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Clip #: MF-35B
Length: 26:32
Year: 1957
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
A Jerry Fairbanks industrial film about telephone courtesy from the 1950s
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Clip #: SF-1A
Length: 12:56
Year: 1909
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1910s
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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 #: SF-12B
Length: 14:23
Year: 1926
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1920s
Description:
Selah Blair is treated badly by her stepmother, "Widder" Gasper, and her only friend is her dog, King. "Widder" Gasper's son, Bud, is a redneck, white-trash, bootlegging moonshiner in the Tennessee mountains in which they reside, and keeps a lustful eye on his step-sister. Kitty Carlyle, a...
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Clip #: SF-2C
Length: 16:23
Year: 1912
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1910s
Description:
When a Red Cross worker asks a prominent small-town banker for a donation to help fight tuberculosis the banker scoffs, saying that TB is a disease of poor people in the cities, not the kind of people you find in small towns. It's not long before he finds out just how wrong he is.
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Clip #: MF-19B
Length: 9:07
Year: 1948
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1940s
Description:
Children host an exhibit about courtesy for parents.
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Clip #: TFA-399B
Length: 10:41
Year: 1948
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1940s
Description:
An educational film from the late 1940s about French children who live on a farm near the medieval town of Dinan, in northwestern France.
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Clip #: TFA-400A
Length: 9:32
Year: 1948
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1940s
Description:
An educational film from the 1940s about a Dutch family who live on a farm near Middelburg, the Netherlands.
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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 #: MF-24A
Length: 16:06
Year: 1927
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1920s
Description:
Silent drama about the writing of the song "The Star Spangled Banner."
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Clip #: SF-12A
Length: 24:23
Year: 1925
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1920s
Description:
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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