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50/50 Chance, A (1967)

U.S. National Communicable Disease Center film about tetanus infection. 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. 50-50-chance-a-1967

Story of Standard, The (1926)

History of the Standard Oil Co. Shows packaging of Standard Oil products. 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. story-of-standard-the-1926

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 […]

To Greater Vision (1944)

Shows the manufacture of glass for optical instruments and eyewear used in industry and war. Explains how eyes are treated and faulty vision is corrected. 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 […]

Operation Correction (1961)

Presents an interpretation of Operation Abolition, a film on House Un-American Committee Activities in May 1960 in San Francisco. 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. operation-correction-1961

Peter Borik (1942)

Peter Borik, a farmer, contracts tuberculosis but avoids seeking medical assistance. The film shows the grave consequences of his decision without ever showing Peter himself. 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 […]

Ingenuity in Action (1959)

This informative film made for hot rod fans explains the process involved in preparing and entering a car show, but at times comes across as an ethnographic account of the “nomadic tribe of hotrodders”. We digitized and uploaded this film on behalf of the Prelinger Archives. Email us at footage@avgeeks.com if you have questions about […]

Challenge to Democracy, A (c 1944)

Film on the massive internment of Japanese Americans in concentration camps during World War II. It seems that the film tries to reassure the viewer that the conditions in the camps are not too “soft” — that the Japanese Americans there have to work hard and actually provide for many of their own needs, costing […]

Troop Train (1943)

Evocative World War II-era film following a troop train: the coordination of effort; its staging and assembly of cars, cargo and passengers; its heavily guarded journey through the American countryside; and the food, sleep, exercise, training, drilling and recreation of its soldier-passengers. We digitized and uploaded this film on behalf of the Prelinger Archives. Email […]

Man and His Culture (1954)

Shows, in the imaginative form of a ‘REPORT FROM OUTER SPACE,’ how the ways of mankind might appear to visitors from another planet. Considers the things most cultures have in common and the ways they change as they pass from one generation to the next. Contact footage@avgeeks.com for more information. man-and-his-culture-1954-3