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On the set of "Youth Takes a Fling"

Date: 11 08 1938
Description: Cast and crew setting up a shot for the film "Youth Takes a Fling" starring Andrea Leeds and Joel McCrea. An International D-series panel truck was used in...
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Billy Bitzer and D. W. Griffith

Date: 1919
Description: Cameraman G. W. "Billy" Bitzer and director D. W. Griffith on location in the snow filming Way Down East (Griffith, 1920). Bitzer stands behind a Pa...
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Kathlyn Williams and Bell & Howell Camera

Date: 1920
Description: Actress Kathlyn Williams wearing an evening dress sits in William C. de Mille's director's chair holding his small megaphone. Behind her is one of the Bell...
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D.W. Griffith Directing Miriam Cooper

Date: 1916
Description: D.W. Griffith, wearing a straw hat, directs Miriam Cooper in "Intolerance." Cameraman Billy Bitzer is obscured by the Pathé camera he is cranking. Behind h...
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Billy Bitzer and D.W. Griffith

Date: 1920
Description: Cameraman G.W. Bitzer and director D.W. Griffith stand in the snow on a New Jersey street in a publicity still for "Way Down East." They are posed with Bit...
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"Fit to Fight" Production Still

Date: 1917
Description: The actor Paul Kelly (playing Hank Simpson) sits next to director Edward H. Griffith in front of a cameraman and his Debrie motion picture camera in a prod...
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"Martha's Vindication" Production Still

Date: 1916
Description: Original caption: "Photographing Norma Talmadge on the Highest Spot in New York" "The patient still man has caught Norma Talmadge and her leading man Euge...
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"The Poverty of Riches" Production Still

Date: 1921
Description: The director (Reginald Barker, seated wearing knickers and over-the-calf socks), cameraman cranking a Bell & Howell model 2709 (most probably Percy Hilburn...
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Marguerite Clark

Date: 1917
Description: Marguerite Clark looks through the viewfinder of a Pathé motion picture camera in a publicity still.
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Production still for "Destination Moon"

Date: 1950
Description: Executives and crew for the 1950 science fiction film "Destination Moon" look into the rotatable space ship interior set. The tall, white-haired man in gla...
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James Wong Howe and Margaret Bourke-White on a camera crane

Date: 1943
Description: Cinematographer James Wong Howe and photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White posed high up on a motion picture camera crane during the production of "The Nort...
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"Wuthering Heights" Publicity Still

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Description: The crew on the film "Wuthering Heights" shooting a scene with an actress on a cliff. The camera is on the left with two large lights, and two men holding ...
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Filming "The Cameraman"

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Description: Cinematographers Reggie Lanning and Elgin Lessley sitting and standing on a small platform with two cameras during the filming of Buster Keaton's movie "Th...
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Louise Beavers and Jackie Robinson

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Description: Actors Louise Beavers and Jackie Robinson are looking at a script together during the production of 1950 film "The Jackie Robinson Story." They are on a ba...
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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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Esther Van Wagoner Tufty with Coya Knutson

Date: 03 1955
Description: Esther Van Wagoner Tufty is sitting with congresswoman Coya Knutson, who is holding a copy of "Better Farming." A television camera is in the left foregrou...

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