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Rudolph Valentino with Voisin Car

Date: 1923
Description: Rudolph Valentino and his wife Natacha Rambova pose with their Voisin automobile.
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Gaston Glass in his New Car

Date: 1922
Description: French-born silent film actor Gaston Glass at the wheel of a touring car with a spare tire mounted on the running board. Glass later became an assistant di...
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Douglas Fairbanks and a Stutz Bearcat Automobile

Date: 1918
Description: Silent film star Douglas Fairbanks stands in the cockpit of a Stutz Bearcat roadster.
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Fred Stone in an Early Automobile.

Date: 1905
Description: Comic actor Fred Stone holding the tiller of an early two-seat runabout. The automobile may be a Woods Electric or Woods Dual Power. Stone had been a circu...
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Albert E. Smith, Antonio Moreno, and a Small Racing Car

Date: 1920
Description: Albert E. Smith, one of the founders of the Vitagraph motion picture company, stands with a cigar in his mouth looking down at the silent film star Antonio...
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Antonio Moreno in a Racing Car

Date: 1920
Description: Vitagraph silent film star Antonio Moreno sits grinning beind the wheel of a very small racing car in a photograph heavily retouched for print reproduction...
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Robert Warwick and a Stutz Bearcat Automobile

Date: 1916
Description: Silent film star Robert Warwick in heavy fur coat and hat leaning over the engine of a Stutz Bearcat roadster. Original caption: "D--n that carburetor....
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Robert Warwick and a Stutz Bearcat Automobile

Date: 1916
Description: Silent film star Robert Warwick in heavy fur coat and hat sits in the driver's seat of a Stutz Bearcat roadster for a publicity photograph. Original cap...
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Niles Welch Working on a Hudson Automobile

Date: 09 1918
Description: Silent film actor Niles Welch on the ground underneath the front of a 1918 Hudson Super Six touring limousine. Apparently he is using a carpenter's brace d...
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Niles Welch Sawing a Hudson Automobile

Date: 09 1918
Description: Silent film actor Niles Welch is apparently using a wood saw on the engine of a 1918 Hudson Super Six touring limousine. Other carpenter's tools--a plane a...
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Niles Welch and a Hudson Automobile

Date: 1918
Description: Silent film actor Niles Welch is stepping up onto the running board of a 1918 Hudson Super Six touring limousine. He wears a casual suit with a belted coat...
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Houdini in Chains

Date: 1922
Description: Harry Houdini, the well-known escape artist, was born in Budapest, Hungary and raised in Appleton, Wisconsin. At the time of his immigration his name was s...
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Rear Projection

Date: 1951
Description: Production still showing the technique of rear projection. A 1951 Ford, jacked up in front so the steering wheel can turn, sits in front of a rear projecti...
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Wallace Reid and Dorothy Davenport in an automobile, publicity still

Date: 1913
Description: Publicity still from 1913 heavily retouched for the July 7, 1928, issue of Liberty (magazine). The original caption reads: "Wallace Reid and Dorothy Davenp...
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The Absent-Minded Professor

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Description: Still photograph of Nancy Allen and Fred MacMurray riding through the clouds in his Flubber powered Model T.
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Chris Farley in Black Sheep

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Description: Chris Farley's character in the movie Black Sheep enthusiastically offers a political button to a man and a woman. They are standing in a parking lo...
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"Blockade" Publicity Still

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Description: Marco (Henry Fonda) looking at the engine of a car while Norma (Madeleine Carroll) and Luis (Leo Carillo) are looking on. A team of oxen is standing on the...
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"His Wedding Night"

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Description: Fatty Arbuckle siting on a car fender holding Alice Mann in a still from the short film "His Wedding Night." Al St. John is lying on the ground under the c...
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Car Scene from "Blockade"

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Description: Cast and crew are filming an outdoors scene from the 1938 film "Blockade." Two actors (probably Madeleine Carroll and Henry Fonda) are sitting in a car, wh...
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William Dieterle, Henry Fonda, and Madeleine Carroll

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Description: Elevated view of director William Dieterle standing and instructing actors Henry Fonda and Madeleine Carroll. The latter two are sitting in a car facing a ...

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