Freight Car of the Future

Clip #: MF-21P
Length: 2:11
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
The Unicel freight car, a combination freight and refrigerator car, which is made from plywood and is much better insulated and cheaper to build than the traditional steel freight car.

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Large and Small Businesses

Clip #: MF-22F
Length: :38
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
Large and small businesses depend upon each other when manufacturing for consumer needs and for national defense.

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Lago de Guri - Operacion Rescate

Clip #: TFA-308A
Length: 19:11
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1960s
Description:
Details the construction of the Guri Dam in Guyana / Venezuela and rescue mission by the Corporacion Venezolana de Guayana to save wild animals from the rising waters.

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Columbia River, Economic Lifeline of the North

Clip #: TFA-259E
Length: 14:24
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1960s
Description:
Follows the flow of the Columbia River that runs through Oregon, Washington and British Columbia and is responsible for providing significant commerce to the Pacific Northwest region.

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New Methods for Making Plywood

Clip #: MF-27C
Length: 1:50
Year: 1955
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
New solutions for making plywood.

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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 and Freedom

Clip #: TFA-310B
Length: 10:45
Year: 1941
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1940s
Description:
Depicts efforts to overturn the feudalist society in Mexico, a system originally established during the Spanish conquest.

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The Nation At Your Fingertips

Clip #: MF-1E
Length: 8:57
Year: 1951
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
A film about long distance telephone calls in 1951

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Going Places

Clip #: TFA-281B
Length:
Year: 1952
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
Travelogue vignettes around the world, from El Paso, Texas to a carriage maker in Pennsylvania and linen factory in Ireland.

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The Sugar Trail

Clip #: TFA-208G
Length: 12:53
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1920s
Description:
A film by General Electric about how sugar is made from beets

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