Rural Ireland Today

Clip #: TFA-161B
Length: 3:57
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1920s
Description:
Athlone bridge, men and women Irish folk dancing, Ross Castle Atlantic coast cave, Dunluce Castle, ruins, barren, eerie, roofless, windswept, isolatd,group of school children, school. students, smiling Listowel and Ballybunion Railway, monorail, steam train, railway, steam engine,...

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Land of Islam

Clip #: TFA-99B
Length: 8:41
Year: 1934
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1930s
Description:
Arab men walk up narrow shop lined street in Rabat, Morocco, Arab bedouins with rifles ride horses with Atlas mountains in background. Young tribesman poses against wall, Beggar sitting on ground with basket and ragged prayer rug, two arab women in white clothes with two children, outdoor...

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Seville In Fairtime

Clip #: TFA-29G
Length: 3:40
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1920s
Description:
The Queen of Spain comes to Seville at fairtime in the 1920s by Burton Holmes

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Bob Run - Sled Racers Cheat Death

Clip #: TFA-331M
Length: :53
Year: 1939
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1930s
Description:
Bob sled racers crash.

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Alpine Vistas from the Zugspite

Clip #: TFA-20L
Length: 4:04
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1920s
Description:
Amateur and Professional mountain climbers go up the Zugspite by Burton Holmes. Among the amateur climbers is the famous Metropolitan Opera star Maria Jeritza

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The Fair At Night

Clip #: TFA-29O
Length: 3:30
Year: 1933
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1930s
Description:
A tour of the 1933 Century of Progress World's Fair exposition in Chicago at night by Burton Holmes

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Burton Holmes Sample Reel

Clip #: TFA-173E
Length: 3:44
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1920s
Description:
A reel of excerpts from Burton Holmes films

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Glorious Versailles

Clip #: TFA-29E
Length: 3:45
Year: 1921
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1920s
Description:
A tour of the Versailles Palace and Gardens in the 1920s by Burton Holmes

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Lenoir On The Hudson

Clip #: TFA-184F
Length: 19:09
Year: 1926
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1920s
Description:
Family home movies taken on the Tilden/Wrightman estate on the Hudson River in Yonkers, NY in 1926. The estate is now part of the Lenoir Nature Preserve

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The Go-Getter Pt 4

Clip #: MF-14A
Length: 12:44
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1920s
Description:
Part 4 of a Western Electric film about the positive benefits of electricity being brought to a farm in Pennsylvania.

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