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Directing a Movie

Date: 04 17 1928
Description: Mr. Sutton and Fay directing a scene for the movie "American Girl." Eight people are standing in front of an Oakland automobile and airplane, and four more...
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Anita Loos

Date: 1918
Description: The writer Anita Loos and the director John Emerson looking over a script on a film set. Emerson has a pince-nez on a cord and sits in a director's chair. ...
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Marshall Neilan and Marjorie Daw publicity still

Date: 1920
Description: Marshall Neilan, the director of Don't Ever Marry (1920), and Marjorie Daw, the female lead. Original caption: "NIX ON THE FANCY FOOD, SAYS MARSHA...
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"Citizen Kane" Production Still

Date: 1941
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...
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Cygnet Films

Date: 10 1968
Description: Bill Duren (in the background), owner of Cygnet Films, talks with a production assistant during shooting for a training film. Cygnet Films, which was based...
Print

John Emerson — Anita Loos: Productions for Paramount

Date: 1918
Description: Full page display ad for the husband and wife filmmaking team of John Emerson and Anita Loos in the 1918 edition of Wid's Yearbook, a motion picture trade ...
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Actors and Director John Ford

Date: 1956
Description: Director John Ford (in glasses and a hat) on the set of the film "The Searchers," with actors including John Wayne (left) and Doris del Rio. Behind them st...
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MGM Studio Booth

Date: 08 1928
Description: A man operates a Mitchell camera from inside an MGM sound booth as Raquel Torres and Nils Asther perform seated in front of lights and a microphone. Direct...
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"The Goddess" Production Still

Date: 1915
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...
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Emile de Antonio and Marietta Tree

Date: 1959
Description: Three people sit in pink and white lounge chairs on a large outdoor patio surrounded by green plants and trees. Emile de Antonio sits next to socialite Mar...
Poster

Film Festival Rotterdam: Guests of '87

Date: 1987
Description: Poster advertising filmmakers in attendance at the 1987 Film Festival Rotterdam, in the Netherlands. The poster shows 49 photographs of the 53 filmmakers. ...
Poster

"Underground"

Date: 1976
Description: Poster advertising a screening of Emile de Antonio's 1976 documentary film "Underground," at Harvard's Science Center B. Poster shows a scene from the movi...
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Alfred Hitchcock on Set

Date: 1940
Description: Slightly elevated view of Alfred Hitchcock sitting and sketching a storyboard on the set of the film "Foreign Correspondent." Three men and a woman stand a...
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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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Alfred Hitchcock and Walter Wanger

Date: 1940
Description: Alfred Hitchcock stands next to Gertrude Hoffman who is smiling and holding a birthday cake. Walter Wanger stands to the right of the woman, and Herbert Ma...
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Shirley Clarke

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Description: Waist-up seated portrait of Shirley Clarke. She is holding a microphone and wearing a bowler hat and a black outfit with a white shirt, as well as a "Portr...
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Citizen Kane Set

Date: 1941
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...
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Shirley Clarke and Dizzy Gillespie

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Description: Dizzy Gillespie looking at Shirley Clarke, sitting on the left with a contemplative look on her face, during a recording session for the film "The Cool Wor...
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Shirley Clarke, Dizzy Gillespie and Mal Waldron

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Description: Shirley Clarke, Dizzy Gillespie, Mal Waldron and an unidentified man in the studio during a recording session for the film "The Cool World."
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Shirley Clarke and Mal Waldron

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Description: Shirley Clarke standing next to Mal Waldron, who is sitting. There is a television monitor behind them. They are working on the film "The Cool World."

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