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Harlow in "Hell's Angels"

Date: 1930
Description: Production still from "Hell's Angels," the Howard Hughes 1930 film, which launched the career of 18-year-old Jean Harlow. She is shown here with co-stars B...
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Gotha and Film Production Crew and Cast

Date: 1930
Description: A vintage German Gotha airplane brought to Hollywood by Howard Hughes for use in "Hell's Angels," together with members of the Caddo Company's film crew an...
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Hell's Angels Scene

Date: 1930
Description: Scene at Caddo Field during the filming of "Hell's Angels," Howard Hughes' extravagant World War I aviation film. In this scene, the large vintage Gotha b...
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Bruce Barton and Cecil B. DeMille

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Description: Bruce Barton posing with Cecil B. Demille, who is holding a copy of Bartons' book "The Man Nobody Knows".
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Back to School Makeup

Date: 1985
Description: A member of the crew touches up the makeup of actress Sally Kellerman during the filming of a scene from the motion picture "Back to School" on the Univers...
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Keanu Reeves at the Wisconsin State Capitol

Date: 1996
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...
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Dillinger Actors in Milwaukee

Date: 1990
Description: Costumed actors on location in Milwaukee during the filming of the made-for-TV movie, Dillinger. Here, Milwaukee's historic Third Ward was being used to r...
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Dillinger on the Line

Date: 1990
Description: A scene during the filming of "Dillinger," a biographical made-for-TV movie, many portions of which were shot in Wisconsin. Here actor Mark Harmon makes a...
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Dalton Trumbo

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Description: Screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, seated at a typewriter.
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Hollywood Ten Discussion

Date: 1947
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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Four of the Hollywood Ten

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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...
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Dancers in Elaborate Costumes

Date: 1929
Description: Dancers in elaborate costumes and huge headdresses perform onstage in "Glorifying the American Girl," a 1929 Paramount musical. The heads of some pit music...
Poster

"Big Deal Art: An Open Discussion..."

Date: 11 25 1970
Description: Poster advertising "'Big Deal Art' an open discussion with slides and films by" Dante Leonelli, a visiting professor to the University of Wisconsin-Madison...
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Highlander Film Center

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Description: Highlander Film Center.
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Zilphia Horton Operating Film Projector

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Description: Zilphia Horton(?) learning to operate a film projector at Highlander Folk School. Three people observe behind her.
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Movie Shown at Highlander

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Description: A movie being shown at Highlander Folk School. Still frame reads, "I can hire one-half of the working class to kill the other half," a Jay Gould quote. G...
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Zilphia Horton with Film Projector

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Description: Zilphia Horton attentively learning to operate a film projector.
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Woman With Baby On Screen

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Description: A woman with a large projected image of a baby behind her. Possibly a film being screened at Highlander Folk School.
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Men Using a Pulley

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Description: An unknown group of men lifting a pulley in the process of constructing an unknown building. A man in the background is filming the process.
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Highlander Film Center

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Description: Filming a scene for the Highlander Film Center. Fred Lasse standing right of camera.

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