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Clip #: TFA-86A
Length: 12:51
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1920s
Description:
An all day excursion on a passenger ferry from Chicago to Milwaukee on Lake Michigan and a tour of Milwaukee in the 1920s, produced by Burton Holmes.
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Clip #: MF-4E
Length: 8:57
Year: 1934
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1930s
Description:
A film about the contributions of Pennzoil motor oil to the development of modern transportation
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Clip #: MF-22B
Length: 4:11
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
Abbott Labs in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, sends radioactive gold for medical use
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Clip #: TFA-190C
Length: 09:22
Year: 1947
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1940s
Description:
A tour of the state of Illinois in 1947, from the Carl Dudley "This Is Our Land" series.
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Clip #: TFA-372G
Length: 08:58
Year: 1941
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1940s
Description:
A brief history of aviation, from the Wright Brother’s first flight at Kitty Hawk, aircraft uses for defense and a United Airlines Mainliner transcontinental flight.
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Clip #: TFA-40A
Length: 13:10
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1950s
Description:
An aerial tour of many of the world's wonders in the 1950s
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Clip #: TFA-41A
Length: 21:40
Year: 1933
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1930s
Description:
Early American Airways promotional demo film (1920’s) with audio and twin engine Curtiss Condor airplanes showing plane interiors and passengers, airport facilities, pilots and cockpit, map with destinations at that time, chart showing passenger growth from 1928 to 1933, plane flying and HAs...
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Clip #: MF-1F
Length: 10:34
Year: 1951
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
A film about the creation of the transcontinental microwave radio relay system, which allows long distance telephone calls and television shows to be broadcast across the country.
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Clip #: TFA-214B
Length: 24:44
Year: 1953
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
An award winning documentary short by John Barnes and Haskel Wexler which surveys the need for redevelopment of American cities and the forces which have created problems in urban areas; describes obstacles which deter the elimination of blighted areas and tenements and the relief of traffic...
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Clip #: TFA-141C
Length: 21:27
Year: 1952
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
A promotional film about capitalism and finance in the USA in the 1940s.
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