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Bicycle Police

Clip #: SF-11B-4
Length: 3:38
Year: 1904
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1900s
Description:
Bicycle police chase a thief through a park.

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The Suburbanite                            

Clip #: SF-2A
Length: 7:15
Year: 1904
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1900s
Description:
A family moves out to the 'peaceful' suburbs where everything goes wrong, including the mother-in-law moving in. The Suburbanite is a 1904 American short comedy silent film directed by Wallace McCutcheion and starring John Troiano. The film was produced and distributed by the American Mutoscope...

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The Untamable Whiskers

Clip #: SF-2B
Length: 2:43
Year: 1904
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1900s
Description:
Directed by and starring Georges Méliès. Through a rapid succession of drawings, ingenious disguises and soft dissolves, the director portrays a quick-sketch artist who transforms to various characters according to the static outlines on his chalkboard. The background of this picture...

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Defenders of the Law - Pt 1

Clip #: MF-15A
Length: 14:59
Year: 1931
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1930s
Description:
1931 American crime movie directed by Joseph Levering and starring Catherine Dale Owen, John Holland and Robert Gleckler, about police trying to infiltrate a gang of racketeers who have moved from New York.

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Defenders of the Law - Pt 2

Clip #: MF-15B
Length: 13:47
Year: 1931
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1930s
Description:
1931 American crime movie directed by Joseph Levering and starring Catherine Dale Owen, John Holland and Robert Gleckler, about police trying to infiltrate a gang of racketeers who have moved from New York.

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Washing Clothes, Italy

Clip #: TFA-319D
Length: :24
Year: 1900
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1900s
Description:
Scenes from Italy in 1900, including a rocky shore and a woman scrubbing laundry on a rock next to a stream.

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Paris Bicycle Race

Clip #: TFA-20A-11
Length: 3:17
Year: 1948
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1940s
Description:
Paris road bicycle racing events in 1948.

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Coney Island

Clip #: TFA-215A
Length: 19:35
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1900s
Description:
Early films shot in Coney Island amusement park around 1900

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Siena

Clip #: TFA-2D-2
Length: 4:08
Year: 1949
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1940s
Description:
03:59:38 04:03:46 Bicycle race thru city streets, shots of streets and building, many sequences of the carnival and demonstrations of the flag twirlers.

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This Was New York

Clip #: TFA-223C
Length: 22:32
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1900s
Description:
Turn of the Century New York City scenes, including arrival of immigrants at Ellis Island, "Twenty-Three Skidoo" outside the Flatiron Building and ice skating on the frozen 59th Street Pond.

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