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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-157
Length: 01:36:51
Year: 1926
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1920s
Description:
Entertaining travelogue from 1926 promoting The French Line, a trans-Atlantic cruise line. This is
interspersed with narrative that focuses on a young middle-class couple who takes a trip on the ocean liner.
Extensive footage of passengers enjoying leisure time and activities on the sun...
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Clip #: AD-37
Length: 19:56
Year: 1930
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1930s
Description:
1930s travelogue of French Line cruise ships, in particular the SS Normandie as it arrives in New York
from Le Havre (possibly on its record-breaking maiden voyage on May 29, 1935). Extensive footage of the
Normandie arriving into the New York Harbor accompanied by an entourage of boats and...
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Clip #: MF-31B-6
Length: 2:15
Year: 1955
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
Radio technology is used to communicate and maintain efficiency at the Weatherhead Company in Cleveland, Ohio in the 1950s.
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Clip #: MF-6C
Length: 8:16
Year: 1944
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1940s
Description:
United States Navy film about the ongoing combat between the U.S. Navy and Japanese Armed Forces during World War II.
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Clip #: TFA-259D
Length: 8:53
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
On May 12, 1952 Bloomfield's first diesel vessel, a dual purpose drifter trawler, is launched from Great Yarmouth, England.
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Clip #: AD-95-1
Length: 16:46
Year: 1937
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1930s
Description:
French Line travelogue entitled "Midnight Sun" from the 1930s of the French Line cruise ship “Colombie” touring countries of the Atlantic Ocean with footage
of passengers and sailors on cruise ships, mountains and ocean filled with icebergs and people of the region.
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Clip #: TFA-308A
Length: 19:11
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1960s
Description:
Details the construction of the Guri Dam in Guyana / Venezuela and rescue mission by the Corporacion Venezolana de Guayana to save wild animals from the rising waters.
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Clip #: MF-26A-1
Length: 3:06
Year: 1955
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
The Cutler Power Plant, one of the first outdoor power plants built in Florida, provides electricity to the Miami area.
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Clip #: TFA-271C
Length: 6:14
Year: 1940
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1940s
Description:
Details the construction of the Panama Canal and demonstration of ships passing through it.
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