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    San Francisco pageant. The last of the dirigibles
    Last of the dirigibles Catalog Record Only     The story of the U.S. Navy's last rigid airship, the U.S.S. Macon. Features archival footage of the Macon's construction at the Goodyear Air Dock in Springfield Township, Ohio, of its christening by Jeanettte Whitton Moffett on March 11, 1933 and of its maiden flight. Includes scenes of the Macon in action and on fleet maneuvers, after it was commissioned on June 23, 1933 at...
    • Contributor: Hubbard, Ray Andrew - Scott, Dick - Caldwell, Dave - Mackey, Donald M. - Kpix-Tv (Television Station : San Francisco, Calif.)
    • Date: 1961
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    Omnibus. II, vol. 23 Catalog Record Only An episode of the television cultural anthology series consisting of four episodes of varying lengths.
    • Contributor: Winters, Jonathan - Ahern, Mary V. - Steinbeck, John - Wesleyan University Collection (Library of Congress) - Flexner, James Thomas - CBS Television Network - Ebsen, Buddy - Cooke, Alistair - Rickey, Fred - Saudek, Robert - Ford Foundation. Tv-Radio Workshop - McCullough, Andrew - Society of American Historians - Saudek (Robert) Collection (Library of Congress) - Horner, Harry
    • Date: 1954
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    Luis Zapata oral history interview conducted by Emilye Crosby in Silver Spring, Maryland, 2013 June 27 Luis Zapata describes his childhood in Orange County, California, and how he came to join the labor movement as a college student at San Jose State University. He discusses the organizing work he did with the United Farm Workers and how he ended up moving to Cleveland, Mississippi, for four years where he organized for the Mississippi Freedom Labor Union and helped to register...
    • Contributor: Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Zapata, Luis - Crosby, Emilye
    • Date: 2013-01-01

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    Harold K. Brown oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in San Diego, California, 2016 June 28 Harold "Hal" K. Brown talks about his activist work in obtaining housing and voting rights for San Diego's African American communities. He also discusses his time working in Apartheid-era Lesotho with the Peace Corps, his tenure as chairman of San Diego's CORE branch, and his thoughts on contemporary activism and racial and economic inequality.
    • Contributor: Brown, Harold K. - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Cline, David P. - Bishop, John Melville
    • Date: 2016-01-01
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    Ron Dellums oral history, National Visionary Leadership Project
    Ron Dellums interview conducted by Camille O. Cosby | NVLP Interview with Ron Dellums Catalog Record Only     The interview includes Ron Dellums' memories of growing up in Oakland, California, joining the marines and attending San Francisco State University and the University of California at Berkeley. He recalls his career as a psychiatric social worker, his involvement in the civil rights and anti-war movements and his election to the Berkeley city council. He discusses serving in the U.S. House of Representatives, founding...
    • Contributor: Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Dellums, Ronald V. - National Visionary Leadership Project - Cosby, Camille O. (Camille Olivia)
    • Date: 2009
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    Michael D. McCarty oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Los Angeles, California, 2016 June 26 Michael "Mac" McCarty talks about joining the Black Panther Party (BPP) in Chicago, IL. He discusses racism in Chicago and the leadership of Fred Hampton of the Party and the beginnings of the Rainbow Coalition that brought together African Americans and Appalachian whites. He recalls the circumstances under which Hampton was assassinated in 1968 at the age of 21 by the COINTELPRO operation of...
    • Contributor: McCarty, Michael D. - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Cline, David P. - Bishop, John Melville
    • Date: 2016-01-01
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    The RKO story--tales from Hollywood. [Episode two, Let's face the music and dance] = Hollywood--the golden years. Episode two, Let's face the music and dance
    Tales from Hollywood | Let's face the music and dance | Hollywood--the golden years | Golden years | RKO story Catalog Record Only     The story behind the making of the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals at RKO is told through film clips from their movies and interviews with Astaire, Rogers, and people involved in the productions.
    • Contributor: Asner, Edward - LC Off-Air Taping Collection (Library of Congress) - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Wilton, Rosemary - Chabot, Charles
    • Date: 1991
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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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    Nut Hill Productions collection Catalog Record Only Collection of more than 300 hours of video oral history interviews with various performers and participants in the folk song revival in the United States and England originally recorded by Nut Hill Productions as "Word of Mouth: the Journey of American Folk Music," a part of a multi-part series for WETA television titled, "The Music of America: History Through Musical Traditions," which was not...
    • Contributor: Nut Hill Productions
    • Date: 2003
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    America's castles. Movie palaces
    Movie palaces Catalog Record Only     Explores the architecture of four American movie theaters: the New Amsterdam in New York City, the Fox in Atlanta, and the Chinese and Wiltern Theaters in Los Angeles.
    • Contributor: Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Van Riper, Joe
    • Date: 1998
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    The RKO story--tales from Hollywood. [Episode five, Dark victory] = Hollywood--the golden years. Episode five, Dark victory
    Tales from Hollywood | Dark victory | Hollywood--the golden years | Golden years | RKO story Catalog Record Only     The effect of the war on RKO movies and its psychological legacy--film noir--are explored. Robert Mitchum and Jane Greer talk about their careers in film noir movies. The effects of the House Un-American Activities Committee on Hollywood and RKO are discussed by black-listed directors Edward Dmytryk and Paul Jarrico.
    • Contributor: Asner, Edward - LC Off-Air Taping Collection (Library of Congress) - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Wilton, Rosemary - Chabot, Charles
    • Date: 1991
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    Hitchcock Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available Plagued by both a reckless ego and nagging self-doubt, Hollywood legend Alfred Hitchcock becomes obsessed with a grisly murder story that the studios won't back. Determined, he risks his reputation, his home and even the love of his wife Alma, as he sets out to make the film.
    • Contributor: Fox Searchlight Pictures - Cold Spring Pictures - Hopkins, Anthony - Reitman, Ivan - McLaughlin, John J. - Pollock, Tom - Collette, Toni - Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc - Rebello, Stephen - Medjuck, Joe ... Fox Searchlight Pictures - Cold Spring Pictures - Hopkins, Anthony - Reitman, Ivan - McLaughlin, John J. - Pollock, Tom - Collette, Toni - Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc - Rebello, Stephen - Medjuck, Joe - Montecito Picture Company - Barnette, Alan - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Huston, Danny - Mirren, Helen - Johansson, Scarlett - Stuhlbarg, Michael - Gervasi, Sacha - Thayer, Tom - Biel, Jessica
    • Date: 2013
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    Maria Varela oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Pasadena, California, 2016 June 29 Activist and MacArthur fellow, Maria Varela, recalls her role in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), discussing her work in organizing adult literacy programs in Mississippi and her role as one of SNCC's only female photographers. Offering a Mexican American perspective of the Civil Rights Movement, she identifies how SNCC embraced multiculturalism, extending its activism to include the Chicano Movement. She reflects on her...
    • Contributor: Varela, Maria - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Cline, David P. - Bishop, John Melville
    • Date: 2016-01-01
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    The Wilderness idea = The American experience. Battle for wilderness Catalog Record Only Tells the story of the two founders of American conservation, John Muir and Gifford Pinchot, and their historic battle over whether a remote valley in California, Hetch Hetchy, should be dammed and flooded to form a reservoir. The battle reflected the two sides of the conservation issue--absolute protection of wilderness lands versus careful management and use of nature to serve human needs.
    • Contributor: LC Off-Air Taping Collection (Library of Congress) - Cronyn, Hume - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Chowder, Ken - Garey, Diane - Hott, Lawrence R.
    • Date: 1989
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    Hitchcock
    Alfred Hitchcock and the making of Psycho Catalog Record Only     "Director Sacha Gervasi adapts Stephen Rebello's book Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho to explore the relationship between the legendary British director (Anthony Hopkins) and his wife Alma Reville (Helen Mirren), who played a crucial behind-the-scenes role in the making of her husband's terrifying 1960 classic Psycho. Scarlett Johansson co-stars as Janet Leigh and James D'Arcy portrays Anthony Perkins in a film also...
    • Contributor: Fox Searchlight Pictures - Cold Spring Pictures - Hopkins, Anthony - Reitman, Ivan - McLaughlin, John J. - Pollock, Tom - Dune Entertainment - Ingenious Media - Rebello, Stephen - Medjuck, Joe ... Fox Searchlight Pictures - Cold Spring Pictures - Hopkins, Anthony - Reitman, Ivan - McLaughlin, John J. - Pollock, Tom - Dune Entertainment - Ingenious Media - Rebello, Stephen - Medjuck, Joe - Montecito Picture Company - Barnette, Alan - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - D'arcy, James - Mirren, Helen - Johansson, Scarlett - Gervasi, Sacha - Thayer, Tom
    • Date: 2012