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Directing a Movie

Date: 04 17 1928
Description: Mr. Sutton and Fay directing a scene for the movie "American Girl." Three people are standing in front of an automobile parked next to an airplane at Pennc...
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When the President Comes to Town

Date: 1979
Description: Congressman David Obey introduces a local resident (back to camera), to President Jimmy Carter. Many photographers stand around the edge of the group and a...
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Frame 64: The Three Women Set Off to Washington

Date: 1964
Description: Annie Devine, Fannie Lou Hamer, and Victoria Gray, fellow MFDP candidates. All three women are wearing hats and carrying handbags. A crowd of people are be...
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Blackhawk Ski Club Ski Jump Tourney

Date: 01 26 1958
Description: Amatuer photographers and ski jumping spectators Irv Jacobsen and Forest Bakken attend the Blackhawk Ski Club's 11th annual jumping tournament. Both men ho...
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Green Thumb Site

Date: 01 1979
Description: Green Thumb was a project sponsored by the National Farmers Union to find jobs for the elderly people who were able to work. During his district tour Congr...
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Alfred Hitchcock on Set

Date: 1940
Description: An overhead photograph from behind of Alfred Hitchcock sitting and drawing a storyboard on the set of the film "Foreign Correspondent." He is surrounded by...
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Joel McCrea and Albert Basserman

Date: 1940
Description: Joel McCrea and Albert Basserman are seen on the set of the film "Foreign Correspondent." They are standing at the bottom of a flight of steps. Crew member...
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Alonzo Pond Taking Movies of the Market

Date: 1927
Description: Alonzo Pond using a movie camera at the market. Behind him people are walking among a number of camels sitting on the ground.
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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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Filming "The Cool World"

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Description: Elevated view looking over the railings in front of a building of a crowd of people watching a scene from the film "The Cool World" being shot. The cameram...
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Shirley Clarke and Cameraman

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Description: Shirley Clarke, wearing a hat and holding a cigarette, is leaning on the cameraman to look through the camera lens during the shooting of the film "The Coo...
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Gisholt Movie

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Description: Three men are looking on, one running the movie camera, as a Gisholt worker is filmed working at a machine. The three men behind the camera are wearing sui...
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Man Talking to Trump Supporters

Date: 03 29 2016
Description: Standing in the foreground in front of a fence are two people with cameras filming an African American man talking to a group of people who are Trump suppo...
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William Dieterle and Madline Carroll

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Description: Director William Dieterle, actress Madeline Carroll and other unidentified cast and crew during the production of the 1938 film "Blockade" on a sound stage...
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Scene with Sheep from "Blockade"

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Description: Elevated view of a herd of sheep surrounding a film crew, including director William Dieterle, as they are filming a scene from the 1938 film "Blockade." A...
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Louise Beavers and Jackie Robinson

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Description: Actors Louise Beavers and Jackie Robinson are looking at a script together during the production of 1950 film "The Jackie Robinson Story." They are on a ba...
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Location Shooting for "Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man"

Date: 1961
Description: A film production crew operating a camera crane in front of a street scene, with signs for Tiny's Saloon, Briggs Saloon, and Wm. "Pop" Wiener, Auctioneer. ...
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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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