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May 9, 2023
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This short, silent film from the collection of Jeff Vilencia, shows some of the inventions that were developed by Franklin A. Dobson of Newport Beach, California. These included the Convertiplane, an experimental vertical take-off and landing aircraft, and the Aircar experimental hovercraft. The two are connected in that the one inspired the other. Dobson stated, ''My work (with ground effect vehicles) started as a by-product of a Vertical Take-Off design effort. I thought there should be some...
Topics: Franklin Dobson, Convertiplane, Experimental VTOL, Stock Footage, Periscope Film
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Apr 11, 2023
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Dating to the 1930s, this silent German film shows the construction of a sauna. It is part 2 of a 2 reel film, unfortunately we don't have the first half. At :21 logs are cut into lumber while at :30 the foundation is readied. At 1:28 a floor is created using tarps and sand. At 3:51 rocks are placed into a stove and a fire started. At 5:30 men enter the sauna for a steam. At 10:50 the men run from the sauna into a frozen river for a quick cool down before returning to the sauna. We...
Topics: Construction, Sauna, German Film, 1930s, Stock Footage, Periscope Film
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Apr 12, 2023
04/23
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Made in 1958 by Larry Dawson Productions, ANSEL ADAMS PHOTOGRAPHER (:06-:51) is a well made portrait of one of America's (and the 20th Century's) foremost artists. The film was directed by David Myers, who also served as cinematographer. San Francisco, aerial shot of the Golden Gate bridge. Near the bridge lives Ansel Adams: musician, mountaineer, writer, teacher, photographer. Adams plays the piano at home. Shots of his photography equipment and some of his pictures hang on the wall...
Topics: 1958, Ansel Adams, Lanscape, Photography, Stock Footage, Periscope Film
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Mar 1, 2023
03/23
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This 1950 black and white historical educational film directed by Lauritz Faulk takes a personal narrative approach to depicting the inception and construction of Norway’s Aura hydropower plant, located in Sunndalsøra in Sunndal Municipality, Møre and Romsdal County, partially extending into the municipality of Lesja (TRT:18:58). Opening titles, “A.F. Films Inc.” and “Norwegian Documentary Film Presents: Breakthrough” and (0:09). A horse-drawn cart plods down a mountain road. The...
Topics: 1950, Aura Hydropower Plant, Documentary, Norway, Stock Footage, Periscope Film
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Mar 2, 2023
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This short documentary film from the early 1980s titled “Ethiopia: Parched Land and Promises” acts as both promotional and awareness material for Unicef’s work in Ethiopia as well as warning signs of another mass scale drought and famine. The film features scenes of Ethiopian mothers and children joyously celebrating and suffering from the consequences of drought. Co-produced by Unicef and Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation NRK, this film highlights Unicef’s main programming goals of...
Topics: Ethiopia, Unicef, 1973, 1970s, Drought, Documentary, Stock Footage, Periscope Film
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Jan 19, 2022
01/22
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This 1947 "World School of Adventure" film entitled "Rough Road to Panama" takes viewers to Panama through via the Pan-American Highway. The film follows a group of men who, prior to the trip, had little experience in exploration. At the time, the road was not completed and much of it was considered dangerous. This film was presented by Viking Pictures / 20th Century Vikings (:10) and was produced and narrated by Sullivan C. Richardson, a journalist who wrote a book entitled...
Topics: Rough Road, Panama, American Highway, USA, Stock Footage, Periscope Film
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Mar 1, 2023
03/23
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This 1966/67 documentary "Report from China Part 2", originally titled "Country of Dawn", was distributed by Radim Films in the USA and originally produced by a Iwanami Film Productions, of Japan. The film records many of the events which took place during the Cultural Revolution. Many aspects of Chinese life are covered: the People's Communes, the industrial cities and their workers, and scenes of the young Red Guards journeying on foot to bring their knowledge to the...
Topics: China, 1967, Documentary, Communist, Cultural Revolution, Stock Footage, Periscope Film
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Mar 6, 2023
03/23
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This film on Algiers, the capital of Algeria, opens with an animated drawing of a city landscape of the city itself. The City of Algiers. This black and white, 3:46 minute, silent film takes us through some of the truest landscapes of urban Algiers. The film is of general high quality, considering its age and shows excellent detail of some of the most beautiful scenery in Algiers. The ancient harbor of the Barbary Pirates is dominated now by palaces of modern commerce. A view of the city from...
Topics: City Of Algiers, 1930s, Travelogue, Kasbah, Stock Footage, Periscope Film
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Mar 17, 2023
03/23
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These extraordinary Super 8mm home movies from the Vietnam War, come from a member of the "Ravens". The Raven Forward Air Controllers, also known simply as The Ravens, were fighter pilots used for forward air control in a covert operation in conjunction with the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States in Laos during America's Vietnam War. The Ravens provided direction for most of the air strikes against communist Pathet Lao targets and People's Army of Vietnam's...
Topics: Vietnam, Home Movies, Ravens KRT, Stock Footage, Periscope Film
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Feb 12, 2023
02/23
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This film made by Hamilton Wright for the Mexican Department of Tourism begins in Mexico City, explores Acapulco, Taxco, Guanajuato, the temples of Teotihuacan, Lake Pátzcuaro, the National Autonomous University of Mexico and Puebla. The film tries to give a sense of the presence of history in these places and create a sense of romance in order to to entice visitors. We believe it dates to 1968, the same year Mexico hosted the Olympics. (TRT 19:50) (0:10) A map of the Western hemisphere,...
Topics: Mexican Notebook, Mexico, Tourist, Acapulco, Travelogue, Stock Footage, Periscope Film
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Mar 10, 2023
03/23
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“Industry On Parade was a television series created by the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) from 1950-1960. The series consisted of weekly episodes that highlighted American manufacturing and business. Hundreds of companies and products were documented during the [program’s] decade-long run.” In the December 1953 episode (164) of Industry On Parade, viewers learn about the harvesting and processing of cranberries. At a cranberry bog on Cape Cod, MA (00:48), men and women use a...
Topics: Cranberry, Harvesting, Jeppson Maps, Magnets, Moma, Stock Footage, Periscope Film
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Feb 24, 2023
02/23
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Made in the 1930s, this silent German educational film shows how shoes are made from scratch by a shoemaker. Shoemaking is the process of making footwear. Originally, shoes were made one at a time by hand. Traditional handicraft shoemaking has now been largely superseded in volume of shoes produced by industrial mass production of footwear, but not necessarily in quality, attention to detail, or craftsmanship. Shoemakers or cordwainers (cobblers being those who repair shoes) may produce a...
Topics: 1930s, Shoemaker, Shoes, German, Educational Movie, Stock Footage, Periscope Film
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Sep 16, 2023
09/23
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Produced by Eastman Teaching Films, Inc. of Rochester, NY in the 1930s, this black and white silent educational film titled “Sweden” takes the viewer on a tour through Sweden. The film's footage displays snowy rural communities and bustling cities such as the country’s capital, Stockholm. The film also sheds light on the expansion of Swedish industry after World War I focussing on the importance of iron mining and lumber. In fact, it is this post-war economic expansion and prosperity that...
Topics: Sweden, 1930s, Eastman Classroom, Stockholm, Stock Footage, Periscope FIlm
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Jul 23, 2023
07/23
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This 1961 U.S. Army training film covers the basic physics behind the function of DC motors and generators. This is demonstrated through progressively more complex animations that discuss the basics, such as the generation of electromotive force, the necessity of adding armatures and commutators, the need to add brushes, and necessary adjustments that need to be made to the neutral plane to avoid sparking which can damage the generator. Generators and motors are at the basis of most machines...
Topics: Motors, Generators, DC Motors, US Army Training, Stock Footage, Periscope Film
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Mar 18, 2023
03/23
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Created in 1975 and narrated by Brugess Meredith, "The Time of Apollo" looks back at the lunar missions with vivid footage and stirring music and voice-over. From JFK's declaration to put a man on the moon to the first steps on the lunar surface, this NASA film examines the triumphs of the Apollo space program. President John F. Kennedy stated in 1961 that "this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and...
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Jan 20, 2022
01/22
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Created by the famed producer David Wolper and narrated by Mike Wallace, this episode of the long-running TV show ‘Biography’ dates to 1963 and profiles Emperor Hirohito. Hirohito was the 124th emperor of Japan, and presided over the country from 1926 to 1989; a period encompassing much of the country’s history including WW2. Some of the events included are the invasion of China, the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and the Japanese surrender to the Allies. It opens with a span of Japanese...
Topics: Emperor, Hirohito, 1963, Biography, Documentary, Japan, WWII, Stock Footage, Periscope Film
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Mar 18, 2023
03/23
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This Yesterday’s Newsreel film (episode 135) offers the viewer “television highlights of the news of yesteryear” by providing vintage clips of famous people and events from the first half of the 20th century. The episode begins with a look at the development of long-distance submarines. A submarine cruiser sits on scaffolding in a drydock (00:47). Frances Lovering Adams, wife of Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams, christens the submarine. A V-5 is out at sea. Navy crews work...
Topics: Yesterdays Newsreel, Submarine, 20th Century, Harry Luck, Stock Footage, Periscope Film
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Jan 1, 2022
01/22
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This documentary film shows a brief glimpse into the highly influential life of Winston Churchill. It focuses on his burial ceremony and the impact it held over England. It opens with a note from the British Board of Film Censors (:08) certifying that it had been passed for general exhibition. Streets in Britain are seen lined with posters of newspaper headlines featuring Winston Churchill (:20) after his passing in January of 1965. Blenheim Palace in Oxford shire, England stands as a massive...
Topics: 1965, British Documentary, Homage, Winston Churchill, England, Stock Footage, Periscope Film
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Feb 25, 2023
02/23
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This silent German educational film from the 1930s shows the manufacture of steel railroad rails in a foundry and blast furnace. Starting with a large steel ingot, the steel goes through a series of rollers before emerging in the proper shape. This is a companion to another film, that shows the manufacture of the ingot (see our other films in this playlist). We encourage viewers to add comments and, especially, to provide additional information about our videos by adding a comment! See...
Topics: Steel, Blast Furnace, 1930s, German Educational Film, Stock Footage, Periscope Film
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Feb 24, 2023
02/23
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This 1930s German silent educational film shows miners descending into the depths of a large coal mine, and then their routine underground pulling coal into a long conveyer belt. We encourage viewers to add comments and, especially, to provide additional information about our videos by adding a comment! See something interesting? Tell people what it is and what they can see by writing something for example like: "01:00:12:00 -- President Roosevelt is seen meeting with Winston...
Topics: Coal, Miners, Mining, 1930s, Germany, Educational FIlm, Stock Footage, Periscope Film
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Mar 25, 2023
03/23
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This 1943 black and white film was produced by Bell & Howell and narrated by author and highly controversial amateur archeologist Count Byron De Prorok and edited by WM. F. Kruse. It is the only one of Prorok's films known to survive at this time, although there hopefully are others. The film begins with reenacted scenes of ancient North African sea marauders, the Berbers (0:40-1:37). Workers dig and transport rock out of an excavation site of ancient Carthage, and an archeologist closely...
Topics: Trails, North Africa, 1943, Tunisa, Carthage, Archaeology, Stock Footage, Periscope Film
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Oct 1, 2023
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This 1950 Warner Brothers film documents major American and international events during the first half of the 20th Century. Japanese forces invade Manchuria. 93-year-old John D. Rockefeller golfs. Baby Charles Augustus Lindbergh plays in his crib prior to his abduction; the location where a driver found the baby’s corpse is shown. Kidnapper Bruno Richard Hauptmann goes on trial. The U.S. dirigible Akron is swept away in a gust of wind, carrying away three men—two of whom fall to their...
Topics: Warner Brothers, Documentary, 1950s, Japanese Army, Manchuria, Stock Footage, Periscope FIlm
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Mar 10, 2023
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This 1955 American-made film covers cultural tourism in France - Brittany - Nice - Monaco. Title credits over illustration of iconic French edifices (e.g., Eiffel Tower) (0:00–0:35): “Playgrounds of France.” Austen West, Dorothy P. Maulsby, Peter Allen. A D. P. M. Production. Maurice T. Groen. Aerial view of Paris (0:36). Arc de Triomphe (0:46). Policeman on elevated platform above street (0:51). Soldier considers buying Eiffel Tower postcards (0:57). Airplane propeller with field /...
Topics: Tourism, France, 1955, French Rivera, Travelogue, Monaco, Stock Footage, Periscope Film
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Mar 2, 2023
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This silent, tinted film was created in 1928 by Eastman Classroom Films (a division of Kodak) to be a tool for education of students (:13). It shows the students silent images of the life of corn. A man picks at corn stalks (:16) checking for quality. A group of women sit in a circle husking corn following the harvest (:33). A close shot shows the tool in one of the woman’s hand used for husking the stalks (:52). A young couple dances among the group of locals (1:03) as a small band plays...
Topics: Corn, 1928, Eastman Kodak, Educational Film, Harvesting, Stock Footage, Periscope Film
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Apr 6, 2023
04/23
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This color educational film, one of a series of forty created for counseling purposes, is about the careers available in the clerical field. This was made circa the early 1970s, and likely shown in high school and junior college classrooms. Opening (live action and animated): people sit in a classroom, type on typewriters and punchcard computer terminals, and use microfilm, work in an office. A woman sit and thinks. She could be a file clerk, a typist, or a typing supervisor, a...
Topics: Career, Clerical Work, 1970s, Jobs, Guidance Film, Stock Footage, Periscope Film
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Apr 6, 2023
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This short film from 1972 profiles Deinhard, makers of fine wine including Reisling, since 1794. At :20 Koblenz (spelled Coblenz before 1926) is shown. Koblenz is a German city situated on both banks of the Rhine where it is joined by the Moselle. At :42 the Deinhard offices and museum are shown along with historical artifacts. At 1:28, a wine cellar is shown containing many barrels of wine. At 2:26 aging racks are seen with thousands of bottles of wine. At 3:00, vineyards are shown in...
Topics: Fine Wine, 1974, Winemaking, Deinhard Wine, 1972, Stock Footage, Periscope Film
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Apr 29, 2023
04/23
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This black & white film instructs salesman about the features of the new Remington Rand electric typewriter, and how to demonstrate and sell it to a customer. This is circa the late 1940s. The Remington Electric typewriter shown was manufactured by the Remington Rand Corporation around 1949. This Remington had electric-powered typebars, lightning keys, executive type style, and electric carriage movement. It also had many manual switches for tab clearing and setting and ribbon movement....
Topics: 1940s, Remington, Electric Typewriter, Salesmen, Demonstration, Stock Footage, Periscope Film
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Aug 30, 2023
08/23
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Dating to 1959, these silent Kodachrome home movies begin at Stewart Air Force Base in Tennessee, where Armed Forces Day is celebrated (May 17th) with a big air show. B-52 airplanes are seen flying in formation as well as other aircraft. At 2:27 the ladies in the family play a friendly game of cards. The men do so at 2:51. At 3:00, downtown skyscrapers are seen, possibly Nashville or Lexington but then again, maybe not! At 3:41, horses are seen doing dressage. At 7:20 the family station...
Topics: 1959, Kodachrome, Home Movie, Tennessee Family, Stock Footage, Periscope Film
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Mar 1, 2023
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This color educational film, title unknown, is about fishing in both Argentina and Uruguay. There are no credits and no copyright as a result, but this film is circa the 1950s. Opening (no credits): A Transcontinental jumbo jet lands in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The plane taxis on the runway. People disembark the plane. People walk, cars go by in Buenos Aires. A plane flies in the sky. Mountains, a lake. Snow peaked Andes Mountains. The town is Bariloche, It borders Nahuel Huapi, a large...
Topics: Fishing, Expedition, Patagonia, Argentina, 1950s, Travelogue, Stock Footage, Periscope Film
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Sep 16, 2023
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This 1964 color film episode of the NBC weekly syndicated series “America!” from provides a travelogue view of the state of Michigan hosted by Jack Douglas, highlighting natural wonders and tourist attractions in a colorful tour of the Great Lakes State (TRT 24:51). Opening titles: “America!” over a montage of United States tourist attractions (0:08). Host Jack Douglas introduces himself. A map of Michigan appears in green, with the surrounding Great Lakes in blue (0:43). Autumnal...
Topics: America, Peninsula, 1964, Michigan, Travelogue, Detroit, Stock Footage, Periscope FIlm
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Mar 1, 2023
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This film shows the printing industry with a peak at the history of printing. The earliest records of printing began in 3,500 BCE. Gutenberg's printing press was perfected and ready for commercial use in 1490. This film was made available by Crown Zellerbach Corporation (:19). Crown Zellerbach was an American pulp and paper conglomerate that was subjected to a hostile takeover in the 80's by the brutal financier, Sir James Goldsmith. The film opens with a series of items which require printing...
Topics: Printing, Future Unlimited, 1957, Newspaper, Magazine, Stock Footage, Periscope Film
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Dec 22, 2021
12/21
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Shot by an unknown American who was part of the U.S. occupation forces in post-war Japan, this home movie shows a visit to the countryside and with the Sakiyama Family. It also shows part of a wedding ceremony, a fruit and vegetable farm, the process of replanting and harvesting rice, and the preparation to what's presumably Farmer's New Year (April 1st). It is believed this film was shot because of, and contains images of, Lt. Gen. Robert L. Eichelberger at the end. Eichelberger was a highly...
Topics: WWII, Japan, Home Movie, Robert Eichelberger, Stock Footage, Periscope Film
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Jan 16, 2022
01/22
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This black & white educational/promotional film is about the medium Caterpillar tractors D6, D7, and D8 models, most often configured as bulldozers (but also sold in other versions). This is circa 1946. The D6 was also available in a military version classified as the SNL G152. The D6 started out in 1935 as the RD6, fitted with a 3-cylinder 45 hp D6600 engine. The RD6 was renamed D6 in 1937, and updated in 1941 with a D4600 engine of 55 hp (drawbar) and in 1947, with a D318 engine of 66...
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Topics: 1946, Caterpillar Tractor Co, Bulldozer Promo, Stock Footage, Periscope FIlm
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Jul 23, 2023
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This is a 1980’s era, color movie presented by IBM to promote the Displaywriter Microcomputer system. The movie opens with an aerial view of a major city, 00:20. Two men discussing business are driving in a car, 00:29. Two ladies in an office discuss travel plans, 00:42. Businessman on a business phone discusses business with his office, 1:00. Secretary in an office faces the camera and discusses the need for information in running a company, 1:40. Woman in the office uses an IBM Display...
Topics: 1980s, IBM, Microcomputer System, Promotional Movie, Stock Footage, Periscope FIlm
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Apr 12, 2023
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Released in1927 for the home market by Eastman Kodak, this silent film shows views of Niagara Falls. It was tinted blue to provide a dramatic effect. At 2:26 the boat Maid of the Mist I or II is shown. These boats were built in 1885 and sailed closer to Horseshoe Falls than any had previously. These boats sailed the lower river until April 22, 1955, when they burned in a pre-season accident. Later that year, they were replaced by two new ships. The type and style of the boats is still seen...
Topics: Niagara Falls, 1927, Eastman Kodak, Travelogue, Stock Footage, Periscope Film
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Sep 16, 2023
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Hearst Metrotone produced this 1969 film, “100 Years,” for Western Electric’s (W.E.) 100 Years of Communication and Century of Progress promotional campaigns. The Western Electric Company was an American electrical engineering and manufacturing company founded in 1869 and dissolved in 1984. For most of this time, W.E. was a subsidiary of AT&T, manufacturing telephones and equipment. "100 Years" features communication technologies – from the telegraph to the telephone –...
Topics: 1969, Western Electric, Telegraph, Telephone Communication, Stock Footage, Periscope FIlm
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Sep 16, 2023
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This offbeat and groovy short subject documentary from 1971 attempts to explain how people process information and language, access long and short term memory, and solve problems. A series of “experiments” are shown at a hip, happening party where a narrator (David Steinberg) and an associate professor of Psychology at the University of California, San Diego (Dr. David A. Norman) explain what is being seen. A group of improvisational actors - including John Amos (“Coming to America,”...
Topics: documentary, 1971, Information Processing, Groovy, Memory, Stock Footage, Periscope FIlm
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Mar 2, 2023
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This film, an episode of the venerable show "Biography", tells the story of Benito Mussolini; the first modern dictator of a united Italy. The film opens with images of Mussolini delivering one of his passionate speeches to supporters (:09). He and his fascist party ruled for over Italy for 20 years. Mike Wallace narrates (:58). This series was produced by the great and prolific David L. Wolper (1:04). Benito came into power at the close of WW1 as he stirred public support with...
Topics: Benito, Mussolin, 1962, Biography, Fascist, Dictator, Stock Footage, Periscope Film
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Mar 3, 2023
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Syracuse University presents, “How to Make and Use Dioramas”. Educational consultant, Irene F. Cypher, PhD. Associate Professor of Education, Department of Communications, New York University. Produced by Audio–Visual Center, Syracuse University. Syracuse, New York. This is a 1955, color film about how to make and use dioramas. The film is narrated. The film opens in a classroom with a teacher in front of a classroom filled with small children. The children interact with a very detailed...
Topics: Dioramas. 1955, Classroom, Instructional Film, Educational, Stock Footage, Periscope Film
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Feb 25, 2023
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This silent German educational film shows the creation of calcium carbide in a chemical plant. It dates to the 1930s. Calcium carbide is a chemical compound with the chemical formula of CaC2. Its main use industrially is in the production of acetylene and calcium cyanamide. The pure material is colorless, however pieces of technical-grade calcium carbide are grey or brown and consist of about 80–85% of CaC2 (the rest is CaO (calcium oxide), Ca3P2 (calcium phosphide), CaS (calcium...
Topics: Calcium, Carbide, 1930s, Educational Film, German, Stock Footage, Periscope Film
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Apr 20, 2023
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Created in 1945, this short U.S. Navy film "Road To Home" features comedian Bob Hope and Bing Crosby. This picture represented an attempt by the Navy to convince sailors not to desert in the wake of V-J Day, but to wait for honorable discharges and the many benefits waiting in civilian life including the opportunity to attend college. The film is a noteworthy sibling of the "Road to Home" series of seven feature films starring Crosby, Hope, and Dorothy Lamour. These...
Topics: US Navy, Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Stock Footage, Periscope Film
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Mar 1, 2023
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Released by Harold F. Jenkins, whose HFJ Productions aka "World in Color Productions" was a going concern in the mid-1940s, "Glamorous Exciting Stars" is a short, silent girlie film that titillates and teases but shows nothing too shocking. While other film companies produced stag type films, Jenkins' company released tamer fare such as this piece of celluloid which starts with a burlesque dance complete with pasties, and then goes on to show a starlet playing tennis, and a...
Topics: Glamorous, Exiting, Stars, 1940s, Girlie, Swuimsuit, Stock Footage, Periscope Film
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Sep 16, 2023
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This film looks at Pennsylvania’s newly constructed interstate system and the benefits that it has brought. It follows the highway system across the commonwealth starting in the capital Harrisburg and then heading in all directions. This includes links to Philadelphia, lake Eerie, Hazleton, and Pittsburgh. Along the way, there are short interviews with people that see benefits from the interstate system. It also shows several natural and historic sites that are now more accessible to...
Topics: State, Pennsylvania, Interstate, 1967, Highway, Promo Film, Stock Footage, Periscope Film
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Mar 28, 2023
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This film titled “Manned Space Flight: A Year of Qualification Testing” was made by NASA sometime in 1965. The film is part of a larger Manned Space Flight series and chronicles NASA’s efforts in qualification testing of techniques and hardware needed for Apollo and Saturn spacecrafts to put men in space. NASA logo (0:10). History of manned space flight - beginning with the Mercury program, filling hardware pipelines, then testing of major space vehicle systems for Gemini and Apollo...
Topics: Qualification Testing, NASA, 1965, Preparatios, Apollo Program, Stock Footage, Periscope FIlm
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Jul 19, 2023
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This silent 1920s film was released by Kodak as part of the Cinegraph series of movies. It features views of Jerusalem including the Mosque of Omar at (:56), Wailing Wall (1:12), the Well of David (6:10), the Sepulchre of Absalom (6:51) and Sepulchre of Rachel (7:06). The film also provides views of merchants, men wearing the fez, Jews in prayer and moving about the city, and other sights in Old Jerusalem. We encourage viewers to add comments and, especially, to provide additional information...
Topics: 1920s, Kodak, Cinegraph, Jerusalem, Holy Land, Travelogue, Stock Footage, Periscope Film
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Dating to the 1960s, his amateur travelogue film takes viewers on an in depth tour through Japan focusing largely on the country’s architecture and religious shrines. The end of the film turns to portions of Australia. It was produced and directed by Gwen and Paul Zimmerman (:31). A map highlights their route from San Francisco to Japan (:56). Tokyo was selected to be the first destination (11:18). The National Diet building is seen (1:31) in downtown Tokyo. The House of Councilors is pointed...
Topics: 1960s, Japan, Australia, Travelogue, Tour, Stock Footage, Periscope Film, Amateur Travelogue
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This educational film "Stores in Our Community" dates to 1954 and shows images of stores in Illinois, probably either Park City or another Chicago suburb. It demonstrates the pattern most cities follow as far as grocery stores, how commodities such as milk and flour are delivered into the community. The film was distributed by the State of Georgia Department of Education Film Libraries (:17). It is a Coronet Film (:36). Vehicles run down a city’s main drag (1:01). The first store in...
Topics: Stores, 1954, Chicago, Educational Film, Department Stores, Stock Footage, Periscope Film
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Feb 25, 2023
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The Association of American Railroads’ 1957 film, Mainline USA, produced and directed by Carl Dudley, is an overview of the industry and its role in the U.S. The film provides a good general overview while featuring a number of shots of train engines and lines, including a Santa Fe FT (04:28), B&O E units, PRR Baldwin Sharknoses, an Alco FA-1 (11:25), and a Rio Grande F. The film opens with shots of iconic American scenes, including the Statue of Liberty (00:52), Mt. Rushmore, the Capitol...
Topics: Mainline USA, American Railroad, 1940s, Train Travel, Stock Footage, Periscope Film
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Mar 6, 2023
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This 1960s travelogue was made by the Nesbitt's Fruit Company in the 1960s. The film shows various scenes in Southern California and Los Angeles, including of course fruit production and the making of Nesbitt's products including its famous orange soda. Some of the sights in the film include Union Station, Disneyland (14:00 mark), Knott's Berry Farm (12:00), the oil fields, the Douglas Aircraft factory (5:00 mark), the Miss World Competition parade (5:30 mark), the sportswear and swimsuit...
Topics: Nesbitts, Future Unlimited, Southern California, Travelogue, 1960s, Stock Footage, Periscope Film
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Mar 18, 2023
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This 1969 color “puff piece” on the history of the Marlboro cigarette brand chronicles the origins of one of history's greatest ad campaigns. Made as a brag piece, the film also illustrates how the Philip Morris Corporation preyed on consumers during the 50s and 60s by shifting their branding and advertising approaches to suggest hazy links between tobacco use and masculinity. The faces of the businessmen behind the brand’s “cowboy” image are revealed in promotional interviews (TRT:...
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Topics: Marlboro Story, 1969, Big Tobacco, Leo Burnett, Stock Footage, Periscope Film
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Jul 19, 2023
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This 1960’s era color movie is on The President’s Council of Physical Fitness and Sports. Now called The President's Council on Fitness, Sports and Nutrition (PCFSN) is an American government organization that aims to "promote, encourage and motivate Americans of all ages to become physically active and participate in sports". It is part of the Office of Public Health and Science, an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services. Prior to June 2010, it was...
Topics: 1960s, Presidents Council, Physical Fitness, Apollo Astronauts, Stock Footage, Periscope Film
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Apr 20, 2023
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Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com This black and white newsreel short titled “Where East Meets West” dates to the 1930s and shows footage from the streets of Singapore at that time. The film is part of a larger series of newsreel-style travel films by Fox Film Corporation called “Around the World in Sound and Picture on the Magic Carpet of Movietone.” Opening credits (0:07)....
Topics: West, 1930s, Singapore, Travelogue, Magic Carpet, Movietone, Stock Footage, Periscope Film
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Mar 25, 2023
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This restricted WWII era Signal Corps training film conveys information about common weapons used by the Japanese military. It covers the basic function of each weapon including various features, as well as information about how to load, aim, fire, and disassemble it in a field situation. The film features close up footage of all the weapons and the different constituting parts. The M38, M99, Solothurn SMG, Type 89 Grenade Discharger, Nambu Model 1922 SMG, and the Model 1932 Heavy Machine gun...
Topics: Enemy Weapons, Japanese Army, Restricted, Training Film, Stock Footage, Periscope Film
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Mar 6, 2023
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This film from 1968 will take a look at land and how portions are designated in each state for purposes of education, recreation and culture. It uses Los Angeles, California as an example and was produced by Academy Films (:07). The first building looked at is the public library (1:05) and each city throughout the country has land designated for these. Inside, the librarian reads to children a story about Olvera Street located in the historic downtown area of LA, which the film then goes to...
Topics: Education, Culture, Recreation, 1968, Los Angeles, California, Stock Footage, Periscope Film
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Jan 17, 2022
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Made during WWII by Castle Films and sold for home use through camera and department stores, and by mail order, "Salute to the Navy!" shows the Navy's various capabilities. The newsreel features amazing footage of the air sea battles that raged near the Marshall Islands starting at (6:08). Featured ships include: the battleship USS Texas, the submarine USS Wahoo, the cruisers USS San Francisco and USS Boise. Also includes footage of fleet maneuvers of PT Boats, destroyers,...
Topics: Castle Films, US Navy, WWII, Moral Boosting, Stock Footage, Periscope Film
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“From Seville to Sunglow” (c.1950s) is a color promotional film by William Moorhouse & Sons Ltd aka Moorhouses of Leeds, who advertised themselves as makers of ‘England’s Finest’ jams, marmalades, lemon curd and Christmas puddings. This film in particular, takes an in-depth look at how Moorhouse produced their famous orange marmalade beginning in Seville, Spain at an orange orchard and ending at the William Moorhouse & Sons Ltd Sunglow Model Factory near Leeds. William...
Topics: Seville, Sunglow, Moorhouses, Orange Marmalade, Jam Promo, Stock Footage, Periscope FIlm
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Jan 18, 2022
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This black & white film promotes financial relief for the people of South Korea, who are in desperate need of assistance due to the outbreak of the Korean War. In particular, the film emphasis the need to donate to help displaced civilians, refugees and orphaned children of that war ravaged country. The film offers a personal appeal by President Dwight Eisenhower. Copyright 1954. Opening titles: Helping Koreans To Help Themselves (:07-:46). Artillery is fired, explosions abound. Troops on...
Topics: 1954, Korean War, Relief Campaign, South Korea, Stock Footage, Periscope Film
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This black & white educational film is about a U.S. sailor's visit to the island of Hawaii. Copyright is circa 1930 and it may very well date to 1934, when the fleet conducted maneuvers in the Pacific and made a visit to Honolulu and Pearl Harbor. Opening titles: Crossroads Of The Pacific A Hawaiian Cruise, Narrated by Harry Von Zell (:06-:15). United States Navy warships at sea including cruisers and battleships. As water of the Pacific Ocean washes onto the deck of a ship, U.S....
Topics: Crossroads, Hawaiin Cruise, 1930s, US Navy, Honolulu, Stock Footage, Periscope Film
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This silent home-video travelog from the 1940s details the natural splendors of New York State as well as historical facts about the area. The eighteen minutes of footage comprises various clips from the sites and landmarks mentioned as well as texts that provide further details. The film includes some aerial clips of the New York City skyline however most of the film focuses on the scenes and sites of rural upstate New York. Opening text featuring illustrated tomahawk about roots of the name...
Topics: Travelogue, New York, Catskills, Albany, Morristown, 1940s, Stock Footage, Periscope Film
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Dec 23, 2021
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These extraordinary Super 8mm home movies from the Vietnam War, come from a member of the "Ravens". The Raven Forward Air Controllers, also known simply as The Ravens, were fighter pilots used for forward air control in a covert operation in conjunction with the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States in Laos during America's Vietnam War. The Ravens provided direction for most of the air strikes against communist Pathet Lao targets and People's Army of Vietnam's...
Topics: Vietnam War, Loas, Home Movies, Ravens KRT, Stock Footage, Periscope Film
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Dec 30, 2021
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This fundraising film from the late 1940s or early 1950s (but most likely 1949), "Epidemic's Children" was produced by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. Produced prior to the development of a vaccine, the film tells some of the modern history of the fight against the disease, and shows some of the effects of the polio disease and the treatment regimen of this era including water therapy and the use of iron lungs. The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis is now...
Topics: Polio, 1940s, Paralysis, Iron Lung, Epidemics Children, Stock Footage, Periscope Film
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Mar 23, 2023
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This color educational film produced by the J.I. Case Threshing Machine Company in conjunction with the Wisconsin Centennial Exposition of 1948 celebrates “50 centuries of farming” with a survey of modern agricultural technologies and innovations (TRT 21:04). Closeup on a blue ribbon award from the ASAE committee on extension (0:08). Opening titles (0:17). A J.I. Case Co. exhibition pavilion from the Wisconsin Centennial Exposition. Signs proclaim: “The March of Machines” and “5000...
Topics: Ji Case, 1948, Pageant, Wisconsin, Centennial Exposition, Stock Footage, Periscope FIlm
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Mar 31, 2023
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This 1970’s era, color movie touts the many features and engineering improvements of the 1975 Chevy Van line. The film is narrated and titled "Lasting 1975 Chevy Vans Value". The movie opens with a red and white van riding down the street and backing into a narrow alleyway. Cargo doors open from the back and cargo is loaded and accessible from the front and the side :46. An animation shows key design elements of a Chevy van 1:00. The placement of the engine is key to good design...
Topics: 1975, Chevy, Chevrolet, GMC, Value, Van Line, Stock Footage, Periscope Film
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Mar 18, 2023
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This film takes a look at the Kodak Rapid Color Processor Model 11 manufactured in 1963. Its release presented a leap forward from the tray processing that home photographers had been using previously for color print processing and it was nearly as fast as black and white print processing. The film opens with the information it will present the procedure for processing color prints with this model which could be done in the same length of time as the film; 7 minutes and 45 seconds (:17). The...
Topics: Kodak, Rapid Colors, 1960s, Ektacolor, Promotional Film, Stock Footage, Periscope Film
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Made by the famed Jam Handy Organization for Chevy, this black & white film promotes Chevrolet's new innovation: the automatic powerglide transmission. The film focuses on the transmission's design, ease of use and touts the torque it provides. The film attempts to explain the mechanical and hydraulic action of the automatic transmission, by metaphorically comparing it to the power of Niagara Falls -- thus the title "Niagara on Wheels". Copyright 1950. The Powerglide is a...
Topics: Niagra, Transmission, 1950, Chevrolet, Automatic, Powerglide, Promo, Stock Footage, Periscope Film
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Mar 29, 2023
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This silent 1920s film was released by Kodak as part of the Cinegraph series of movies. It features views of Jerusalem including the Mosque of Omar at (:56), Wailing Wall (1:12), the Well of David (6:10), the Sepulchre of Absalom (6:51) and Sepulchre of Rachel (7:06). The film also provides views of merchants, men wearing the fez, Jews in prayer and moving about the city, and other sights in Old Jerusalem. We encourage viewers to add comments and, especially, to provide additional information...
Topics: 1920s, Cinegraph, Holy Land, Travelogue, Jerusalem, Kodak, Stock Footage, Periscope Film
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Mar 24, 2023
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This black and white documentary by Wolfgang Kiepenheuser for Ikaros-Film with a script advised by Dr. Kurt Zenter offers a German perspective on the tumultuous period immediately following the defeat of the Nazi Party and collapse of the Third Reich at the end of World War II in 1945. (TRT: 14:24). Opening titles: “Institut für Film und Bild in Wissenschaft und Unterricht” (Institute for Film and Image in Science and Education) “Filmdokumente Zur Neuesten Deutschen Geschichte” ...
Topics: Germany, Post WWII, Documentarym WWII, Nazi Party, Stock Footage, Periscope FIlm
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Dec 22, 2021
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Dating to 1949, this film from Northwest Orient Airlines "Highroad to the Orient" pays visits to Japan, Hong Kong, Macau, and the Philippines. It was made by Reid H. Ray Inc. Northwest was founded in 1926 and took on the moniker "Northwest Orient" after 1947, when it established transpacific routes to Japan. It was absorbed into Delta Airlines in 2010. The film begins with the route of the trip shown on a spinning globe (0:23). Manhattan, New York Harbor (1:10). Times Square...
Topics: Northwest Orient Airlines, Highroad To Hong Kong, Stock Footage, Periscope Film
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Mar 1, 2023
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This 1939 black and white classroom film produced by Encyclopedia Britannica Films in collaboration with H.C. Raven of the American Museum of Natural History depicts indigeonous Central African foragers, aka Mbuti, Bambuti, or Pygmy peoples of the African Congo. Emphasis is placed on methods of hunting and gathering food, while artisanal crafts of basket making and shelter construction are also depicted in this educational documentary short that uses dated language (TRT 20:07). Opening titles...
Topics: Pygmies, Africa, 1939, Central Africa, Congo, Documentary, Stock Footage, Periscope Film
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Apr 19, 2023
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This Boy Scouts promo film "Boy Scouts...A Lot More Than You Think" was created by producer/writer Rift Fournier and Dean Crebbin. The movie is a veritable time capsule of the sociological stresses and the opportunities of the 1970's as reflected in Scouting, and it's countercultural pedigree is reinforced by an experimental, montage style. The first half of the film depicts Boy Scout organizing in underserved / endangered Black, Latino and Appalachian communities in which poverty is...
Topics: 1970s, Boy Scouts, Vulnerable Youth, Anti Drug, Stock Footage, Periscope Film
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On Saturday afternoons or Sunday mornings, throughout most of the sixties and early 70s, ABC aired "Discovery" -- a historical and cultural documentary television series aimed at children. Hosted by Bill Owen, this episode takes viewers through Canada showing the country’s rich history, the divide between the French and English language as well as how life is lived by a traditional Canadian. It opens with shots from within a zoo of various animals including a polar bear (:08). A...
Topics: ABC, Canada, 1966, Discovery, Children's, TV Show, Stock Footage, Periscope Film
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Apr 19, 2023
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This television feed shows the splashdown, attempted recovery and loss of the Mercury-Redstone 4's Liberty Bell 7 capsule. The loss occurred as a result of the accidental deployment of the capsule's hatch, which was equipped with an emergency explosive release system. Astronaut Virgil "Gus" Grissom was rescued without injury and flown to the aircraft carrier USS Randolph for evaluation. Commentary in the film is provided by Jules Bergman, ABC's science editor, as well as correspondent...
Topics: Mercury, Redstone, Liberty, 1961, USS Randolf, ABC, Stock Footage, Periscope Film
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Jul 18, 2023
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This commemorative film from 1969 titled “We Build, We Fight” marks 25 years of service and achievement for the U.S. Navy’s Combat Battalions or Seabees. The film also acts as a recruitment tool with the narrator touching upon the branch’s expansion and the promise of lengthy careers for new recruits. Presented by the Naval Facilities Engineering Command and produced by Screen presentation, Inc. Washington D.C. this film talks about the history of the Seabees from their ingenious...
Topics: US Navy, Construction, Battalions, WWII, Vietnam, Antarctica, Seabees, Stock Footage, Periscope Film
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Jul 19, 2023
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Shot by an unknown American tourist, these silent home movies show a visit to Israel, probably in the late 1950s or early 1960s. The film starts with shots at what appears to be Haifa, including (2:15) a view of the industrial area of the city from a high vista. At around (4:00), the film shows various views of a farm or Kibbutz, with shots of a basketball court, tilled fields, and a group of young kids being escorted by a teacher or nanny (6:14). At (6:35) a sculpture or memorial is shown (if...
Topics: 1950s, Trip To Israel, Home Movie, Visit, kibbutz, Stock Footage, Periscope Film
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Mar 9, 2023
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Here is historic silent newsreel footage of Georges Guynemer (24 December 1894 – 11 September 1917 missing) who was a top fighter ace for France during World War I, and a French national hero at the time of his death. Guynemer entered the air service in November 1914 as a mechanic before he received a pilot's brevet the following April. As a member of the elite Storks squadron the somewhat frail looking Guynemer amassed some 54 victories until his death on 11 September 1917. As a...
Topics: Historic Newsreel, George Guynemer, French World, WWI, Aces, Stock Footage, Periscope Film
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Jan 19, 2022
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This black and white vocational training film (with opening titles missing) aims to prepare beginner welders for safe and efficient handling of oxyacetylene torches with an educational tour of oxy-fuel welding techniques (TRT: 18:06). A man dons goggles and tests an ignited oxyacetylene torch. Narration: “Engineers are placing more and more confidence in this method of joining metals together” (0:06). A torch welder repairs a piece of damaged metal. A blowtorch and filler rod in closeup. A...
Topics: Oxyacetylene, 1950s, Educational Short Film, Welding, Training Film, Stock Footage, Periscope Film
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Jan 19, 2022
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Made by filmmaker, sporting goods store and truck company owner Pat Salvino, this film POLAR ADVENTURE shows a big game hunt of a different sort -- a hunt for a polar bear. It likely dates to about 1964. The film follows Salvino from Seattle to Alaska, where he shoots a bear and has its pelt as a trophy. At 3:46 Salvino flies north to Kotzebue, Alaska by the Arctic Ocean. At 4:52 the Alaskan Airlines DC-6 carrying Salvino arrives at the airport. It is February and the temperature is well below...
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Topics: Polar Adventure, Polar Bear, Alaska, Taxidermy, Pat Salvino, Stock Footage, Periscope Film
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Mar 2, 2023
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This 1950’s short black and white film features Emily Post, explaining to viewers the proper etiquette when traveling out of the United States. Much more so in the earlier decades than in today, there was a concern over social etiquette; how one should behave in social settings; domestic and abroad. Today much of the formalities seem to have all but faded. Emily Post, who wrote a column on good taste that was syndicated in over 200 American newspapers, narrates this brief guide on manners...
Topics: Foreign Travel Etiquette, 1951, Educational Short, Emily Post, Stock Footage, Periscope Film
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Mar 10, 2023
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This color NASA film explains the June, 1965 Gemini IV mission, which was crewed by astronauts James McDivitt and Edward White. Gemini IV (aka Gemini 4) was the second crewed spaceflight in Project Gemini and it was the tenth crewed American spaceflight. Astronauts McDivitt and White circled the Earth 66 times in four days and White performed the first EVA / spacewalk by an American. The objective of the mission was to test the performance of the astronauts and capsule and to evaluate work...
Topics: Gemini IV, 1965, NASA, James McDivitt, Edward White, Stock Footage, Periscope Film
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Feb 1, 2022
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The 1947 episode “The State of Maine,” part of the Carl Dudley Productions motion pictures series This Land Of Ours, gives viewers a taste of the largest state in the Northeast. The film opens with shots of forests (00:55), fitting for a state known as the “Pine Tree State.” Maine is also home to lakes, historic forts, and scenic lighthouses. August (01:26) is the capital and is shaped by the Kennebec River. Lewiston and Auburn are the heart of the state’s industry (01:47), producing...
Topics: 1947, State, Maine, Educational Dilm, Lewiston, Auburn, Portland, Stock Footage, Periscope Film
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Jul 8, 2023
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This Christian film from 1972, presented by the Moody Institute of Science, tells the story of Dick Ewing, who became one of the first men to cross the vast expanse of the Sahara desert on a motorcycle and survive. The film is hosted by Dr. Irwin A.Moon and produced by the Moody Bible Institute. Dick Ewing is an extreme sports enthusiast, who gathered an expedition crew to travel on motorcycles across the Sahara Desert. Multiple troubles and accidents with miraculous solutions lead to Ewing’s...
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Mar 10, 2023
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Produced and directed by John Ford, who risked his life to make it, this famous U.S. Navy documentary film is titled “The Battle Of Midway” chronicles one of the major naval battles in the Pacific Theater of World War II. The Battle of Midway took place on 4-7 June 1942, six months after Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea. Released by the United States Navy in Technicolor, this film highlights the military prowess of the United States and the...
Topics: Midway, 1942, John Ford, US Navy, Theater, Documentary, Stock Footage, Periscope Film
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Jul 23, 2023
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This historical re-enactment film from the early 1980s titled “Springfield Armory” is a National Park Service Museum film that was presented by the National park Service U.S. Department of the Interior. The film discusses the importance of the Springfield Armory to the US Army and its military strategy, the development of the M14 rifle, and the solidifying of an American system of manufacturing during the Industrial Revolution. Through historical archival footage and re-enactment, the film...
Topics: History, Springfield Armory, Springfield, Massachusetts, Development, M14 Rifle, Stock Footage,...
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Mar 24, 2023
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This black & white educational film is about the cable laid by the Western Union Telegraph Company in 1928 between Newfoundland and the Azores. The plan of the cable was to secure a two-way operation between Newfoundland and the 1,400 letters per minute in each direction: cablegrams. No copyright shown, this is circa the late 1920s or early 1930s. No Opening credits. Cables on a spool. Cables slip down into the water. People on a ship. Men row a boat to a buoy. Cable is detached from the...
Topics: 1928, Educational Film, Telegraph, Western Union, Transatlatic Cable, Stock Footage, Periscope Film
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Mar 5, 2023
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Produced by ent/gates films, inc. of Buffalo, New York, this film "An Interest in Safety" was presented by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. It describes recreational opportunities at a Corp’s facility in Arkansas, and highlights tips to ensure safety while enjoying vacation stays. It opens with a span of the Army Corp of Engineers facility (:58) which many travelled to for summertime vacation. The Corp has an interest in the natural settings of environments such as this and also...
Topics: 1980s, US Army Corps, Engineers, Safety, US Army, Stock Footage, Periscope Film
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Made during the 1970s gas crunch, this color educational film from Caterpillar Corporation examines alternative energy resources, and shows the American nation's struggle to find a long term solution to its energy needs. This includes a look at oil shale, nuclear power including both fission and fusion reactors, solar energy, hydroelectricity, and other forms of power. Produced by Calvin Productions, probably in 1977, prior to the Three Mile Island nuclear accident. Opening: planet Earth,...
Topics: Struggle, Power, 1970s, Energy Source, Nuclear Solar, Oil, Stock Footage, Periscope Film
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Mar 10, 2023
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This color educational film is about Air Force Officer Customs And Courtesies, (when to salute, etc.). This is copyright 1964. Opening credits: United States Air Force Training Film: Air Force Officer Customs And Courtesies, Military Obligations (:09-:33). Main gate of a USAF base. Lieutenant Hackley drives up and salutes an officer at the front gate. The car is parked. Lieutenant Hackley walks by another person, salutes and continues on. The Lieutenant goes to the personnel center where he...
Topics: Customs, USAF, US Air Force, 1964, Training, Military, Stock Footage, Periscope Film
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Apr 12, 2023
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This is a 1960’s era, color movie and opens on spinning discs of magnetic tape. The language is German and the subject of the film is the manufacture of ¼" magnetic tape for recording. Cameras scan the city of Leverkusen on the Rhine and we see the AGFA-GEVAERT building, 1:04. Agfa-Gevaert N.V. (Agfa) is a Belgian-German multinational corporation that develops, manufactures, and distributes analogue and digital imaging products and systems, as well as IT solutions. The company has three...
Topics: Agfa, Gervaert, Magnetic Recording Tape, 1960s, German Manufacture, Stock Footage, Periscope Film
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Apr 9, 2023
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This fragmentary, silent material comes from a 35mm nitrate film containing different newsreels. It begins with President Hoover reviewing the U.S. fleet off the Virginia coast. Many battleships are visible moving in a line. Eventually a live fire exercise begins. At 1:41 a sailing vessel is seen foregrounded against a battleship (this footage is tinted). At 2:07 is a brief aerial shot of the fleet. At 2:27 the fleet moves towards New York. At 3:00 is a wonderful raking shot of the USS Nevada...
Topics: Changing Face, India, Village, Urban Life, Bangalore, 1942, Stock Footage, Periscope Film
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Apr 15, 2023
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This Encyclopedia Britannica film "Rome City Eternal" (:11) takes viewers on a tour through the city of Rome and points out notable historic and religious landmarks. It was produced by F. W. and E. S. Keller (:08). The film opens with a shot of an eagle (:41) which is the symbol of Jupiter; the ancient protector and patron of Rome. Bird’s eye view footage shows the city expanse and the Colosseum (1:09). The interior of the amphitheater is shown which was constructed to sit 50,000...
Topics: City Eternal, Rome, Italy, Romans, Educational Film, 1965, Stock Footage, Periscope Film
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Jun 12, 2023
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This anti-drug film from 1971 attempts to debunk anecdotal arguments made in support of the drug LSD (Lysergic acid diethylamide) and other psychedelic drugs. Hosted by singer-songwriter Tommy Roe (best known for his hits “Sheila” and “Dizzy”), the film features teens having scripted conversations about their opinions and experiences with psychedelic drugs. The conversations are first shown truncated, leaving the viewer to believe that what is being said is declarative or empirical, but...
Topics: LSD, 1971, Psychedelics, Anti Drug, Lysergic, Acid Trip, Stock Footage, Periscope Film
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Feb 25, 2023
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Created in the late 1960s by the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen and the United Transportation Union under the leadership of Charles Luna, "Railroad Man" is a portrait of the ordinary men who perform the extraordinary job of keeping the nation's freight and passenger trains moving. Directed by Jeri Sopanen the film's story is told by the men themselves, who speak from their own hard experience working and riding on steel rails. Charles Luna (1906 – 1 October 1992) was...
Topics: Brotherhood Of Railroad, Documentary, Railroad Man, Stock Footage, Periscope Film
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Mar 10, 2023
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This black & white educational silent film is about the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 Russia. This is part 1 of the film OCTOBER re-edited in this version and released internationally in 1928 as TEN DAYS THAT SHOOK THE WORLD. This film was directed by Grigori Aleksandrov & Sergi Eisenstein. Opening titles: Ten Days That Shook The World (:06-:48). A woman ties rope around a statue. The Czar's statue is outfitted with rope to be toppled. Happy revolutionaries hold their rifles and lift...
Topics: 1917, Bolshevik Revolution, Eisenhower, Vladamir Lenin, Stock Footage, Periscope Film
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Mar 2, 2023
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This film "The Remnant" was produced in 1967, and depicts the Jewish culture in Europe highlighting the early history of the Jews as well as prominent and historical synagogues throughout the country. It was originally broadcast in an hour-long format. The film begins with a shot of the fortress of Masada sitting high above the Dead Sea (:16). Jewish history begins in Rome here as a sizeable community began in the year 70 of the Common Era (:48). A prominent Rabbi in the area...
Topics: 1967, Judaism, Israel, Zionest, Remnant, Documentary, Stock Footage, Periscope Film
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Dec 22, 2021
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This 1960 black and white installment of the newsmagazine “See It Now” produced and edited by Edward R. Murrow and Fred W. Friendly (Part 1 of 2) presents a behind-the-scenes overview of initial testing for the UGM-27 Polaris missile, a two-stage solid-fueled nuclear-armed submarine-launched ballistic missile, the United States Navy's first SLBM (TRT: 26:58). Title card: “Unclassified.” Opening titles: “See It Now Presents The Year of the Polaris” (0:08). Empty missile hatches...
Topics: Polaris, 1960, Nuclear Submarine, Missile Tests, Stock Footage, Periscope Film
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Apr 8, 2023
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“Wise Buying”, is a 1950 educational film presented by Coronet Instructional Films. It was likely shown in home economics classes, where young women were educated in the fine art of managing a household budget and expenses. In the film a young woman, jealous of others’ shopping habits, learns how to make smart shopping decisions with the support of her Uncle John. Elvin S. Eyster, Ed.D. of Indiana University served as the film’s educational collaborator. (0:30) A young woman walks into...
Topics: Wise Buying, Economics, Shopping, Budgeting, Managin Finances, Stock Footage, Periscope Film
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Apr 12, 2023
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Shot in the then-brand-new Yale Bowl in 1914, this rare, silent film shows highlights of the Harvard-Yale football game and features shots of the notable personalities involved. This includes Walter Camp (:29) the "Father of American Football", first year Yale head coach Hinkey (:41), Yale team captain Bud Talbot (:54), Massachusetts Governor Walsh (1:03), Harvard team captain Charlie Brickley (1:18), The game played on November 21 was the inaugural event at the Yale Bowl. William...
Topics: 1914, Harvard, Yale, Football, Yale Bowl, Coach, Stock Footage, Periscope FIlm
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Mar 23, 2023
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“Steel Ride” was produced by Wallace Productions Ltd in the 1960s. It is a promotional film about the Steel, Peech and Tozer steelworks in Yorkshire, England, which created wheels, axles, springs, and tires for locomotives. Steel, Peech and Tozer was a branch of United Steel Companies Ltd. The film opens with a montage of trains passing in front of the camera, and then an external shot of the steelworks and its chimneys (0:53). Viewers see the interior of a melting shop, lined with...
Topics: Steel Ride, Peech, Tozer, Steel Works, Yorkshire, Stock Footage, Periscope Film
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Feb 25, 2023
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Created in the 1940's by the United Fruit Company to promote its business, the "Great White Fleet" of merchant/cruise vessels and the consumption of bananas, "Inside Middle America" showcases the plantations of Mexico and Central America. The United Fruit Company was an American corporation that traded in tropical fruit (primarily bananas), grown on Central and South American plantations, and sold in the United States and Europe. The company was formed in 1899, from the...
Topics: United Fruit Company, 1940s, Banana Production, Plantation, Stock Footage, Periscope Film
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Feb 24, 2023
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Made prior to the Apollo 11 mission, this film documents some of the media press pool personnel who will be operating behind the scenes to bring the news of the splashdown to the world. The film was produced by Western Union International, which participated in the event by facilitating the delivery of press pool copy to the world through teletype machines on board the ship -- beamed by satellite to Houston. Western Union also oversaw the construction of a color TV "earth...
Topics: Apollo 11, Splashdown, USS Hornet, Press Pool, Stock Footage, Periscope Film
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