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King Tarz, The Lion

Date: 11 06 1941
Description: King Tarz, The Seasonal Jungle Actor, (a lion) was brought to Madison to publicize "Tarzan's Secret Treasure" which stars Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sul...
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City Hall and Parkway Theatre

Date: 1938
Description: Exterior view across Mifflin Street of City Hall, located at the intersection of West Mifflin Street and Wisconsin Avenue. The Parkway Theater, featuring t...
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Madison Youth Council Movie Makers

Date: 11 11 1947
Description: Four members of Madison Youth Council are shown lounging around a movie camera in a woodland setting. They were making a movie, "Make Way for Youth".
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Empty Stocking Club

Date: 11 29 1947
Description: In the lobby of the Capitol Theatre, manager Fred Reeths is holding Johnny Heitz while he drops a coin into the Empty Stocking Club stocking. Johnny's moth...
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Young Women's Christian Association Open House

Date: 09 20 1949
Description: Ardella Nelson of Klemme, Iowa, a member of the Teen and Twenty club, points out something on the screen to Mrs. Florence Benjamin, formerly of Berkeley, C...
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Robert Bloch with Buster Keaton

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Description: Robert Bloch with an aged Buster Keaton.
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Bloch on Movie Set

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Description: Robert Bloch sitting on a film set, likely "Straight Jacket," surrounded by film equipment.
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Bloch with Special Effects Prosthetics

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Description: Robert Bloch on the set of Strait Jacket, a 1964 film starring Joan Crawford based on a book Bloch wrote. The film's director William Castle is hold...
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Robert Bloch at Movie Event

Date: 1960
Description: Frank Chimera, Rochelle Hudson and Robert Bloch (in eyeglasses) are seated at a table at an event related to the release of the film Strait Jacket. ...
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Bloch, Crawford and Castle

Date: 08 07 1963
Description: Clipping from a movie magazine of Robert Bloch sitting at a reception table with Joan Crawford and William Castle. The text with the clipping reads "Joan C...
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Alfred Hitchcock on Set

Date: 1940
Description: Alfred Hitchcock stands with Joel McCrea and another man on the set of the film "Foreign Correspondent." McCrea wears a suit, trench coat and bowler; the o...
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Neville Brand and Whit Bissell

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Description: Actor Neville Brand stands behind actor Whit Bissell while holding a knife to his throat. They are on the set of the film "Riot in Cell Block 11."
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Walter Wanger and Don Siegel

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Description: Walter Wanger and Don Siegel talk on the set of the film "Riot in Cell Block 11." They are standing outside in the prison yard. They both hold binders.
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Walter Wanger

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Description: Walter Wanger gets his hand stamped by a prison guard. He is wearing a suit and sunglasses and holds a binder.
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Neville Brand

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Description: Neville Brand leans against a wall outside of a prison cell and smiles. He is pulling out a cigarette from a cigarette pack he holds in his hands. There is...
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Production still of John Ford for "The Long Voyage Home"

Date: 1940
Description: Director John Ford with his pipe in his mouth walking onto a location for "The Long Voyage Home" (1940).
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Cyril Ritchard in a production still

Date: 1948
Description: Actor Cyril Ritchard and three young women, presumably from the cast of "The Winslow Boy," listen to the Tannoy public address system.
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"Destination Moon" scene still with John Archer.

Date: 1950
Description: Actor John Archer is in the spaceship interior set of "Destination Moon." He walks carefully in a pair of boots with suction cups and holds another pair i...
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"Destination Moon" scene still with Warner Anderson, Tom Powers, Dick Wesson, and John Archer.

Date: 1950
Description: "Destination Moon" scene still with the actors Warner Anderson, Tom Powers, Dick Wesson, and John Archer in the control room of a spaceship. Wesson and Arc...
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Tom Powers in a "Destination Moon" publicity still.

Date: 1950
Description: Actor Tom Powers shows signs of distress strapped onto a spaceship bunk in a publicity still for "Destination Moon."

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