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Clip #: TFA-243G
Length: 7:37
Year: 1933
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1930s
Description:
Sights of the 1933-4 Century of Progress International Exposition (Chicago World's Fair) in Chicago, Illinois.
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Clip #: TFA-392A
Length: 25:36
Year: 1936
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1930s
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The Plow That Broke the Plains is a 1936 short documentary film which shows what happened to the Great Plains region of the United States and Canada when uncontrolled agricultural farming led to the Dust Bowl. It was written and directed by Pare Lorentz. The film was narrated by the American...
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Clip #: TFA-183C
Length: 8:53
Year: 1950
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
A film about Portugal in the late 1940s from the Carl Dudley series This World of Ours.
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Clip #: SF-1A
Length: 12:56
Year: 1909
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1910s
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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 #: TFA-331F
Length: :36
Year: 1939
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1930s
Description:
"Big five" cooperate in building biggest transport plane in the 1930s.
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Clip #: TFA-84B
Length: 10:20
Year: 1943
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1940s
Description:
Edward R. Murrow presents the story of the front line of defense of England during World War II at Dover.
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Clip #: MF-17C-1
Length: 2:26
Year: 1934
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1930s
Description:
Newsreel looking back at 1934 with highlights from the year including the birth of the Dionne Quintuplets, the Chicago World's Fair and a woman driving with and walking a lion on a leash in Hollywood, California.
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Clip #: TFA-335G
Length: 10:40
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
Nomads set up camp in the Sahara Desert.
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Clip #: TFA-340B
Length: 2:38
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1950s
Description:
A World in Color travelogue about Chickamin Glacier in Southeastern Alaska.
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Clip #: TFA-331K
Length: :50
Year: 1942
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1940s
Description:
The Short S.20 Mercury seaplane piggybacks on top of the Short S.21 Maia.
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