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[Home Movies: Medicus Collection: Travels in New Mexico and Southwest]

ca. 1930s. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois; Carlsbad Caverns, New Mexico, with many tourists in attendance; Billy the Kid House; El Torreon; Jim White, discoverer of Carlsbad, N.M.; desert cactus; Frijoles Canyon cliff dwellers; giving candy to Native American children; Tonita, potter from San Ildefonso Pueblo; Taos Pueblo and its residents We digitized and uploaded this […]
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Take A Good Look (ca 1960)

For Oldsmobile salesman on how to best present their used car inventory for sale to the public. 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. take-a-good-look-ca-1960
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School House in the Red (ca 1945)

A small town decides that it’s best to abandon direct control over its children’s education in favor of centralized school districting (i.e., abandoning it’s little schoolhouse for a large one full of goodies down the road). Directed and filmed by people with socialist leanings; lots of CUs of faces and many quiet, reflective moments. We […]
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This Is My Railroad (1940s)

Promotional film for Southern Pacific Railroad. 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. this-is-my-railroad-1940s
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Challenge to Democracy, A (c 1944)

Film on the massive internment of Japanese Americans in concentration camps during World War II. It seems that the film tries to reassure the viewer that the conditions in the camps are not too “soft” — that the Japanese Americans there have to work hard and actually provide for many of their own needs, costing […]
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Troop Train (1943)

Evocative World War II-era film following a troop train: the coordination of effort; its staging and assembly of cars, cargo and passengers; its heavily guarded journey through the American countryside; and the food, sleep, exercise, training, drilling and recreation of its soldier-passengers. We digitized and uploaded this film on behalf of the Prelinger Archives. Email […]
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Man and His Culture (1954)

Shows, in the imaginative form of a ‘REPORT FROM OUTER SPACE,’ how the ways of mankind might appear to visitors from another planet. Considers the things most cultures have in common and the ways they change as they pass from one generation to the next. Contact footage@avgeeks.com for more information. man-and-his-culture-1954-3
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Automotive Service (1940)

Impressions of the different jobs in automotive service and suggestions on training leading to entrance and to advancement in the trade. Views of an ancient car, contrasted with scenes on busy streets and highways, illustrate the commentator’s statement that with the growth of the automobile industry has come an increased demand for skilled automobile workmen. […]
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Down the Gasoline Trail (1935)

Producer’s synopsis: “Real photography and cartoon animation tell what happens to a drop of gasoline from the time it is put into the gasoline tank of a Chevrolet to the time it brings to life all the power of the Valve-In-Head engine.” We digitized and uploaded this film on behalf of the Prelinger Archives. Email […]
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