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Laurence Olivier and Probably Eileen Herlie

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Description: Director and actor Laurence Olivier crouching under a movie camera. He is directing an actress, probably Eileen Herlie, whose face is obscured. The camera ...
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Play Scene from "Hamlet"

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Description: Elevated view of the cast and crew filming the play scene from the 1949 film "Hamlet." The movie camera is on a semicircular track around the stage. Lights...
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Laurence Olivier and Terence Morgan

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Description: Elevated view of actors Laurence Olivier and Terence Morgan filming the duel scene from the 1949 film "Hamlet." Both men are using daggers and rappers. A m...
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Laurence Olivier

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Description: Director and actor Laurence Olivier preparing to film Ophelia's drowning scene from the 1949 film "Hamlet." He is standing next to a movie camera wearing w...
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Scene from "Hamlet"

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Description: Elevated view of cast and crew filming a scene from the 1949 film "Hamlet." Laurence Olivier and Norman Wooland have a microphone over their heads. A stage...
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Laurence Olivier as Hamlet

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Description: Actor and director Laurence Olivier filmed while performing the "To be or not to be" soliloquy from the 1949 film "Hamlet." A light is in the upper left co...
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Lewis Milestone and Aaron Copland

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Description: Composer Aaron Copland and director Lewis Milestone during the filming of the 1943 film "The North Star." Milestone is seated on a crane behind a movie cam...
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Scene from "The North Star"

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Description: Elevated view of assorted cast and crew on a village set of the 1943 film "The North Star." Cinematographer James Wong Howe, in the lower right corner near...
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Robert Cummings and Claudette Colbert

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Description: Actors Robert Cummings and Claudette Colbert filming a scene from the 1948 film "Sleep, My Love." They are surrounded by assorted film making equipment, in...
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Don Ameche

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Description: Actor Don Ameche sitting on the set of the 1948 film "Sleep, My Love." A light and movie camera are in the foreground.
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Linda Darnell and René Clair

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Description: Actress Linda Darnell and director Réne Clair (far left) during the production of the 1944 film "It Happened Tomorrow." Men are near a movie camera in the ...
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René Clair

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Description: René Clair and an unidentified man during the making of the 1944 film "It Happened Tomorrow." Both men are behind a movie camera perched on a crane.
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Scene from "It Happened Tomorrow"

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Description: Elevated view of cast and crew filming a scene from the 1944 film "It Happened Tomorrow." The set recreates apartment rooftops. Studio lights are above the...
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"Salt of the Earth" Production Still

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Description: Director Herb Biberman and three other men are sitting and standing on a platform built on the roof of a shack during the filming of "Salt of the Earth." B...
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We Saw You . . . On Television

Date: 07 29 1958
Description: Members from Madison's five Senior Citizens groups tour the University of Wisconsin television station WHA-TV. The group reacts when they view themselves o...
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We Saw You . . . On Television

Date: 07 29 1958
Description: Members from Madison's five Senior Citizens groups tour the University of Wisconsin television station WHA-TV. Shown looking through a television camera ar...
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Mothers with Careers

Date: 02 02 1959
Description: Beverly Stark, a Madison television personality with two children, is posing with a floral arrangement on a set in front of a television camera. A man is s...
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We Saw You . . . at Weatherly Hearing

Date: 04 07 1959
Description: A full room in Circuit Court #3, City-County Building, listens to testimony at the Police and Fire Commission hearing on misconduct charges against Madison...
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Time Marches On

Date: 1936
Description: Advertising proof. Headline reads: "'Time Marches On' with International Trucks." There is an illustration of two men using a movie camera to film from an ...
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James Kitchell

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Description: James Kitchell with camera operator in foreground. Men sitting at tables surrounding them are, from left: John Young, Scott Carpenter, Ed White, John Glenn...

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