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Clip #: MF-14A
Length: 12:44
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1920s
Description:
Part 4 of a Western Electric film about the positive benefits of electricity being brought to a farm in Pennsylvania.
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Clip #: SF-7B
Length: 11:40
Year: 1925
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1920s
Description:
The Coming of Amos (1925) is a silent film romantic drama produced by Cecil B. DeMille and distributed by his Producers Distributing Corporation. An Australian sheep rancher fulfills his promise to his dying mother by visiting his uncle on the French Riviera. He meets and falls in love with a...
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Clip #: TFA-253
Length: 28:40
Year: 1930
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1930s
Description:
Part II of a two part documentary that follows explorer Paul Hoefler as as he leads a safari into central Africa and films a swarm of locusts and warriors hunting lions who have killed a native man.
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Clip #: TFA-343A
Length: 20:09
Year: 1954
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
A British Transport Films documentary about travel to East Anglia
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Clip #: MF-34C
Length: 12:47
Year: 1949
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1940s
Description:
Instructional film about the tobacco industry in the Colony of Southern Rhodesia.
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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 #: SF-12A
Length: 24:23
Year: 1925
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1920s
Description:
Captain Dangerfield and Captain Barr are rivals in an upcoming boat race. Barr is excited about his innovative plans for his boat, but his work is proceeding slowly, and he is hampered by his inept assistant. Meanwhile, Dangerfield is plotting to sabotage his rival. Just before the race,...
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Clip #: MF-24A
Length: 16:06
Year: 1927
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1920s
Description:
Silent drama about the writing of the song "The Star Spangled Banner."
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Clip #: TFA-264C
Length: 15:44
Year: 1939
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1930s
Description:
The children of the Balkan Peninsula, who when not attending school, perform agricultural duties on their family farms, including tending to the animals, picking crops and making traditional Balkan handicrafts.
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Clip #: SF-2C
Length: 16:23
Year: 1912
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1910s
Description:
When a Red Cross worker asks a prominent small-town banker for a donation to help fight tuberculosis the banker scoffs, saying that TB is a disease of poor people in the cities, not the kind of people you find in small towns. It's not long before he finds out just how wrong he is.
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