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Actors play roles of President Thomas Jefferson and a delegation of contemporaries in reenactment of a meeting at Monticello, Virginia, in 1802

Image of Thomas Jefferson overlaid briefly atop a view of Monticello near Charlottesville, Virginia. The date 1802 appears as camera zooms in on the front of the building and then inside, where actors in 18th century costumes play roles of Jefferson and a delegation of three contemporaries, visiting to discuss some matter with the President. They stroll and converse, with President Jefferson dominating the conversation, for the most part. Afterwards, the three visitors take their leave. (Note: In 1802 Jefferson wrote a letter to a Baptist congregation in Danbury Connecticut that included the following: "I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should ‘make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,’ thus building a wall of separation between Church & State.” This matter might have been a subject of his discussion with the delegation at Monticello.)

Date: 1954
Duration: 2 min 39 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675032788
Film reenacts travels of American pioneers moving west by wagon trains and shows life in small town during winter.

Film reenacts events in lives of American pioneers migrating West via wagon trains in the early 19th Century. They are seen traveling in the day, and then resting for the night by a fire, where a family bows their heads as the father speaks a prayer of thanks for their progress. He ends the prayer with an “Amen.” Next, the wagon train sets out again, during the daylight. A series of illustrations shows scenes of a small town in the winter with snow on the ground. People are shown going about their ordinary activities, using horses and sleighs. Some are seen ice skating on a pond. Others are shown visiting relatives.

Date: 1954
Duration: 1 min 51 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675032789
History behind President Lincoln's 1863 Proclamation establishing the last Thursday of November as a national day of Thanksgiving and Praise (Thanksgiving Day)

Historic reenactment of American’s celebration of Thanksgiving in history. Date 1863 is highlighted atop an image of Sarah Josepha Hale, a 74-year-old magazine editor, writing a letter to Lincoln on September 28, 1863, urging him to have the "day of our annual Thanksgiving made a National and fixed Union Festival." A copy of Codey’s Lady’s Book sits on her desk. Next, she is seen, meeting with Abraham Lincoln, to discuss the matter. Lincoln looks at her writings on this in Codey’s Lady’s Book, and they discuss the matter at some length. Scene shifts to a copy of a Presidential Proclamation of Thanksgiving, dated October 3, 1863, that sets apart the last Thursday of November "as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise." Film continues with scenes of farm crops ready for harvest, and view of people in church, giving prayers of thanksgiving. A 33-star American flag is hung on the church wall.

Date: 1954
Duration: 4 min 32 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675032790
Film about an American family celebrating Thanksgiving Day in 1954

A dramatized documentary, part of a film about Thanksgiving in America. Superimposed American flag and year 1954 appear briefly over members of a family seated at a table, with hands prayerfully folded, as the father says grace before their Thanksgiving dinner. The youngest member of the family, a boy, remains with hands folded and eyes closed, after the other members finish observing grace. His older brother remarks about this to him, whereupon, a conversation ensues involving all at the table, including a teenage girl and an elderly Aunt or Grandmother. The Father and mother also seem to interject comments as they dish up food and pass the plates to those seated at the table. At one point, the father speaks at some length in a warm, friendly, but authoritative manner to all assembled. Next, the family is seen in church. Suddenly, a vision of Benjamin Franklin is seen, in 18th Century garb, sitting alone in the church. He delivers some words of wisdom and then slowly rises from his pew and departs the church, at which point, the scene reverts back to the family in the church. They finish praying with the rest of the congregation, as the service ends.

Date: 1954
Duration: 6 min 13 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032791
Lou and Eleanor Hamilton from New Jersey with their mobile home and mobile dialysis machine.

Lou and Eleanor Hamilton and family comes out of their house in New Jersey, enter their custom mobile home (a converted bus) and start traveling. While Lou drives, Eleanor sits next to him with their dog on her lap. While they travel, we see their son shaving and their daughter making tea and playing cards. The narrator explains that traveling for them is possible only because Lou created a portable dialysis machine for use by Eleanor, who has kidney disease. Various shots of Lou constructing the machine are seen. He uses a drill press to drill metal. We also see a second bus that Lou has created called the 'Kidney Koach' which he has outfitted with various exhibits explaining kidney disease and the mechanics behind kidney dialysis.

Date: 1972
Duration: 3 min 10 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032793
A memorial piece recalls the music of Cole Porter; several views of Paris in 1920s

A memorial to Cole Porter shows clips from films featuring the music of Cole Porter. Mary Martin singing "My Heart Belongs to Daddy." Brief shots of Paris in the 1920s including traffic on city streets and view of Palais du Trocadéro (Trocadero Palace) which existed from 1878-1936. Still photo of Cole Porter cut with colorful moving background graphics.

Date: 1972
Duration: 1 min 46 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032794