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| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Exterior view across Mifflin Street of City Hall, located at the intersection of West Mifflin Street and Wisconsin Avenue. The Parkway Theater, featuring t... |
| Date: | 1996 |
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| Description: | Actor Keanu Reeves during a pause in the filming of the motion picture "Chain Reaction" on the capitol grounds. In the film, the Wisconsin State Capitol wa... |
| Date: | 04 15 1944 |
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| Description: | Governor Walter Goodland seated with handicapped children, probably in a movie theater. A large cutout of Dopey, from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, is o... |
| Date: | 10 12 1944 |
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| Description: | Jean Larson, at the time one of three women projectionists in the country, operating the movie projector at the University of Wisconsin Memorial Union Play... |
| Date: | 07 10 1974 |
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| Description: | An evening at the Big Sky drive-in theatre. Rear view of two people sitting in an automobile watching a drive-in movie. |
| Date: | 05 17 1945 |
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| Description: | Evan M. Hughes, 68, a war-time replacement as doorman at the Capitol Theatre. Mr. Hughes had a son, Pvt. Robert E. Hughes, who was a prisoner of war by the... |
| Date: | 08 11 1945 |
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| Description: | Members of the Junior Red Cross, Boy Scouts of Troops 20 and 30, and boys of Madison, sitting on the back of a Truax Field army truck loaded with waste pap... |
| Date: | 10 18 1921 |
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| Description: | Billboard advertising the showing of "The Girl from God's Country," presumably at the Parkway Theater, 3417 W. Lisbon Avenue. |
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| Description: | Herbert Biberman, one of the blacklisted Hollywood Ten who were jailed for failure to testify to the House Un-American Activities Committee about Communist... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A small crowd outside a large tent that adverstises "Reaper Motion Pictures." The tent is likely part of an International Harvester exhibit at a fair or ag... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | At a luncheon sponsored by Americans for Democratic Action, Paul Hays, chair of the ADA New York chapter, discusses the congressional investigation of Holl... |
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| Description: | Four members of the Hollywood Ten at an unidentified event concerning their defense. From left to right are: Herbert Biberman, Alvah Bessie, and Dalton Tr... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | A photographer, likely an employee of International Harvester, and his hand-crank motion picture camera standing in a field in front of man on top of a wag... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | A cameraman films a man stooping to pick cotton while other people are looking on from the background. |
| Date: | 11 11 1947 |
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| Description: | Four members of Madison Youth Council are shown lounging around a movie camera in a woodland setting. They were making a movie, "Make Way for Youth". |
| Date: | 11 29 1947 |
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| Description: | In the lobby of the Capitol Theatre, manager Fred Reeths is holding Johnny Heitz while he drops a coin into the Empty Stocking Club stocking. Johnny's moth... |
| Date: | 11 28 1947 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin-Madison students watching a "teaching movie" at the Bureau of Audio Visual Instruction preview theater, 1312 West Johnson Street. |
| Date: | 11 28 1947 |
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| Description: | Four people in the stacks of field movies at the University of Wisconsin Bureau of Audio Visual Instruction. Shown from the left are: Amy Anelerson, Mary ... |
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