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 […]

Aluminum on the March (1956)

Live location photography, stop-motion and special effects chronicle an industry that contributes to everyday living and national defense. The documentary opens in the mile-high bauxite mines of Jamaica, from which the bauxite ore is conveyed over an aerial tramway to waiting ships, then carried to a factory. At the factory, the ore is digested, settled, […]

[Gould can 5115: San Francisco Bay Area Newsreel Stories] (1920s)

Assembly of newsreel stories relating to the San Francisco Bay Area, as follows: Slide at Selby, California misses passenger train (1928); Santa Claus wishes Merry Christmas from Oakland’s “Chimney” atop Mt. Diablo (1922); Oakland – Vallejo – Sacramento bus (1922); Oakland skyline and City Hall, panorama of city, old cars in parade (1922); Army A-2 […]

Wonderful World of Wash ‘n’ Wear, The (1958)

Synthetic fabrics plus electric laundry equipment make washday a pleasure. Host: Jeffrey Lynn. 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. wonderful-world-of-wash-n-wear-the-1958

D-Day Minus One (1945)

Record of the operations of the U.S. 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions in the 1944 invasion of France. Shows paratroops, gliders and troop carriers landing in France behind the German lines a day prior to the main invasion, helping to prepare the way for the invasion of Normandy. We digitized and uploaded this film on […]

Street of Memory (1937)

A production in Trucolor about Olvera Street and the old Mexican quarter in Los Angeles, California 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. street-of-memory-1937