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[Home Movies: Happy Birthday to Doris, 1935]

Starting title: “Happy Birthday to Doris, 1935”; good shots of wedding; couple departing; wedding; title “Mr. and Mrs. is the name…July 12, 1935”; VS family at Christmastime, good quality CUs (1935); pans over unfinished San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge; LS bridge with San Francisco skyline behind it; Bay Bridge with chunk of roadway not yet installed; […]
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[Home Movies: Medicus Collection: Travels in New Mexico and Southwest]

ca. 1930s. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois; Carlsbad Caverns, New Mexico, with many tourists in attendance; Billy the Kid House; El Torreon; Jim White, discoverer of Carlsbad, N.M.; desert cactus; Frijoles Canyon cliff dwellers; giving candy to Native American children; Tonita, potter from San Ildefonso Pueblo; Taos Pueblo and its residents We digitized and uploaded this […]
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[Home Movies: Medicus Collection: Men’s Fishing Trip, ca. 1930s]

Men on fishing trip; brief winter street scene in Manhattan, showing couple pushing a perambulator on the sidewalk 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. home-movies-medicus-collection-mens-fishing-trip-ca-1930s
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[Home Movies: Southwestern U.S., ca. 1930s – 1940s]

Amateur home movie footage of San Francisco late 1930s Includes: Mount Wilson sign; road to Mount Wilson; “The Huntington” hotel or resort scenes, somewhere in Los Angeles or the West; desert cacti and plants; sign: “Apache Trail Junction Ahead”; San Francisco skyline seen from Fairmont Hotel tower, with windowwasher cleaning window in foreground; Petrified Forest; […]
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[Home Movies: Medicus Collection: New York, 1934]

Some good shots to be logged. Selected list of contents: New York City schoolchildren in street outside school family picnic rollerskating in Central Park 1934 NRA parade, New York City, shot from a window above the marchers Includes NRA Motion Picture Division marchers Title: “Jungle Tales April 1934” young Philip Medicus showing off his stamp […]
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[Home Movies: Golden Gate International Exposition] ca. 1939-40

Amateur pictures, including aerials and color shot from ground level, of the San Francisco World’s Fair on Treasure Island. 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. home-movies-golden-gate-international-exposition-ca-1939-40
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Frontiers of the Future (A Screen Editorial With Lowell Thomas) 1937

Produced to convince Depression-weary Americans that new frontiers still lay ahead. Excellent compilation of stock shots of 1930s-era manufacturing, research laboratories and industry. 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. […]
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[Home Movies: Wathen Collection: Asia] 1960s

Includes aerials of what may be Thailand or Bali. 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. home-movies-wathen-collection-asia-1960s
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[Home Movies: Medicus Collection: Manhattan and Picnic]

Amateur Cinema League leader Various CUs of young boys, ages approx. 9-12, one in sailor suit, talking to each other against paper background (this may be some kind of dramatic dialogue) Pans between the boys talking Three children in hats and overcoats explore the area along Manhattan’s (New York) Hudson River shoreline, uptown, on a […]
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