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    Glee : the final season
    Glee Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available     In the exhilarating, heart-rending final season, club favorites reunite and a new group of young performers takes center stage. Following her disastrously short sitcom career, Rachel returns to McKinley High to find Principal Sue Sylvester trampling the arts, including the glee club. Without missing a beat, Rachel and a newly single Kurt set out to revitalize New Directions, hoping for a shot at the...
    • Contributor: Brennan, Ian - Morrison, Matthew - Colfer, Chris - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Brad Falchuk Teley-Vision - Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc - Ryan Murphy Productions - Michele, Lea - Falchuk, Brad - Lynch, Jane - Twentieth Century-Fox Television, Inc - Murphy, Ryan
    • Date: 2015
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    Caldonia Louis Jordan loses a Hollywood contract and his girlfriend, Caldonia, when Felix Paradise lures him to New York, promising filmmaking facilities beyond his economic means. Songs performed: Caldonia, Honey chile, Tillie, Buzz me.
    • Contributor: Tympany Five - Jordan, Louis - Astor Pictures - Adams, Berle - Malkames, Don - Valburn/Ellington Collection (Library of Congress) - Crouch, William Forest
    • Date: 1945
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    Jam session Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available At the beginning of this 3-minute "Soundie", Duke Ellington and his bassist are playing Ellington's C-jam-blues at a nightclub called "Harlem Cats Eatery". One-by-one, several members of Duke Ellington's orchestra arrive, each playing a short solo as he joins the band.
    • Contributor: Coslow, Sam - Nance, Ray - Ellington, Duke - Stewart, Rex - Soundies Distributing Corporation of America - Chapman, Ben - Webber, Herman E. - Greer, Sonny - Duke Ellington Orchestra - Raglin, Junior ... Coslow, Sam - Nance, Ray - Ellington, Duke - Stewart, Rex - Soundies Distributing Corporation of America - Chapman, Ben - Webber, Herman E. - Greer, Sonny - Duke Ellington Orchestra - Raglin, Junior - Webster, Ben - Gluskin, Lud - Berne, Josef - Bigard, Barney - R.C.M. Productions - Nanton, Tricky Sam
    • Date: 1942
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    Panorama from Times Building, New York The view is from the top of the then newly-erected Times Building, at a height of approximately twenty stories. The film opens with a vertical pan, going from the street below up to the sky. The photographer then makes a pan to the north over the tops of the buildings from Bryant Park, south of 42nd Street (behind the New York Public Library) [Frame:...
    • Contributor: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - McCutcheon, Wallace - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1905-01-01
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    Sky scrapers of New York City, from the North River Filmed from a moving boat, the film depicts the Hudson River (i.e., North River) shoreline and the piers of lower Manhattan beginning around Fulton Street and extending to Castle Garden and Battery Park. It begins at one of the American Line piers (Pier 14 or 15, opposite Fulton Street) where an American Line steamer, either the "New York" or "Paris," is seen docked [Frame:...
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress) - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Smith, James Blair
    • Date: 1903-01-01
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    Star Theatre
    Star Theater     Using time-lapse photography, the film shows the demolition of the famous Star Theatre. Judging from the various exposures, the work must have gone on for a period of approximately thirty days. The theater opened in 1861 as "Wallack's Theatre," and was re-christened the "Star" in 1883. It was well known for it's excellent productions, and a number of celebrated actors and actresses worked there,...
    • Contributor: Armitage, F. S. - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1902