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Combat America (1945)

Follows the Flying Fortress crews of the 351st Bombardment Group from the end of their training at a Colorado training field to actual combat over Germany. It tells the story of the crews and the gunners, showing how they live, how they fight, and how they rest. Produced at the command of General Henry H. […]

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 […]

Modern Sweden (aka Traveling the Middle Way in Sweden) 1940

Cooperating to educate – Educated to cooperate; the Swedes have set an example which America may well take to heart.” Largely focuses on history and activities of Swedish cooperatives. 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 […]

Hoofs and Horns

Silent. “Intimate portraits of and facts concerning the Salient Types of the Ungulates, or Hoofed Mammals of the World. Recorded at The Philadelphia and Washington Zoological Parks by Arthur H. Fisher.” 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 […]

Challenging the Desert Wind

A7 & B Roll. Nevada Division of Forestry “A public information film on the Nevada State Tree Nursery program to conserve soil and water through windbreak planting.” Stock shots to be logged. VS trees We digitized and uploaded this film on behalf of the Prelinger Archive. Email us at footage@avgeeks.com if you have questions about […]

Story of Coal, The

Bray Pictures Corp. 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. story-of-coal-the

Drifting Through the Rockies

Cine-Art Productions, Inc. “Chas. J. Belden leads a daring expedition through treacherous rapids, making the first motion pictures even taken of this mighty rent in the Rocky Mountains cut out by the Big Horn River.” Big Horn Canyon, Wyoming CU prospector panning for gold (good) Shooting the rapids Boat overturns in rapids Photographed by Charles […]

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 […]