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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 […]

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 […]

Hog Sense (1953)

Emphasizes the importance of proper sanitation, housing, and feeding for the successful and profitable raising of hogs in the western U.S. Focuses on methods of management and handling for sows and piglets during and after farrowing, including sanitation and safety measures in farrowing houses, correct amounts and types of feed, parasite control, disease prevention, and […]

Human Voice, The (1920s)

A silent film about the human voice. animation of larynx and voicebox animation of vocal chords animation of resonance space when different speech sounds are vocalized 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 […]

How We Hear (1924)

Ironically, this film is silent. Hearing, ears, sound. Compares structure and function of the ears to the telephone. Animation of soundwaves and their perception. 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 […]

The Journalist: A Film Lesson in Vocational Guidance (1928)

Silent film that explores a career in journalism. MS newsboy standing on corner as “Third Avenue Railway System” open streetcar passes by in background. 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 […]