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Filming a "Home Economics" Scene

Date: 1925
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...
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Silvana Mangano in Riso Amaro (Bitter Rice)

Date: 1949
Description: Scene still of Silvana Mangano, playing Silvana Melega, standing in a flooded rice paddy with two horses in Giuseppe De Santis's Riso Amaro (Bitter Rice...
Photograph

Amphibious Motion Picture Service Delivery To Campo Fiesta

Date: 1950
Description: A man, possibly Benton C. Black, delivering films to Campo Fiesta at Trout Lake. The delivery is being made in a Seabee seaplane by the Amphibious Motion P...
Photograph

Joel McCrea on Set

Date: 1940
Description: Joel McCrea is seen walking on the set of the film "Foreign Correspondent." His hair and shirt are wet but he is smiling. Two men walk beside and behind hi...
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Joel McCrea and Laraine Day

Date: 1940
Description: Publicity photo of Joel McCrea and Laraine Day on the set of the film "Foreign Correspondent." The two, along with five other people, are in the water wait...
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Joel McCrea

Date: 1940
Description: Joel McCrea, who is soaking wet, kneels on the edge of the pool on the set of the film "Foreign Correspondent." He is smiling.
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Herbert Marshall

Date: 1940
Description: Herbert Marshall stands outside a stage door and dries off during the filming of the movie "Foreign Correspondent." He is wearing a suit and uses a towel t...
Poster

"Stopa v oceáně" (A Trace in the Ocean) Film Poster

Date: 1966
Description: Czechoslovakian film poster for the Soviet film "Sled v okeane." Image of divers in the blue ocean, with one having a photographic image for a face. A cros...
Poster

"Cris et chuchotements" (Cries and Whispers) Film Poster

Date: 1973
Description: French film poster for the Swedish film, "Viskningar och rop." Photographic image of four women walking through a park under trees, with a lake in the back...
Photograph

At the Movies

Date: 10 2013
Description: The movie "Vertigo" playing on a big screen in a darkened movie theater. The scene captured by the camera is of a woman walking along a the edge of the bay...
Photograph

"Gallant Lady" Still

Date: 
Description: The cast and crew of the film "Gallant Lady" preparing to shoot a scene on a lake. The motion picture camera and crew are on a raft on the left, and are sh...
Photograph

"The Great Dictator" Publicity Still

Date: 
Description: Charlie Chaplin, dressed in a German ethnic costume, standing on a pier on a lake with crew members during the filming of "The Great Dictator."
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"Never Say Quit"

Date: 1919
Description: Reginald Jones (George Walsh) gazing up at Helen Lattimore (Florence Dixon) in a scene from the 1919 film "Never Say Quit." The two are on a yacht, and she...
Photograph

Barbara Payton Posing by Swimming Pool

Date: 1949
Description: Barbara Payton posing for a publicity photograph for the film "Trapped." She is standing on the pool deck in between the hand rails for the pool ladder.
Photograph

Barbara Payton

Date: 1949
Description: Barbara Payton posing outdoors for a publicity portrait for the film "Trapped." She is standing against a tree wearing a swimsuit. A swimming pool is below...
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Barbara Payton Sitting on a Diving Board

Date: 1949
Description: Publicity still for the film "Trapped." Barbara Payton is wearing a white bathing suit and sitting on a diving board above a swimming pool.
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Filming a Scene from "The African Queen"

Date: 1951
Description: View of people filming a scene from the 1951 film "The African Queen." A partially built boat is being splashed with vast amounts of water. The camera crew...
Photograph

Boat from "The African Queen"

Date: 1951
Description: Cast and crew of the 1951 film "The African Queen" on a boat, preparing to film a scene. They are floating on a body of water, with trees behind them. Acto...
Photograph

Preparing to Film a Scene from "The African Queen"

Date: 1951
Description: Assorted members of a film crew by a lake, during the making of the 1951 film "The African Queen." Two men are standing in the center of the image, holding...
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Filming a Scene for "The African Queen"

Date: 1951
Description: Crew, in foreground, filming a scene for the 1951 film "The African Queen." Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn are in a boat with a microphone over thei...

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