![[movies]](http://archive.org/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Bill Cosby On Prejudice - KCET-TV
Presents black comedian Bill Cosby appearing in white make-up and green eye shadow in a special that discusses bigotry. Shows Cosby assuming the role of a super-bigot, and employing all the stereotype prejudices in his monologue. Help us get more films like this online! This film was digitized and uploaded thanks to contributions from this project: www.indiegogo.com/avgeeks100miles
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| Date For Dinner, A - Kimberly - Clark Corp
Presents typical situations which occur on a dinner date--checking, seating, ordering, table technique, make-up repair, tipping and escort courtesy. Help us get more films like this online! This film was digitized and uploaded thanks to contributions from this project: www.indiegogo.com/avgeeks100miles
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| 90 Day Wondering - Warner Brothers Pictures, Inc.
90 Day Wondering (1956) United States Army/Warner Bros. Directed by seasoned Warner Bros. animator Chuck Jones and featuring the voice of Mel Blanc, we see young soldier Ralph Phillips re-entering the civilian world and puzzling over reenlisting. Two spritely characters, Pete and Re-Pete, try to sway his decision. Since this was produced for the U.S. Army, we can guess which argument comes out on top...
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| Hardest Working Dollar, The - U S Dept Of Labor
Describes what the Unemployment Insurance Program means to the American worker, employer, government and the economy. Help us get more films like this online! This film was digitized and uploaded thanks to contributions from this project: www.indiegogo.com/avgeeks100miles
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| [Redbook Is #1 For Women 18-34]
Promotional film for advertisers of Redbook magazine. Shows that Redbook is popular for 18-34 year old women who are looking for careers, starting a family, etc.
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| Airplane Trip By Jet, An - Encyclopedia Britannica
Depicts jet airplane flight of a boy and girl (and their dog) from New York to San Francisco. Shows many of the activities performed by airline personnel before takeoff and during flight explains the function of some of the equipment they use. Includes view of airplane on its cross-country trip. Help us get more films like this online! This film was digitized and uploaded thanks to contributions from this project: www.indiegogo.com/avgeeks100miles
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| [Aeronautics And Space Report - 1965] - NASA
Early space program footage.
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| Adventures Of A Bunny Rabbit - Erpi Classroom Films, Inc.
Follows a baby rabbit who ventures from his woodland home in search of lettuce on a nearby farm. Depicts his narrow escapes from an angry farmer and a hungry fox. Unfortunately, the ending of this film is clipped. Help us get more films like this online! This film was digitized and uploaded thanks to contributions from this project: www.indiegogo.com/avgeeks100miles
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| [Productimeter Footage]
Silent found footage of a counter that turns switches off and on. Some good closeup and assembly line footage. Help us get more films like this online! This film was digitized and uploaded thanks to contributions from this project: www.indiegogo.com/avgeeks100miles
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| [General Electric Best Buy Speech] - General Electric
Looks to be a speech about the new GE sales logo but it talks about troubled times - inflation, unemployment, etc.
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| [New Bern, NC, Parade]
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| Pirro And The Telephone - Official Films, Inc
Employs a puppet to show usage of telephone and directory. Tells how to carry on a telephone conversation.
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| Regulated Deer Hunting - U. S. Forest Service
Silent with title cards. A look at Pisgah National Forest and their attempts to control deer overpopulation. Trapping and hunting. Help us get more films like this online! This film was digitized and uploaded thanks to contributions from this project: www.indiegogo.com/avgeeks100miles
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| [Documentary Of Inland Waterway 1929)]
Silent amateur footage of the waterway around Elizabeth City, various boats, a boat lauching, the country club, golf club and hotel. Probably shot by the owner of the local Texaco distributor. Help us get more films like this online! This film was digitized and uploaded thanks to contributions from this project: www.indiegogo.com/avgeeks100miles
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| Quality Of The Meat You Buy, The - United States Department of Agriculture
Kinescope. Presents a U. S. Department of Agriculture's consumer meat specialist who gives valuable tips on buying and preparing meat by using the USDA grades of quality.
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| Potheads, The - Alfonso Sánchez, Youth Film Distribution Center
In montage form, this film effectively captures the hallucinatory nature of marijuana smoking; the filmmaker touches on the self-destructive nature of drug-taking. Help us get more films like this online! This film was digitized and uploaded thanks to contributions from this project: www.indiegogo.com/avgeeks100miles
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| Felony Vehicle Stop - Ten-33 Productions
Presents the police method for pulling over an automobile. Depicts how to search, handcuff and transport suspects.
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| Story of the Prodigal Son - Protestant Radio Commission
A retelling of the Biblical story of the Prodigal Son with marionettes. We’re sure that “gay stranger” meant something else in 1950
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| Carnivorous Plants - Moody Institute of Science
Photomicrography reveals the unusual structure and behavior of the Venus's flytrap, the trumpet plant, the cobra plant, the common pitcher plant, the sundew plant and the utricularia.
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| [Seat belt Public Service Announcements] - National Transportation Safety Board
Public Service Announcements Tenn State coach and Child restraint. seat belts prevent headaches, pumpkin crashing, egg crashing. Help us get more films like this online! This film was digitized and uploaded thanks to contributions from this project: www.indiegogo.com/avgeeks100miles
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| All Girl Melody Makers - Castle Films
Three songs by Dave Schooler & his 21 - Swinghearts Tchaikowskiana, Pavanne, In an 18th Century Drawing Room. Help us get more films like this online! This film was digitized and uploaded thanks to contributions from this project: www.indiegogo.com/avgeeks100miles
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| Any Boy - USA - Women's Christian Temperance Union - Niemann, Fred S
MISTER WHISKEY' Explains that he is not allowed to pilot a plane, drive an engine or steer a ship on the high seas because he lacks good judgment, stamina, agility and clear thinking. A young country boy yearns for the big city life. He travels with Mr. Whiskey to the city and sees trains, airplanes, ships and the city - complete with skid row bums.
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| Cavalcade - Sterling Films
Promotional newsreel-like pieces. Help us get more films like this online! This film was digitized and uploaded thanks to contributions from this project: Help A/V Geeks Digitize 100 Miles. 16mm At Time.
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| Adventures In Telezonia - American Telephone & Telegraph Co.
ADVENTURE IN TELEZONIA (1949) American Telephone & Telegraph Co. PUPPETRY: Bil and Cora Baird. One of the Bell Telephone System’s many films instructing the public on proper use of the telephone. Bobby finds his lost dog with the help of the residents of Telezonia, who teach him how to use directory assistance, party lines, and proper phone manners. Thanks for your contributions to get this online! Help us get more films online by contributing to our project - Help Digitize 100 Miles of the AV...
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| Harry Hay on Language and Labels in the 1930s - Shaping San Francisco
Another clip from the 1996 video interview with Mattachine Society founder Harry Hay in which he describes the absence of language to describes gays in the 1930s. The word "homosexual" wasn't even in the dictionary until about 1939, so he recounts how men in the community back then would refer to each other as "that way" or on a good day as "temperamental."
Keywords: gay; gay identity; homosexual; 1930s; sociology; language; self-reference
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| Harry Hay on 19th century Remittance Men - Shaping San Francisco
A short clip from a longer 1996 interview with Mattachine Society founder Harry Hay in which he describes the common 19th century phenomenon of "Remittance Men." They were the outcast, typically gay, children of well-off families who were sent "as far away as possible," i.e. to San Francisco or Vancouver, where they could carry on their lives without shaming the families...
Keywords: gay; homoesexual; remittance men; 19th century; dandy; upper class
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| Susan Swift on antinuclear politics and organized labor - Shaping San Francisco
Excerpted from the Ecology Emerges interview with Susan Swift. She is a former Abalone Alliance staffer who grew disaffected and resigned a year after the big Diablo Canyon direct action campaign, in part due to the inability of the Abalone Alliance to make alliances with organized labor,or to even consider the plight of folks who couldn't easily take days of their lives to sit in jails, or camp out in protest, etc.
Keywords: Abalone Alliance; ecology; anti-nuclear; labor; tactics
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| Susan Swift on Antinuclear politics,organized labor, and tactics - Shaping San Francisco
Excerpted from the Ecology Emerges interview with Susan Swift. She is a former Abalone Alliance staffer who grew disaffected and resigned a year after the big Diablo Canyon direct action campaign, in part due to the inability of the Abalone Alliance to make alliances with organized labor,or to even consider the plight of folks who couldn't easily take days of their lives to sit in jails, or camp out in protest, etc.
Keywords: Abalone Alliance; ecology; anti-nuclear; labor; tactics
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| Harry Hay 1996 interview - Shaping San Francisco
Founder of the Mattachine Society, long-time gay rights pioneer and activist Harry Hay sits down for an hour and a half rumination on politics and history, covering stories from the 1920s to the 1980s.
Keywords: homosexual; gay; gay rights; queer; gender; theater; Maritime strike 1934; Communist Party
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| When I'm old enough ... goodbye. - New York (State). State Employment Service.; Louis De Rochemont Associates.
A dramatization about a likable and ambitious teen-age boy who quits school to get a job. Portrays his joys, frustrations, and gradual disillusionment. Credits: Producer, Louis de Rochemont III; director, Karl Genus. Performer(s): Barry Primus, Anne Dee, Camillo Carrau. To license this film and get a higher quality version for broadcast/film purposes, contact A/V Geeks LLC.
Keywords: dropout; teen; high school
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| Ecology Emerges: Linda Weiner2 - Shaping San Francisco
Part of Shaping San Francisco's "Ecology Emerges" series of interviews, in this one Linda Weiner describes her involvement with the northern California chapter of the Sierra Club, her work on global climate change and environmental justice, including some reflection on her own trajectory from social service work into environmentalism.
Keywords: Ecology; climate change; global warming; environmental justice; Sierra Club
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| Ecology Emerges: Linda Weiner - Shaping San Francisco
Linda Weiner became active with the local Executive Committee of the Sierra Club in the Bay Area over a decade ago, focusing on climate change and other issues, after a long career in social services.
Keywords: Ecology; climate change; global warming; environmental justice; Sierra Club
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| Refuse Problem - Virgina State Department of Education
How modern convenient shopping results in a growing trash problem.
Keywords: avgeeks; garbage
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| People Who Fight Pollution - Churchill Films
Presents an air pollution inspector, a rubbish collector and a foreman in a glass recycling factory who talk about their involvement and pride in the work they do. Director of photography is Les Blank.
Keywords: avgeeks; pollution; ecology
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| In quest of cleaner air and water - Cinecraft, Inc,; American Iron and Steel Institute,; Modern Talking Picture Service, inc,; Inland Steel Company
Describes the steel industry's progress, programs, and research in air and water pollution control. Shows the various types of pollution control procedures and equipment used throughout the steel manufacturing process, including dust catchers, air cleaning systems, furnace air control systems, separators, cooling towers, and waste lagoons. Explains how airborne pollutants are precipitated away before air is returned to the atmosphere through the basic oxygen process, and how oil, sludge, and par...
Keywords: avgeeks; pollution; steel industry
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| Pitch In - D'Arcy-MacManus & Masius, Inc
Presents Jonathan Winters (and his cast of characters) teaching people to put litter where it belongs.
Keywords: avgeeks; litter; ecology
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| Party's Over - Northern Virginia Educational TV Assn
Introduces problems of alcohol and peer pressure. Depicts a girl's quiet slumber party, which becomes raucous when a group of high school boys arrive with liquor. Shows how the girl's parents step in and control the situation. Part of the 'Jackson Junior High Series'. The teacher is played by actor Richard Sanders who played Les Nessman on WKRP.
Keywords: avgeeks; drinking; teens; driving
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| Twenty Dollar Miracle - National Cotton Council Of America
The American woman is the best dressed woman in the world. This is due to Yankee ingeniuty, which makes a fashionable, well-made dress to sell for twenty dollars or less. To license this film and get a higher quality version for broadcast/film purposes, contact A/V Geeks LLC.
Keywords: avgeeks; dressmaking; fabric; fashion
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| What Is Cloth? - Coronet
A mother explains to her daughter the differences between various kinds of cloth, using simple home tests. To license this film and get a higher quality version for broadcast/film purposes, contact A/V Geeks LLC.
Keywords: avgeeks; home economics; sewing; fiber
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| Year 1999 AD - Philco-Ford Corp. [made by] Tom Thomas Organization.
Help us get more films like this online! This film was digitized and uploaded thanks to contributions from this project: www.indiegogo.com/avgeeks100miles Illustrates the life of a family of the year 1999 A.D. living in a house that is completely functional in terms of advanced technology. To license this film and get a higher quality version for broadcast/film purposes, contact A/V Geeks LLC. ***The quality of this clips isn't the best...
Keywords: future; Ford Motor; Wink Martindale; computers; Internet
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| Productivity - Key To Plenty - J Frederic Dewhurst; Twentieth Century Fund.; Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, inc.
A compilation of live footage, staged scenes and animation discussing the rise of the U.S. standard of living as it is tied to the rise of productivity--comparison of man hour earnings in 1850 ($ .27) to 1900 ($ .56) to 1949 ($1.40). An argument for the appreciation of "the American Way" by not standing in the way of increased productivity through the use of machines.
Keywords: productivity; technology; work; standard of living
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| Danger is your companion - American National Red Cross
Shows what is being done to create an awareness of accident situations and to train people to give emergency first aid when accidents occur. To license this film and get a higher quality version for broadcast/film purposes, contact A/V Geeks LLC.
Keywords: First aid; American Red Cross
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| Main Street USA Today : A Story of Progress Through Research in Steel - Armco Steel Corporation
A look at how progress in the steel manufacturing process helped the United States growth. To license this film and get a higher quality version for broadcast/film purposes, contact A/V Geeks LLC.
Keywords: steel; Armco; progress
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| On Every Hand - National Safety Council.; Journal Films, inc.
Informs industrial workers, students, and the general public of the importance of the hand in all types of work situations. Stresses hand safety. To license this film and get a higher quality version for broadcast/film purposes, contact A/V Geeks LLC.
Keywords: workplace safety; hands
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| What's It All About? - General Motors
This film holds workers responsible for the Delco manufacturing plant closings. To license this film and get a higher quality version for broadcast/film purposes, contact A/V Geeks LLC.
Keywords: avgeeks; manufacturing; GM; Delco
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| Look Inside Yourself - National 4-H Service Committee.
The Mulligan Stew group tackle the problem of a teenaged brother and sister who are always tired and nervous, showing the importance of maintaining good nutritional habits. Teaches how food is digested and which parts of the body are used to help digestion. For elementary grades. To license this film and get a higher quality version for broadcast/film purposes, contact A/V Geeks LLC.
Keywords: Mulligan Stew; 4-H; nutrition
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| Great Nutrition Turn-On - National 4-H Service Committee.
Presents a story about a town where everyone has fallen asleep because of their poor nutritional habits. Teaches about the four food groups, basic nutrients, and what food does. Features the Mulligan Stew rock music group. For elementary grades. To license this film and get a higher quality version for broadcast/film purposes, contact A/V Geeks LLC.
Keywords: Mulligan Stew; 4-H; nutrition
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| Getting It All Together - National 4-H Service Committee.
The Mulligan Stew group undertake the mission of preparing a meal for young people from all over the world so that each child can sample foods from other cultures. Points out that the essential nutrients can be found in foods from all over the world. For elementary grades. To license this film and get a higher quality version for broadcast/film purposes, contact A/V Geeks LLC.
Keywords: Mulligan Stew; 4-H; nutrition
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| Rumplestiltskin - Coronet Films
Marionette puppet version of the tale about a little man who grants a miller's daughter the gift of spinning straw into gold. She learns that such a gift comes at a high price. Thanks to Blake Motz for donating this film to the A/V Geeks Archive. To license this film and get a higher quality version for broadcast/film purposes, contact A/V Geeks LLC.
Keywords: fairy tale; marionettes; puppets; Coronet
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| Ecology Emerges: Susan Swift - Shaping San Francisco
Susan Swift was involved in the Abalone Alliance anti-nuclear efforts of the late 1970s and early 1980s. She was one of the only paid staffers during the lead-up to the big blockade and occupation of the PG&E Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant. She has also been involved in a variety of environmental and labor campaigns during the years.
Keywords: ecology; anti-nuclear; Diablo Canyon; Abalone Alliance; economy; work
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