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Clip #: TFA-68A
Length: 20:34
Year: 1948
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1940s
Description:
A tour of the ocean liner R.M.S. Queen Elizabeth as it docks in Southhampton after a transatlantic voyage

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SS Normandie in New York

Clip #: AD-37
Length: 19:56
Year: 1930
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1930s
Description:
1930s travelogue of French Line cruise ships, in particular the SS Normandie as it arrives in New York from Le Havre (possibly on its record-breaking maiden voyage on May 29, 1935). Extensive footage of the Normandie arriving into the New York Harbor accompanied by an entourage of boats and...

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Freighter At Sea

Clip #: TFA-307B
Length: 16:17
Year: 1948
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1940s
Description:
Education film about the SS Anchor Hitch, a US Merchant Marine freighter that transported passengers in addition to cargo, as it travels from San Francisco to South America.

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Getting There Is Half The Fun

Clip #: TFA-231A
Length: 33:24
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
A Transatlantic cruise on a luxurious Cunard Line ocean liner.

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To Milwaukee on the Christopher Columbus

Clip #: TFA-86A
Length: 12:51
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1920s
Description:
An all day excursion on a passenger ferry from Chicago to Milwaukee on Lake Michigan and a tour of Milwaukee in the 1920s, produced by Burton Holmes.

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Airport Activities

Clip #: TFA-110C
Length: 15:55
Year: 1952
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
A survey of everything that goes on at the Los Angeles airport (LAX) in the early 1950s.

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Night Mail

Clip #: TFA-387A
Length: 22:59
Year: 1936
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1930s
Description:
British documentary from 1936 about the “Postal Special,” a postal train operated by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) that ran nightly from London to Scotland.

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The Longest Gangplank

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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The Passenger Train

Clip #: TFA-76C
Length: 10:41
Year: 1954
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
A boy takes his first trip on a passenger train.

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Fly American!

Clip #: TFA-41A
Length: 21:40
Year: 1933
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1930s
Description:
Early American Airways promotional demo film (1920s) with audio and twin engine Curtiss Condor airplanes showing plane interiors and passengers, airport facilities, pilots and cockpit, map with destinations at that time, chart showing passenger growth from 1928 to 1933, plane flying and HAs...

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