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Clip #: TFA-67A-4
Length: 1:09
Year: 1903
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1900s
Description:
POV moving along train tracks. Goes into tunnel and emerges
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Clip #: TFA-132C
Length: 3:55
Year: 1934
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1930s
Description:
A ride on the new Zephyr streamlined train in 1934.
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Clip #: TFA-344B
Length: 24:44
Year: 1959
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
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Last Clear Chance is a 1959 American short film produced and directed by Robert Carlisle. Sponsored by Union Pacific Railroad, Last Clear Chance is a safety film intended to warn young drivers to be careful at railroad crossings.On the day young Alan receives his driver's license, Officer Hal...
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Clip #: TFA-185B
Length: 8:52
Year: 1947
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1940s
Description:
A film made in 1947 about the construction of the 36 story John Hancock building at 200 Berkeley St in Boston. It is also known as The Berkeley Building and the weather beacon on the top is a Boston landmark.
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Clip #: TFA-315F
Length: 2:02
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
Furniture is made by generations of craftsmen, convicts and former alcoholics at the Brandt Furniture Company factory in Hagerstown, Maryland.
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Clip #: TFA-237C
Length: 4:29
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1960s
Description:
A glimpse into Cleveland, Ohio in the 1960's.
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Clip #: SF-6B
Length: 14:12
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1920s
Description:
Part I of "Playmates," a 1918 American silent comedy film inspired by Charles Chaplin's "Easy Street,†featuring Oliver Hardy and directed by Charley Chase.
Billy West - Kid
Oliver Hardy - Kid (as Babe Hardy)
Bud Ross
Fay Holderness
Ethelyn Gibson
Ethel Marie Burton
Myrtle...
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Clip #: SF-12D
Length: 18:31
Year: 1915
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1910s
Description:
Jim Carson, a young Tennessee mountaineer, and Millie James, a mountain girl, are worried over the condition of Jim's mother. Millie nurses her tenderly. Jim's worry is increased by a note which he has received from John Calhoun, a miserly landowner, stating that, unless he pays the overdue rent ...
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Clip #: SF-1A
Length: 12:56
Year: 1909
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1910s
Description:
A Corner in Wheat is a 1909 American short silent film which tells of a greedy tycoon who tries to corner the world market on wheat, destroying the lives of the people who can no longer afford to buy bread. It was directed by D. W. Griffith and adapted by Griffith and Frank E. Woods from a novel ...
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Clip #: SF-2F
Length: 13:18
Year: 1913
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1910s
Description:
Joe Hardy, a young farmer of good standing, proposes to, and is accepted by Jessie Barnes, daughter of a neighboring farmer, When Joe brings the matter to the attention of Mr. Barnes, he receives a flat refusal. Joe, being a hot-tempered man, goes to the saloon, and in the presence of several...
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