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Men and Mail in Transit

We digitized and uploaded this film from our archive of over 24,000 films. Email us at footage@avgeeks.com if you have questions about the footage and are interested in using it in your project. Shows the functions of the railway and the methods of handling, sorting, dispatching and picking up the mail while in transit. men-and-mail-in-transit

Wild and Wooly

Silent comedy short. 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. wild-and-wooly

Strand of Silk, A

About how silk is produced and used by man. 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. strand-of-silk-a

San Francisco Dead Whale Opens Seafood Season (1950s)

San Francisco: Dead Whale Opens Seafood Season Dead whale appeared on Market Street Dead whale (42 feet long) is driven down Market Street as promotional stunt for opening of seafood season. “Miss Seafood” on trailer. Cops (policemen) hold noses at the smell (odor). Big barnacles on whale. We digitized and uploaded this film on behalf […]

Casual Ties : Casualties (1972)

The experiences of a young girl help to focus attention on some psycho-social aspects of the venereal disease problem. Written and directed by Rolf Forsberg (maker of Parable, Stalked, Ark, One Friday). Email us at footage@avgeeks.com if you have questions about the footage and are interested in using it in your project. casual-ties-casualties-1972

[Home Movies: Medicus Collection: New York, 1934]

Some good shots to be logged. Selected list of contents: New York City schoolchildren in street outside school family picnic rollerskating in Central Park 1934 NRA parade, New York City, shot from a window above the marchers Includes NRA Motion Picture Division marchers Title: “Jungle Tales April 1934” young Philip Medicus showing off his stamp […]

Wings for Doubting Thomas (1950s)

Promotional film about the Cessna personal aircraft. 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. wings-for-doubting-thomas-1950s

Food for America (ca 1941)

This Kodachrome film is a travelogue of epic length in which the camera rarely leaves the factory floor. Mrs. Harwood, a lady of a certain social position, decides to research her women’s club presentation on the American dairy industry by visiting Meadow Gold facilities across the country. Assisted by supportive company executives and a host […]

Aluminum on the March (1956)

Live location photography, stop-motion and special effects chronicle an industry that contributes to everyday living and national defense. The documentary opens in the mile-high bauxite mines of Jamaica, from which the bauxite ore is conveyed over an aerial tramway to waiting ships, then carried to a factory. At the factory, the ore is digested, settled, […]

Crime of Korea, The (1950)

Presents a war correspondent’s reports on Korea after its liberation from Japan in 1945 and after communist destruction of the country and its people in 1950. 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 […]

Wonderful World of Wash ‘n’ Wear, The (1958)

Synthetic fabrics plus electric laundry equipment make washday a pleasure. Host: Jeffrey Lynn. 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. wonderful-world-of-wash-n-wear-the-1958

D-Day Minus One (1945)

Record of the operations of the U.S. 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions in the 1944 invasion of France. Shows paratroops, gliders and troop carriers landing in France behind the German lines a day prior to the main invasion, helping to prepare the way for the invasion of Normandy. We digitized and uploaded this film on […]