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Mainline U.S.A. (1957)

Railroad film with many images with shots of the American landscape. 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. mainline-u-s-a-1957

Activity Group Therapy (1950)

A report on the selection of cases for activity group therapy, the conduct of the therapeutic sessions and the personality developments of a group of emotionally disturbed boys during treatment. Shows socially-maladjusted children ten to eleven years old being benefited therapeutically by “acting out” their disturbances upon their environment and each other. Presents Henry’s anxiety […]

Science in Action: Submarines (ca 1956)

Science in Action episode about submarines and buoyancy. 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. science-in-action-submarines-ca-1956

1965 Parade of Homes, The

Made by WBRC-TV (Birmingham, Ala) 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. 1965-parade-of-homes-the

Young Man’s Fancy (1952)

“In an all-out effort to cash in on this potential market, Edison Electric has pulled out all the stops in a gigantic All-Electric Kitchen Program. Almost every advertising medium is being used — radio spot announcements, newspapers, magazines, plan books, a ‘Kitchenizer’s Digest’ of pertinent articles from women’s magazines, outdoor posters, window display cards, envelope […]

This Is My Railroad (1940s)

Promotional film for Southern Pacific Railroad. 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. this-is-my-railroad-1940s

Speaking of Rubber (1951)

All the script clichés are here: junior sitting in the kitchen complaining, “Aw, who cares about RUBBER anyway?” and gramps, the appreciative rubber factory retiree, on hand to set him straight. “Why, without rubber, the world wouldn’t be as nice a place to live in!” Cut to a ten-minute manufacturing montage…. We digitized and uploaded […]

Desert Venture (ca 1958)

This oil propaganda film explains why venture capital in Saudi Arabia is crucial to fueling America’s “nation on wheels.” Sponsored by Aramco (Arab-American Oil Company) / Standard Oil Company of California 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 […]

Dynamic American City, The (ca 1956)

There could be no better film than this to show how old, character-filled neighborhoods in cities across the nation were wantonly destroyed during the “new is better” 1950s. The term used was “URBAN RENEWAL”. Cities across the United States are shown, in old, established residential and business districts of great charm, and new, “urban renewal”-inflicted […]

Aluminum on the March (1956)

Live location photography, stop-motion and special effects chronicle an industry that contributes to everyday living and national defense. The documentary opens in the mile-high bauxite mines of Jamaica, from which the bauxite ore is conveyed over an aerial tramway to waiting ships, then carried to a factory. At the factory, the ore is digested, settled, […]

Where the Mountains Meet the Sea (1959)

CONCERNS CITY OF SANTA MONICA, CALIFORNIA 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. where-the-mountains-meet-the-sea-1959