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Filming a Prescribed Prairie Burn

Date: 1953
Description: Disney film crew in UW-Madison Arboretum's Curtis Prairie filming a prescribed burn.
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Advertising Shapes American Life

Date: 02 14 1956
Description: Clark Hogan, operations manager of WKOW-TV, prepares advertising in the television studio.
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Filming The Vanishing Prairie

Date: 04 13 1953
Description: Disney film crew filming a prescribed burn at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum for inclusion in the film The Vanishing Prairie. A camer...
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Filming The Vanishing Prairie

Date: 04 13 1953
Description: Disney film crew shooting a prescribed burn at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum for inclusion in the film The Vanishing Prairie. A came...
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Reflections of Youth, WHA-TV

Date: 05 16 1956
Description: High school students Valerie Thomas (left), Peggy Hunter, and Karen Koten take part in "Reflections of Youth," a television program on WHA.
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WISC-TV Show Set

Date: 12 06 1957
Description: Interior shot of television studio. Large lights are suspended from the ceiling, there are two TV cameras and their operators, a television set, and two gr...
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"Riot on Cell Block 11" Stage Set

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Description: Elevated view of the set for the film "Riot on Cell Block 11." There is a large group of men in the center back, and movie cameras, lighting equipment, and...
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Walter Wanger, Neville Brand and Leo Gordon

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Description: Walter Wanger talks with actors Neville Brand and Leo Gordon outdoors on the set of the film "Riot in Cell Block 11." A large movie camera on wheels is on ...
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"Destination Moon" production still with actors and technicians.

Date: 1950
Description: Five crew members surround a large Technicolor camera on a crane. In the background is a large set of the surface of the moon with four astronauts standing...
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Production still for "Destination Moon" with two astronauts and a dolly covered with black velvet.

Date: 1950
Description: An interesting production still showing how the rescue of a spacewalking astronaut was filmed. One astronaut, holding a gas canister for propulsion, sits o...
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WMTV Weatherman Paul Ekern

Date: 05 28 1953
Description: WMTV weatherman Paul Ekern is standing and pointing to a weather map in front of a WMTV television camera.
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Four Men and Award at WMTV Channel 33

Date: 02 10 1954
Description: Four men and award at WMTV Channel 33.
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Master Television Engineer Award

Date: 07 13 1954
Description: Presentation of the Master Television Engineer award to Cloren Smith, Chief Engineer at WKOW-TV in Madison. Smith is seen holding a mounted cup on a studio...
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Shirley Clarke with Video Setup

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Description: Shirley Clarke is sitting on a couch and holding a video camera. She is looking off to the side. There are two monitors and other equipment in front of her...
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Walter Dunn and Others Inside Historymobile

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Description: Two men wearing suits are standing in the foreground, with the man on the right holding a pipe in his hand. Behind them is a man standing and operating a W...
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The Cisco Kid Production Still

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Description: A behind the scenes production still from the TV show The Cisco Kid shot on an outdoor set at Paramount Ranch. Ten men, including one actor, sit and stand...
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John Ford and John Wayne

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Description: Director John Ford and John Wayne stand next to each other and an unidentified man on the set of the 1939 film Stagecoach. A stagecoach, with a camera and...
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"Klondike" TV show set

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Description: Photograph of a street scene being filmed for the 1960-1961 Ziv-TV series "Klondike". Large banners hang across the street. A camera and crew are in the f...
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Science Fiction Theatre on-set photograph

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Description: Peter Hansen talks to an older gentleman wearing a suit and a hat in a scene from "The Strange Lodger" episode of the Ziv-TV show Science Fiction Theatre. ...
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Science Fiction Theatre on-set photograph

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Description: A doctor operates on a patient in a scene from the Ziv-TV Science Fiction Theatre episode entitled "Signals From the Moon". Three women and one man dresse...

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