[Cornwall, N.Y., Memorial Day Celebration 1920]

Silent footage of Cornwall, N.Y., Memorial Day Celebration 1920 We digitized and uploaded this film from 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. cornwall-n-y-memorial-day-celebration-1920

[Miscellaneous Color Shots 2]

Someone’s In the Kitchen Film contains many artfully shot closeups of housework, cooking, food preparation, food and kitchen activity. Mother pours Log Cabin syrup on waffle for cute freckled red-headed boy in baseball hat Boy takes bite of waffle, feeds second bite to dog. Boy eats waffle beside mom making lunches in kitchen. Little boy […]

[Miscellaneous Color Shots]

Family at Gas Station (1956 Ford spot) Family in 1956 Ford Crown Victoria driving down country road, looks a bit like Central California. Exciting World of Stevens Fabrics, The VS J.P. Stevens & Co., Inc. Fabric office and factory buildings. Brick building reads “Fiber Glass Fabrics For the Home” in white letters. Pan over empty […]

[Berkeley, California Fire] (1923)

Berkeley, California Fire. [Newsreel: Extra !! Berkeley Burns! Entire city threatened by flames] Great footage of 1923 Berkeley fire; buildings on fire; thousands on the street fleeing with their belongings, furniture stacked up on the street and in parks; 00:30:35:07 Incredible shot of boy center of frame, lifting up a mirror, walking toward, then past […]

[Passenger Car Screen Ads] (1952)

AUTOMOBILES CHEVROLET ADVERTISING SALES COMMERCIALS DRIVING HIGHWAYS ROADS STREETS LEISURE RECREATION VACATIONS We digitized and uploaded this film from 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. passenger-car-screen-ads-1952

Atomic Bomb Blast Effects (1959)

Color footage of atomic bomb tests with active duty military personnel at Camp Desert Rock, Nevada Test Site, Nevada. Shows soldiers in foxholes as nuclear detonation occurs nearby; light and shockwaves; blowing dust; soldiers climbing out of foxholes and running towards mushroom cloud. Some of this footage is familiar by virtue of having been seen […]

Working And Playing To Health – As We See It (1953)

Set in a state mental institution in central Illinois, this film presents information on, and reenactments of, the delivery of occupational, recreational, and industrial therapies to help patients. The message is that while doctors and nurses are necessary, other kinds of non-medical intervention are needed, too, for those suffering from mental illness. Therapists and staff […]

[Home Movies: Bonomo Home Movies 1939-40]

[Home Movies: Bonomo Home Movies: FDR Opens Whitestone Bridge 1939; LaGuardia Airport 1940; World’s Fair] We digitized and uploaded this film from 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. home-movies-bonomo-home-movies-1939-40

Seeing Green (1937)

A LOOK AT THE “BRAIN” OF THE TRAFFIC LIGHT SHOWS HOW THE RED & GREEN & AMBER LIGHTS PROMOTE SAFETY. GOOD ANIMATION OF SERIES OF LIGHTS AND LINES OF CARS. GOOD SHOTS VARIOUS KINDS OF TRAFFIC LIGHTS. BRIEF MONTAGE OF FOREIGN CITIES. We digitized and uploaded this film from the Prelinger Archive. Email us at […]

Sage Brush Tom (1915)

Silent western featuring Tom Mix. We digitized and uploaded this film from 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. sage-brush-tom-1915

Only A Farmer’s Daughter (Leading Lizzie Astray, 1914)

Silent comedy short featuring Fatty Arbuckle. Roscoe ‘Fatty’ Arbuckle – A Farm Boy Minta Durfee – Lizzie, the Farm Boy’s Fiancée Ed Brady – A City Slicker Mack Swain – In from the Mines Edgar Kennedy – The Slicker’s Chauffeur Phyllis Allen – Amorous Cafe Patron Charley Chase – Cafe Patron Al St. John – […]

Superstition (1926)

Silent drama. Released as “THOSE WHO DARE” Captain Martin Manning retires from the sea and buys a little home near the harbor where he can be in sight of his ship the “Swallow.” But a delegation of sailors from the nearby “Mariner’s Home” tell him the old sailors believe the ship’s presence is bringing them […]