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| Date: | 11 08 1938 |
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| Description: | Cast and crew setting up a shot for the film "Youth Takes a Fling" starring Andrea Leeds and Joel McCrea. An International D-series panel truck was used in... |
| Date: | 04 17 1928 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Film crew setting up a scene in which actors playing the parts of Cyrus McCormick and his slave Jo Anderson operate a replica of McCormick's reaper of 183... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Production still during the filming of "Citizen Kane." Orson Wells smokes a pipe and directs Dorothy Comingore (playing Susan Alexander Kane) from a wheel... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Cameraman Jules Cronjagger and director Ralph Ince shoot a scene with Earle Williams (as Tom Barclay) and Anita Stewart (as Celestia, the Goddess) in the V... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Group shot of the cast and crew for the Universal serial "The Broken Coin," taken after shooting the final scene. Grace Cunard and Francis Ford are in the ... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Scene still of a fictional camera and sound crew shooting Frederic March (playing actor Norman Maine) and Janet Gaynor (as Vicki Lester) on set in David O.... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Joel McCrea and Alfred Hitchcock are seen with crew members on the set of the film "Foreign Correspondent." An unidentified man stands behind McCrea makin... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A behind the scenes photograph of the set of the film "Foreign Correspondent." Joel McCrea is on a platform high above a group standing below. Alfred Hitch... |
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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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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | The crew and cast of "The North Star" prepare to shoot a tracking shot of the Ukrainian village set built on the Samuel Goldwyn Studios lot. James Wong How... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Eric von Stroheim (left) and Martin Kosleck (right) sit in the rear seat of a military vehicle in a production still for "The North Star." A technician sta... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | A large crowd of extras costumed as Ukrainian villagers stands guarded by men in World War II German uniforms in a production still for "The North Star." I... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Cinematographer James Wong Howe high up on a camera crane directs actors playing German soldiers who are replacing the Soviet flag flying from a flagstaff ... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | High up on a camera crane, cinematographer James Wong Howe adjusts a flag over the cameraman's head. In front of the camera, two actors playing German sold... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | A line of German foot soldiers and an automobile with officers and their motorcycle escort entering a Ukrainian village in a production still for "The Nort... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Five German foot soldiers run toward the camera with bayonets on their rifles while another shoots water on a burning building on the left in a production ... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| 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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