Uncategorized3622 Videos

Sell the Difference!

Jam Handy film for Buick salesmen. 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. sell-the-difference

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: […]

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 […]

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

[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 […]

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

Special Delivery (1963)

School bus movie starring Mansfield, Ohio police chief John Butler as the school bus driver. Produced in and around Mansfield, Ohio. How Superior Coach Co. school buses move children safely to and from school. Dramatic film with great creepy closeups. Young boy (Mickey Miller, almost 5) with Indian headdress running behind hedge, taking cover (“Indian” […]

Our Community (1952)

Illustrates important community functions and services. Depicts police and fire protection, health safeguards, and park and recreational facilities. Points out how members of the community are interdependent. 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 […]

Menace of Guatemala (Ideal What-Nots series) (1934)

Discusses the threat of volcanoes Footage of Guatemala weaving backpacking trekking dance and dancing fear terror disasters earthquakes Central America Latin America South Americ 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 […]

Developing Friendships (1950)

WHILE A GROUP OF FRIENDS WAIT FOR JOE AT THE RR STATION, 1 BOY REMINISCES ABOUT HOW JOE HAS TAUGHT HIM THE VALUE OF FRIENDSHIPS & HOW TO DEVELOP AN APPRECIATION FOR PEOPLE OF VARYING PERSONALITIES. 23:19:05 Bunch of teenagers pile out of car and run through the train station 23:20:33 VO: “Not many months […]

All Out for Victory (ca. 1943)

“We know that victory is won only through the sweat of workers and the blood of soldiers. Out there, there isn’t one unimportant soldier, back here there isn’t a single unimportant worker.” Another film about the critical importance of wartime production brought home through stories of individual workers. Refitting of Firestone plants for wartime production. […]

Save the Soil

Silent. The soil is the heritage of all mankind, given in perpetual trust to the children of men…SAVE THE SOIL! many stock shots of famine, decadence, food, agriculture 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 […]