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Promotional film for GATX railroad cars. We digitized and uploaded this film from the A/V Geeks 16mm Archive. Email us at footage@avgeeks.com if you have questions about the footage and are interested in using it in your project.
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Topics: promotional film, railroads
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"Note: All rights were conveyed to the U.S. Government on Nov. 28, 1962. However, proprietary rights or existing copyright in footage obtained from other sources by Ford Motor Company may exist."
Topics: Ford Automobile, Promotional Film, Ford Motor Company
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One of the many films made by the Jam Handy Organization for General Motors and Chevrolet, THE WAY YOU WANT IT focuses on how Chevy designs and builds truly tough cars, and the pleasantness and excellent quality of the repair staff at your local dealership. It features an auto stunt likely performed by Joie Chitwood, who performed in many Chevy ads in this era. We encourage viewers to add comments and, especially, to provide additional information about our videos by adding a comment! See...
Topics: Chevrolet Service, 1950s, Promotional Film, Automobile, jam handy, Stock Footage
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Altyn - Bradley - Second to None [Remastered] https://youtu.be/X8QZ47JYokM Original description (from youtube): "FMC's 1980s promotional film for the Bradley IFV Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/__.a.l.t.y.n.__/ #tanks #tankhistory"
Topics: Altyn, Warwave, M2 Bradley, M2 Bradley promotional film, 1980
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This film DIMENSION 10 THE DC-10 TAKES FLIGHT is a report on the design, construction and the first flight of the DC 10, the ground breaking jet passenger aircraft. The McDonnell Douglas DC-10 is a three-engine wide-body jet airliner manufactured by McDonnell Douglas. The DC-10 has range for medium- to long-haul flights, capable of carrying a maximum of 380 passengers. Its most distinguishing feature is the two turbofan engines mounted on underwing pylons and a third engine at the base of the...
Topics: DC10, McDonnell Douglas Corporation, Promotional Film, Stock Footage
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Created in 1980 by the United Steel Workers of America, "Faces of a Union" features some of the 1.4 million Americans who were union members. The film includes images of American and Canadian factories and production, as well as striking workers on the picket line (1:17) demanding their rights. At 1:26 workers clock into a Kaiser Aluminum plant. At 2:16 new union members learn about their membership rights and put on unions pins. At 2:35 historic footage of workers are shown. At 2:45...
Topics: Union, 1980s, United Steel, Workers History, Promotional Film, Stock Footage
Not so much a commercial as an infomercial. This 10 minute 1963 promotional reel for the A.C. Gilbert company highlights childrens' microscopes, telescopes, physics sets, electrical engineering sets, chemistry sets, electronics sets, and the ever-popular Erector sets. An extensive TV ad campaign was planned the same year that this film was produced, but the country went into mourning over JFK's death, the networks slowed airing toy commercials, and toy sales plummeted. The A.C. Gilbert...
Topics: classic tv commercial, promotional film, science, education, microscope, telescope, physics,...
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This 1976 Lionel promotional film presents a lyrical look at model railroading, and includes footage of the Lionel Rocket Launching Pad, the premier "Space Age" accessory that Lionel produced from 1958 until 1960. Lionel is an American toy manufacturer which had been founded in 1900. Their major claim to fame was their high quality toy locomotives and model railway accessories, including animated accessories shown in the film. The film opens with footage of the large toy railroad...
Topics: 1976, Lional Model Trains, Model Trains, Promotional Film, Stock Footage
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Navy Wives is a 1959, color, promotional film for women whose husbands are in or going into the Navy. The purpose of the film is to support and make Navy Wives feel better about what they are about to experience. View of a Navy Aircraft Carrier off San Diego, CA (0:48-0:54). A crowd of people stand around the docks at the San Diego Navy Base (the largest on the West coast) waiting for their loved ones to disembark the Navy Aircraft Carrier ship (0:58-2:41). A sailor waits for his wife who...
Topics: 1959, US Navy, Navy N Wives, Navy Aircraft, Promotional Film, Stock Footage
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1992 Oldsmobile 88 Royale LS Promotional Film
Topics: 1992, Oldsmobile 88 Royale LS, Promotional Film
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This color educational film is about CB Radios/Two Way Radios and how necessary they are. Most of the footage is still images live action and animation. Copyright 1959. Opening titles: A Million Invisible Messengers (:07-:55) Clock bell goes off. Police car is stationary with two policemen in it. One uses a CB radio to contact another. Police have a man cuffed. Map of the United States (:56-2:10). A woman calls the city gas plant, there's a gas odor. The plant contest a person to go smell the...
Topics: Million Invisible Messengers, 1959, CB Radio, Citizens Band, Promotional Film, Communications,...
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Made by the famed Jam Handy Organization for Chevrolet, "Hall of Wonders" features Today Show host Dave Garroway talking about General Motors as an innovator in the field of automotive design. The film ends with a look at the brand new Chevy Corvette. The Chevrolet Corvette, known colloquially as the Vette, is a sports car manufactured by Chevrolet. The car has been produced through seven generations. The first model, a convertible, was introduced at the GM Motorama in 1953 as a...
Topics: Dave Garroway, Chevrolet, Corvette, Promotional Film, Stock Footage
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“Meeting the Challenge” is a short black-and-white film made in 1957 by General Motors’ Chevrolet Motor Division. The kind of film you'd never be able to make today (owing to environmental concerns), "Meeting the Challenge" features a formidable climb by any truck -- right up the side of Pike's Peak. A Jam Handy Film, this promotional film touts Chevrolet trucks and opens with a convoy making its way down the Alcan Highway (Alaska Highway). Having met that challenge in 1956, the...
Topics: Pikes Peak, Bust, 1957, Chevrolet, Trucks, Promotional Film, Colorado, Stock Footage
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This British-made animated film WITHOUT FEAR addresses Europe’s condition five years after the war, and speculates about the continent’s future. Hemsing stated that anyone seeking insights into the Europeans’ hopes, fears and emotions during the period of the Cold War would find this flawed, but powerful, film revealing. Even as the world grows smaller, Europe remains split. West Europeans can either heed the siren song from the East — unity but without liberty — or work for a more...
Topics: 1951, Marshall Plan, Animated, Promotional Film, Euopeans, Stock Footage
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Made in 1966, A CHOICE I MADE shows a group of Peace Corps volunteers operating in India. The film was one of the earliest showcases of the Peace Corps, and was made in the cinema-verite style developed by advanced European film-makers and by the National Film Board of Canada. The Harvard Crimson made these comments about the film when it was screened in Cambridge: "As the Peace Corps begins its sixth year, its directors have apparently decided that a major shift in orientation will be...
Topics: Peace Corps, India, 1966, Promotional Film, Stock Footage
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10-minute promotional film on Airstream trailers, probably broadcast in the Headwaters time slot to fill airtime. (second half of tape is 8-minutes of MOS b-roll of airstreams driving maneuverability test). Not produced by Appalshop.
Topics: Airstream, promotional film
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Super Deluxe! ARC Identifier 91450 "All rights were conveyed to the U.S. Government on Nov. 28, 1962. However, proprietary rights or existing copyright in footage obtained from other sources by Ford Motor Company may exist."
Topics: Ford Motor Company, Promotional Film, Ford trucks -- History, Ford Automobile
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"The Power and the Glory" is a film that dates to 1957. Produced by the 4H Clubs, it shows the glory of America's heritage linked with the promise awaiting today's youth through the development of character and leadership as exemplified in 4-H Club training. The film features rare images of the Atlantic Rural Exposition, which was the predecessor to the Virginia State Fair, and scenes shot during the visit of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip to Jamestown in 1957 (5 minutes). The...
Topics: 1947, 4H Club, Promotional Film, Battery Of Yorktown, Early History, Virginia, Stock Footage
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Produced in 1957 by the American Road Builders Association, “We’ll Take the High Road” is presented as a public service announcement, the films touts the ever-increasing number of cars on the nation’s roads and how builders are moving to meet an increasing need for more roads and highways. Because the existing roads were not originally engineered for safety or the number of cars using them, President Dwight D. Eisenhower (shown at mark 02:05) signed the National Interstate and Defense...
Topics: 1950s, Interstate Highway, Promotional Film, American Road Builders Association, Stock Footage,...
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Lufthansa presents “Time Flies,” a 1960s color promotional film on the history of the German airline. Narrated by Frank Blair, the film is not only about commercial aviation but also about the “conquest of the air.” “In man’s never ending struggle for more time, the conquest of the air has made the clock, rather than the calendar, time’s cardinal measurement,” says Blair at mark 01:25. Aviation history moved swiftly, the narrator explains starting 01:40, from the Wright...
Topics: Lufthansa, Airlines, History, Promotional Film. Germany, Time Flies, Stock Footage
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Silent promotional film for the Ford V-8 car. National Archives Identifier: 92061 " Note: All rights were conveyed to the U.S. Government on Nov. 28, 1962. However, proprietary rights or existing copyright in footage obtained from other sources by Ford Motor Company may exist. "
Topics: Ford Motor Company, Ford automobile, Promotional Film
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Made by Republic to promote the F-105 Thunderchief, MACH OF THE THUNDERCHIEF shows the aircraft going through maneuvers. It had just recently set a new world's record for speed at Edwards Air Force Base. The film shows the design, construction and testing of this unique supersonic aircraft at the Republic Aviation factory in Bethpage, New York, including the roll-out of the aircraft. The film concludes with a mock war game at Eglin AFB, with F-105s dropping munitions on a B-29 or B-50 target...
Topics: March Of Time, Thunderchief, F-105, Promotional Film, Stock Footage
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This color short film produced by The Boeing Company documents the extensive tests performed on the 747 jet airliner prototypes before its rollout to the general public in 1969. The sun rises over a Boeing 747 jet airliner in silhouette. Title card: “Flight testing the Boeing 747” (0:10). Boeing engineers in white outfits work on manufacturing and testing aircraft parts (0:32). A 747 takes off and soars overhead, retracting landing gear (0:53). Wheels of the plane while taxiing in montage...
Topics: Boeing 747, Jumbo jet, Flight Testing, Rollout, Promotional Film, The Outer Limit, Stock Footage
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While The City Sleeps 1940's Ford Promotional Film
Topic: While The City Sleeps 1940's Ford Promotional Film
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Created in 1947 by the Association of American Railroads, "A Whistle in the Night" takes a look at post-war American railroads during their conversion to peace. During the war, frantic efforts to move freight resulted in a huge maintenance backlog, and railroads at the close of the conflict found themselves operating under the handicap of little to no new equipment. The film looks past this era at the plans for the future, with swifter, safer and more comfortable traveling for the...
Topics: 1947, Railroads, American Railroad, Promotional Film, Stock Footage
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One of the series of films produced by Jam Handy for Chevrolet, THRILL DRIVER'S CHOICE features thrill driver Joie Chitwood and his team putting 1956 Chevys through their paces as part of a "thrill show". The film also shows Chevy's in the showroom at the 1:20 mark, and indicates that Chitwood drives a "stock" Chevy (whether this is true or not we don't know!) George Rice Chitwood (April 14, 1912 – January 3, 1988), nicknamed "Joie", was an American racecar...
Topics: 1956, Chevrolet, Promotional Film, Stunt Driver, J
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This black & white educational film is about the formation of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization), NATO is an intergovernmental military alliance between countries to safeguard the freedom and security of all its members by political and military means. Collective defense is at the heart of the Alliance and creates a spirit of solidarity and cohesion among its members. The organization implements the North Atlantic Treaty that was signed on 4 April 1949. Copyright of this film is...
Topics: Keeping The Peace, 1951, North Atlantic Treaty, Organization Promotional Film, Nato Exercise, Stock...
A promotional film about the Seattle Art Museum in 1953.
Topics: Seattle Art Museum, silent, black and white, 16mm, promotional film
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This 1950’s travelogue profiles the Santa Fe Super Chief, the most luxurious way to travel across the country. The film begins by showing how train’s now offer all of the comforts of home. (00:00:20:00) Then, the new flagship of Santa Fe’s fleet is introduced, the Super Chief. (00:00:40:00). Our narrator then cuts to a beautiful actress, who is planning a train trip to Southern California. (00:01:10:00) The narrator convinces her to try the new Super Chief for her trip. The narrator then...
Topics: Santa Fe, Super Chief, 1950s, Railroad, Promotional Film, Stock Footage
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This black and white adverting film about safety built-in to the 1957 Chevrolet cars is presented by Chevrolet dealers and is a Jam Handy Picture. The film attempts to present safety innovations featured in the car, and while there are some, hindsight reveals that the cars of the 1950s were woefully equipped to meet accidents. Few if any were equipped with seat belts, and the Bel Air (like many cars of its era) had protruding items on the dash board, a telescoping steering wheel column the...
Topics: 1957, Chevrolet, Automobiles, Promotional Film, Chevy, Bel Air, Stock Footage
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Educational film produced by the Seaboard Air Line Railroad telling the "story of a new South whose roots are embedded deep in the honored tradition of the old." The film shows the economy of the Southeast, including white and African American workers, cities, and daily life, all in the context of railroad business and operations. Produced and directed by Carl Dudley with a script by Herman Boxer. The film incorporates some racist imagery common (unfortunately) to films of this era....
Topics: Seaboard, Railroad, American South, 1950s, promotional Film, Horizons, Stock Footage
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Directed by George Frederic Wheeler, this fabulous silent promotional film of a rail journey between Chicago and Milwaukee was produced by the Atlas Educational Film Company for the Chicago North Shore & Milwaukee Railroad Company. The Green Bay Trail has historical significance dating back nearly 12,000 years, when it is presumed that wooly mammoths traveled along it for migration during the Ice Age. In the beginning of the 1800s, when early settlers moved West towards Chicago, the trail...
Topics: Chicago, North Shore, Milwaukee, Railroad, Green Bay, Promotional Film, Stock Footage
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Created by the Unarius Academy of Science, this video was part of Unarius' past-life therapy program in which members re-enacted previous incarnations of themselves. In "The Arrival," Zan, a primitive human, encounters a spaceship and converses with Space Brothers. These space beings explain that in a past life, Zan and other humans destroyed a planet and killed millions of space beings. As punishment, humans were banished to Lemuria, but through good deeds and past-life therapy,...
Topics: rare film, promotional film, DIY special effects, reincarnation, outsider art
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This 1959 color documentary film covers the Research Programs at the University of Arizona. It is produced by prolific filmmaker Harry Atwood, himself a graduate from there. The film opens at Homecoming, and the band and cheerleaders perform (1:10-2:05). The original 1890 building is used by the ROTC (2:31-2:50). The old is demolished and replaced by new dormitories (2:51-3:24). The Fine Arts Center houses the Renaissance painting collection of Samuel H. Kress (3:25-3:40). Channel 2 TV crews...
Topics: 1959, University Of Arizona, Promotional Film, New Horizons, Tuscon, Stock Footage
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Boeing Today and Tomorrow is a color promotional film put out by their Public Relations Department. It was probably put out in the late 1960’s to promote the company and its aircraft. A young boy playing in the sand by the sea when all of a sudden he looks up (0:07-0:47). An airplane flies over (0:48-0:52). A guided missile takes off (0:53-0:59). Workers leave their Boeing jobs (1:05-1:16). Arial view of a Boeing Plant (1:17-1:43). History of Boeing. Picture of William Boeing who founded the...
Topics: 1960s, Boeing, Promotional Film, Today And Tomorrow, Minuteman, Saturn V, Stock Footage
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Ad for 1941 cars and trucks. ARC Identifier 91500 "All rights were conveyed to the U.S. Government on Nov. 28, 1962. However, proprietary rights or existing copyright in footage obtained from other sources by Ford Motor Company may exist."
Topics: Ford Motor Company, Promotional Film, Lincoln automobile
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Produced in 1957 by the American Road Builders Association, “We’ll Take the High Road” is presented as a public service announcement, the films touts the ever-increasing number of cars on the nation’s roads and how builders are moving to meet an increasing need for more roads and highways. Because the existing roads were not originally engineered for safety or the number of cars using them, President Dwight D. Eisenhower (shown at mark 02:05) signed the National Interstate and Defense...
Topics: 1950, Interstate Highway, Promotional Film, 1957, Stock Footage
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This black and white promotional film, produced for Pontiac dealers by the Jam Handy Corporation, opens with a title card featuring the stylized profile emblem of Ottawa Chief Pontiac (Obwondiyag) (00:09). It introduces the 1956 Pontiac Strato-Streak V8 sedan (00:23) with a series of still shots, transitioning to show the car in motion (00:40) and the view through the windshield, with the driver’s face reflected in the rear-view mirror (00:47). There is a wide panning shot of a bi-level...
Topics: Pontiac, 1956, Strato Cruiser, Star Chief, Promotional Film, Stock Footage
