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Clip #: SF-4A
Length: 28:52
Year: 1915
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1910s
Description:
Chapter 5 from The Exploits of Elaine, a 1914 American film serial in the damsel in distress genre. Scientific detective Craig Kennedy uses his gadget-filled lab to discover the identity of the murderer of Elaine's father, who is known only as "the Clutching Hand." The In The Poisoned Room: The ...
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Clip #: MF-14E-2
Length: :59
Year: 1947
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1940s
Description:
Theatrical Ad for a 1940 reconditioned Chevrolet Special Deluxe 2 door sedan, in which a family drives to grandmother's house to deliver her a present.
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Clip #: TFA-346A
Length: 37:03
Year: 1952
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
A United States Information Service film about UCLA in Los Angeles.
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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 #: TFA-15A
Length: 11:30
Year: 1917
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1910s
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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 #: TFA-247
Length: 42:12
Year: 1914
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1910s
Description:
1914 film written and directed by Edward S. Curtis and acted completely by the Kwakwaka'wakw people of the Queen Charlotte Strait region of the Central Coast of British Columbia, Canada. It tells the story of Motana, the brave son of a chief, who amidst a spiritual journey, battles an evil...
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Clip #: SF-12A
Length: 24:23
Year: 1925
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1920s
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Captain Dangerfield and Captain Barr are rivals in an upcoming boat race. Barr is excited about his innovative plans for his boat, but his work is proceeding slowly, and he is hampered by his inept assistant. Meanwhile, Dangerfield is plotting to sabotage his rival. Just before the race,...
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Clip #: TFA-240A
Length: 36:59
Year: 1948
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1940s
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Clip #: TFA-107C
Length: 28:09
Year: 1953
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
A farmer and teacher in Williston, North Dakota learns about the benefits of oil drilling when he is propositioned by an oil company who wants to drill on his farm.
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Clip #: MF-35A
Length: 22:37
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
A Bell Telephone film about telephone courtesy from the 1950s
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