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 […]
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
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 […]
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
Lucky Strike cigarette commercial with stop-motion animation of square-dancing cigarettes. 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. lucky-strike-cigarette-commercial-square-dance-1948
Lumber mill footage from Humboldt County, California: Logs on flatcars being automatically dumped into pond / men in pond working logs while in the background logs are being conveyed up ramp from pond to saw / log coming into saw / machinery (lumber mill scene shot at Scotia in 1915) We digitized and uploaded this […]