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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: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Actor John Wayne chats with driver Jim De Shon in an International Travelall sound truck on the set of "The Horse Soldiers". Owned by Goldwyn Studios and h... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Man working on reels of 35mm film for International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Department. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | A crowd, including Evaline, Nellie and Harriet Bennett, looking at large banner advertisements for moving pictures. Moving picture subjects include fire fi... |
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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... |
| 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: | 08 17 1934 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of "Madame White" cosmetics sales staff with car and signage for an event at the Capitol Theatre with Richard Barthelmess in "Midnight Alibi... |
| Date: | 02 23 1934 |
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| Description: | Greta Garbo display window at the Burdick & Murray store, 15-19 East Main Street. Garbo was appearing as Queen Cristina in the movie "Queen Christina" at t... |
| 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: | 08 21 1930 |
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| Description: | Automobiles, and the Esther Beach Band on back of a truck, in a parade on the 300 block of East Johnson Street promoting the movie "Dixiana." |
| Date: | 02 11 1930 |
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| Description: | Eastwood Theatre, 2090 Atwood Avenue, projection room showing projectors and rewind equipment. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Mr. Hyde and Miss Wigent filming a woman and child while the woman is filling pails with water from a hand-pump. The original caption reads: "Taking footag... |
| 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: | 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: | 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: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A crowd sitting in the International Harvester tent at the Nebraska State Fair to watch a motion picture. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a group of Nebraska State fairgoers gathered in the International Harvester tent to watch a film. Advertising pennants hang from the tent'... |
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