dam, part of the Gezira Scheme, transformed the agriculture of the once barren plains and improved the quality of life for the locals.
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Clip #: TFA-177A
Length: 16:24
Year: 1956
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
An educational film about the Union of South Africa in 1950s
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Clip #: TFA-256A
Length: 42:45
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
Documentary about missionary work being done in Brazil and nearby countries. Footage of missionary doctors treating patients infected with the then-fatal skin disease fogo selvagem, locally referred to as Savage Fire." Also contains footage of traditional Indian ways of life, such as barbasco...
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Clip #: TFA-333A
Length: 15:55
Year: 1959
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
A glimpse into the varied people, industries and climates of Alaska.
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