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Clip #: AD-36
Length: 19:55
Year: 1930
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1930s
Description:
Travelogue from 1930 of Venice featuring prominent landmarks and vistas of the city. Extensive footage
of the Piazza San Marco with well-known buildings / structures and tourists feeding pigeons. Excellent
shots of gondoliers on the canals and beauty shots of the city at sundown / twilight....
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Clip #: TFA-426B
Length: 13:30
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
A film about Haitian artists in the 1950s.
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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 #: MF-4C
Length: 11:34
Year: 1937
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1930s
Description:
A lesson in how wives should “properly” undress in front of their husbands, as demonstrated by the graceful and alluring Elaine Barrie Barrymore and conversely by the clumsy and uncouth Trixie Friganza.
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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-11E
Length: 13:20
Year: 1915
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1910s
Description:
Bessie Graham has been a sort of maid-of-all-work in her mother's boarding house for years. Determined to make a change, she tells her mother that she is going to strike out for herself and try to get a position in the city. Arrived in the city, she rents a cheap room and starts to look for...
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Clip #: TFA-10-9B-8
Length: 10:40
Year: 1949
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1940s
Description:
19:05:28 Herd of water buffalos being driven into river and two calves being driven. CU native in wide brimmed bamboo hat, CU buffalo. Various elephants walking in water with their mahouts on their back. Good shot elephant walking down dirt road with mahout on back. Elephants lying on their...
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Clip #: TFA-200J
Length: 14:26
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1930s
Description:
Donald MacMillan expedition to Greenland in the 1930s
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Clip #: SF-1B
Length: 21:32
Year: 1910
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1910s
Description:
A young girl looking for work, is hired by a farmer's wife to work as a maid. A smooth talking peddler comes by the farm, and flirts with the young maid. He gives the naive girl an engagement ring and promises to marry her. When the peddler runs up some gambling debts, he visits the maid again...
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Clip #: TFA-347A
Length: 19:20
Year: 1943
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1940s
Description:
A Julian Bryan film for the United States Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs about Bolivia in the 1940s. Records the life of the Aymara workers at the Petaca potato hacienda on the Bolivian altiplano. Scenes of fishing in Lake Titicaca; women in mourning shawls, spinning wool,...
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