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Max Fleischer News Sketches ~ 1935 Jam Handy

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'Humorous "sketches" of human interest stories by Max Fleischer, who headed Handy's animation department...'


Originally a public domain film from the Library of Congress Prelinger Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contrast-color correction & mild video noise reduction applied.

The sou...

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Sled Dogs: "Chinook's Children" ~ 1945 Pictoreels

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Silent, with title cards. 'Champion sled dogs raised and trained in New Hampshire.'


Originally a public domain film from the Library of Congress Prelinger Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contrast-color correction & mild video noise reduction applied.


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Pony Rides in Back Seat of Chevy 1935 Chevrolet Leader News Newsreel Vol 1 No 2

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'Promotional newsreel containing a variety of Chevrolet-centric stories...


Title Card: "Long Beach, California" superimposed over house shaded by palm trees.


Man, child and pony approaching automobile (parked beside palm shaded house); man opening rear door (girl running around to passenger side). MS pony (in back seat); man reaching through car wind...

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Young American Leaders 1971 US Army; The Big Picture TV-804

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'This film shows how the U.S. Army makes leaders out of young men -- in Officers' Candidate School, Reserve Officers' Training Corps, the Military Academy, and other training facilities, preparing them for leadership in the Army and in civilian life.'


Originally a public domain film from the National Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ...

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Dust Bowl: "Rain for the Earth" 1937 US Federal Works Agency, Work Projects Administration

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Originally a public domain film from the Library of Congress Prelinger Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contrast-color correction & mild video noise reduction applied.

The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting ...

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The Story of Milk Part 1: Production ~ 1920 Bray Studios

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Silent, with titles.


Originally a public domain film from the Prelinger Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contrast-color correction & mild video noise reduction applied.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mil...

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Apollo 6 Mission 1968 NASA; Second Saturn V Flight Test

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Silent (soundtrack missing).


Originally a public domain film from NASA, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contrast-color correction & mild video noise reduction applied.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_6<...

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Gyroscopic Instruments II 1960 US Navy Training Film FN-8048e; Creative Arts Studio

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Originally a public domain film from the US Navy, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contrast-color correction & mild video noise reduction applied.

The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is f...

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Tibetan "Break Dancing", from "Inside Tibet" 1943 Office of Strategic Services (OSS)

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Excerpt from "Inside Tibet": https://vimeo.com/297012473


Office of Strategic Services. Field Photographic Branch


"On the journey of a U.S. military and diplomatic mission from Gangtok, India, to Lhasa, Tibet during World War II..."


Originally a public domain film fro...

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Ledo Road: "Traffic Control in the CBI (China-Burma-India Theater)" 1945 US Army Film Bulletin FB-202, World War II

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TRAFFIC CONTROL IN THE CBI


DEPICTS THE EXCELLENT SYSTEM INAUGURATED BY THE MILITARY POLICE IN CALCUTTA FOR THE MAIN ARTERY OF THE STILWELL ROAD.


SHOWS SOLUTIONS TO TRAFFIC PROBLEMS CONFRONTED IN CALCUTTA AND ALONG THE STILWELL ROAD. RADIO CONTROL CARS AND A CENTRAL TRANSMITTING STATION HELP COORDINATE ACTIVITIES. EXPLAINS THE NECESSITY FOR CLOSE COOP...

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Penetration of Fortified Targets by Sarin (GB) US Army Training Film

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'ARC Identifier 2123704 / Local Identifier 175.12 - Penetration of Fortified Targets by Sarin (GB) - Department of Defense. Department of the Army. U.S. Army Materiel Command. U.S. Army Munitions Command. Edgewood Arsenal.'


Originally a public domain film from the National Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pas...

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Bioastronautics Research ~ 1960 USAF Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory, Dayton, Ohio

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'Summary: Coverage of research at the Aerospace Medical Division Hq 657Oth Aerospace Medical Research Laboratories including scenes of F-104 seat ejection; drop tests from C-130 and ejection from F-106; effects of weightlessness on cats and pigeons in a C-131; test subjects in water tank, on centrifuge, in heat chamber and on complex coordinator. Also shows scenes of vertical deceler...

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Miami-Dade Travel: "Where the Sun Reigns" ~ 1955

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Originally a public domain film from the Library of Congress Prelinger Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contrast-color correction & mild video noise reduction applied.

The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting ...

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Fatigue in Aviation (Physiology of Flight No. 16) ~ 1990 FAA Pilot Training

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Originally a public domain film from the Library of Congress Prelinger Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contrast-color correction & mild video noise reduction applied.

The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting ...

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A Day At The Fair 1947 Encyclopaedia Britannica Films

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TELLS THE STORY OF 3 FARM YOUNGSTERS WHO GO TO THE FAIR TO EXHIBIT THEIR CATTLE & PIGS. SHOWS THEM TENDING THEIR LIVESTOCK, WATCHING THE JUDGING & VIEWING THE DISPLAYS.


Narrator: James A. Brill. Collaborator: Harry James Reed.


Originally a public domain film from the Library of Congress Prelinger Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven ed...

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V-2 Rocket Assembling And Launching 1947 US Army Film Bulletin FB-219

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Originally a public domain film from the US Army, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contrast-color correction & mild video noise reduction applied.

The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is f...

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Steps to Saturn NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) HQ-a67

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'NASA film overview of the history of rocketry leading up to the Saturn launch vehicle program.'


Originally a public domain film from NASA, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contrast-color correction & mild video noise reduction applied.

The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalizati...

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Pan American Clipper: Sikorsky S-42 1935 Pan American Airways

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Silent footage. '...Pan American Airways) flying over Oakland and Alameda (California) and through incomplete towers of San Francisco - Oakland Bay Bridge and through towers of Golden Gate Bridge; also scenes of Clipper over San Francisco.'


Originally a public domain film from the Library of Congress Prelinger Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with t...

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Maintenance of Roads ~ 1927 USDA Bureau of Public Roads

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Good film demonstrating road maintenance in the 1920s. Silent, with title cards.


Originally a public domain film from the National Archives or Library of Congress Prelinger Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contrast-color correction & mild video noise reduction applied.


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M48 Patton: "Birth of a Tank" 1954 US Army; The Big Picture TV-292


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'Regularly each year, the American public looks forward to the first showings of the new models by the country's automobile manufacturers. Not as often, perhaps, but awaited more eagerly by the Armed Forces is the appearance of a brand new combat vehicle. THE BIG PICTURE tells the inside story, from the idea to the fighting weapons, of the birth of a tank.'


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"Fighting Men: Keep It Clean" ~ 1942 US Army Training Film TF21-1018, Rifle Maintenance

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"Dramatized combat training film on the importance of keeping the rifle clean."


US Army Training Film TF21-1018


Originally a public domain film from the Library of Congress Prelinger Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contrast-color correction & mild video noise reduction ap...

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Claymation: "Green Pastures" 1926 Joseph Sunn; "Mud" Animation

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Silent, with title cards. 'Mud animation by pioneer San Francisco Chinese American animator Joseph Sunn. From the "Ralph Wolfe's Mud Stuff" series.'


Originally a public domain film from the Library of Congress Prelinger Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contrast-color correction & mild vide...

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A Trip to the Planets (aka Our Heavenly Bodies) 1925 Prelinger Archive

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Silent, with title cards.


Originally a public domain film from the Library of Congress Prelinger Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contrast-color correction & mild video noise reduction applied.


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Three Little Kittens 1939 ERPI Classroom Films

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Originally a public domain film from the Library of Congress Prelinger Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contrast-color correction & mild video noise reduction applied.

The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting ...

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Electronic Counter-Countermeasures 1963 US Navy Training Film MN-8811-B; F-4B AMCS Aero 1A Radar

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Originally a public domain film from the National Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contrast-color correction & mild video noise reduction applied.

The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not per...

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Ryan Firebeetle Land Drone ~ 1966 Ryan Aeronautical


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Silent (soundtrack missing). 


"Steered by television and operated by a remote console, the Ryan Firebeetle was developed as a mobile gunnery target... The vehicle is built around a Corvair chassis and engine."


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Hazards of Tire Hydroplaning to Aircraft Operation 1963 NASA Langley Research Center


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'A 1963 documentary on aircraft hydroplaning and the research conducted at the NASA Langley Research Center's Landing Loads Facility.  Landing gear and tires were tested for tire behavior in various pavement conditions.  A  sequel [ https://vimeo.com/386508126 ] covered later developments.'<...

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Barry Goldwater Speaks Out 1964 Goldwater for President Committee; New Hampshire Primary

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Originally a public domain film from the Library of Congress Prelinger Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contrast-color correction & mild video noise reduction applied.

The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting ...

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Piccard Balloon Flights: "From Gondola to Manned Spacecraft" ~ 1966 NASA

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Originally a public domain film from NASA, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contrast-color correction & mild video noise reduction applied.

The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less...

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Air Launched Minuteman ICBM Ballistic Missile Test 1974 US Air Force - Lockheed

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The Air Mobile ICBM Feasibility demonstration, 24 October 1974.


Originally a public domain film from the US Air Force, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contrast-color correction & mild video noise reduction applied.

The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, ...

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