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 […]