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[Home Movies: Donnola Home Movies #2, 1930s]

[Home Movies: Donnola Home Movies #2, 1930s] 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. home-movies-donnola-home-movies-2-1930s-2

[Home Movies: Medicus Collection: Little Journey to Washington, D.C., April 1935]

Starting title: “Little Journey to Washington, D.C. (April 1935); VS White House and U.S. Capitol; Easter egg rolling on White House lawn; Tomb of Unknown Soldier; Mount Vernon; various Washington landmarks, including Supreme Court building, Smithsonian Institution, Ford’s Theatre; Mayflower Hotel; inside Corcoran Galleries, with many shots of paintings; lots of cherry blossoms; end title […]

[Home Movies: Happy Birthday to Doris, 1935]

Starting title: “Happy Birthday to Doris, 1935”; good shots of wedding; couple departing; wedding; title “Mr. and Mrs. is the name…July 12, 1935”; VS family at Christmastime, good quality CUs (1935); pans over unfinished San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge; LS bridge with San Francisco skyline behind it; Bay Bridge with chunk of roadway not yet installed; […]

[Home Movies: Medicus Collection: Travels in New Mexico and Southwest]

ca. 1930s. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois; Carlsbad Caverns, New Mexico, with many tourists in attendance; Billy the Kid House; El Torreon; Jim White, discoverer of Carlsbad, N.M.; desert cactus; Frijoles Canyon cliff dwellers; giving candy to Native American children; Tonita, potter from San Ildefonso Pueblo; Taos Pueblo and its residents We digitized and uploaded this […]

[Home Movies: Medicus Collection: Men’s Fishing Trip, ca. 1930s]

Men on fishing trip; brief winter street scene in Manhattan, showing couple pushing a perambulator on the sidewalk 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. home-movies-medicus-collection-mens-fishing-trip-ca-1930s

Parade of the Past (ca. 1960s)

“8th Biennial Reno Run” of antique automobiles to Harrah’s in Reno, Nevada, featuring people dressed in period costumes and a few celebrities. A&B silent pix only. 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 […]

Secrets of the Pond (1953)

DESCRIBES WIDE VARIETY OF PLANT & ANIMAL LIFE HIDDEN ON SHORES & ON WATERS OF AN ORDINARY COUNTRY POND. A John Kieran Kaleidoscope film. 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 […]

Schools to the South

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. schools-to-the-south

Industry on Parade

Pasadena: “To give us more miles!” -AAA mobile gas economy run; A Message from Industry to You… Quality of Life; Academy for Artists – Correspondence Schools, incl Charles Shultz; Fabricated Fire Wood: Lumbermills utilizing sawdust; A Message from Industry to You…enterprise and new industry jobs; Hospitality Old Style: Colonial Inn on Cape Cod We digitized […]

Making Sense With Sentences

Discusses the use of sentences in written work; and demonstrates the difference between using complete thoughts orally and on paper. This film is from the A/V Geeks archive. Email us at footage@avgeeks.com if you have questions about the footage and are interested in using it in your project. making-sense-with-sentences