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Clip #: TFA-46A
Length: 43:47
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
A Cunard Line advertising film, the cruise of the ship Coronia thru the Mediterranean with stops and side trips to many of the major cities with quick shots of interesting sights and maps showing route as the tour progresses. Tour starts along the African coast at Madeira to Tangiers, Malta,...
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Clip #: TFA-13B
Length: 8:48
Year: 1955
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
A tour of Rio de Janeiro and the annual carnival in the 1950s
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Clip #: TFA-274B
Length: 22:05
Year: 1961
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1960s
Description:
An educational film about the history of the Mediterranean. Traces the spread of the Greek civilization and the formation and collapse of the Roman Empire. Shows how the building of the Suez Canal increased the importance of the sea as a transportation route.
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Clip #: TFA-9A-4
Length: 12:20
Year: 1936
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1930s
Description:
Burma – bare breasted women carry heavily loaded baskets on heads and set them down on the beach. Primitive village, men jumping over high stele, soldiers with primitive armor dance in street. Various CUs natives with ornate headdresses.
17:24:42 - 17:29:47 >>> Burma?? – Bare breasted...
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Clip #: TFA-12-3
Length: 9:37
Year: 1948
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1940s
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00:08:12 - 00:13:09 >>> Rajah’s white palace ??. CUs young girls. A tame tiger with people out on the lawn. A uniformed band marches in formations and plays instruments and drums.
00:13:09 - 00:17:49 >>> PAN this very large white palace. MSs and CUs colorfully dressed men walk and converse...
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Clip #: TFA-6-5B-8
Length: 10:52
Year: 1959
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1950s
Description:
The harbour with boats docked, POV traffic on street, MS outdoor vegetable stand and vendor, people walking in street, man carries baby carriage off canal boat.
11:10:24 - 11:14:05 >>> Statue in square with old style street lamps, a interesting spiral steeple on top of the old stock exchange...
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Clip #: TFA-9A-7
Length: 12:21
Year: 1936
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1930s
Description:
17:59:29 a parade of natives and their royalty being carried on chairs on poles on men’s’ shoulders. Many people in parade. A royal funeral ??? Many men with a network of poles on their shoulders carry a heavy ornamental tent with people inside. Three men on a bovine statue are carried by...
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Clip #: TFA-15B-6
Length: 9:13
Year: 1937
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1930s
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Clip #: TFA-8A-5
Length: 5:22
Year: 1937
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1930s
Description:
15:34:47 LSs to Roman coliseum ruins at El Jem. POV auto as it drives down a narrow dirt road under palm trees. A group of loaded camels and people with very young children cross the road. A narrow stream with a stone bridge over it. Men working on stones in street. CUs young boys. Boy riding...
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Clip #: TFA-408A
Length: 21:30
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
A United Nations film about a Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations report on Greece in the late 1940s
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