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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 #: SF-11F
Length: 10:15
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1910s
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A silent film that takes place near a railroad line.
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Clip #: MF-4D-1
Length: 13:39
Year: 1954
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
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-12B
Length: 14:23
Year: 1926
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1920s
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Selah Blair is treated badly by her stepmother, "Widder" Gasper, and her only friend is her dog, King. "Widder" Gasper's son, Bud, is a redneck, white-trash, bootlegging moonshiner in the Tennessee mountains in which they reside, and keeps a lustful eye on his step-sister. Kitty Carlyle, a...
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Clip #: SF-16
Length: 13:01
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1920s
Description:
A compilation of clips from silent comedies, including “His Unlucky Night” and “Nip and Tuck.”
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Clip #: MF-15C
Length: 11:21
Year: 1929
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1920s
Description:
An expectant father grows increasingly anxious while he waits for his baby to be born.
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Clip #: SF-8B
Length: 22:44
Year: 1916
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1910s
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A lovable scoundrel is busted for gambling and thrown into jail, where he dreams of playing poker - but even in his dreams, he loses.
Director: Bert Williams
Writer: Bert Williams
Stars: Bert Williams, Wes Jenkins
Our story centers upon the activities of a Negro fraternal organization, the...
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Clip #: SF-5A
Length: 29:55
Year: 1914
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1910s
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Brute Force [a.k.a. Primitive Man] (1914) is a short silent drama film directed by D. W. Griffith, and starring Robert Harron and Mae Marsh. The film was shot in Chatsworth Park, Chatsworth, Los Angeles, California. It is a story of cavemen and dinosaurs, and perhaps the first live-action...
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Clip #: SF-2C
Length: 16:23
Year: 1912
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1910s
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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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