S is for Sissy
What could be worse than to have a little boy become a sissy? These films try to "de-sissify" behavior considered that of a sissy - being clean, having good manners, etc. Films include - Soapy the Germ Fighter, Johnny Learns About Manners, Fears of Children and more! Bring some friends! Door prizes! Suggested donation $5 - all proceeds from this show will go towards helping former A/V Geek helper and all-around nice guy Cy Rawls with his mounting medical expenses.
7:30PM, Sunday, July 27th Tir Na Nog, 218 S. Blount St. Raleigh, NC 27601
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Special effects Ray Harryhausen's Technicolor vision of the classic Sinbad tale shown in glorious Dynarama! This film has everything - an evil sorceror, a cyclop, a giant Roc bird, magic lamps, sword-wielding skeleton, etc. Show up early to get a good seat and see a film from the A/V Geeks archive. Stay after to play movie trivia for nifty prizes. FREE!
A DVD for a test-obsessed nation including films meant for specific niche groups - TV engineers. Films include: You Bet Your Life, The Handtrap Test, SMPTE Color Tv Test Film #2, Your Study Skills - Taking Tests, Giving The Rorschach Test - Klopfer Method, the classic, Comparative Tests on a Human and a Chimpanzee Infant of Approximately the Same Age
In order to keep up their status as an edu-info- tain-gency, the A/V Geeks present an evening of films that show you how to do things. For example, How To Build an Igloo teaches us step-by-step how to build a shelter in the ice. With How to Get Cooperation we learn the fine art of twisting classmates' arms to cooperate. And The Shoplifter accidentally teaches you some nifty shoplifting tricks (circa 1964).
The A/V Geeks work through their fear of clowns and circus peanuts by putting together some of their best films about circuses onto one DVD. Films include: Here Comes The Circus, Let's Go To The Circus, Circus Day In Our Town, A Circus Wakes Up, Circus Animals (excerpt), Circus Day (Revised) and more! 
The A/V Geeks pull from their vast archive of educational films to bring you a tribute to Dad—the man who provided the sperm, brought home the bacon and put up with your repeated rebellious attempts. Films include: I Just Don't Dig Him, Fears of Children, Schoolboy Father (an Afterschool Special featuring Rob Lowe, Dana Plato and Nancy McKeon) and more! 
Based on Reader's Digest articles, these films examine the main character's different body parts. This DVD-R features films about his stomach, eye, spine and lung. 
In the late 1960s, Walter Cronkite hosted this followup series to the popular "Twentieth Century," looking to science and how it would impact our lives in the next century. Films include: Can You Live To Be 100?, Mystery of Life, Deep Frontier and Surviving In Space. 
Films about rats and humans and how we really aren't that different after all. Films include Fourteen Rats And A Rat Catcher, Rats, Let's Have a Party, How Rodney the River Rat Made Money Grow and more. 
The AV Geeks try to get into the holiday spirit and program about bunch of films about Santa Claus. Films include - the inane Santa Claus Story, the baffling Santa Claus Suit, the violent Santa Claus' Punch and Judy and more! 
Animation with an agenda. Films include: Cautious Twins, Two Hundred, How Animators See Us: Foibles, Three Faces of Stanley, Winged Scourge, Story of Menstruation, About Conception and Contraception, Clutch Cargo short. 
Short vignette films designed to provoke discussion with groups of kids, drivers and cops. Films include - Shoot/Don't Shoot, Working With Older People, Behind the Wheel, What If?, The Grapevine, Library Science Trigger Films and more. 
Here are some films
about toys and the morality tales associated with them. Includes: Toys, Steadfast
Tin Soldier, Buy And Buy, Santa's Toys, lots of 80s toy commercials and
more!