Film of Endurance, A (ca. 1933)

Metropolitan Motion Picture Company Pennzoil This film is missing its soundtrack. Film about an endurance race on the Bonneville salt flats. Cars stuck on Utah salt flats. Victory Highway milepost signs in Utah posted by Utah State Auto Club, showing New York 2455 miles, Salduro 9, Grantsville 93, Salt Lake City 135. CU Victory Highway […]

Glass Case, The (1939)

Sound Masters A man witnesses a holdup and the robber tries to shoot him, but the gun misfires. His poor vision, uncorrected by glasses, causes the frameup of an innocent young man. We digitized and uploaded this film on behalf of the Prelinger Archive. Email us at footage@avgeeks.com if you have questions about the footage […]

Growing Things: A Film Lesson in “Nature Study” (1928)

De Vry School Films Inc. How to plant and maintain a small garden.Timelapse cinematography of bean sprouting and growing upward; shoots growing and other plant growth. We digitized and uploaded this film on behalf of the Prelinger Archive. Email us at footage@avgeeks.com if you have questions about the footage and are interested in using it […]

Down the Colorado River

Star Safety Film We digitized and uploaded this film on behalf of the Prelinger Archive. Email us at footage@avgeeks.com if you have questions about the footage and are interested in using it in your project. down-the-colorado-river

Drifting Through the Rockies

Cine-Art Productions, Inc. “Chas. J. Belden leads a daring expedition through treacherous rapids, making the first motion pictures even taken of this mighty rent in the Rocky Mountains cut out by the Big Horn River.” Big Horn Canyon, Wyoming CU prospector panning for gold (good) Shooting the rapids Boat overturns in rapids Photographed by Charles […]

Story of Coal, The

Bray Pictures Corp. We digitized and uploaded this film on behalf of the Prelinger Archive. Email us at footage@avgeeks.com if you have questions about the footage and are interested in using it in your project. story-of-coal-the

Challenging the Desert Wind

A7 & B Roll. Nevada Division of Forestry “A public information film on the Nevada State Tree Nursery program to conserve soil and water through windbreak planting.” Stock shots to be logged. VS trees We digitized and uploaded this film on behalf of the Prelinger Archive. Email us at footage@avgeeks.com if you have questions about […]

Challenging the Desert Wind

A7 & B Roll. Nevada Division of Forestry “A public information film on the Nevada State Tree Nursery program to conserve soil and water through windbreak planting.” We digitized and uploaded this film on behalf of the Prelinger Archive. Email us at footage@avgeeks.com if you have questions about the footage and are interested in using […]

Hoofs and Horns

Silent. “Intimate portraits of and facts concerning the Salient Types of the Ungulates, or Hoofed Mammals of the World. Recorded at The Philadelphia and Washington Zoological Parks by Arthur H. Fisher.” We digitized and uploaded this film on behalf of the Prelinger Archive. Email us at footage@avgeeks.com if you have questions about the footage and […]

Modern Sweden (aka Traveling the Middle Way in Sweden) 1940

Cooperating to educate – Educated to cooperate; the Swedes have set an example which America may well take to heart.” Largely focuses on history and activities of Swedish cooperatives. We digitized and uploaded this film on behalf of the Prelinger Archive. Email us at footage@avgeeks.com if you have questions about the footage and are interested […]

Pathegrams Review (No. 1) 1927

This is an assembly of various newsreel stories and fragments, all apparently Pathé-produced. Four-Footed Fortunes: Yearly Shearing on an Arizona Sheep-Ranch The Two-Legged Horse Race. Special photography by Alvin V. Knechtel. Ostrich races. segues into poor-quality footage of New York City, offices, telegraph key, Lindbergh’s ticker-tape parade in New York title: New York Welcomes the […]