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Clip #: TFA-2B
Length: 15:44
Year: 1910
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1910s
Description:
The town and the people of Oberammergau, in Bavaria, Germany who celebrate the Passion Play every ten years in thanks for God having spared them from the Bubonic Plague in 1634
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Clip #: SF-11B-2
Length: 4:04
Year: 1907
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1900s
Description:
1907 silent drama directed by Edwin S. Porter
A miner's cabin in the mountains. Mines don't pan out, Gambler offers money for the hand of daughter. The insult. The stranger appears. The blow. Girl shows stranger to main road. They part. Stranger shot by gambler in ambush. Gambler escapes....
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Clip #: SF-4B
Length: 8:39
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1910s
Description:
Excerpts of daring scenes from silent adventure serial films including “Dirty Work at The Crossroads,” “The Fatal Ring,” “White Eagle,” “The Terrible People,” “The Man Without a Face,” “The Fast Express” and “The Fire Detective.”
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Clip #: TFA-15C
Length: 6:09
Year: 1946
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1940s
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Clip #: SF-2E
Length: 18:29
Year: 1914
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1910s
Description:
From Journal of the Outdoor Life By National Tuberculosis Association February 1914:
The plot of this year's picture, "The Temple of Moloch," is laid in a small village, the chief industries of which are some potteries, owned by Harrison Pratt. He also owns a group of dilapidated tenements,...
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Clip #: SF-12B
Length: 14:23
Year: 1926
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1920s
Description:
Selah Blair is treated badly by her stepmother, "Widder" Gasper, and her only friend is her dog, King. "Widder" Gasper's son, Bud, is a redneck, white-trash, bootlegging moonshiner in the Tennessee mountains in which they reside, and keeps a lustful eye on his step-sister. Kitty Carlyle, a...
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Clip #: MF-4D-2
Length: 9:00
Year: 1954
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
1950s film about the United States Social Security system.
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Clip #: MF-35B
Length: 26:32
Year: 1957
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
A Jerry Fairbanks industrial film about telephone courtesy from the 1950s
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Clip #: TFA-157
Length: 01:36:51
Year: 1926
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1920s
Description:
Entertaining travelogue from 1926 promoting The French Line, a trans-Atlantic cruise line. This is
interspersed with narrative that focuses on a young middle-class couple who takes a trip on the ocean liner.
Extensive footage of passengers enjoying leisure time and activities on the sun...
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Clip #: TFA-137D
Length: 14:04
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1970s
Description:
A Canadian National Railways trip to Jasper National Park
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