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Clip #: TFA-339A
Length: 16:29
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
A Union Pacific sponsored film about soil conservation
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Clip #: TFA-128B
Length: 16:59
Year: 1948
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1940s
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Produced by The Association of American Railroads, showcasing both steam and diesel passenger trains. Narrated by Ed Herlihy of newsreel fame. There are some very interesting locomotives: Alco PAs from the Pennsylvania Railroad Southern &...
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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 #: 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 #: MF-35A
Length: 22:37
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
A Bell Telephone film about telephone courtesy from the 1950s
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Clip #: SF-8B
Length: 22:44
Year: 1916
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1910s
Description:
A lovable scoundrel is busted for gambling and thrown into jail, where he dreams of playing poker - but even in his dreams, he loses.
Director: Bert Williams
Writer: Bert Williams
Stars: Bert Williams, Wes Jenkins
Our story centers upon the activities of a Negro fraternal organization, the...
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Clip #: TFA-76C
Length: 10:41
Year: 1954
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
A boy takes his first trip on a passenger train.
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Clip #: MF-4D-1
Length: 13:39
Year: 1954
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
Film presented by the Social Security Administration explaining how Social Security benefits apply to farm workers, after being extended to them in 1954.
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Clip #: SF-2A
Length: 7:15
Year: 1904
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1900s
Description:
A family moves out to the 'peaceful' suburbs where everything goes wrong, including the mother-in-law moving in. The Suburbanite is a 1904 American short comedy silent film directed by Wallace McCutcheion and starring John Troiano. The film was produced and distributed by the American Mutoscope...
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Clip #: TFA-338A
Length: 39:41
Year: 1934
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1930s
Description:
The Song of Ceylon is a 1934 British documentary film directed by Basil Wright and produced by John Grierson for the Ceylon Tea Propaganda Board. Documentary chronicling the cultural life and religious customs of the Sinhalese and the effects of advanced industrialism on such customs. The first...
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