![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Remarkable New Aid To Navigation, 1937/05/12
"San Antonio, TX: navigators on sea or land, or in the air, now can tell their position in less than a minute, no matter what atmospheric conditions may prevail. The Hagner Position Finder does away with logarithms and the old, difficult process of navigation." (2) One-Man Band - "New York City: Elmer Trudgen, a Canadian farmboy, shows Gotham that the One-Man Band is not langer imagination. He has a contraption that enables him to play the piano, violin, guitar, harmonica, bass drum, snare drum,...
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| Point of Return
Recounts events culminating in a suicide attempt. A panel comments on the incidents of suicide, the effect on survivors and the need for preventive programs.
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| Valley of The Tennessee
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| Volcanoes
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| American Engineer (Part IV) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Tribute to engineers and their role in improving American life through technology.
Keywords: Engineering; Automobiles: Design and manufacturing; Manufacturing
Downloads: 5,744
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| Rain for the Earth (Part I) - U.S. Federal Works Agency, Work Projects Administration
Drought in the Dust Bowl and efforts to combat it.
Keywords: New Deal: Conservation
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| It's Your America (Part I) - U.S. War Office
The U.S. War Department described this film in the following words: "An American soldier, during his combat career, realizes the greatness of his country and determines to assume his share of the responsibilities of good citizenship upon his return to civilian life." Contains "seized enemy material."
Keywords: World War II: Postwar issues; Citizenship; Patriotism
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Average rating: (3 reviews) |
| Parade in New York
0629 PA8770 [Parade in New York] 16 Koda orig pix
Keywords: need meta
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| The Ghoul - T Hayes Hunter
The Ghoul is a 1933 British Horror film starring Boris Karloff, Cedric Hardwicke, Ernest Thesiger and Ralph Richardson, whose debut film this was. The plot centres around a Professor (Karloff) who is to be buried with an Egyptian jewel in order to attain eternal life. When the jewel is stolen by his servant, the professor rises from the dead to reclaim it. The film, based on the play and novel by Dr...
Keywords: Horror; Egypt; Mummy; Boris Karloff; Cedric Hardwicke; Ralph Richardson; Lost Film
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Average rating: (7 reviews) |
| Tear Gas Demo
0628 PA8755 [Tear Gas Demo]
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| The Quiet One
You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page.
Keywords: Documentary
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| Soundie - Stardust
male vocalist unknown. Written By: Mitchell Parish, Hoagy Carmichael
Keywords: soundie
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| [Chevrolet Sales Convention Musical] - Handy (Jam) Organization
Rare record of song-and-dance at a Chevrolet sales convention, designed to motivate the sales force.
Keywords: Automobiles: Sales; Industrial theater; Advertising: In-house
Downloads: 7,318
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| Scarlet Street - Fritz Lang, Walter Wanger
German director Fritz Lang is best known for the highly influential films from relatively early in his career, especially Metropolis (1927) and M (1931). But he also had a brief Hollywood heyday during the mid 1940s, when he made some of his best films. Scarlet Street has been claimed by film noir. This attribution is understandable. The lighting is dark, with heavy use of shadows. The characters are all shady as well...
Keywords: Film-Noir; Drama; Black Comedy; Fritz Lang
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| M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Moerder - Seymour Nebenzal
This film is nothing less than a masterpiece. It is a highly structured and stylized film about a serial killer. It created the serial kill genre, which includes such entries as Psycho and Silence of the Lambs. Alfred Hitchcock (the director of Psycho) was a disciple of Lang as were Jacques Tourneur (The Leopard Man (1943)) and Michael Powell (Peeping Tom (1960)). M was not only the originator of the genre, but arguably remains it preeminent entry...
Keywords: Thriller; Fritz Lang; German Expressionism; Peter Lorre
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| Visit to Santa, A - Williams (Clem) Films
Santa Claus rides in a parade and walks kids through a relentless department-store Christmas display. Filmed in Pittsburgh.
Keywords: Christmas; Santa Claus; Consumerism
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