This wartime 16mm reel was produce by the US Navy to educate crewmen in the operation of diesel engine systems on submarines. Lots of really good and clear animations make this a fascinating piece of history, and definitely a trip in the wayback machine to 1942. Enjoy!
2021-11-29 15:02:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Cool funky intro music deleted for YouTube copyright violations.... but this little gem of a 16mm reel shows how to replate contacts with gold using the PACE electroplating kit. Now you go and do it!
2021-11-27 21:22:44 +0000 UTC View Post
This amazing 16mm reel gives an inside look at the assembly of Skylab and highlights the various different sections that were manufactured by different companies across the US. We see the modifications made to the launch complex and view astronaut training for extended space mission durations and get close up views of some of the experiments and consoles in Skylab. A true gem!
https://youtu.be/iVPoQfcQFqE 2021-11-27 20:43:15 +0000 UTC View Post
YouTube deleted some audio due to copyright rules. The kids are back with their wild experiments with inclined planes and simple machines. Good color but a blurry print, and YouTube had to delete a lot of audio due to various infringements. Oh well, enjoy what remains!
2021-11-27 20:42:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Oh, what an amazing little film this is! This 16mm Kodachrome print is absolutely gushing with the state-of-the-art technology of pressing newspapers back in 1971. From punch tape Linotype machines to PDP-8 powered offset art departments to massive GOSS presses... this beauty has it all! Real nostalgia all the way to a fleet of banana bikes delivering the morning edition. Taste the molten lead and hear the noise! Enjoy!!!!
Some audio had to be deleted to comply with YouTube copyright rules. In this installment of NASA's Aeronautics and Space Report No. 47 we get an inside look at the special training Astronauts got in surviving parachute jumps, and it really looks like a lot of fun! Also we see the world's first space based telescope, the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory also known as Stargazer being readied for launch just ahead of Apollo 8 in 1968.
More on the OAO - 2021-11-26 16:17:00 +0000 UTC View Post
In this installment of NASA's Aeronautics and Space Report No. 67 we see the research that was going into trying to reduce the noise of jet aircraft around 1970.
2021-11-26 16:11:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Professional color correctors will point out the primitive and inaccurate means that I use to 'correct' pink films after transfer, but hey... I use Vegas and I never listed colorist in my resume. So just enjoy the films - they are free!
2021-11-25 21:41:46 +0000 UTC View Post
True Ageusia: (Total Loss of Taste and Smell)
2021-11-21 22:23:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Here is a one-of-a-kind 16mm positive print spliced reel that depicts operations at the NASA Ground Communications System gathering telemetry data and tracking information during the Apollo 11 mission. We see live video feeds from the Moon being recorded on a 2" Quad recorder, take a visit to the bustling NASCOM Headquarters at the Goddard Spaceflight Center, see lots of shots of the various ground tracking stations around the world, look at the ARIA (Apollo Range Instrumented Air...
2021-11-20 22:24:51 +0000 UTC View Post
This 16mm reel No. 57 in the NASA Aeronautics And Space Report series shows us some very interesting and rare views of the various kinds of equipment and processes used in the analysis of the Apollo 11 lunar return samples, with many of the scientists discussing the initial findings that they had in 1969. Fascinating historical stuff!
2021-11-19 21:47:35 +0000 UTC View Post
What does an iPhone 13 and a 1959 Cadillac Coupé de ville have in common? Lets' explore the global phenomena of the insatiable upgrade and what it means for all of us...
2021-11-17 20:22:24 +0000 UTC View Post
A film about back when Engines were Manly and Macho! This 16mm gem has a mouthy motor giving us his story, about how he continues to beat out the electrics and turbines, and how he works and gets improved. Great color and classic cutout style animation make this one from General Motors a classic 80's end-of-the-school-day film, even if much of it was made in the 70's. Enjoy!
https://youtu.be/kqcbW1wuRDI 2021-11-15 20:12:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Nookyooler! We really did make it through the 20th Century without a nuclear war.... But we are still living in the Atomic Age... and a new wave of proliferation is ahead that still hangs over us all for remainder of the 21st Century and beyond.
2021-11-15 19:23:08 +0000 UTC View Post
What is the difference between a Museum and a big pile of crap?
2021-11-14 20:31:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Faded color, but this 16mm reel is a very interesting look at the earliest lasers in use and the ways that they were thinking into the future for uses of laser technology for medicine, communication, space, and manufacturing.
2021-11-13 18:13:59 +0000 UTC View Post
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2021-11-12 21:18:27 +0000 UTC View Post
A gem of a film from British Telecom that showcases the innovations in telephone switching from the earliest days right up to the most modern exchanges in present day of 1982.
2021-11-12 16:56:27 +0000 UTC View Post
This classic Coronet film from shows that people are people, so why should it be, you and I should get along so awe-fully? Faded, but true. Features lots of shots of Dorney Park in Allentown PA, back in 1967.
2021-11-12 16:55:16 +0000 UTC View Post
This delightful 16mm film is faded but retains its charm. So much has changed about New York, and yet other things remain the same. Adapted from the book of the same name by Miroslav Sasek, this film was produced by Weston Woods.
2021-11-11 16:32:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Aaaaaand they keep coming - and here is a real Bobby Dazzlah from Dayun Undah! This 16mm film may have lost its color, but remains a document of a much more hands-on time for science. When was the last time you built a wave tank with a car battery and a spot light? Yea, been a while for me too... But it sure does look like fun!
2021-11-11 00:17:26 +0000 UTC View Post
"A Woman Is...." This product information film was made by General Electric to educate their "Sales Men" about the selling features of the 1960 line of electric ranges, and how Women can be made happy if only given the right appliances to allow them to best please their men. And oh, how they lay it on thick! "YOU are the Dream Merchant!" Truly the Atomic Age ideal of happiness through products. This 16mm film which is very much of it's time is preserv...
2021-11-08 14:18:11 +0000 UTC View Post
This 16mm Eastman Color film was produced by the Bureau of Audio Visual Instruction and the Office Of Career Education of the Board of Education, City of New York in 1974 and features a tutorial on various methods of correcting damaged hair springs in watches and clocks, as demonstrated by horologist Henry B. Fried.
2021-11-07 22:24:21 +0000 UTC View Post
From Gears to Golf in scintillating Kodachrome! This promotional film by the Fellows Gear Shaper Company in Springfield Vermont has stunningly photographed footage of the processes and machinery for gear fabrication, and seems to have been intended as part sales pitch for machinery and part Rotary Club promo for Springfield. The age of the film is approximated by the new '64 Cadillac driving through one shot, but otherwise is undated.
This is a classic Coronet Films educational reel from 1959 that shows two young people perfectly following the strict rules of stage frame construction using all of the proper materials, fasteners, guides, and procedures. YOU must do the same! Enjoy!
2021-11-06 18:32:42 +0000 UTC View Post
You asked for it - You got it! A detailed look at the process I have set up in the lab for transferring my16mm film archive to the YouTube channel. We look at the EIKI model NT-0T 30fps Telecine projector, and compare it to my Bell and Howell model 2585 24fps projector. I also take the curtain aside and reveal the hidden magic of the analog set up on The Big Table that I use to transfer film to video. Enjoy!
This FULL-ON Bell Labs 16mm film was produced with MIT and is presented in luxurious Kodachrome! Absolutely the definition of Bell Labs Films in the heart of the transistor era, you can really chew on this gorgeous piece of Edu-tainment. This reel was transferred from my own 16mm archive print using my Eiki Telecine. The Eiki has a 5 Blade Shutter that projects a 24fps print at 30 frames per second for a flickerless NTSC transfer. A special diffusion plate ...
2021-11-04 15:26:34 +0000 UTC View Post
A rather blurry 16mm print, and a bit dark, but the color is still vivid. Pretty trippy for '82 with lots of impressive animation in this one - like an intermission film shown at a Laserium show - would be a perfect projected backdrop for a concert! Nuclear fission, atomic reactors, thermonuclear detonations, and particle accelerators are all explored. This reel was transferred from my own 16mm archive print using my Eiki Telecine. The Eiki has a 5 Blade Shutter ...
2021-11-03 21:09:59 +0000 UTC View Post
This film is undated, and the generic print stock has lost virtually all of the blue layer (Color by Fade), so even after much post production color processing this is as good as it gets. Definitely a trip back to high school in this one! The bell bottoms say 1972, but the hair says 1981 - So your guess is as good as mine. This reel was transferred from my own 16mm archive print using my Eiki Telecine. The Eiki has a 5 Blade Shutter that projects a 24fps print at...
2021-11-03 14:31:42 +0000 UTC View Post
A truly one of a kind reel from my collection, this one I picked up in a second hand shop in Lancaster County back around 1993 and it is a training film made in 1966 just for a single production stage at the massive RCA Vacuum Tube Manufacturing Plant that was the major employer in Lancaster at that time. I determined the year based on the date code on the Kodak film stock, and this reel was transferred from my own 16mm archive print using my Eiki Telecine. The Eiki has a 5 Blade ...
2021-11-02 01:57:19 +0000 UTC View Post