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Clip #: TFA-262A
Length: 24:55
Year: 1955
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
Publicity film detailing how trains have kept the United States economy going by transporting passengers and freight.
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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 #: SF-18
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Year: 1922
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1920s
Description:
Reel two and three of a silent film starring Lon Chaney. Stooped over chinese man with bad posture, bowl haircut and chinese clothing standing on dock next to overweight boy in overalls and sailor hat. CU boy looking warily at piece of candy in his hand. CU chinese man smiling awkwardly, boy...
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Clip #: TFA-106F
Length: 16:01
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1920s
Description:
Firemen put out fires in the 1920s followed by explanation of how fire sprinkler systems work
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Clip #: TFA-249A
Length: 10:36
Year: 1940
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1940s
Description:
The culture and people of Yugoslavia in the 1940's.
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Clip #: TFA-10-9B-8
Length: 10:40
Year: 1949
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1940s
Description:
19:05:28 Herd of water buffalos being driven into river and two calves being driven. CU native in wide brimmed bamboo hat, CU buffalo. Various elephants walking in water with their mahouts on their back. Good shot elephant walking down dirt road with mahout on back. Elephants lying on their...
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Clip #: TFA-150G
Length: 21:16
Year: 1949
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1940s
Description:
A nomadic tribe sets up camp and travels through the Moroccan Sahara Desert in the 1940's.
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Clip #: TFA-277A
Length: 23:22
Year: 1944
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1940s
Description:
Everyday life of the crofting community of Achriesgill, a rural village in the Scottish Highlands.
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Clip #: SF-9B
Length: 14:40
Year: 1915
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1910s
Description:
A young man tries to rescue his fiancee from kidnappers. Produced by Thomas Alva Edison. Bessie Learn, Warren Cook, Augustus Phillips, Harry Paddock, Carlton King.Unable to go to the pier to meet his daughter, Helen, who is expected on the Brazilian from Europe, the Hon. John Dearborn dispatches ...
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Clip #: TFA-274A
Length: 21:29
Year: 1962
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1960s
Description:
The people and varied industries of Norway, Sweden and Denmark.
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