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Riding Your School Bus

An elementary teacher discusses school bus safety with her class, and children are shown demonstrating bus safety practices. We digitized and uploaded this film for 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. riding-your-school-bus

Nation’s Market Place

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. Silent film about the New York Stock Exchange nations-market-place

Report from Rhode Island

A film about the state of Rhode 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. report-from-rhode-island

Direct Distance Dialing

Promotional film about a new type of long distance telephone dialing. 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. direct-distance-dialing

[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 […]

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

Styled in California (early 1960s)

“A Montgomery Ward Fashion Presentation.” Idealized “typical” family piles out of convertible and starts playing furiously (good) Janis Paige addresses camera: “this is a typical California day” Stylish California mother poses before camera Stylish woman at backyard barbecue; yields it to husband Closeup of woman’s chest and gingham dress We digitized and uploaded this film […]

High Cost of Letting Go

Safety film targeted at railroad workers about how mental upsets can increase vulnerability to accidents. A newspaper reporter tries to reconstruct why a mysterious accident occurred. 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 […]

Safest Township Anywhere, The (1960)

Lessons in safety. 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. safest-township-anywhere-the-1960

Twenty-Six Old Characters, The (1947)

“TRACES DEVELOPMENT OF WRITING & TOOLS OF WRITING. SHOWS VARIOUS PARTS OF A FOUNTAIN PEN & DISCUSSES ITS PROPER CARE & USE.” 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. twenty-six-old-characters-the-1947