1900s

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Thomas Edison's tombstone; modern day (1950’s) montage.

1920s

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Woman working in a bakery cypher through the pastry ingredients. A man operates a giants apparatus…

1970s, 1960s

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CU of someone lubricating a hinge on a machine. A man pushes at a punching bag. A male gymnast does…

1950s

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Pennsylvania: Tin propulsion can factory. Thousands of cans on various lines, bottom coated, being…

1950s

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Massachusetts: New England Confectionary Company. Candy factory. Huge mixing vats full of sugar.…

1960s

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Stanford Medical School building in San Francisco and its new home on the Stanford campus in Palo…

1950s

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Clips of American tourists enjoying fishing and hunting wild bird in exotic places. A man in his…

1960s

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Medical and demographic information is used to explain that population growth is exceeding world…

1960s

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More shots of man getting out of car and young woman getting into backseat. Car driving away. Woman…

1960s

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This clip is Jack Danforth’s campaign commercial for US Senator. VO says,” There is no generation…

1960s

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Camera pans across snow-covered mountains and zooms in on the highest peak - Mount McKinley. Slow…

1940s

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Footage of a people performing a system of tests on fabric. Shot of fabric put in a machine to see…