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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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Evangelist with Movie Projector

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Description: Rural evangelist John E. Zoller with a Zenith projector and stereopticon with a DeVry generator used during sermons. Original caption reads: "We show excel...
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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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"Diamond Handcuffs" Production Still

Date: 1928
Description: Director John McCarthy watching as Henry Sharp films Eleanor Boardman and Lawrence Gray in a scene from the 1928 film "Diamond Handcuffs."
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Cafe Scene from "Blockade"

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Description: The crew for the 1938 film "Blockade" are filming a scene in a cafe set. The movie camera is on a crane over a crowd of extras.
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Googie Withers, Griffith Jones, and Glynis Johns

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Description: Actors Googie Withers, Griffith Jones and Glynis Johns filming a scene from the 1948 film "Miranda." Withers is sitting in a chair with a newspaper, Jones ...
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Griffith Jones

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Description: Actor Griffith Jones on the underwater cave set, preparing to film a scene from the 1948 movie "Miranda." The set contains a platform where some of the fil...
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Jackie Robinson and Rachel Robinson

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Description: Jackie Robinson, his wife Rachel Robinson, and a child, probably their son Jackie Robinson Jr. They are sitting in chairs on a baseball field during the ma...
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Jackie Robinson, Ruby Dee, and Roy Glenn

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Description: Elevated view of actors Jackie Robinson, Ruby Dee, and Roy Glenn filming a scene from the 1950 film "The Jackie Robinson Story." The trio are at a bus stop...
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Ruby Dee and Jackie Robinson

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Description: Actors Ruby Dee and Jackie Robinson outdoors filming a scene from "The Jackie Robinson Story." Dee is getting makeup applied or touched up, probably by mak...
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James Whale

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Description: Director James Whale and the film crew during the making of the 1939 film "The Man in the Iron Mask." The men are standing around a movie camera, and one o...
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Warren William, Louis Hayward, and Walter Kingsford

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Description: Actors Warren William, Louis Hayward, and Walter Kingsford in a scene from the 1939 film "The Man in the Iron Mask." Hawyard is holding the iron mask. The ...
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Scene from "The Man in the Iron Mask"

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Description: Elevated view of actor Louis Hayward during the making of the 1939 film "The Man in the Iron Mask." He is standing on a short stool, and there are tapestri...
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Laurence Olivier on a Camera Crane

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Description: Director and actor Laurence Olivier sitting on a camera crane on the set of the 1949 film "Hamlet." On the right is a man working a boom microphone attache...
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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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Frank Borzage on Set

Date: 1937
Description: Film director Frank Borzage and camera operator Joseph Biroc, along with other members of the film crew, are seen in the reflection of mirrors on the set o...
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Charles Boyer and Jean Arthur on Set

Date: 1937
Description: Charles Boyer and Jean Arthur talk with director Frank Borzage on the set of the 1937 film "History Is Made at Night". Borzage sits in a chair while Boyer ...

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