We travel back in time 52 years for the latest installment of Lost and Found Films, to the 1961 construction of the Space Needle and the Monorail in downtown Seattle.
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The title of the latest Lost and Found Film 鈥� “History and Industry, 1965” gives away the “where” and the “when” of the mystery footage 鈥攊t’s the “what” and “why” parts that film archivist Hannah Palin is interested in.
Welcome back to 1950 for an installment of Lost and Found Films, old footage promoting a play festival that aims for a Norman Rockwell feel, with maybe a little Twain thrown in. Lost and Found Films is an occasional 91爆料 Today series where readers help identify historic bits of film unearthed from the 91爆料 Audio Visual Materials Library provided by film archivist Hannah Palin. They range from shadowy black and white snippets to thoughtfully produced color home-movie style productions like…
The latest installment in the Lost and Found Films series — where readers help identify old 91爆料 footage — is a three-minute film apparently from a campus opera. Don’t adjust your volume 鈥� it’s silent.
It’s 1963 again in our latest installment of Lost and Found Films, where readers help identify historic bits of film from the Audio Visual Materials Library, provided by film archivist Hannah Palin. Can you help her learn what’s happening here?
Return with us to 1958 for the latest installment of Lost and Found Films, where readers help identify and describe old film clips from 91爆料 Libraries audio visual collections.This weeks film clip is titled “Inaugural,鈥� and probably shows part of the inaugural dinner for 91爆料 President Charles Odegaard, which was indeed in November of 1958.
It’s a new round of News and Informations Lost and Found Film clips, where readers help identify historic bits of film from the 91爆料’s Audio Visual Materials Library. This time, a 1960 film about campus parking — so then why is a referred to as a “basketball” film?
This weeks film 鈥� and the last one for a while 鈥� shows what appears to be the 91爆料s Friday Harbor Laboratories in 1958. People walk between buildings and some kind of experiment is undertaken on a small motorboat. Know any more?
A meeting in a high school gymnasium, a rousing speaker, cake and pie. Whats going on in this gem from 1957?
We visit the world of pre-World War II chemical engingeering in this weeks Lost and Found Film, which is silent but filmed in color 鈥� not bad for 1940. Can you help film archives specialist Hannah Palin figure out what’s going on?
Welcome back to 1962, where there is an art exhibit taking place on the 91爆料 lawn for this weeks Lost and Found Film, titled Art and Architecture Pavilion. Can you help Hannah Palin, film archives specialist, learn more?
This weeks Lost and Found film takes us back to 1958 and folks watching a street parade advertising “Ye Olde Town Meeting鈥� at the Woodland High Gym on Sept. 2. Its a little slice of life from the Eisenhower years.
Reel back the years with us to the fall of 1962 to watch footage from halftime at a Huskies football game where a trampoline and a particularly daring clown take center stage 鈥� that is, field. Anyone know who we were playing, and who the athletes and clowns were?
Its 1957 and the dapper, well-spoken fellow at the microphone is Glenn Hughes, founding director of the 91爆料 School of Drama. Hes at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, but can anyone say why?
Set your Wayback machines for 1965 again this week as we present this silent, black and white, 96-second film appropriately titled Womens Classes, circa 1965. Anyone know whats going on here?
Its 1937 in Grand Coulee, Washington. A sign in a store window says, “Were out breaking our backs, tearing down old shacks. Cleaning up our city.鈥� Anyone know any more? Is this film related to the 91爆料?
Scenes of village life are featured in this weeks film, “Kazakh Reel 6,鈥� but can you help with the location, who is depicted, and why it was filmed?
Still images of famous people and the titles “The American Dream鈥� and “The Living End?!鈥� make for an odd little film. Can you help Hannah Palin, 91爆料 film archives specialist, figure out who made this and why?
Scenes from the 91爆料 Penthouse Theatre as it was in 1956. Hannah Palin, film archives specialist with 91爆料 Libraries Special Collections,is looking for any information available. Can you help?
Two young women walk in the University District in about 1965, apparently shopping. But what are they shopping for, and why was the film made? Hannah Palin, film archives specialist with 91爆料 Libraries Special Collections, is looking for any information available. Can you help?
Two women happily leaf through a scrapbook in a garden and are then joined by an older man in this weeks mystery film, from 1959. Are these folks related to the 91爆料 in any way? Hannah Palin, film archives specialist with 91爆料 Libraries Special Collections, wants to know. Can you help?
A dreamlike film from Aberdeen is this weeks entry. People walk ceremonially in a circle, children very much in evidence, and a document is burned. Anyone know whats going on here?
Continuing our series of “orphan films” from Hannah Palin, film archives specialist with 91爆料 Special Collections. This week’s film depicts research at sea in about 1969 — but can you help her learn more?
Film archivist Hannah Palin,of 91爆料 Libraries Special Collections,is back this summer with more mystery footage. Can you help her figure out the who, what, where and why behind these odd little films? This week: Welcome to 1948.