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Ambassadors in Blue is a short 1971 film on the U.S. Air Force’s Thunderbirds. Presented by the McDonnell Douglas Corporation, the film features the aerobatics of the F-4E Phantom IIs at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada and is set to the jazz music of the Air Force’s Academy Band, The Falconaires. The film opens with shots of the Phantom IIs taking off, flying through the sky, and being serviced. The film shows some of the various tasks performed by the U.S. Air Force outside of combat...
Topics: Ambassadors In Blue, McDonnell Douglas, USAF, US Air Force, F-4E Phantom, 1971, Thunderbirds USAF...
Topics: Ambassadors In Blue, McDonnell Douglas, USAF, US Air Force, F-4E Phantom, 1971, Thunderbirds USAF...
This film by Willard Pictures Inc., U.S. Navy Flight Surgeon, was made in 1951. This picture centers around naval flight surgeons; detailing the training requirements and what daily duties may be. It opens with the view of Corsair airplanes landing on an aircraft carrier. We watch as another plane crashes due to pilot error (:58) and are asked what the surgeon could have done to inhibit the crash. The US Navy’s slogan is to “keep as many men at as many guns for as many days as possible” (...
Topics: Stock Footage, High Definition
Topics: Stock Footage, High Definition
One of a series of news reports produced by the U.S. Air Force, this newsreel showcases Strategic Air Command in the 1980s. It includes footage of a red alert drill, and KC-135 tankers in action. It also includes segments about the NATO Warrior Preparation Center in Europe, including simulation of Soviet attack strategies. This was an early form of computer-aided simulation utilized by the Department of Defense. It also includes a segment about U.S. forces in South Korea, the DMZ and Kunsan Air...
Topics: Stock Footage, High Definition
Topics: Stock Footage, High Definition
Produced in 1945, "Hannibal Victory" documents the activities of the World War II Victory Ship S.S. Hannibal Victory, named after Mark Twain’s Mississippi River hometown of Hannibal, Missouri. Departing from San Francisco, the ship carries a cargo of eight steam locomotive engines and cars across the Pacific to the Philippines. The crew’s daily routines are portrayed along with occasional threats by Japanese vessels. During World War II, 534 "Victory ships" were...
Topics: World War II, Periscope Film, Victory Ship, World War, Hannibal, Film
Topics: World War II, Periscope Film, Victory Ship, World War, Hannibal, Film
This 1940s black and white military recruiting and educational film, Flying Cadets of the U.S. Army Air Corps, was produced by The Material Division, written and directed by Captain John H. Fite, A.S.C. The film opens with a sky full of biplanes and monoplanes (:49-1:03). They may be Stearman, PT-19s, or PT-22s, planes used for training in the early 1940s. The four recruits are dressed in 1940s single- and double-breasted suits, followed in Air Corps uniforms (1:09-1:32). The guys arrive by...
Topic: Stock Footage
Topic: Stock Footage
Shot by Nick Spark on Super 8mm equipment, this short silent home movie shows the Old Pueblo Trolley heritage streetcar line as service was inaugurated on April 17, 1993. Two trolley cars were available for service when the line opened, and were operated in the inaugural runs: Car 10, a 1918-built Birney-type car that was ex-Pacific Electric Railway 332 and was under lease to OPT from the Orange Empire Railway Museum, and car 255, ex-Osaka, Japan (Hankai Electric Tramway), which was built in...
Topic: Stock Footage
Topic: Stock Footage
This Vietnam War U.S. Air Force newsreel from 1966 presents various scenes. It begins with F-105s operating in heavy monsoons against enemy targets. Severe flooding renders 6000 Vietnamese homeless, necessitating use of C-47s to transport vital supplies in to survivors. Da Nang Air Force Base is shown, with air force postal personnel working in the mail terminal. Tan Son Nhut Air Base is also shown with its big facilities. Operation Attleboro is also seen with C-5 transports operating...
Topics: Periscope Film, Stock Footage, United States Air Force, Vietnam War, War, Republic, Douglas C-47...
Topics: Periscope Film, Stock Footage, United States Air Force, Vietnam War, War, Republic, Douglas C-47...
A flying saucer skirts across the screen as a narrator ominously declares, “You have just seen a UFO … For some people these letters represent an element of fear because they represent an unknown threat.” But “UFO” can represent another danger: “Unrestrained Flying Objects.” So begins this color film from the General Motors Corporation. Likely produced circa 1978 (though the Roman numeral copyright date — MCXXVIII — translates to the year 1128), the narrator explains at mark ...
Topics: Stock Footage, High Definition
Topics: Stock Footage, High Definition
Part two of the Big Picture about the Battle of the Bulge, TIGERS ON THE LOOSE was produced by the Army Pictorial Center and is narrated by Lorne Green. It features live WWII footage and interviews with commanders of the infamous 10th Armored “Tiger” Division. It begins December 16, 1944 as Hitler drives forward (:45- 1:08 ). American defenders at Bastogne are outnumbered and outgunned. General Anthony McAuliffe ( 1:29 ) has replied to a letter of surrender with the single word “NUTS.”...
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Topics: Stock Footage, High Definition
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Produced in the late 1940s or early 1950s, this NACA film shows the work at the NACA Lewis Flight Propulsion Lab, where researchers study the spread of fires in an airplane crash. The history of Lewis Field begins with the National Air Races, held in Cleveland throughout the 1930s. Conducted at what is now Hopkins International Airport, the races were a major aviation event each year. Thousands of people came to view them. To accommodate the large crowds, bleachers and a parking lot were...
Topics: 1940s, 1950s, Airplane, Crash, Research, 1950s, NCA, NASA, Stock Footage
Topics: 1940s, 1950s, Airplane, Crash, Research, 1950s, NCA, NASA, Stock Footage
This film BOUGAINVILLE A STEP TO VICTORY presents the Bougainville Campaign starting in mid-1943, as Allied planes began bombing the Solomons. At 1:10, troops are seen loading up at Guadalcanal, to head towards Bougainville. The beach assault is seen at 2:15, with the landing on November 3, 1943. The battle that follows is a heated one, with troops backed by tanks and flamethrowers advancing into the jungle and taking heavy casualties. Maps are read in the field at 5:30, with plans to assault...
Topics: World War II, WWII, Bougainville, Campaign, Operation Cartwheel, Newsreel, Stock Footage
Topics: World War II, WWII, Bougainville, Campaign, Operation Cartwheel, Newsreel, Stock Footage
Shot in 1950 by an unknown U.S. serviceman, this 16mm home movie shows Occupied Japan and briefly Hong Kong. It provides a striking time capsule of post-war life in Japan, a nation which was slowly rebuilding after defeat. It starts in summer with footage of a fire at the port of Yokohama. It also contains footage of a military base, the launching a private motorboat "The Joker", built for one of the servicemen , and the launch of the fishing vessel "Krill" (briefly seen in...
Topic: Stock Footage
Topic: Stock Footage
This color film produced by NASA, an Aeronautics and Space Report has four segments. The first is about Apollo 12 just before its launch on November 14, 1969. It opens with a moon rock gathered by the Apollo 11 crew (:36- 1:05 ). The crew of Apollo 12, astronauts Pete Conrad, Alan Bean, and Dick Gordon, are shown walking in their spacesuits ( 1:06 ). Conrad will be the command pilot for the ten-day round trip, shown practicing weightless walking ( 1:16 - 1:28 ). Gordon, command module pilot,...
Topics: Stock Footage, High Definition
Topics: Stock Footage, High Definition
This film is an episode of ‘The Search’ a pioneering educational program that aired on CBS. This episode takes a look at the laboratories and plants that pioneered the development of automatic machines in 1954. It takes a tour through the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, the Bell Laboratories in New York, and others locales. It is narrated by Charles Romine (:47). Professor Donald B. Campbell (:52) of MIT, is the leading authority on automatic machines and their...
Topics: 1954, CBS, The Search, M.I.T., Automatic Robots, Digital Computers, Whirlwind, Stock Footage
Topics: 1954, CBS, The Search, M.I.T., Automatic Robots, Digital Computers, Whirlwind, Stock Footage
Produced by Celluloid College in 1947, Basic Motion Picture Technique is an educational film on the basics of filming a motion picture. The film “has been carefully designed to teach exactly what it is that makes a movie interesting and enjoyable to an audience. It teaches technique, the ‘art’ of using the camera.” In this second part of the film, viewers learn about three more techniques, then they see them all applied in a silent short to conclude the educational film. “Lesson #6:...
Topic: Stock Footage
Topic: Stock Footage
Presented by Allegro Film Productions, this episode of the Science Screen Report shows viewers the state-of-the-art solar power plant in the Mojave Desert near Barstow, Ca. The film begins with shots of solar panels on houses, farm barns, and the commercial solar electric power plant Solar One ( 01:10 ), with its solar panel farm. There is a shot of a model of the power plant as well. Computer-controlled heliostats (mirrors) are tested near Albuquerque, NM ( 02:52 ) for the Solar One plant....
Topics: Stock Footage, High Definition
Topics: Stock Footage, High Definition
This 1970s era film, called The Ballad of the Big Ones, is about the famous Clydesdale horses of Budweiser. It is a color film and opens with the Anheuser Busch logo on wrought iron gates and the famous Clydesdale drawn carriage emerges, :20. The gleaming red wagon of Budweiser, :56. The Clydesdales pull the Budweiser wagon down 5th Avenue past St. Patrick’s Cathedral, 1:10 . The Clydesdales are seen with their young frolicking in a pasture, 1:35 . The Clydesdale team is “16 tons moving...
Topics: Stock Footage, High Definition
Topics: Stock Footage, High Definition
Shot in the late 1920s or early 30s, this 16mm home movie consists of several sections. In the first, believe to show part of the 1929 Powder Puff Derby women's air race, an airport is seen with various numbered aircraft. These include Travelair biplane, and what appears to be Pancho Barnes' Travelair Model R Mystery Ship (:13 seconds) taxiing and then taking off. The biplane at 1:15 is marked NC4615, apparently a Waco GXE. At 1:30, a Ford Trimotor is seen at the airport and takes off in...
Topics: 1920s, Home Movie, Womens Air Race, Flying Over, Hudson River, Stock Footage
Topics: 1920s, Home Movie, Womens Air Race, Flying Over, Hudson River, Stock Footage
This 1947 film outlines the responsibility of physicians and dentists in early recognition of oral cancer. Interestingly, it does not probe the causes of oral cancer, such as cigarette smoking, as at the time it was produced a causal link had yet to be firmly established. The film was sponsored by the American Cancer Society (:22) and produced by Audio Productions Inc (:36). The film opens with a 48-year-old patient whom has a white lesion on his tongue which proved to be a papillary tumor...
Topics: Oral Cancer, Cancer, 1947, Smoking, American Cancer Society, Stock Footage
Topics: Oral Cancer, Cancer, 1947, Smoking, American Cancer Society, Stock Footage
Produced as part of an educational series of films by the Eastman Kodak Company, "Care and Planting of Trees" is a silent movie that dates to 1927. The film features several moments of interest to modern audiences including mass spraying of trees with pesticides. This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in...
Topics: Eastman Kodak, educational, film, pesticides, ecology, vintage, classroom
Topics: Eastman Kodak, educational, film, pesticides, ecology, vintage, classroom
This film about military ordnance begins with images of the prototype for what would become the M116 Cargo Carrier, the T116 Amphibious Cargo Carrier, being tested in the Arizona desert. The M520 Go-er, a large articulated truck is also shown, along with the self-propelled howitzer T-36. The M-60 Battle Tank is shown operating in amphibious mode and the M-61 Vulcan anti-aircraft weapon. The Aberdeen Proving Ground is seen at the 4 minute mark with the Davey Crockett recoilless gun being...
Topics: M116 Cargo Carrier, T-36 Howitzer, Artillery, Military Transportation, M-60 Tank, M61 Vulcan,...
Topics: M116 Cargo Carrier, T-36 Howitzer, Artillery, Military Transportation, M-60 Tank, M61 Vulcan,...
This short silent German educational film shows a unit of German pioneers rapidly constructing a pontoon bridge over a river. A pioneer is a soldier employed to perform engineering and construction tasks. The term is in principle similar to sapper. Pioneers were originally part of the artillery branch of European armies. Subsequently, they formed part of the engineering branch, in the logistic branch, part of the infantry; or comprised a branch in their own right. Historically, the primary role...
Topic: Stock Footage
Topic: Stock Footage
"Pinpoint for Science" celebrates Apollo 12, the second manned mission to the moon, that was launched on November 14th, 1969. This documentary starts with a series of images from Surveyor 3 which landed on the moon on April 19th, 1967 then gives highlights of the Apollo 12 mission as follows: launch footage [including the famous lightning strike to the Saturn V rocket], in-flight footage, control room tracking of rocket, in-orbit shots of moon, moon approaching after LOI [Lunar Orbit...
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Topics: NASA, Film, Stock Footage, Periscope Film, Apollo 12, Apollo Program
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Made in 1963, this travelogue of New York shows the "sightseer's paradise" with its man-made wonders. It features views of the Statue of Liberty, the Staten Island Ferry, the Port of New York including a shot of an ocean liner, the Brooklyn Bridge, Wall Street, Chinatown including the Chinese New Year Parade, Mulberry Street and the Lower East Side and the "sidewalks of New York", Washington Square, the Woolworth Building, Chrysler Building and the Empire State...
Topic: Stock Footage
Topic: Stock Footage
Air France presents us with “Flying Holidays: Traveling through France” a charming travelogue from the 1960s that taps into a Hollywood styled score to compliment the monumental sights that travelers frequent. Vacationers tour the French country side including Normandy and Brittany, and the French Riviera in a Renault Caravelle and make frequent stops, experiencing the leisure of good food and a friendly welcome. The voyage starts off with a fabulous picture of French cuisine served in...
Topics: Traveling, France, Europe, Air France, Flying Holiday, Stock Footage
Topics: Traveling, France, Europe, Air France, Flying Holiday, Stock Footage
Made in 1948 in an attempt to educate the American public and lobby Congress, AIR POWER AND PEACE POWER features Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker of Eastern Airlines speaking about the future of aviation. The title of the film was part of a slogan used throughout the aviation and defense industry in this era, to promote a strong military-industrial research and development effort that would simultaneously advance aviation technology while strengthening U.S. defense. The film mostly centers around a...
Topics: Air Power, Peace Power, 1948, Eddie Rickenbacker, Stock Footage
Topics: Air Power, Peace Power, 1948, Eddie Rickenbacker, Stock Footage
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 Churchill at the Quebec Conference." This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in...
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Topics: Stock Footage, High Definition
Made in the 1970s, this U.S. Coast Guard recruiting film proudly celebrates the USCG. In classic 70s verite style, it contains personal voice-over of recruits and shows them going through basic training at the Coast Guard Academy in New London, learning seamanship and knot tying, heavy classroom training including military training, are shown. Aptitude tests are seen at the 7:40 mark. Marksmanship is seen at 8:30. Food and the infamous chow line is discussed at the 10:30 point, followed...
Topics: Periscope Film, Stock Footage, United States Coast Guard, New London, Coast Guard Academy, Coast...
Topics: Periscope Film, Stock Footage, United States Coast Guard, New London, Coast Guard Academy, Coast...
This U.S. Army film shows American pilots flying missions in support of the South Vietnamese Army and profiles helicopters in use in Vietnam: the H-21 troop carrier and the UH-1A and UH-1B Armed Helicopters -- equipped with machine guns, rockets and even (as the film shows) carbines. The film shows tactics and operations, field repair, and even some crashed helicopters being destroyed in the field to prevent them from falling into enemy hands. The film ends with a full-scale heliborne strike...
Topic: Stock Footage
Topic: Stock Footage
UP FROM THE BED OF A DESERT SEA tells the story of the New Mexico based potash mine run by the International Mineral and Chemical Corporation of Carlsbad (now known as IMC Global). Released in 1952 or 53, the film is a fascinating portrait of mining in the post-WWII era. Potash is any of various mined and manufactured salts that contain potassium in water-soluble form. The name derives from pot ash, which refers to plant ashes soaked in water in a pot, the primary means of manufacturing the...
Topics: IMC, Global, Potash Mine, Refinery, Carlsbad, New Mexico
Topics: IMC, Global, Potash Mine, Refinery, Carlsbad, New Mexico
Made for Mobil as a promotional piece, THE INDIANAPOLIS 500 was produced by Dynamic Films, directed by Lester S. Becker, with narration by Ralph Camargo. The film shows the 1960 Indianapolis 500, one of the most exciting in history. Defending champion Rodger Ward and challenger Jim Rathmann dueled right down to the last lap. The cars and drivers in this race included Troy Ruttman, Red Amick, A.J. Foyt, Johnny Boyd, Chuck Stevenson, Eddie Sachs, Bob Veith, Johnny Thomson, Len Sutton,...
Topics: 1960, Indianapolis 500, Race, Rodger, Ward, Jim, Rathamann, Stock Footage
Topics: 1960, Indianapolis 500, Race, Rodger, Ward, Jim, Rathamann, Stock Footage
Presented by United World Films and distributed by United Education and Visual Arts, this 1958 black-and-white film, “The Way We Live,” takes a look at “Making a Living Around the World — Trade and Transportation.” The film opens on “Main Street” in any small town of the 1950s, with quaint grocery stores, hardware stores, clothing stores, cobblers, and bakeries. “When we want things others have to sell, we give them money,” the narrator explains at mark 1:22. “When we...
Topics: United World Films, Trade, Transportation, 1958, Documentary, Stock Footage
Topics: United World Films, Trade, Transportation, 1958, Documentary, Stock Footage
Hosted by John D. Craig, "Expedition!" was a pioneering anthropological TV show. This episode from 1960, "Survivors of the Ice Age" portrays the really harsh way of life of the seldom filmed Laplander culture. The film observes their daily life as a herding people dependent on the reindeer of the Norway's far North. This is a documentary portrait of a culture adapted to survival in the harshest of world climates, the Arctic. The Sami people (traditionally known in English as...
Topics: Expedition, TV Show, Lapland, Norway, Survivors, Ice Age, ABC TV, Stock Footage
Topics: Expedition, TV Show, Lapland, Norway, Survivors, Ice Age, ABC TV, Stock Footage
The 1949 short film, “Rough House,” was one of a collection of 16mm films on Chevrolets produced by Jam Handy. The film promotes the benefits of Chevrolet cars by revealing the numerous tests performed on the cars. In this film, the tests are simulated using what appears to be a 1949 Chevrolet Fleetline or Styleline Deluxe Sedan ( 00:24 ). The tests behind the comfortable ride of the Chevrolet are conducted at the General Motors Proving Ground in Milford, Michigan ( 01:08 ). The vehicles...
Topics: Stock Footage, High Definition
Topics: Stock Footage, High Definition
This jet era Pan Am Airlines film shows the 49th State, Alaska. At mark 1:30 , this is Alaska. This film is about people of Alaska, the land and their way of life. It is a land not easy to know for it is a land of contrast and paradox. The great silent glaciers move slowly to 3000ft deep. The climate is temperate yet everywhere there is the snow and the ice as seen at mark 2:55 . Alaska is a land where spring moves side by side with winter and each year in the water life begins anew. At...
Topics: Stock Footage, High Definition
Topics: Stock Footage, High Definition
Produced by the Army Film and Photographic Unit and the Royal Air Force Film Production Unit, this black-and-white film is Part 2 of “Desert Victory,” exploring the Battle for North Africa during World War II. The film starts cold with British tanks rolling across the desert during the Second Battle of El Alamein, and explanation that in the early going, the British Eighth Army had made a four-mile advance through German lines to the north, as well as advancements against the lines of...
Topics: Stock Footage, High Definition
Topics: Stock Footage, High Definition
Made late during WWII, LIFELINE TO CHINA traces the journey of American war materiel — in this case a barrel of petroleum from Texas — to the front in China. The journey takes place across the Atlantic ocean aboard ship, all the way to Burma where it is transported by porters onto trains, and then through various methods to get to Kunming. The airport at Bhamo is shown, along with the HQ of the Tenth Air Force operating into China. B-29 bombers are shown operating in the China-Burma-India...
Topics: Lifeline, China World, World War II, WWII, Stilwell, Petroleum, Stock Footage
Topics: Lifeline, China World, World War II, WWII, Stilwell, Petroleum, Stock Footage
This silent film (originally released with a soundtrack that we don't have, and apparently narrated by John Glenn) was made to profile Teledyne McCormick Selph and its plant at Hollister, California. McCormick Selph was an ordnance company with a strong reputation in the pyrotechnic escape systems products line. In other words, ejection seats and systems. At :19 the sprawling facility at Hollister is shown. At :47 employees wearing clean room apparel work on electronic components. At :58...
Topics: John Glenn, SAAS, Ejection Systems, Pyrotechnic Aircraft, Stock Footage
Topics: John Glenn, SAAS, Ejection Systems, Pyrotechnic Aircraft, Stock Footage
Silent 16mm home movie of the 1951 Rose Parade. 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 Churchill at the Quebec Conference." This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military,...
Topics: Stock Footage, High Definition
Topics: Stock Footage, High Definition
This 1971 vintage U.S. Coast Guard film shows the proper procedures for a Captain of the Port inspection of a waterfront facility. In the United States, Captain of the Port (COTP) is a title held by a United States Coast Guard officer, usually the commander of a United States Coast Guard sector with the rank of captain (O-6). Captain of the Port duties involve enforcing within their respective areas port safety and security and marine environmental protection regulations, including...
Topics: Periscope film, Stock Footage, U.S. Coast Guard
Topics: Periscope film, Stock Footage, U.S. Coast Guard
This 1942 training film (Prod. No. 169) from the Canadian Army Film Unit and narrated by Gerry Wilmot shows the training of dispatch riders at a training school in England. The film opens with a scene of an officer showing soldiers a motorcycle engine in a room at a training school in England. Men are assigned a Norton 16H motorcycle out in the yard and must maintain the bike during the entirety of the course (01:12). The soldiers work on their bikes. An instructor shows the students how to...
Topic: Stock Footage
Topic: Stock Footage
Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Browse our products on Amazon: https://amzn.to/2YILTSD Made prior to the Apollo-Soyuz flight, this film "Apollo Soyuz" describes the mission and features footage from both Russian and USA sides of the mission. It was narrated by Yul Brynner and Paul Picerni, produced by David Gerber, and written and directed by Byron Morgan. This mission was conducted in July 1975 and was the first...
Topic: Stock Footage
Topic: Stock Footage
This 1964 black and white film "The Inheritance" celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America by outlining the improvements the union has won for clothing workers over its five decades. It visits early America and the immigrants who arrived to Ellis Island in NYC and who toiled in the garment and steel factories of the United States. It is a story of the birth of organized labor and the Amalgamated Union. At the time the film was released, the...
Topic: Stock Footage
Topic: Stock Footage
This color educational/training film is about the brand new Super Mobil Oil. This oil first appeared in 1974 thus the year of the film. Opening titles/credit sequence: YOU KNOW IT BY ITS COLOR (:07-:33). Shots of oil and Mobil and 3 times longer (:34-1:46). A model poses. Super mobil. Look and Life magazine covers. Super Mobil oil (1:47-2:26). Super Mobil Oil, Brand X oil, and ice. Our narrator explains how the new oil keeps engines three times cleaner. We are introduced to the new Super...
Topics: Mobil, 1974, Mobil Oil, Supermobil, Promo Film
Topics: Mobil, 1974, Mobil Oil, Supermobil, Promo Film
Released in 1939, "Conquering the Colorado" is a vivid recreation of Haldane "Buzz" Holmstrom's 1937 solo trip down the Colorado River from the conjunction with the Green River to the barrier of Hoover Dam. It was photographed in 1938 by Amos Burg and described by Paul Douglas. Haldane "Buzz" Holmstrom (1909–1946) was a pioneer of running the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. He was the first person to float all the way from Green River, Wyoming to...
Topic: Stock Footage
Topic: Stock Footage
This 1970’s era, color public service movie dates to the period before smoking was widely recognized as harmful, and smoking was permitted in public, including in restaurants and in airplanes. The film examines the American nation’s habit and studies cigarette smoking, its history, marketing of cigarettes, its corporate benefits and its societal and financial costs. Pelican Films presents, Smoking: A Report on the Nation’s Habit, created by Arthur Hoyle and Max Reid. The movie opens with...
Topic: Stock Footage
Topic: Stock Footage
This 1942 War Department training film (TF 1-311) gives viewers a look at how to strip and assemble the 37mm Automatic Gun M4. The film reviews the tools needed for the operations, then shows how to strip and assemble the tube (barrel), the breechblock and lock frame, the feed box, and the tube extension. It also instructs viewers on how to care for the weapon and remove and load the magazine. The film starts with a look at the M4. The film shows the tools needed to assemble the gun (01:01),...
Topic: Stock Footage
Topic: Stock Footage
Rescue and recovery the of the submarine USS Squalus, SS-192, after a disaster, sinking off the coast of New England. Featuring the use of USS Falcon and its highly trained crew saving lives using the Navy's Diving Bell.
Topics: Stock Footage, High Definition
Topics: Stock Footage, High Definition
This film was created for sales personnel of Chevrolet (:04) and it is comprised of two different segments, the first about the 1971 Nova and the second about the 1971 Vega. The Nova was manufactured from 1962-79 and 1985-88 model years. It begins with a re-enactment of a survey commissioned by Nationwide Consumers Testing Institute of owners and operators of independent garage and service facilities as to which car required the least amount of service (:50). An actress named Gail Kennedy goes...
Topic: Stock Footage
Topic: Stock Footage
This black & white U.S. Navy educational/training film is about how to use a Hand Pallet Truck, Tractor Trailer Train and a Fork Lift Truck safely, properly and for what purpose. Copyright is 1951. One interesting feature of the film is that most of the employees shown in the film are African American. These type of jobs were some of the earliest for African Americans in the Navy. During WWII, in February 1942 CNO Admiral Harold Rainsford Stark recommended African Americans for ratings in...
Topic: Stock Footage
Topic: Stock Footage
Images of Life begins with footage of a variety of daily activities, from cooking to working and tending to animals, carried out by humans across the globe (00:20-01:50). Produced in 1977 by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for the United States Agency for International Development, the film was written and directed by Gene Starbecker in collaboration with Hearst Metrotone Productions. The informational reel was one of three films and part of a larger space age series intended...
Topic: Stock Footage
Topic: Stock Footage
The black-and-white Wilding Pictures Production’s “Army on Wheels” is “a film report of full scale peacetime maneuvers of the United States Army — Fort Benning-Fort Sam Houston and in the Sabine River area of Texas (in) May 1940. Made in cooperation between the US War Department and the Dodge division of the Chrysler Corporation, the film opens with news of how Dodge factories in Detroit have been churning out trucks for use by Uncle Sam. “Fresh from the truck production lines,”...
Topics: Stock Footage, High Definition
Topics: Stock Footage, High Definition
This color film “El Navajo” is an educational documentary presented by Santa Fe Railway. It is a Telefilm Recording (a format popular in 1935-1940, and represented a motion picture created to be shown on television). The Navajo Reservation spans New Mexico and Arizona during this film’s time period. Women in Navajo dress wave at an oncoming Santa Fe train (38), whose Chicago to San Francisco route passes it ( 1:03 ). Views outside the train window see the red desert cliffs ( 1:27 - 1:44...
Topics: Stock Footage, High Definition
Topics: Stock Footage, High Definition
Directed by Reid H. Ray for John Deere, FARMER OF THE YEAR dates to the 1950s. This verite drama tells the story of a father and son who team up, under the system of conservation farming, to increase productivity on their family farm. The father wins "Farmer of the Year" honors but (spoiler alert) honors his son in the process. We encourage viewers to add comments and, especially, to provide additional information about our videos by adding a comment! See something interesting? ...
Topic: Stock Footage
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Made in 1943 during WWII, "Down Where North Begins" was one of many films made by the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs to encourage unity and cooperation among Latin countries and the United States. The film includes an overview of the geographic, economic, and social aspects of Ecuador: mountains, jungles, Riobamba, and Quito; farms, Indian handicrafts, volcanoes; pre-Inca and Inca ruins. This story is about Ecuador. Ecuador is the only country whose name means...
Topics: Stock Footage, High Definition
Topics: Stock Footage, High Definition
Lifetime Protection is a short promotional film presented by The Dow Chemical Company and produced by the Atlas Film Corporation (likely from the 1950s) that touts the easy and economical aspects of using Styrofoam boards to insulate homes. The film opens with a shot of a convertible car sitting in front of a brick home ( 00:35 ). An approaching thunder storm prompts a man to run out of the house to put the car’s top up as the narrator explains the importance of protection from cold and...
Topics: Stock Footage, High Definition
Topics: Stock Footage, High Definition
This color educational film produced by A-V Corporation for NASA addresses fire in the 1969 Apollo missions. It opens with shots of bubbling magma (:17), an Apollo rocket launch (:49), and firemen battling a huge blaze ( 1:00 ). Fire must have three basic components: a combustible fuel or material, an agent to react chemically with the fuel to produce combustion, and an ignition source, using a candle as an example ( 1:28 - 2:05 ). Within a manned space flight, there are other flammable...
Topics: Stock Footage, High Definition
Topics: Stock Footage, High Definition
This silent 16mm home movie shows an air show at the U.S. Navy's China Lake airport sometime in the 1950s. It must date to between 1951 and 1959, as a Vought F7U Cutlass appears in the film at 1:15 and this jet was in the Navy only for that brief span of years. The plane shown has orange or red markings, indicating it was likely being used for tests at China Lake. At 2:30 a bare metal Douglas A-4 Skyhawk, first flown by the Navy in 1954, is shown. A Lockheed P2V-5 Neptune is seen on the ramp at...
Topics: Stock Footage, High Definition
Topics: Stock Footage, High Definition
The Land of the Firewalkers is a short silent film about a visit to Beqa (or Mbeqa), Fiji to observe the fabled firewalkers (presumably the Sawau people). The film appears to capture a day of traditional life on Beqa, as villagers prepare for a fishing expedition by harvesting vines to make ropes ( 00:40 ) then eat lunch, complete with coconuts ( 01:33 ) and snakes ( 02:45 ). After the meal, the villagers move into the water by boat ( 03:20 ) or by wading ( 03:58 ), while children play in the...
Topics: High Definition, Stock Footage
Topics: High Definition, Stock Footage
This film was created in 1934 by Robert B. Dixon, and released on Agfa (:09) stock. It appears to be an amateur-made-if-elaborate film / home movie. The film documents the U.S. Navy Review in New York harbor, an event attended by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (who was on board the cruiser USS Indianapolis). The film begins on May 31st, 1934 (:20) and shows the US Navy entering the New York harbor (:39). A title card proclaims that the USS Columbia is to be the film’s station for review...
Topic: Stock Footage
Topic: Stock Footage
This short film, likely from the 1940s, is from the Loyal Order of Moose, the family fraternity, and gives members an update on two of the order’s major projects: Mooseheart and Moosehaven. An aerial view shows Mooseheart, IL (00:27). The film takes viewers on a tour of the city of Mooseheart, with large homes and tree-lined avenues. Mooseheart kids relax in a parlor; some eat in a dining room. Young boys work in the fields next to Mooseheart (01:53). The film shows Mooseheart High School...
Topic: Stock Footage
Topic: Stock Footage
ThIs promotional film for the Federal Cartridge corporation's high quality shotgun cartridges and centerfire ammunition dates to the 1970s, after the introduction of the company's Premium line. The film attempts to show the "inside story" of Federal Cartridge, showing how quality is maintained throughout the manufacturing process, and touching on various innovations that the company has pioneered. The film begins with aerial footage of the company's 1 million square foot factory,...
Topics: High Definition, Stock Footage
Topics: High Definition, Stock Footage
An “unclassified” color film "Look Down, Too" is a Bureau of Ships Technical Report produced by the US Navy during the 1960s, and is meant to show how researchers are working toward creating more blast-resistant surface ships and submarines. Although current defense efforts focus skyward on aircraft, missiles, and “outer space,” the film encourages the viewer to “Look Down, Too” as the title card flashes on the screen at mark 01:03 . There are scenes of submarines and...
Topics: Stock Footage, High Definition
Topics: Stock Footage, High Definition
Produced by the Owens-Illinois Glass Company in 1952, IN GLASSTOWN USA shows the company's manufacturing process. At the time Owens-Illinois was the largest glass container manufacturer in the world. The film begins with images of 1950s supermarkets at 1:17, before showing the glass plant at 1:38. At 3:23, the factory interior is seen with raw materials delivered to a melting furnace. At 4:00, the interior of the furnace is seen with torrents of flame visible. At 4:50 a vacuum glass forming...
Topics: Illinois, Owens Illinois, Glasstown, 1952, Glass, Stock Footage
Topics: Illinois, Owens Illinois, Glasstown, 1952, Glass, Stock Footage
LB Littleford, the sign of modern engineered black-top road maintenance and construction equipment, presents A Modern Mixed-In-Place Resurfacing Job. This silent film, which probably dates to 1946 or thereabouts, shows how Littleford equipment makes completing road resurfacing jobs faster and, therefore, cheaper. A Littleford Model 115 “Tankar” Steam Heater heats a tank car of bituminous material ( 01:22 ), and then a Littleford CLRC “Spray Master” Pressure Distributor, frameless...
Topic: Stock Footage
Topic: Stock Footage
During World War II, 534 "Victory ships" were built to transport materials to support United States military efforts in theaters of operation across the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. The Victory ship (officially called VC2) was 455 feet long and 62 feet wide. A cross-compound steam turbine with double reduction gears developed 6,000 or 8,500 horsepower. The first of 534 Victory ships, the S.S. United Victory, was launched on February 28, 1944. The next 34 Victory ships were named for...
Topic: Stock Footage
Topic: Stock Footage
This 1940s travelogue film “Death Valley Ancient and Modern (Historic Death Valley)” is a Paul Hoefler Production. The film opens with maps showing the location of Death Valley in California and Nevada (:43). At 1:34 Furnace Creek Wash is shown and the entrance to the monument. At 2:19 , a ranger sweeps across sands to expose a petrified hoof print ( 2:13 - 2:53 ). At Green Water Canyon petroglyphs are shown at 2:58 . At 3:40 , Panamint Indians are shown, an offshoot of the Shoshone tribe....
Topic: Stock Footage
Topic: Stock Footage
Shot by an unknown American in the spring of 1949, this film (one of a three parter) is a silent home movie shot on 16mm film. This reel starts with a flight to the U.K. aboard a propeller aircraft and shows London starting at ( 1:49 ), with the mounting of the Guard at Whitehall and various shots outside Kensington Palace. A steam train trip is seen at ( 10:23 ), and shots of railyards and trackside scenes. At ( 11:18 ) the film returns to London with the Tower Bridge, Tower of London, House...
Topics: Stock Footage, High Definition
Topics: Stock Footage, High Definition
Filmed in the late 1920s or early 1930s by an American tourist, this silent home movie documents a trip made aboard a Cunard ocean liner to Europe from New York. The film begins at the Cunard pier at :17, as the ship is loading passengers and cargo. At :28 the gangplanks are retracted and the ship begins its trip as passengers and loved ones wave goodbye. At :35 images of New York Harbor are seen including the Statue of Liberty in the distance as well as Ellis Island. A four stack liner is seen...
Topics: Stock Footage, High Definition
Topics: Stock Footage, High Definition
Produced in cooperation from Union Carbide and the Atomic Energy Commission, this circa 1960 color film shows some of the peaceful uses of radioactive isotopes in medicine, food preservation, and other areas. Union Carbide's Nuclear Division, which started out as Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Company, operated the Atomic EnergyCommission/Energy Research and Development Administration/Department of Energy sites in Oak Ridge, Paducah, Ky., and Portsmouth, Ohio, until 1984, some 40 years. The film...
Topics: Stock Footage, High Definition
Topics: Stock Footage, High Definition
One of the "Yesterday's Newsreel" TV show episodes from the early 1950s, this film uses segments from the defunct General Newsreel Co. Opening titles: Yesterday's Newsreel (:06-:26) Title: 1931 - Round the World in 4 Days. Wiley Post and Harold Gatty. In 1931, Gatty served as navigator, along with pilot Wiley Post, on the flight which set the record for aerial circumnavigation of the world. Plane takes off, the plane is a Lockheed Vega 5B monoplane, named the Winnie Mae. Plane flies...
Topic: Stock Footage
Topic: Stock Footage
1965 ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANICA EDUCATIONAL FILM “SANTE FE & THE TRAIL” This film focuses on the Santa Fe Trail; a 19th century route through central North America which connected Missouri and Santa Fe. A span of the area along this route opens the film which Native American tribes had inhabited in 1830 (:19). A herd of Buffalo grazes through the pasture and Native Americans had hunted them for their hides and their meat (:25). A character named Jessup Greg steers a wagon as he was making...
Topic: Stock Footage
Topic: Stock Footage
Crusaders of the Sky (No. AFMR-661) is a short World War I film produced by Allegro Film Productions that gives viewers a look at the first American pilots to fight in the war as part of the Lafayette Escadrille corps. The primary aircraft flown by members of the Lafayette Escadrille included the Nieuport 11, Nieuport 17, and the SPAD VII. The film opens with footage of WWI: viewers see the firing of artillery guns and soldiers running across No Man’s Land. Photographs show the aircraft used...
Topics: Crusaders, US Air Force, World War I, WWI
Topics: Crusaders, US Air Force, World War I, WWI
Created by members of amateur radio club Q.R.M. / Q.S.T., this exceptional silent film shows activities at the National Air Races in Cleveland, Ohio in 1929. The start of the film shows the elaborate parade with various floats. At :52 the air races are seen with the Bendix towers. At 1:16 German pilot Ernst Udet's U12 Flamingo biplane marked D-822, thrills the crowd. At 3;21 the Flower Pageant, another parade, is shown. The date is August 24, 1929. At 4:14 the parking lot for the races is...
Topics: 1929, National Air Races, 1929, Santa Monica, California, Cleveland, Power Puff Derby
Topics: 1929, National Air Races, 1929, Santa Monica, California, Cleveland, Power Puff Derby
This black & white educational/promotional film is about taking your first leave from the U.S. Navy and the importance in returning on time. Copyright 1943. Opening titles: First Leave (:07-:20). Navy Sailors march and sing. Induction center to join the Navy. Men line up and take the oath of induction for the U.S. Navy. U.S. Naval Training Station, men walk in (:21-2:12). Men change their clothes, get checked by doctors, get new clothes. Man in front of a mirror in his navy uniform. Men...
Topic: Stock Footage
Topic: Stock Footage
Released commercially by Kodak in 1928, this silent film shows the American Legion Parade in Paris in September, 1927. The film shows some of the 20,000+ Americans who visited France in that year, the 9th anniversary of the end of WWI.Calling themselves the “Second American Expeditionary Force,” they attended the American Legion’s 9th National Convention in the City of Lights. Gen. John J. Pershing accompanied National Commander Howard P. Savage on the voyage on board the steamship...
Topic: Stock Footage
Topic: Stock Footage
Australia in WWI with special emphasis on Gallipoli. This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com
Topic: Stock Footage
Topic: Stock Footage
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Topics: Stock Footage, High Definition
Topics: Stock Footage, High Definition
This color, silent film "Introduction to the Arctic" was created as part of a series of five films. They document a U.S. Navy effort to exploit petroleum reserves in Alaska territory, specifically an area identified as PET 4 or Petroleum Reserve No. 4. The film shows some of the Eskimo people of Alaska as well as drilling operations. Copyright date is November 1948. The film was produced under the auspices of the U.S. Navy Office of Naval Petroleum and Oil Shale Reserves, which...
Topic: Stock Footage
Topic: Stock Footage
This profile is part of "The Big Picture", a long running U.S. Army television show. General of the Armies John Joseph "Black Jack" Pershing (September 13, 1860 – July 15, 1948) was a senior United States Army officer. His most famous post was when he served as the commander of the American Expeditionary Force (AEF) on the Western Front in World War I, 1917–18. Pershing rejected British and French demands that American forces be integrated with their armies, and insisted...
Topic: Stock Footage
Topic: Stock Footage
This color educational/promotional film is about the new Workmaster And Powermaster Ford Tractors. This is circa 1957 or 1958. In 1957 Ford introduced these new tractors with additions in 1958. Credits: Presented by Ford Tractor and Implement Division and introducing Workmaster and Powermaster Ford Tractors (:06-:20). Two Ford tractors ride across a freshly cut lawn. A large group of tractors move about. A farmer picks up dirt with his tractor. A diagram shows that horsepower went up from...
Topic: Stock Footage
Topic: Stock Footage
This historic film "Nazi Concentration Camps" was created immediately after WWII by the United States Government (August 1945) in an attempt to document the atrocities committed by the German state. The documentary report created by famed director George Stephens was used as evidence in official war crimes trials. It remains one of the most important works, showing irrefutable evidence of the despicable, brutal and inhumane acts committed by the German government in the name of racial...
Topic: Stock Footage
Topic: Stock Footage
Made during WWII and then re-released in the post-war period, "What to do in a gas attack?" is a civil defense film showing civilians how to protect themselves from this form of warfare. The context of the film is provided in the early going, with headlines indicating that the Japanese have engaged in chemical warfare in Asia, and cautioning that the threat of gas warfare is a clear and present danger. As the narrator says at 2:47 , the best defense is to have an airtight shelter in...
Topics: Stock Footage, High Definition
Topics: Stock Footage, High Definition
Made in the era just before WWII, CROSSROADS OF THE PACIFIC shows views of Honolulu and Hawaii as it appeared before the airplane made it a tourist mecca. The film emphasizes the islands' strategic significance and uses the ships of the U.S. Navy, and sailors men on a "Hawaiian cruise" to show off the tropical paradise. A naval gunnery and torpedo firing exercise is seen at the 2 minute mark, followed by a visit to the islands by men and ships. A traditional welcome with leis is...
Topic: Stock Footage
Topic: Stock Footage
Describes the daily life of a farm boy and girl near the city of Middelburg on the island of Welcheren. Depicts Dutch domestic customs including the mode of dress, food, and chores. Follows the children as they visit a windmill. and reveals them at work in school and at play. Portrays the family traveling to Middelburg to sell produe and buy provisions. This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage...
Topic: Stock Footage
Topic: Stock Footage
This home movie dates from the 1930s or 1940s and shows images of Bisbee and Tucson, Arizona. It begins with a drive into Bisbee through Tombstone Canyon, with footage shot through the front of a moving car. The Bisbee "B" is seen at the 2 minute mark, along with the downtown and the Copper Queen Mine. At the 4 minute mark is footage of the San Xavier Mission near Tucson, a saguaro forest, and more. What might be Sabino Canyon is seen at the 10 minute mark, and workers seen...
Topics: Home Movies, Tuscon, Bisbee, Arizona, 1930's, San Xavier Mission
Topics: Home Movies, Tuscon, Bisbee, Arizona, 1930's, San Xavier Mission
This motion picture camera turns back time to review the life and work of Thomas Alva Edison, whose inventions benefit every one of us everyday of our lives. This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com
Topic: Stock Footage
Topic: Stock Footage
Episode of the TV show ""America!"" with Jack Douglas detailing Palm Springs. This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com
Topic: Stock Footage
Topic: Stock Footage
This silent 16mm home movie dates to 1926. It shows the mining town of Superior, Arizona. The film also shows a football game against Globe,, a July 4th parade in Superior and a rodeo. Some of the details in the film include: :38, reading a newspaper in the back of a car, :41 kid riding a donkey, 1:03 , woman holding a sign that says "July 4, 1926 Superior Arizona". At 1;06, start of the July 4th Parade. The rodeo is seen at about 4:30 , and the football game around 7:40 . At 7:58 a...
Topic: Stock Footage
Topic: Stock Footage
The CURV (Cable-controlled Undersea Remote Vehicle) was a pioneering underwater drone developed by the Naval Undersea Warfare Center in San Diego (some sources say Pasadena, California) in the early 1960s. It was initially designed to recover test ordnance such as torpedoes lost off San Clemente Island at depths as great as 2,000 feet (610 m). CURV was the pioneer for teleoperation. CURV was also a prototype for remotely operated underwater vehicles and a pioneer for teleoperation. It became...
Topics: Periscope Film, Stock Footage, U.S. Navy, CURV, Submarine, Underwater Remotely Operated Vehicle,...
Topics: Periscope Film, Stock Footage, U.S. Navy, CURV, Submarine, Underwater Remotely Operated Vehicle,...
This film is a color & B&W tinted film, with live action clips of U.S. Marine Corps in Okinawa, Japan. Produced by the Marine Corps Photographic Service. Photographed by three division combat photographers: Third Amphibious Corps, First Marine Division, and Sixth Marine Division. Narrated film shows final operations of the Marines taking the final last remaining areas of Okinawa, to overcome the stalemate with 50,000+ Japanese troops. 0:56 Opening view of Battle Tank traveling in open...
Topic: Stock Footage
Topic: Stock Footage
Created at the outset of America's entry into WWII, this Castle Film newsreel shows America as the "Arsenal of Democracy" producing men and materials for the war effort. Basic training and testing of military equipment is shown, along with the construction of jeeps, tanks, ships, guns, planes, PT boats and other war material. Some of the spectacular footage included shows tanks driving through buildings and over obstacles, soldiers fording rivers, exercises using horses,...
Topics: World War II, Early WWII, WWII, Call To Arms, Castle Films, Stock Footage
Topics: World War II, Early WWII, WWII, Call To Arms, Castle Films, Stock Footage
Episode 230 of AIR FORCE NOW dates to January of 1989. This informative newsmagazine was targeted at USAF personnel. This issue begins with the story of how the USAF and the U.S. military operates the Hale Koa Hotel in Honolulu for military personnel and their dependents, with room rates based on military grade. At 6:30 , the next segment is about the 89th Military Airlift Wing based at Andrews AFB, which is tasked with flying the President of the United States and other top officials around...
Topics: Stock Footage, High Definition
Topics: Stock Footage, High Definition
The Naval Surface Weapons Center is the topic of this 1983 film, commemorating the 65th anniversary of the center. The NAVSEA Warfare Center supplies the technical operations, people, technology, engineering services, and products needed to equip and support the Navy. It is also the United States Navy’s principal Research, Development, Test and Evaluation (RDT&E) assessment activity for surface ship and submarine systems and subsystems, in addition to providing depot maintenance and...
Topics: Stock Footage, High Definition
Topics: Stock Footage, High Definition
Created by Castle Films during WWII for the U.S. Government AIR RAID WARNING shows the duties and responsibilities of the Civil Defense Air Raid Wardens. These individuals were trained in first aid, fire fighting, and gas and chemical warfare as well as plane spotting. During the blackout in the USA, wardens enforced regulations to keep lights out and blinds drawn at all times. The American wardens traced their origins to Britain. During the early stages of World War II, the Air Ministry had...
Topic: Stock Footage
Topic: Stock Footage
Made by primary contractor Rockwell International, this short film provides an overview of the Space Shuttle program which is described as a "new era in space flight". The film makes many promises which would not hold up over the life of the shuttle program, but which were great sales tools at the time! One of these is a comment that each re-usable Space Shuttle will "be used 100 times or more" (note: Discovery ended up making 39 missions, the most of any shuttle). At 1:00 ,...
Topics: Stock Footage, High Definition
Topics: Stock Footage, High Definition
The Chevrolet Dealer film Great News, produced by Jam Handy Productions, gives viewers a look at the new 1955 Chevrolet. The “news” is reported by Robert Trout, who talks about the new design of the 1955 Chevy (the 150, 210, and Bel Air). A 1955 Chevrolet is shown at the General Motors Proving Ground (00:58). Graphics are used to show the new frame and other new features of the car, including the outrigger rear suspension—a car drives along the rough Belgian block road to demonstrate the...
Topic: Stock Footage
Topic: Stock Footage
Produced in the late 1960s or early 1970s before the Three Mile Island accident changed the American public's opinion about nuclear energy, "The Magic of the Atom: The Atom and the Environment" describes nuclear power and atomic research, and its impact on the environment, in highly positive terms. As the narrator states: "The fight for the preservation of the earth's environment goes on, and one very valuable weapon in that fight is the magic of the atom." Various careers...
Topics: Atomic Energy Commission, Nuclear Power, Nuclear Reactor, U.C. Riverside, Oak Ridge National...
Topics: Atomic Energy Commission, Nuclear Power, Nuclear Reactor, U.C. Riverside, Oak Ridge National...
This film — presented by Dodge, the official pace car of the 1954 Indianapolis 500 Mile Race — gives viewers a chance a to experience the sights and sounds of the 1954 race featuring the country’s top drivers, which was won by Bill Vukovich. The event was part of the 1954 AAA National Championship Trail, and was also race 2 of 9 in the 1954 World Championship of Drivers. The film opens with footage of the 1954 Dodge pace car as it drives by the grandstands, and various other cars speeding...
Topic: Stock Footage
Topic: Stock Footage
Made in the wake of the deadly West Berlin discotheque bombing and other Reagan era incidents, this color U.S. Air Force training film "Terrorism: A Survivable Threat" is about the threat that terrorism poses for U.S. military personnel living overseas. The film presents various scenarios including a car bombing, drive by assassination, and an ambush. The primary lesson is that personnel must always remain alert and not fall into routines or get too distracted. The film also suggests...
Topic: Stock Footage
Topic: Stock Footage
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