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Staged exhibition at the California State Fair.

A free-for-all western street brawl from the Hopalong Cassidy film, "Lumberjack." The players include William Boyd, Jimmy Rogers (the son of humorist Will Rogers), Andy Clyde, and Hal Talliaferro was the bully with the whip. The entire film can be downloaded at: http://www.archive.org/details/lumberjack1944

Excerpt From "Phantom From Space": http://www.archive.org/details/Phantom_From_Space

Scientist Albert Einstein (1879-1955) arrives in America from Nazi Germany in 1933. Being both an intellectual and a Jew, Einstein was in great danger from the Third Reich.

This is the last scene in Edwin S. Porter's "The Great Train Robbery," when the leader of the outlaws, played by Justus D. Barnes, empties his pistol at the audience. It cause quote a fright in theaters because no one had seen anything like it before. The Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division Rights information here: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/papr/west/westres.html http://www.loc.gov/homepage/legal.html

In 1936, director William Cameron Menzies, editor William Hornbeck, and composer Sir Arthur Bliss, pooled their considerable talents and created what is possibly (at least, I think) the most powerful two minutes and 22 seconds ever put on film -- the prophetic montage from Alexander Korda's "Things To Come." It is an exercise in contrasts between war and peace. How can this clip fit into your anti-war project? Let your imagination run away with you. The entire film may be found here: http://www.archive.org/details/ThingstoCome

Charles Lindberg takes off in the "Spirit Of St. Louis" on the first transatlantic flight, 1927. The trip nearly ended before it began. "Lucky Lindy's" monoplane was so loaded down with fuel that he barely cleared the trees at the end of the runway. This clip was slightly edited from the original.

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