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Carol of Harvest, A

“a visual interpretation of Walt Whitman’s famous poem ‘A Carol of Harvest.'” 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. carol-of-harvest-a

Down the Colorado River

Star Safety Film We digitized and uploaded this film on behalf of the Prelinger Archive. Email us at footage@avgeeks.com if you have questions about the footage and are interested in using it in your project. down-the-colorado-river

Growing Things: A Film Lesson in “Nature Study” (1928)

De Vry School Films Inc. How to plant and maintain a small garden.Timelapse cinematography of bean sprouting and growing upward; shoots growing and other plant growth. We digitized and uploaded this film on behalf of the Prelinger Archive. Email us at footage@avgeeks.com if you have questions about the footage and are interested in using it […]

Glass Case, The (1939)

Sound Masters A man witnesses a holdup and the robber tries to shoot him, but the gun misfires. His poor vision, uncorrected by glasses, causes the frameup of an innocent young man. We digitized and uploaded this film on behalf of the Prelinger Archive. Email us at footage@avgeeks.com if you have questions about the footage […]

Film of Endurance, A (ca. 1933)

Metropolitan Motion Picture Company Pennzoil This film is missing its soundtrack. Film about an endurance race on the Bonneville salt flats. Cars stuck on Utah salt flats. Victory Highway milepost signs in Utah posted by Utah State Auto Club, showing New York 2455 miles, Salduro 9, Grantsville 93, Salt Lake City 135. CU Victory Highway […]

Film of Endurance A (ca. 1933)

Silent – missing soundtrack. Made for Pennzoil Company about an endurance race on the Bonneville salt flats. 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. film-of-endurance-a-ca-1933-2

Farther Faster Safer (1930s) A/B roll

Made for Pennzoil Company to show the evolution of transportation. 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. farther-faster-safer-1930s-a-b-roll-3

Einstein Theory of Relativity (1923)

Title: “Time is Relative. It STRETCHES and SHRINKS!” other great titles, some animation Title: “A subject requiring a life-time to master, obviously cannot be demonstrated in a few minutes. This is therefore an attempt to explain only some of its more popular ideas.” Simulation of astronaut being shot into space from a giant cannon animation […]

Discipline: Part 2, Reprimanding (1943)

A U.S. Navy film showing the correct way to reprimand a subordinate. We digitized and uploaded this film on behalf of the Prelinger Archive. Email us at footage@avgeeks.com if you have questions about the footage and are interested in using it in your project. discipline-part-2-reprimanding-1943

Basic Principles of Frequency Modulation (1944)

Many great chalk talks, diagrams, animation showing technical aspects of radio transmission We digitized and uploaded this film on behalf of the Prelinger Archive. Email us at footage@avgeeks.com if you have questions about the footage and are interested in using it in your project. basic-principles-of-frequency-modulation-1944

Pathegrams Review (No. 1) 1927

This is an assembly of various newsreel stories and fragments, all apparently Pathé-produced. Four-Footed Fortunes: Yearly Shearing on an Arizona Sheep-Ranch The Two-Legged Horse Race. Special photography by Alvin V. Knechtel. Ostrich races. segues into poor-quality footage of New York City, offices, telegraph key, Lindbergh’s ticker-tape parade in New York title: New York Welcomes the […]