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Clip #: TFA-338A
Length: 39:41
Year: 1934
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1930s
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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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Clip #: TFA-170E
Length: 23:54
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1960s
Description:
A television travelogue hosted by Jack Douglas about a tour of picture postcard scenes in America
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Clip #: TFA-230B
Length: 11:27
Year: 1949
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1940s
Description:
Exploration of Peru's coastal region in the 1940's, presented by the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs.
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Clip #: TFA-140B
Length: 19:18
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1970s
Description:
A Pan Am promotional film about travel in the USA in the 1970s. Narration is in Portuguese.
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Clip #: TFA-430A
Length: 11:17
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
A travelogue by the Montreux Tourist Office about Montreux, Switzerland in the 1950s.
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Clip #: TFA-158
Length: 29:35
Year: 1936
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1930s
Description:
Excellent travelogue of 1930s Paris with prominent monuments and examples of Parisian culture.
Cityscapes of the city and views of prominent boulevards and structures. Excellent footage of
Parisians dining at sidewalk cafes, buying French bread, and enjoying leisure time in the park....
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Clip #: TFA-190C
Length: 09:22
Year: 1947
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1940s
Description:
A tour of the state of Illinois in 1947, from the Carl Dudley "This Is Our Land" series.
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Clip #: TFA-303A
Length: 19:16
Year: 1929
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1920s
Description:
48 hour transcontinental trip from New York to Los Angeles by rail and air travel. Charles Lindbergh follows the travelers in his own plane on an inspection trip. At the end of their trip, the passengers are greeted in Los Angeles by TAT President Jack Maddux and Amelia Earhart.
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Clip #: TFA-390B
Length: 18:46
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
A promotional film about the paper manufacturing industry in Canada and the United States South.
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Clip #: TFA-299D
Length: 9:28
Year: 1947
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1940s
Description:
A Carl Dudley documentary about the state of Massachusetts in the late 1940s.
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