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Portland Bill Lighthouse, Isle of Portland, Dorset, England

Thomas Jackson Directing Troops
Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson is seen here directing troops during the Civil War's Battle of Antietam (1862). | Location: Near Sharpsburg, Maryland, USA

Roberto Rossellini Directing from Camera
(Original Caption) Roberto Rossellini, the famed Italian director, gets behind a movie camera here, so that he can see the set as the camera sees it during the shooting of his latest movie, St

Knute Rockne Sitting on a Platform
(Original Caption) Knute Rockne has devised a way to simplify the task of directing his Notre Dame football candidates

Elephant Carrying Giant Log Under Trunk
(Original Caption) Sri Lanka: View of an elephant being used to carry logs. Undated photograph

Capuchin Monk Directing Pilgrims
(Original Caption) Five o'clock A.M. - Pere Marie Antoine, a Capuchin, addressing newly arrived pilgrims outside the station

John B. O'Brien Directing Mary Pickford
(Original Caption) You have all numberless photographs of Mary Pickford, but you have never seen "the man behind the screen, " -- John B

Ida Lupino Directing Film
(Original Caption) Ida Lupino, who divides her time between starring in pictures and directing, is now a veteran behind the camera

Ruth St. Denis Directing Campfire Girls
(Original Caption) Ruth St. Denis, American singer dancer, directing a group of Campfire Girls in an Indian rain dance. Undated photograph

Mozart Directing His Requiem by Mihaly Munkacsy
Picture shows Austrian musician, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), on his deathbed directing his requiem

Bobby Directing Traffic
(Original Caption) London, England: A London Bobby on point of duty regulating traffic. Behind him is a horse-drawhn wagon. (Photo by © Bettmann/CORBIS/Bettmann Archive)

Pancho Villa Directing Cannon Fire
(Original Caption) 11/1913-Mexico: Mexican Revolution of 1913. Photo shows Pancho Villa directing the first shot from cannon

D.W. Griffith Directing
American film director D. W. Griffith at work on an exterior set with a cameraman and a group of actors in costume, circa 1915. On the left is child actress Thelma Burns

Semaphore Directing Traffic
(Original Caption) Semaphore at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street indicating traffic is to proceed crosstown

State Militiamen Direct Street Traffic
(Original Caption) 9/12/1919-Boston, MA- BOSTON POLICE STRIKE... State Militiamen acting as traffic policemen on Tremont Street

Policeman in Directing Pose
(Original Caption) Lynbrook: "Shorty, " The Lynbrook Cop. Here he is, Ladies and gentlemen--the busiest little cop in or out of New York

Police Officer Directing Traffic
(Original Caption) Alvin Johnson, traffic cop, directing traffic on State and Madison Streets, Chicago - "Busiest corner in the world."

Eric von Stroheim Directing Movie Scene
(Original Caption) 1925: Erich Von Stroheim directing a movie scene on a desert

D.W. Griffith Directing Movie Scene
(Original Caption) 10/31/1923- Picture shows D.W.Griffith (C) on location with actor on horseback in frontier outfit

Women'S Calesthenics Class, 1924
(Original Caption) 3/10/1924-Washington, D.C.: Photo shows Mrs. Eva Dell Myers, physical culturist, directing a class in calisthenics at the Wardman Park Hote

Traffic Cop Directing Traffic in Harlem
1925-New York, NY: Full length shot of African American traffic cop in Harlem

Charles Dawes Speaking with James Cruze
(Original Caption) Cheyenne; Wyoming: Dawes Gets on the Other Side of the Movies. While attending the Frontier Days celebrations at Cheyenne, Wyom

Policeman Directing City Traffic
(Original Caption) Boston: War Hero Is Traffic Cop On Boston's Busiest Corner. Photo shows Henry McManus, Boston, Massachusetts, Traffic Cop

D.W. Griffith Directing That Royal Girl
(Original Caption) D.W. Griffith directs Carol Dempster in a scene from That Royal Girl a Paramount picture

Boy Directing Crew
(Original Caption) 12 year old coxswain Edward White in the shell directing the crew

Police Officer Directing Siamese Twins
(Original Caption) Seeing Paris...Together. Paris, France: Siamese girl twins, the Misses Mary and Margaret Gibb of Holyoke Mass

Men Directing Van
Men direct a U.S. Marshals van, loaded with prisoners, out of a Federal Court garage

Cecil B. DeMille Speaking Into Microphone
(Original Caption) 1932-Cecil B. DeMille speaking into large megaphone as he addresses extra players

Johnny Weismuller Directing Actresses
(Original Caption) A Classy Class. Johnny Weismuller, former swimming champion and now a film star, pauses on the set in Hollywood to give a bevy of chorines a few dryland swimming lessons

Scene From Film 42nd Street
Scene from the 1933 musical 42nd Street

King Vidor Directs The Stranger's Return
(Original Caption) 1933- King Vidor directing "The Stranger's Return" by Metro-Goldwym Mayer

Marc Reinhardt Directing Production
(Original Caption) 1933- Picture shows Marc Reinhardt directing a production of, "A midsummer night's Dream"

Children Playing Instruments
(Original Caption) Ted Dahl. Beverly Hills, California: Maybe this is how famous orchestra players start

Mervyn Leroy Directing Actors
(Original Caption) When Directors Turn Referees...In Hollywood

Frank Borzage Directing Movie
(Original Caption) Behind the Scenes in Movie Making. We are looking over the director's shoulders in the making of Spencer Tracy's latest picture, Man's Castle, at Hollywood, California

Policeman Directing Traffic
(Original Caption) 9/29/1934-Princeton, NJ: A policeman directs traffic. He is shown with his arms extended

William Wellman on Location
(Original Caption) Director "Wild Bill" Wellman

Charlie Chaplin Behind Movie Camera
Actor Charlie Chaplin looks though a movie camera on April 22, 1935. He is directing, as well as acting in, a comedy tentatively titled Production No. 5

Ernst Lubitsch Pointing to Camera with Photographer
(Original Caption) Never for a moment does Lubitsch forget the camera

Ballet Dancers on Ship Deck
Director and prima ballerina Catherine Littlefield directs fellow members of the American Ballet Theater on the deck of the S.S. Champlain ocean liner

Orson Welles Directing a Rehearsal
(Original Caption) Orson Welles, guiding genius of the Mercury Theatre of the Air is shown {hands upraised} in action here at a microphone as he directed a rehearsal of one of his radio plays

Cecil B. DeMille in Stretcher
Cecil B. DeMille looks up at Barbara Stanwyck, as he lies on a stretcher during the filming of Union Pacific

Cecil B. Demille Directing
(Original Caption) 2/7/1939-Cecil B. DeMille directing last scenes of "Union Pacific."

Man Directs Children Playing Instrument
(Original Caption) 5/8/1939-New York, NY: The famed Kaspar Quads of Passaic, NJ, who will celebrate their third birthday tomorrow, May 9th, are shown getting a swing lesson from Raymond Paige

General Major Freiherr Von Richthofen with Soldier
(Original Caption) Hamburg, Germany: German Officer As He Directed Troops In Spain. Here is Gen. Maj

Gable and Leigh in Gone With the Wind
Director Victor Fleming talks to actress Vivien Leigh during the filming of Gone With the Wind (1939). Actor Clark Gable is seated beside her

Charlie Chaplin Directing The Great Dictator
Charlie Chaplin wears his dictator costume behind the camera as he directs the 1940 film The Great Dictator. His cameraman Roland Totheroh is with him

Cecil B. DeMille Working Behind Camera
(Original Caption) Publicity photo of Cecil B. DeMille behind the camera

Alfred Hitchcock on Set of Shadow of a Doubt
(Original Caption) 8/4/42: Director Alfred Hitchcock in an enigmatic pose as he directs filming of Universal's "Shadow of a Doubt."

Greta Garbo and Ernst Lubitsch Conversing
(Original Caption) Directing the rollicking success, Ninotchka, Ernst Lubitsch holds a wardrobe consultation with his star, Greta Garbo

Soldiers Sitting in Tokyo Street
(Original Caption) "Sitting on Their Hands." Tokyo, Japan: Parked on a Tokyo street, these Japanese soldiers sit amid their belongings

Cecil B. DeMille Directing Samson and Delilah
(Original Caption) Director Cecil B. DeMille, (L), gives instruction to the cast of his latest Biblical epic, Samson and Delilah. Hedy Lamarr, (C), plays Delilah

Closeup Scene In The Movie
(Original Caption) In William Wyler's, "The Heiress, " movie audiences will see only this close-up of Olivia de Havilland at a dinner table

Director Cecil B. DeMille and Film Crew
(Original Caption) Cecil B. DeMille (hand on hip) directing one of his early motion pictures. ca. 1920

Ida Lupino Seated Amongst Men at Screening
(Original Caption) 1950- MAID MIDST MANY MEN

D. W. Griffith Directing A Lion
(Original Caption) D. W. Griffith, motion picture pioneer "Directing" a lion. Undated photo

Sam Peckinpah Directing The Getaway
(Original Caption) Sam Peckinpah, film director, shown with movie camera, directing a scene from the film, "The Getaway." Undated. Filed: 5/4/75

Seven Movie Cameras Lined/Wall; Filming
The King of Kings Motion Picture, 1927

Military Man Directs Highway Workers
(Original Caption) Alexandropol, Armenia- The highway department of the Armenian city of Alexandropol is directed by Clifford Downer, of Kingston, NY, a Near-East relief worker, shown here

Police Directing Traffic
(Original Caption) Police direct traffic outside the Dakota, an apartment house, December 9th, the morning after former Beatle John Lennon was shot to death in front of the building

Illustration of Hannibal and His Army
(Original Caption) Hannibal directing his army with caravan of elephants crossing the Alps

Illustration Robert Ammon Directs Strike
(Original Caption) Pennsylvania- Robert M. Ammon, leader of the Pittsburgh and Fort Wayne railroad strike, at his post directing the movements of the strikers. From a sketch by John Donaghy

George Washington Directing Troops
(Original Caption) Troops being transported across the East River in an evacuation supervised by General Washington August 27-30, 1776

Director Preparing Shot for Julius Caesar Motion Picture
Movie director David Bradley, in costume as Brutus checks the camera angle for a shot of Grosvenor Glenn, playing Cassius, as assistant director Thomas A

Policeman Directing Young Woman in Three-Wheel Car
(Original Caption) Messerschmidt's Mighty Midget. When you've lost your way it's a comfort to have a six-foot air policeman to direct you

George Stevens Directing Liz Taylor
Film director George Stevens chats with Elizabeth Taylor on how to fall down gracefully during the filming of the 1951 movie A Place in the Sun

Elia Kazan Directing Karl Malden and Vivien Leigh
Director Elia Kazan (right) gives instructions to actors Karl Malden and Vivien Leigh before shooting a scene from the movie A Streetcar Named Desire

Mickey Rooney Directing Film
Mickey Rooney is seen directing a movie. Rooney had always wanted to direct and he finally got wish here in 1951

Air Raid Warden Directing Firefighters
Air raid warden Norma Solberg directs firefighters John McClosky (left) and John McGrath (right) during an air raid drill

Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini on Set
(Original Caption) 10/29/1951-Rome, Italy: Director Roberto Rosselini leans across a camera lens to deliver last-minute instructions to his beautiful wife, Swedish -born Ingrid Bergman

Man Directs Pouring Of Steel Into Furnac
(Original Caption) 2/1952-Gary, IN- Charles F. Schultz, in his capacity as first helper at the Gary Steel Works, directs the addition of molten iron into the open hearth furnace

Cecil B. Demille Standing in Front of a Movie Camera
Cecil B. De Mille in front of camera as his crew of technicians filmed part of The Greatest Show on Earth here in Philadelphia

Roberto Rossellini Holding Son Robertino
(Original Caption) Visiting Daddy's Office

Roberto Rossellini Directing Voyage In Italy
(Original Caption) Italian Movie Director, Roberto Rossellini, wife Ingrid Bergman and George Sanders are shown here before shooting a scene in their latest film, New Wine

Ingrid Bergman Observing Hot Spring
(Original Caption) A Tip from the Director. Taking a tip from her husband, director Roberto Rossellini, film star Ingrid Bergman prepares to shoot some pictures of a small hot spring near Naples

Policeman Directs Masked Woman
(Original Caption) 11/18/1953-London, England: Forewarned is forearmed indeed as this London visitor proves. She came prepared with her smog mask on a London visit

Katharine Hepburn Working with David Lean

Riccardo Freda Directs Actors During Romantic Scene
Romance seems to be plot of Teodora, Imperatrice di Bisanzio (Theodora, Slave Empress) in which director Riccardo Freda coaches Gianna Maria Canale, a newcomer among the sultry beauties

Metropolitan Community Church Choir Performs
Dr. J. Wesley Jones conducts the Metropolitan Community Church Choir in the performance of African American spiritual works at the Metropolitan Community Church, Chicago, circa 1955

Billy Wilder Directing Marilyn Monroe on Film Set
Director Billy Wilder speaks with Marilyn Monroe during filming of his new comedic film, The Seven Year Itch, which the famous blonde bombshell is starring in

Gloria Vanderbilt Rehearsing with Franchot Tone
(Original Caption) Gloria Vanderbilt, who recently announced her separation from maestro Leopold Stokowski, began rehearsals today for her performance in William Saroyan's The Time of Your Life

Constable Directs Street Traffic
(Original Caption) 1/30/1955-Saar, France- OWN POLICE. This constable, member of Saar force, directs traffic in Saarbrucken

Cornel Wilde and Crewmen Filming Atop Camera Crane
(Original Caption) Location Shot. Sun Valley, Idaho: Film star Cornel Wilde is up in the air about his new movie, but it's not a temperament problem

Milton Berle Directing His Television Show
(Original Caption) 11/1955- Milton Berle, as a producer, and shown directing his show from a control booth

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