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| Date: | 04 21 1927 |
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| Description: | The projection room in the Orpheum Theatre, with projectors and other equipment ready for movie viewing. |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | Cameraman and sound operator from Paramount Sound News on top of a truck filming a demonstration of the McCormick-Deering O-12 radio-controlled tractor and... |
| Date: | 10 04 1937 |
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| Description: | Window display of a miniature replica of Shangri-la lamasery where many scenes were filmed for Frank Capra's movie "Lost Horizon", and oriental gift items,... |
| Date: | 02 23 1931 |
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| Description: | Shooting movie in Wisconsin Supreme Courtroom in the Wisconsin State Capitol building. |
| Date: | 01 08 1931 |
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| Description: | View towards a man dressed as a woman, with his back turned, standing in front of a group of American Legion men posing in a room at the G.A.R. Hall. The m... |
| Date: | 08 21 1930 |
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| Description: | Automobiles and Chanticleer Band on back of a truck in a parade in the 300 block of East Johnson Street for the movie "Dixiana." |
| 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: | 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: | 04 28 1948 |
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| Description: | First grade students at Madison's Washington School used special activities to help build their vocabularies. In this photograph students are watching a "m... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | A production still for the Fox Hearst film "Romance of the Reaper". The film was produced by International Harvester at Walnut Grove to celebrate the Reape... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | A production still for the Fox Hearst film "Romance of the Reaper," showing the McCormick family home on location in Walnut Grove. The film was produced by... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | A production still for the Fox Hearst film "Romance of the Reaper" showing the front steps of the McCormick family home. The film was produced by Internati... |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | A man stands on the bed of an International Scout truck while using a stage light on the set of the film "King Rat." Thatched-roof huts, a water tower, and... |
| Date: | 06 1936 |
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| Description: | The Hummel & Downing booth at the Wisconsin Centennial Industrial Exposition held in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Field House. Hummel & Downing were... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Movie still from the MGM movie "Tea & Sympathy," featuring John Kerr (playing Tom Robinson Lee) and Deborah Kerr (playing Laura Reynolds). |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Dramaic scene still from the Twentieth Century-Fox movie "Bigger Than Life," featuring Walter Matthau (playing Wally Gibbs), James Mason (playing Ed Avery)... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of the generator used to power the "Frank H. Thompson Famous Moving Pictures." A belt from the generator stretches to the flywheel on... |
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| Description: | Shirley Clarke is seen kneeling against a stair banister during the shooting of the film "The Cool World." She is wearing a derby hat. There are three lig... |
| Date: | 11 12 2014 |
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| Description: | View of a movie screen from the seats in the middle of a theater. There are a few people sitting in the seats in the foreground. On the screen is a scene o... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Posters featuring a photograph of a female nurse looking out of a window. Two empty hospital beds with white covers and a chair is in the room behind her. ... |
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