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Clip #: SF-1B
Length: 21:32
Year: 1910
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1910s
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A young girl looking for work, is hired by a farmer's wife to work as a maid. A smooth talking peddler comes by the farm, and flirts with the young maid. He gives the naive girl an engagement ring and promises to marry her. When the peddler runs up some gambling debts, he visits the maid again...
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Clip #: SF-1E
Length: 17:34
Year: 1912
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1910s
Description:
Part Two of a silent Western film directed by D.W. Griffith. Mexican Jim, a good-for-nothing of the mining camp, spends most of his time in the tavern of the little town. On this particular day, having drunk up more than usual, he quarrels with Jack Hardy, a young prospector. Jack, under other...
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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 #: 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 #: TFA-233G
Length: 12:36
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1920s
Description:
The Spirit of Radio wakes up Rip Van Winkle and they visit WJZ, a radio station in New York City.
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Clip #: SF-18
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Year: 1922
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1920s
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Reel two and three of a silent film starring Lon Chaney. Stooped over chinese man with bad posture, bowl haircut and chinese clothing standing on dock next to overweight boy in overalls and sailor hat. CU boy looking warily at piece of candy in his hand. CU chinese man smiling awkwardly, boy...
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Clip #: SF-12D
Length: 18:31
Year: 1915
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1910s
Description:
Jim Carson, a young Tennessee mountaineer, and Millie James, a mountain girl, are worried over the condition of Jim's mother. Millie nurses her tenderly. Jim's worry is increased by a note which he has received from John Calhoun, a miserly landowner, stating that, unless he pays the overdue rent ...
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Clip #: TFA-304C
Length: 9:11
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1930s
Description:
The sights and culture of Madeira, from traditional attire and handicrafts to tourists being transported in hammocks, toboggans and ox carts.
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Clip #: MF-13A
Length: 21:55
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1940s
Description:
Educational film about Bell and Howell film projectors.
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Clip #: TFA-91A
Length: 7:33
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1940s
Description:
A tour of Portugal in the 1940s
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