Great Moments in film Americana
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William Jennings Bryan- Cross of Gold

The Sprinkler Sprinkled 1896

1900- 1920
Voyage to the Moon  1902
The Great Train Robbery 1903
Teddy Roosevelt 1912
Keystone Cops, Bangville Police 1913
Keystone cops Have Badge Will Chase 1914
The Flirt; Harold Lloyd 1917
Woodrow Wilson

1920s
Warren G Harding 'America First Speech'
Calvin Coolidge speech 1924
The Jazz Singer 1927
Buster Keaton Montage
Buster Keaton Montage Can Can
Marx Bros. Duck Soup
Charlie Chaplin, City Lights
Charlie Chaplin table ballet
Charlie Chaplin, The Kid
The Mark of Zorry -Douglas Fairbanks

1930s
Herbert Hoover 1932
FDR's 1st Fireside Chat; Bank Holiday
FDR's Fala Speech
Abbott & Costello Two10s for a 5, Who's on 1st
Fred Astair & Ginger Rogers Swing Time
Wizard of Oz
Gone With The Wind
King Kong
Shirley Temple- Curly Top
Little Caesar
Stagecoach
The Big Sleep

1940s
Casablanca
Citizen Kane
Knute Rockne Story
Fantasia; sourcerer's apprentice
Tales of the Sierra Madre (no stinking badges)
On the Waterfront
It's a Wonderful Life (ending)
The Philadelphia Story
The Maltese Falcon
The Postman always Rings Twice
The Ox Bow Incident
The Great Dictator
The Mark of Zorro- Basil Rathbone
MacArthur- Shall Return

1950s
Show of Shows, Sid Cesar
Ernie Kovacs: Nairobi Trio
Captain Kangaroo
Mickey Mouse Club
Mouse Kartoon Song (Mickey Mouse Club)
Lucy & Ethyl in the Chocolate Factory (Women at Work)
Lucy & Harpo

Sky King
Branded
The Real McCoys
The Rifleman
Superman
Davey Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier
Route 66

Gene Kelly- Singing In the Rain
Jack Benny Show (with Fred Allen)
Jack Benny on Groucho Marx's "You Bet Your Life" Show
Jack Benny & violin
Jack Benny violin duet
Quiet Man, John Wayne (to Sunday Morning)
Plan 9 From Outer Space
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Psycho; shower scene
Vertigo
Dragnet

77 Sunset Strip(jive talk)
Lassie
Leave it to Beaver
Father knows best

Lady and the Tramp
Casablanca- ending
Ben Hur- Chariot Race
Brylcream commercial
A Streetcare Named Desire
High Noon
Sunset Boulevard
Nixon- Khrushchev Kitchen Debate
Honeymooners, Ralph learns golf
The Honeymooners (Montage)
Jackie Gleason Show (June Taylor Dancers)
Dorothy Gray Cold Cream Commercial

1960s
Eisenhower Farewell Address
Checkers, Pt 1
Checkers, pt 2
Ask not what your country can do for you
Cuban Missile Crisis- speech (JFK)
JFK- Integration of U of Alabama
Ich Bin Ein Berliner
I have a dream speech
Zapruder Film
Reporting death of JFK
Shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald
Joe Pyne interviews Lester Maddox (Gov GA)
Red Skelton
Jerry Lewis- The Errand Boy
Soupy Sales with Mumbles, Pookie & White Fang
Planet of the Apes (ending)
2001 A Space Odessey
Batman (TV)
Rocky
The Odd Couple
Easy Rider
The Good The Bad and the Ugly
I Spy
The Man From Uncle
Mr. Ed
Take the Money and Run- band scene
Sonny and Cher

Daisy Girl Ad
KKK for Goldwater Ad
RFK announcement of death of MLK
Assassination of RFK
Ted Kennedy's Eulogy of Bobby Kennedy
Twilight Zone
Johnson- will not seek reelection
Outer Limits
Star Trek Episode
Hang Em High
John C. Lewis on Selma March

1970s
Butch Cassidy
Patton
The 12 Chairs
The Sting
Young Frankenstein (puttin on the ritz)
Blazing Saddles
Mission Impossible
Archie Bunker
Jaws
Star Wars Cantina Scene (Original)
Star Wars Cantina (Parody)
Saturday Night Fever
Animal House
Nixon's resignation
Ford Pardon
The Godfather


1980s
Reagan- Carter: There you go again
Reagan- Tear down This Wall!
Reagan- Evil Empire
Dan Quayle- Lloyd Bentson- you're no Jack Kennedy

Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
E.T.
The Shinning
Full Metal Jacket
Space Shuttle Challenger tragedy
Sudden Impact
Annie Hall
An Officer and a Gentleman
Blade Runner
Breakfast Club
Caddyshack
Ghostbusters
Frank Zappa on Crossfire, discussing censorship of music

1990s
Seinfeld; Soup Nazi
1992 debates: Stockdale, "Who am I?"
Silence of the Lambs
Titanic
Forrest Gump
The Sixth Sense
Jurrasic Park
Braveheart
Saving Private Ryan; Omaha Beach
The Usual Suspects
Shawshank Redemption
Thelma and Louise
Fight Club