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Clip #: TFA-15A
Length: 11:30
Year: 1917
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1910s
Description:
Follows a week-long, 180-mile trip on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal through the Potomac Valley from Cumberland, Md., to Washington, D.C. Includes scenes of the locks in operation; a mile-long, hand-dug tunnel which was built in 1840; coal barges plying the canal; Maryland farming country;...
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Clip #: SF-1A
Length: 12:56
Year: 1909
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1910s
Description:
A Corner in Wheat is a 1909 American short silent film which tells of a greedy tycoon who tries to corner the world market on wheat, destroying the lives of the people who can no longer afford to buy bread. It was directed by D. W. Griffith and adapted by Griffith and Frank E. Woods from a novel ...
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Clip #: TFA-249A
Length: 10:36
Year: 1940
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1940s
Description:
The culture and people of Yugoslavia in the 1940's.
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Clip #: TFA-249B
Length: 12:00
Year: 1936
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1930s
Description:
One day at a Franconian village street in the 1930's.
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Clip #: TFA-154E
Length: 15:24
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1930s
Description:
The changing landscape and industrial agriculture of Africa in the 1930's.
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Clip #: TFA-306A
Length: 25:17
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
Documentary narrated in Hebrew about the formation of a farming community / kibbutz in the Palestinian desert near the Dead Sea.
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Clip #: MF-3A-2
Length: :39
Year: 1955
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
A message about the importance of capital formation in building American industry in the 1950s.
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Clip #: TFA-321E
Length: 8:51
Year: 1947
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1940s
Description:
A film about Maine in the late 1940s from the Carl Dudley series This World of Ours.
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Clip #: TFA-408B
Length: 11:01
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
A travelogue about the Canary Islands from the 1950s.
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Clip #: TFA-13D-3
Length: 1:47
Year: 1948
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1940s
Description:
A sheep ranch in Uruguay in the 1940s.
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