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Filming "Design for Life"

Date: 1955
Description: The camera moves in on a retail pharmacy scene in "Design for Life", a film produced by the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy and the American F...
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Newsreel Crew Interviewing Senator McCarthy

Date: 08 13 1952
Description: Senator Joseph R. McCarthy being interviewed by a newsreel crew after his victory in the 1952 Republican primary election. McCarthy was celebrating at the ...
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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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Frank Lloyd Wright at the Unitarian Meeting House

Date: 08 28 1955
Description: Architect Frank Lloyd Wright being filmed for the Omnibus television program. Wright and apprentice Frances Nemtin are standing in front of the Unitarian M...
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Frank Lloyd Wright at the Unitarian Meeting House

Date: 08 28 1955
Description: Architect Frank Lloyd Wright being filmed for the Omnibus television program. Wright and apprentice Frances Nemtin are standing in front of the First Unita...
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Frank Lloyd Wright at the Unitarian Meeting House

Date: 08 28 1955
Description: Frank Lloyd Wright on the grounds of the First Unitarian Society Meeting House. He was being filmed for the Omnibus television program. The woman with Wrig...
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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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Frank Lloyd Wright on the Grounds of the Unitarian Meeting House

Date: 08 28 1955
Description: Frank Lloyd Wright on the grounds of the First Unitarian Society meeting house. Wright was being filmed for the Omnibus television program. The woman with...
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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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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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Madison Women Host Television Shows

Date: 05 15 1958
Description: Madison television programs are hosted by Madison women and cover topics like cooking, arts, fashion and crafts. Luella Mortenson, women's director for bot...
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Madison Women Host Television Shows

Date: 05 15 1958
Description: Madison television programs are hosted by Madison women and cover topics like cooking, arts, fashion and crafts. Fern Fowler demonstrates a plant made of t...
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Madison Women Host Television Shows

Date: 05 15 1958
Description: Madison television programs are hosted by Madison women and cover topics like cooking, arts, fashion and crafts. Jeanne Parr, also known as Jeanne Noth, ho...
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Production still for "Destination Moon"

Date: 1950
Description: Executives and crew for the 1950 science fiction film "Destination Moon" look into the rotatable space ship interior set. The tall, white-haired man in gla...
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Production still for "Destination Moon"

Date: 1950
Description: Cast and crew of the 1950 science fiction film "Destination Moon" are on a lunar set including one leg of a gigantic spacecraft. Facing out, Lionel Lindon,...
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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."

Date: 1950
Description: Technicians for the 1950 science fiction film "Destination Moon" look into the rotatable set of a spaceship interior. A rotatable Technicolor motion pictur...

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