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Seeing Paris: Part One: On the Boulevards (1920s)

Burton Holmes travelogue. looking out over Paris square. VS square and traffic Avenue de l’Opera Sidewalk Cafe de la Paix Scenes on Boulevard; pedestrians Porte St. Denis Bastille Day ceremonies soldiers marching Parc Monceau Cafe Life in Paris Cafe de la Paix VS people sitting in cafes Au Caneton restaurant caviar and pancakes (crepes) Robinson: […]
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What Happened to Emile (Cooperation & Obedience) (1921)

Emile’s father asks him to imagine a home where everyone did just as he pleases. Children leave messes, mothers don’t make lunch because they don’t feel like it, Emile eats the family’s dinner for lunch; a tramp takes Emile’s food for himself; Emile chases him. Title: “Even in a free country like America, authority is […]
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Seeing Paris: Up and Around The Eiffel Tower (1920s)

Burton Holmes travelogue. Avenue du Bois VS Eiffel Tower Shots from elevator ascending Ferris wheel 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. seeing-paris-up-and-around-the-eiffel-tower-1920s
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[Universal Newsreel: Smith Lands Safely] (circa 1935)

title: Universal Newsreel: SCOOP title; Smith Lands Safely, Oakland, Calif. Aircraft VH-USB landing at Oakland airport Kingsford Smith in Altair 8D Special, “Lady Southern Cross” aviator greeted spectators in orderly group behind wooden barricades on tarmac crowd inspecting plane in hangar car leaving (presumably with Kingsford Smith) We digitized and uploaded this film on behalf […]
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Sea Elephants and Sea Lions (1940s)

Nature film of sea mammals on Guadalupe and San Benitos Islands off Baja California, Mexico 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. sea-elephants-and-sea-lions-1940s
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School Libraries in Action (1961)

Line of children (junior-high-age) entering classroom. Librarians in planning meeting, all women. Kids in front of library display board “Books Away!”, showing books attached to little parachutes. Librarian reading aloud to kids Older children making puppets and Viking helmets with horns. Pan over kids listening Some African American kids in all-Black school library — scenes […]
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[Newsreel: Mystery Plane for Ocean Hop Has Robot Pilot] (1930s)

Early drone technology! title: Universal Newsreel: Oakland, Calif. — Mystery Plane for Ocean Hop Has Robot Pilot robot plane being tested by Army officials ring direction finder atop plane follows broadcast station coordinates airplane with darkened windows taxis and takes off We digitized and uploaded this film on behalf of the Prelinger Archive. Email us […]
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[Newsreel: Collegians Wage Vegetable War] (1930s)

title: Odd Bits in Today’s News: San Francisco, Cal.– Collegians Wage Vegetable War students posing for camera with old and rotten vegetables freshman and sophomores throwing vegetables at one another residential neighborhood (and cemeteries), and sandlots, visible in background narrator: “The Battle of Garbage Hill” We digitized and uploaded this film on behalf of the […]
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Trees (circa 1920s)

Silent film about forests. Forests World War I combat title: “Civilization stands on the firm foundation of wood” Man and woman reading in front of fireplace, 2 separate chairs framing fire, backs to camera Town by river, highway bridge and railroad, hills in background, steam train moving right to left (good) lumber yard train moving […]
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