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ArticleThe godfather
Mario Puzo's The godfather The Corleone family nearly falls from power in America, but the organized crime family prevails and power passes from father to son.- Contributor: Pacino, AL - Castellano, Richard - Paramount Home Video (Firm) - Caan, James - Paramount Pictures Corporation - Coppola, Francis Ford - Brando, Marlon - Rota, Nino - Zinner, Peter - Puzo, Mario ... Pacino, AL - Castellano, Richard - Paramount Home Video (Firm) - Caan, James - Paramount Pictures Corporation - Coppola, Francis Ford - Brando, Marlon - Rota, Nino - Zinner, Peter - Puzo, Mario - Duvall, Robert - Conte, Richard - Ruddy, Albert S. - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Alfran Productions - Willis, Gordon - Reynolds, William - Hayden, Sterling - Keaton, Diane - Marley, John
- Date: 1981
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ArticleMidnight cowboy Texas "cowboy", Joe Buck, takes a bus to New York to make his fortune hustling lonely, rich women who will pay for his sexual services. Shortly after arriving, he himself is hustled by con man Ratso Rizzo, with whom he ultimately develops an unusual and deep friendship as they spend a long, hard winter in the underbelly of the city.- Contributor: Vaccaro, Brenda - United Artists Corporation - Lloyd, John Robert - Schlesinger, John - Hellman, Jerome - Barry, John - Hoffman, Dustin - Holender, Adam - Jerome Hellman Productions - Utt, Kenneth ... Vaccaro, Brenda - United Artists Corporation - Lloyd, John Robert - Schlesinger, John - Hellman, Jerome - Barry, John - Hoffman, Dustin - Holender, Adam - Jerome Hellman Productions - Utt, Kenneth - Miles, Sylvia - Voight, Jon - Robertson, Hugh A. - Mgm/Ua Home Video (Firm) - Salt, Waldo - McGiver, John - Herlihy, James Leo
- Date: 1988
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ArticleThe band wagon Tony Hunter is a movie star whose career is in a downturn. Looking for a boost, Tony decides to try starring in a Broadway musical. His friends Lester and Lily Marton have written a show they feel would be just right for Tony, and the three team up with Jeffrey Cordova, a self-styled "genius" director, who gets the idea to turn the play into...- Contributor: Loew's Incorporated - Buchanan, Jack - Minnelli, Vincente - Fabray, Nanette - Green, Adolph - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Mgm/Ua Home Video (Firm) - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Freed, Arthur - Mitchell, James - Levant, Oscar - Charisse, Cyd - Gist, Robert - Comden, Betty - Astaire, Fred
- Date: 1987
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Film, VideoTR's return to New York, 1910. [No. 1]
Theodore Roosevelt's return to New York, 1910 On June 18, 1910, Theodore Roosevelt returned to New York City after a fifteen-month tour abroad, having travelled through Africa and western Europe. An elaborate city celebration drawing a million people marked his homecoming. Aboard the ocean liner Kaiserin Auguste Victoria ex-President and Mrs. Roosevelt were met by a revenue cutter, the Manhattan, carrying the Roosevelt children. TR then went aboard a larger cutter,...- Contributor: Roosevelt Memorial Association - Braunstein, Nathan - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1910
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Film, VideoPresident Wilson arrives in New York to lead fourth Liberty Loan parade [1918] Views of fourth Liberty Loan ceremonies in New York City and Washington, Sept. 1918. Inaugurating a national drive for the sale of liberty bonds, President Wilson, his wife Edith, and mother-in-law, Mrs. W. H. Bolling, arrive in New York on Sept. 27, 1918. At Pennsylvania Railroad Station they are greeted by crowds and joined by the President's two daughters, Margaret Wilson and Eleanor McAdoo,...- Contributor: Roosevelt Memorial Association - Pathé Exchange - International Film Service - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1918
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Film, VideoLeonard Wood lays cornerstone of Roosevelt House, 1921
Pathé news On Jan. 6, 1921, the restoration of TR's birthplace by the Woman's Roosevelt Memorial Association is officially begun with the laying of the Roosevelt House cornerstone. Views of crowds pressing around platform; Major General Leonard Wood, TR's longtime friend and political associate, preparing to set stone in place; Corinne Robinson, TR's sister and a frequent participant in Roosevelt House activities, speaking to assembled crowd....- Contributor: Roosevelt Memorial Association - Pathé Exchange - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1921
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Film, VideoTR and Leonard Wood at the New York flower show, 1917
Theodore Roosevelt and Leonard Wood at the New York flower show, 1917 Shots of TR and Leonard Wood on March 20, 1917, at the 5th Annual International Flower Show, Grand Central Palace in New York City. Medium-close view of TR and Wood standing together and talking, facing camera; TR, seated, poses for photographer, with Wood and an unidentified man standing behind him.- Contributor: Roosevelt Memorial Association - International Newsreel Corporation - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1917
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Film, VideoThe Prince of Wales visits TR's grave
Prince of Wales visits Theodore Roosevelt's grave In the summer of 1919, Edward, the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VIII, embarked on a tour of the Dominions. After touring Canada for several months, the Prince decided to spend several days in the United States. His visit was the first visit of a Prince of Wales to the United States since that of his grandfather, Edward VII, fifty years earlier. On...- Contributor: Roosevelt Memorial Association - International Film Service - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress) - International Newsreel Corporation
- Date: 1919
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Film, VideoTR, Mayor Mitchel, Governor Charles Whitman of New York, and Myron Herrick, 1917
Theodore Roosevelt, Mayor Mitchel, Governor Charles Whitman of New York, and Myron Herrick, 1917 Close-up view of New York Governor Charles S. Whitman (1915-1918), Myron T. Herrick, formerly governor of Ohio and United States ambassador to France, and New York City Mayor John P. Mitchel (1914-1917) reviewing a parade of New York National Guardsmen from the balcony of the Union League Club in New York City, Aug. 30, 1917. TR steps forward between Herrick and Mitchel and tips...- Contributor: Mitchel, John Purroy - Herrick, Myron T. (Myron Timothy) - Roosevelt, Theodore - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Whitman, Charles S.
- Date: 1917
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Film, VideoTR at Baltimore [1918] ; TR at Sagamore [Hill, 1918]
TR at Sagamore Hill, 1918 | Theodore Roosevelt at Baltimore, 1918 | Theodore Roosevelt at Sagamore Hill, 1918 | Roosevelt Memorial Association title: TR at Baltimore; TR at Sagamore, 1917 Sequences of TR speaking on two occasions: on Sept. 28, 1918, he addresses crowds in Baltimore in support of the fourth Liberty Loan; at Sagamore Hill on April 2, 1918, he encourages workers for the third Liberty Loan. At Oriole Park in Baltimore TR, wearing a mourning armband for his son, Quentin, helps open the fourth Liberty Loan campaign. Views of TR and man...- Contributor: Roosevelt Memorial Association - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Société Française Des Films Et Cinématographes Eclair
- Date: 1918
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Film, VideoRMA flag service on the steps of New York Public Library, 1919
Roosevelt Memorial Association flag service on the steps of New York Public Library, 1919 On October 27, 1919 the Roosevelt memorial flag, which has been carried across New York State in TR's honor, is brought to rest at his grave in Youngs Memorial Cemetery, Oyster Bay, N.Y. Views of Samuel Abbott, originator of the memorial flag idea, placing the flag on TR's grave. Sequence of two young girls and a boy placing flower bouquet and flag through fence...- Contributor: Roosevelt Memorial Association - Urban, Charles - Kinograms Publishing Corp - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1919
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Film, VideoA Bronx morning
Alternate Title: Jay Leyda's a Bronx morning A Bronx morning is a portrait of a place and time, simultaneously a documentary, an avant-garde experiment, and an amateur film--although its compositional beauty and complex editing disguise that it is a 21-year old's first attempt at moviemaking. Architectural abstractions are only part of Leyda's portrait. The film soon naturalizes its abstractions into a vibrant vision of children's games and adult commerce on the...- Contributor: Glenn Photo Supply (Firm) - Leyda, Jay
- Date: 1931
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ArticleTraffic in souls LU1767 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright: Universal Film Mfg. Co., Inc.; 2Dec13; LU1767. Jane Gail, Ethel Grandin, William Turner, Matt Moore. Material in the AFI/Nichol Collection may be from a reissue since it is preceeded by the note Hansen's big electric road show presents the best in pictures. Reissue date from edge code of title per James Cozart, M/B/RS Curatorial section. Ref print (copy 3)...- Contributor: Tucker, George Loane - McNamara, Walter - Gail, Jane - Grandin, Ethel - Moore, Matt - Imp (Firm) - Afi/Nichol (Donald) Collection (Library of Congress) - Universal Film Manufacturing Company
- Date: 1913
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Film, VideoScenes of TR and his sons Quentin and Archie, 1917-1918 [2]
Scenes of Theodore Roosevelt and his sons Quentin and Archie, 1917-1918 [2] Unrelated segments of Quentin, Archie, and TR at various times and locations. Medium close view of Quentin wearing a WWI uniform standing by a wooden shed in Mineola, New York, May 1917; long shot of Archie in uniform astride a horse possibly in 1917; Archie in uniform, with a cane, standing by a building possibly in 1918; medium shot of TR speaking from the...- Contributor: Roosevelt Memorial Association - Roosevelt, Archibald B. (Archibald Bulloch) - Roosevelt, Quentin - Roosevelt, Theodore - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1917
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Film, Video[Hendricks (Gordon) Collection. No. 38, New York City street scene, Union Square and Lincoln Building--unidentified works]
[New York City street scene, Union Square and Lincoln Building--unidentified works] | [Hendricks Collection | Former erroneous title: Herald Square | Inventory title: Streetcar on city street Shows the busy corner of Broadway and East Fourteenth Street, at Union Square Park. A streetcar with "Broadway" on the side passes from right to left, and then another passes from left to right, as two policemen direct horse-drawn vehicles, streetcars, and pedestrians on this busy corner. The Lincoln Building is visible in the background.- Date: 1889
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Film, VideoMounted police charge "A troop of mounted police, in full dress uniform, are seen approaching the audience at full gallop; when within but a few yards of the camera they suddenly halt and each horse and rider appears full life size"--Maguire & Baucus catalogue.- Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Heise, William - Hendricks (Gordon) Collection (Library of Congress) - White, James H. (James Henry)
- Date: 1896
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Article12 angry men
Twelve angry men In a New York City courthouse a 12-man jury deliberates the case of an 18-year-old, on trial for stabbing his father to death. If there is any reasonable doubt they are to return a verdict of not guilty. If he is found guilty, the boy will receive a mandatory death sentence. In a preliminary vote, all jurors vote "guilty" except Juror 8, who argues...- Contributor: United Artists Corporation - Marshall, E. G. - Fonda, Henry - Hopkins, Kenyon - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Warden, Jack - Klugman, Jack - Sweeney, Joseph - Orion-Nova Productions (Firm) - Rodgers, Mark ... United Artists Corporation - Marshall, E. G. - Fonda, Henry - Hopkins, Kenyon - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Warden, Jack - Klugman, Jack - Sweeney, Joseph - Orion-Nova Productions (Firm) - Rodgers, Mark - Binns, Edward - Rose, Reginald - Lumet, Sidney - Balsam, Martin - Begley, Ed - Fiedler, John - Cobb, Lee J. - Voskovec, JiÅ™Ã
- Date: 1956
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Film, VideoInterior N.Y. subway, 14th St. to 42nd St
Interior New York subway, Fourteenth Street to Forty-second Street | Title from Biograph production log: Interborough Subway 8 from 14th St. to 42nd St | Variant title from Biograph production log: Interborough subway from 14th St. to 42nd St | Variant title from the Internet movie database: New York subway | Variant title from the Internet movie database: In the N.Y. subway | Variant title from the Internet movie database: Interboro subway | Interborough Subway 8 from 14th St. to 42nd St | Interborough subway from 14th St. to 42nd St | New York subway | In the N.Y. subway | Interboro subway The camera platform was on the front of a New York subway train following another train on the same track. Lighting is provided by a specially constructed work car on a parallel track. At the time of filming, the subway was only seven months old, having opened on October 27, 1904. The ride begins at 14th Street (Union Square) following the route of today's...- Contributor: Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress) - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Bitzer, G. W. - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1905
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Film, Video[Claremont Theatre, N.Y.] "Shows the entrance to the Claremont Theatre in New York City at 135th St. and Broadway where Edison is showing Gertrude McCoy and Bigelow Cooper in On the Stroke of Twelve. Large numbers of men, women and children leave the theater, some as many as two or three times. Delivery boys, a wagon, automobiles and a boy on rollerskates pass by"--The George Kleine Collection...catalog.- Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Kleine (George) Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1915
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Film, VideoMotion picture souvenir, 15th anniversary dinner, Pathe News, Hotel Plaza, New York City, November 14, 1925 Highlights of the banquet celebrating the fifteenth anniversary of the Pathe News at which guest of honor Vice President Charles Gates Dawes denounced the filibuster, and the governor of Maryland, Albert C. Ritchie, attacked prohibition and defended states' rights. The following officials appear in the film, but are not individually identified: Governor Trinkle of Virginia; the Mexican ambassador to the United States, Manuel C....- Contributor: Pathé Exchange - Kleine (George) Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1925
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Film, VideoAstor Battery on parade "As they appeared in New York on Saturday, January 21 [i.e., January 23], 1899 on their return from active service in the Philippines. The picture is taken as they cross Broadway, Union Square, north. First come the mounted police, proud and prancing, then the band, then the famous Astor Battery, marching twenty-four abreast. As the second file approaches, the order is given to "change...- Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - American Vitagraph Company - Smith, Albert E. (Albert Edward) - Blackton, James Stuart
- Date: 1899
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Film, VideoU.S. cruiser "Raleigh"
United States cruiser "Raleigh" "A panoramic view of the "Raleigh" as she lies at anchor off 27th Steet, North River, April 17, 1899. Captain Coghlan stands among a group of officers near the bridge. The "Raleigh" fired the first gun at Manila, and is the first boat of the Pacific Squadron visiting New York. All the details of the famous battleship are clearly shown as the launch from...- Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress) - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - White, James H. (James Henry)
- Date: 1899
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Film, VideoRacing at Sheepshead Bay "The finish and weighing out of a running race with nine starters. Won by famous Clifford, Sloane up. 50 feet"--Edison films catalog.- Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Heise, William - White, James H. (James Henry)
- Date: 1897
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Film, VideoA street Arab "Shows one of New York's street gamins going through various acrobatic evolutions; he turns handsprings backward and forward, walks the crab, does cart wheels and other kindred feats. An exceptionally unique part of the performance is his standing on his head and twisting around like a top. It is safe to say he will be bald-headed at an early age"--Edison films catalog.- Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress) - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Afi/Holt (H.L.) Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1898-01-01
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Film, VideoThe Dandy Fifth
Title in American Mutoscope & Biograph picture catalogue: Dandy 5th of Baltimore | Title in Biograph photo catalogue, 1902: Dandy Fifth of Baltimore | Title in Biograph bulletins 1896-1908: Dandy Fifth Regiment of Baltimore | Title in Biograph production log: Dandy 5th Reg. Maryland "Taken during the land parade in honor of Admiral Dewey, just before the turn into 72nd Street, with Grant's tomb and decorated residences in the background. This entire series of pictures [of the Dewey land parade] has a very high photographic quality, and the various organizations appear at their best"--American Mutoscope & Biograph picture catalogue.- Contributor: Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress) - Armitage, F. S. - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1899