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Dateline: Long Island (1964)

We digitized and uploaded this film on behalf of the Prelinger Archives. Email us at footage@avgeeks.com if you have questions about the footage and are interested in using it in your project. Newsday was begun in 1940 in Long Island and this film shows the paper’s role in the growth of the community and many […]

Visit to Wurlitzer, A (ca. 1950)

Tour of the Wurlitzer factory located at North Tonawanda, N.Y., showing the manufacture of “coin-operated phonographs.” A color sequence introducing the factory and its surroundings is followed by a black-and-white kinescope showing the different stages of production. We digitized and uploaded this film on behalf of the Prelinger Archives. Email us at footage@avgeeks.com if you […]

To Keep Them Well

Film about child health. Sound was not We digitized and uploaded this film on behalf of the Prelinger Archives. Email us at footage@avgeeks.com if you have questions about the footage and are interested in using it in your project. ca. late 1950s, early 1960s little girl getting physical at pediatrician’s 2 girls playing ball in […]

Today — and Yesterday Newsreel

Coronation of King George and Queen Mary 1911, Inauguration of President McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, Andrew Carnegie, Lillian Russell, Woodrow Wilson, WWI and German Kaiser, We digitized and uploaded this film on behalf of the Prelinger Archives. Email us at footage@avgeeks.com if you have questions about the footage and are interested in using it in your […]

Robbers Under Water (1950)

LIFE STORY OF PIKE. MICROSCOPIC & TIME-LAPSE PHOTOGRAPHY SHOW ITS DEVELOPMENTS FROM EGG TO MATURITY. CANNIBALISTIC FEATURES OF FISH ARE PORTRAYED IN ITS FEEDING ON STICKLEFISH, CRAYFISH, HERON & DRAGON FLY NYMPHS. From the John Kieran’s Kaleidoscope series. We digitized and uploaded this film on behalf of the Prelinger Archives. Email us at footage@avgeeks.com if […]

Building the American Dream (ca. 1956)

Sponsored by United States Gypsum Company and the National Association of Home Builders Housing Construction Building industry National Association of Home Builders (sponsor) Urban planning Animation We digitized and uploaded this film on behalf of the Prelinger Archives. Email us at footage@avgeeks.com if you have questions about the footage and are interested in using it […]

Wheels of Progress (ca 1927)

Reviews the history of transportation in the U.S. and promotes the economic and social benefits of more and better public roads. We digitized and uploaded this film on behalf of the Prelinger Archives. Email us at footage@avgeeks.com if you have questions about the footage and are interested in using it in your project. wheels-of-progress-ca-1927

Home Economics Story, The (1951)

Four years in the lives of four home economics students at Iowa State University. We digitized and uploaded this film on behalf of the Prelinger Archives. Email us at footage@avgeeks.com if you have questions about the footage and are interested in using it in your project. home-economics-story-the-1951

Hired! (1940)

Quirky Chevrolet sales film. We digitized and uploaded this film on behalf of the Prelinger Archives. Email us at footage@avgeeks.com if you have questions about the footage and are interested in using it in your project. hired-1940

Water (ca. 1950)

John Kieran explains in his inimitable style the basics of water, sustainer of life. We digitized and uploaded this film on behalf of the Prelinger Archives. Email us at footage@avgeeks.com if you have questions about the footage and are interested in using it in your project. water-ca-1950