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[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

[Home Movies: Southwestern U.S., ca. 1930s – 1940s]

Amateur home movie footage of San Francisco late 1930s Includes: Mount Wilson sign; road to Mount Wilson; “The Huntington” hotel or resort scenes, somewhere in Los Angeles or the West; desert cacti and plants; sign: “Apache Trail Junction Ahead”; San Francisco skyline seen from Fairmont Hotel tower, with windowwasher cleaning window in foreground; Petrified Forest; […]

[Home Movies: Medicus Collection: New York, 1934]

Some good shots to be logged. Selected list of contents: New York City schoolchildren in street outside school family picnic rollerskating in Central Park 1934 NRA parade, New York City, shot from a window above the marchers Includes NRA Motion Picture Division marchers Title: “Jungle Tales April 1934” young Philip Medicus showing off his stamp […]

[Home Movies: Golden Gate International Exposition] ca. 1939-40

Amateur pictures, including aerials and color shot from ground level, of the San Francisco World’s Fair on Treasure Island. 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-golden-gate-international-exposition-ca-1939-40

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

American Maker (1960)

Relates how Americans build, from youth throughout life, by using their ingenuity not only in technological advancement but in everyday efforts by everyone. 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: Christmas in Vallejo, 1930-1943]

Scenes from 1930, 1936, 1939-40, 1943 One sequence showing familiy visiting Golden Gate International Exposition, 1939 – 1940, focusing primarily on family members Nice upper-middle-class picnic scene Title: “Xmas 1943” over shot of woman reading Vallejo Times-Herald with headling: “3000 Planes Smash France/ Steel Workers Strike at Midnight” We digitized and uploaded this film on […]

[Home Movies: 1927 Home Movies]

CITIES, Washington, D.C., RAILROAD TRAVEL, OCEAN LINER BON VOYAGE. Belmont Park Racetrack, New York, N.Y., first race (Meet of 1927) VS track and spectators; CU’s of people; LS’s track Title card: “Westbury, N.Y.: American Polo Team Defeats British Before 25,000 Fans” Scene looking out window (windshield) at front of automobile (bumpy driving POV); driving on […]

Today — and Yesterday Newsreel (1929)

New York in the pre-jazz era, Fifth Avenue now in the Age of Gasoline!, the long skirt returns – A Duff Gordon Creation c. 1914 vs fashion 15 yrs later, speed boats, 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 […]