Stock Library Can BKCBKHBKI (silent)

The 1960s film footage presents a series of scenes capturing the essence of European urban life, scientific measurement, and meteorological processes. It begins with a man interacting with a pinned grasshopper, then shifts to a man purchasing and reading a newspaper from a newsstand. The footage includes imagery of a grand European palace with an ornate fountain and garden, followed by workers laboriously breaking rocks and constructing a road, observed by pedestrians. Victorian-era figures appear in various interactions, including women directing men on the sidewalk and workmen engaging in discussions.

The narrative then transitions to scenes of men with lunchboxes going about their workday, overseen by a boss in a top hat. Pamphlets are distributed among the workers during lunch, and people engage in conversations in a garden near a house, including Victorian teens and military officers. Scientific and technological aspects are highlighted with a man recording data on a rooftop, followed by detailed views of meteorological instruments like wind direction and speed gauges, as well as a teletype printer in a weather station office. The footage also captures weather phenomena such as the spinning of a weathervane, the movement of cumulus clouds, and a weather satellite in a laboratory. The film concludes with scenes of a weatherman at a news station, a boy watching a weather forecast on TV, and a scientist at a forecasting station operating a computer to print weather patterns, rounding off the blend of daily life, work, and the science of weather observation.

We digitized and uploaded this film from the A/V Geeks 16mm Archive. Email us at footage@avgeeks.com if you have questions about the footage and are interested in using it in your project.