1920s, 1930s

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Henry Matisse, a tall bald man with a beard and round eye glasses walks arounda balcony, adjusts…

1970s

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A collection of many of Merce Cunningham’s rehearsals and dance pieces, all featuring very thin…

1930s, 1940s

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Farmer demonstrates a tractor designed to plow a field automatically.

1950s

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Pageantry for Queen's Birthday; June 1957; Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip, both on horseback,…

1990s

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Continued live band footage of Neurosis overlaid with various imagery, including a bird, a skeleton…

1960s

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Footage of an anti-war protest at the campus of the University of California, Berkeley. Youth flash…

1940s

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Shot of US Navy WAVES loading off of a truck into a cornfield. The women pick the tassels from the…

1960s

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James Brown sings “Out of Sight” while male dancers dance next to him. James dances.

1960s

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James Brown sings “Night Train” while back up dancers dance behind him. Audience screams and jumps…

1950s

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This clip shows the process of air drilling for natural gas in Pennsylvania in the 1950’s, from…

1970s

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This clip has reenactments of Sir Isaac Newton, a 16th (sixteenth) century scientist, who…

1990s

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The narrator explains the different abilities of the Video Toaster, as a young couple demonstrates…