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| 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: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Orson Welles directs Agnes Moorehead in a scene from the film Citizen Kane. Welles is sitting on the camera crane behind the camera operator. The ca... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Technicians for the 1950 science fiction film "Destination Moon" look into the rotatable set of a spaceship interior. A rotatable Technicolor motion pictur... |
| 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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| Description: | Shirley Clarke directing a scene from "The Cool World" on a city sidewalk. Her back is to the camera, and she is standing giving directions to the camerama... |
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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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| 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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| Description: | The cast and crew of the film "Gallant Lady" preparing to shoot a scene on a lake. The motion picture camera and crew are on a raft on the left, and are sh... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the set of the film "Wuthering Heights." The crew is standing and sitting behind the camera which is on the ground. An actor and actress a... |
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| Description: | The crew on the film "Wuthering Heights" shooting a scene with an actress on a cliff. The camera is on the left with two large lights, and two men holding ... |
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| Description: | Cinematographers Reggie Lanning and Elgin Lessley sitting and standing on a small platform with two cameras during the filming of Buster Keaton's movie "Th... |
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| Description: | Actress Aileen Pringle sitting in the back seat of a car during the filming of a unidentified movie. One camera is mounted to a platform attached to the si... |
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| Description: | A behind the scenes photograph from the set of the film "Metropolis. "Men are seen behind and below where the Maria robot is sitting. The camera can be see... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Production still from the 1928 film "The Crowd." Two cameramen are sitting on a wooden slide behind a small camera. People are sitting at the top of the sl... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Director John McCarthy watching as Henry Sharp films Eleanor Boardman and Lawrence Gray in a scene from the 1928 film "Diamond Handcuffs." |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | James Wong Howe filming John Garfield with a handheld camera in a boxing ring during the making of the 1947 film "Body and Soul." Two actors are standing b... |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | View of people filming a scene from the 1951 film "The African Queen." A partially built boat is being splashed with vast amounts of water. The camera crew... |
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| Description: | Camera operator Ted Moore and director John Huston, possibly at Isleworth studios in England, filming the 1951 film "The African Queen." Moore is operating... |
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