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    Armistead Maupin's Tales of the city
    Tales of the city Catalog Record Only
    In this chronicle of San Francisco in the 1970s, the carefree chaos revolves around the funky old apartment house at 28 Barbary Lane where landlady Anna Madrigal welcomes tenants by taping homegrown joints to their doors and presides over their lives with an almost maternal affection.
    • Contributor: Law, Lindsay - Moffat, Donald - Garrick, Barbara - Dooley, Paul - D'amico, Marcus - Propaganda Films (Firm) - Working Title Films - Foch, Nina - Poul, Alan - Channel Four (Great Britain) ... Law, Lindsay - Moffat, Donald - Garrick, Barbara - Dooley, Paul - D'amico, Marcus - Propaganda Films (Firm) - Working Title Films - Foch, Nina - Poul, Alan - Channel Four (Great Britain) - Linney, Laura - Gibson, Thomas - Campbell, William - Webb, Chloe - Reid, Alastair - ACORN Media (Firm) - Williams, Cynda - Lloyd, Walt - Maupin, Armistead - Black, Karen - Kramer, Richard - Dukakis, Olympia - Gross, Paul - Keane, John (John E.) - Steiger, Rod
    • Date: 2002
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    San Francisco's future By mid-1916, after viewing the carnage in Europe, the United States saw itself poised with great reluctance on the edge of participation in World War I. Isolationism and anti-preparedness feeling remained strong in San Francisco, not only among radicals such as the International Workers of the Worlds ("the Wobblies"), but also among responsible labor leaders. At the same time, with the rise of Bolshevism...
    • Contributor: Rodiester, Claire - Hearst, Phoebe Apperson - Afi/Post (George) Collection (Library of Congress) - Rolph, James
    • Date: 1916
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    Before and After the Great Earthquake and Fire: Early Films of San Francisco, 1897-1916 This collection consists of twenty-six films of San Francisco from before and after the Great Earthquake and Fire, 1897-1916. Seventeen of the films depict San Francisco and its environs before the 1906 disaster. Seven films describe the great earthquake and fire. The two later films include a 1915 travelogue that shows scenes of the rebuilt city and a tour of the Panama Pacific Exposition...
    • Contributor: Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - Library of Congress. Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division
    • Date: 1999

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    TR at Sagamore Hill [1916]
    Roosevelt Memorial Association title: TR at Sagamore Hill, 1917-1918 | Theodore Roosevelt at Sagamore Hill, 1916
    On May 27, 1916, shortly before the Republican Party and Progressive Party conventions, the newly formed Roosevelt Non-Partisan League sponsors a demonstration of support for TR at Sagamore Hill. Many prominent men are included in the over 2,000 people who traveled from New York City to Oyster Bay to see TR and hear him speak on "Americanism." Panning shots of crowd gathered around porch;...
    • Contributor: Hurd, Richard M. (Richard Melancthon) - Roosevelt, Theodore - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1915
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    Gentleman Jim Catalog Record Only LP11685 PA575-416 (Colorized version) U.S. Copyright Office Copyright: Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.; 14Nov42; LP11685. Minor change version: [Colorized version]. -- United States : Turner Entertainment Co., 1992. Copyright for minor change version: Turner Entertainment Company. NM: colorization. DCR 1991; PUB 24Mar92; REG 26May92; PA575-416. Director of photography, Sid Hickox ; film editor, Jack Killifer ; music by H. Roemheld. Errol Flynn, Alexis Smith, Jack...
    • Contributor: Smith, Alexis - Lawrence, Vincent - McCoy, Horace - Warner Bros. Pictures - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Flynn, Errol - First National Pictures, Inc - Walsh, Raoul - LC Purchase Collection (Library of Congress) - Carson, Jack - United Artists Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1942