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San Francisco Dead Whale Opens Seafood Season (1950s)

San Francisco: Dead Whale Opens Seafood Season Dead whale appeared on Market Street Dead whale (42 feet long) is driven down Market Street as promotional stunt for opening of seafood season. “Miss Seafood” on trailer. Cops (policemen) hold noses at the smell (odor). Big barnacles on whale. We digitized and uploaded this film on behalf […]

[United Airlines Operations]

Early United Airlines film fragment. 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. united-airlines-operations

Rehabilitation Shipments to Korea (1950s)

Oakland, California: Rehabilitation shipments to Korea 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. rehabilitation-shipments-to-korea-1950s

[Modern Home has Helipad on Roof] 1950s circa

Newsreel. Ray Nichols of Oakland commutes to work by helicopter Modern home has helipad on roof “Sequoia house” steel framework, lots of glass walls 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 […]

[Mail for Soldiers] 1950s

Newsreel. 36,000 sacks of mail destined for GI’s overseas VS sacks of mail, good stockshots In warehouse, loaded off truck, on shelves, marked Japan, Korea, Guam Sacks being hoisted by camera 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 […]

[Kitestinking, Artesia, California] 1950s

SPORTS: KITESTINKING (sp?), Artesia, California Games where people get drenched Water stunt camera gets drenched, so do others 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. kitestinking-artesia-california-1950s

To Keep Them Well

Film about child health. Sound was not 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. ca. late 1950s, early 1960s little girl getting physical at pediatrician’s 2 girls playing ball in […]

Plowshare (1961 circa)

Argues for peaceful uses of nuclear weapons in construction, civil engineering and extraction of natural resources. A document of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission’s “Plowshare” program 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 […]

Electromagnets (1961)

Explains the theory of electromagnetism by building slowly from a simple bar magnet to a completed electromagnet made from simple home materials. 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. electromagnets-1961

[Home Movies: Washington, D.C.] 1940s

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. Footage of Washington, D.C., probably during World War II. home-movies-washington-d-c-1940s

Electrons in a uniform magnetic field. (1959)

Dorothy Montgomery uses a Leybold tube to measure the curvature of the path of the electrons in a magnetic field and thus determine the mass of the electron. 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 […]