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America as it was.

No More Road Trips?

No More Road Trips?

2013 4.3K views Prelinger Archives

NO MORE ROAD TRIPS? (Rick Prelinger, 2013, 79 min.), a dream ride through 20th-century America made entirely from home movies, asks whether we've come to the end of the open road. Have we reached "...

Safety: In Danger Out of Doors

Safety: In Danger Out of Doors

1978 4.3K views Prelinger Archives

Bobby and Kevin are out for a fun-filled Saturday morning of rowing on the lake, but they leave the life jackets on the dock. Bobby falls in, and when Kevin jumps in ot help, both are in trouble. I...

Soundies - The Three Suns "Beyond the Blue Horizon" (Juvenile Jubilee)

Soundies - The Three Suns "Beyond the Blue Horizon" (Juvenile Jubilee)

1940 4.0K views Prelinger Archives

The Three Suns in radio studio. 00:18:50:03 - 00:21:10:12 B/W Sound 1940s Trio (organ, accordion, electric guitar) perform "Beyond the Blue Horizon" in recording studio (happy, light song) as engin...

Children Must Learn, The

Children Must Learn, The

1940 4.0K views Prelinger Archives

"This film is an authentic record of real people, living their usual lives. It documents one of several experiments carried on by various state universities -- experiments sponsored by the Alfred P...

How to Use the Dial Phone

How to Use the Dial Phone

1927 4.0K views Prelinger Archives

Gould can 1095. HOW TO USE THE DIAL PHONE. Instructional film on use of the dial telephone, produced for showing in the Fresno, California market.

Rural Holidays

Rural Holidays

3.9K views Prelinger Archives

High-quality, color film, in very good condition with a multitude of leisure-related stock shots (many with good sequences). On teaching people how to set up farm-based recreation (including camps,...

[Untitled: TWA]

[Untitled: TWA]

3.9K views Prelinger Archives

Interviews w/ airline workers

This Charming Couple

This Charming Couple

1950 3.7K views Prelinger Archives

This Charming Couple, one of a series of five films on courtship and marriage designed to be used with Henry Bowman's textbook Marriage for Moderns, was part of the massive postwar response to fami...

What Makes A Good Party?

What Makes A Good Party?

1950 3.7K views Prelinger Archives

Shows how to plan a party. Illustrates the skills which enable the guests to have fun together. Skeletal Entry

Soundie : Minnie The Moocher (Cab Calloway)

Soundie : Minnie The Moocher (Cab Calloway)

3.6K views Prelinger Archives

Soundie : Minnie The Moocher (Cab Calloway)

Age 13

Age 13

1955 3.5K views Prelinger Archives

Tells the story of Andrew, a 13-year-old whose mother dies and leaves him with an indifferent step-father. Andrew, receiving only hostility from his classmates and step-father, begins to steal. An ...

Retrievers at Work

Retrievers at Work

3.5K views Prelinger Archives

Terrible Truth, The

Terrible Truth, The

1951 3.5K views Prelinger Archives

CASE HISTORY TEENAGE GIRL'S INTRODUCTION TO USE OF NARCOTICS & PERSONAL & SOCIAL PROBLEMS THAT RESULT. BEGINNING W/OCCASIONAL MARIJUANA CIGARETTE, SHE EXPERIMENTS W/HEROIN & ACQUIRES CRIMINAL RECOR...

Arabian Nights Jubilee

Arabian Nights Jubilee

1961 3.4K views Prelinger Archives

Some good shots to be logged.Title: "Tupperabia 1961..."Documents Tupperware's annual sales convention: Arabian Nights Jubilee. Bess Meyerson speaks. closeups of various state license plates, all 1...

Safeguarding Military Information

Safeguarding Military Information

1941 3.3K views Prelinger Archives

Stresses the importance of secrecy on the part of military personnel and workers engaged in defense activities, and shows the results of careless talk. Ship explosion, sabotage, and disastrous even...

Preventing the Spread of Disease

Preventing the Spread of Disease

1940 3.3K views Prelinger Archives

Shows how communities can prevent the spread of disease by providing safe water and milk supplies, sewage disposal facilities and anti-fly measures. Shows how individuals can protect themselves by ...

Chevrolet Leader News (Vol. 3, No. 2)

Chevrolet Leader News (Vol. 3, No. 2)

1937 3.3K views Prelinger Archives

FISHERMAN GOES OVERBOARD, WRESTLES DEEP-SEA GIANT. Two fishermen on fishing boat spot their prey and clean their harpoon. Man dives in and wrestles with huge turtle; lands it, hoists it on top of 1...

Who Cops Out?

Who Cops Out?

1970 3.2K views Prelinger Archives

About adolescence, with dramatizations of troubles teens face.

American Look

American Look

1958 3.2K views Prelinger Archives

A "tribute to the American stylist," American Look shows families at leisure, children dressed in cowboy and cowgirl outfits watching television, a father shooting home movies of his picnicking fam...

How to Use the Dial Phone

How to Use the Dial Phone

1927 3.1K views Prelinger Archives

Gould can 1095. HOW TO USE THE DIAL PHONE. Instructional film on use of the dial telephone, produced for showing in the Fresno, California market.

This Is Hormel

This Is Hormel

1964 3.0K views Prelinger Archives

Tour through the operations of the Hormel Company. Includes all parts of the meatpacking and processing EXCEPT slaughtering. Shows beef, pigs, pork, bacon, sausage, hotdogs, frankfurters, portion c...

Children Must Learn, The

Children Must Learn, The

1940 3.0K views Prelinger Archives

"This film is an authentic record of real people, living their usual lives. It documents one of several experiments carried on by various state universities -- experiments sponsored by the Alfred P...

[Tacoma-Narrows Bridge Collapse]

[Tacoma-Narrows Bridge Collapse]

3.0K views Prelinger Archives

Tacoma Span bridge collapse Skeletal Entry

Children Must Learn, The

Children Must Learn, The

1940 3.0K views Prelinger Archives

"This film is an authentic record of real people, living their usual lives. It documents one of several experiments carried on by various state universities -- experiments sponsored by the Alfred P...

Seventeen Days! A Story of Newspaper History in the Making

Seventeen Days! A Story of Newspaper History in the Making

1945 3.0K views Prelinger Archives

During the seventeen days of the newspaper delivery strike in New York, the public waited in two hour lines on the streets outside of newspaper plants in order to buy the paper. Although the news c...

Day of Thanksgiving, A

Day of Thanksgiving, A

1951 2.9K views Prelinger Archives

[Educational Screen, Oct 1951] This film relates the experiences of a middle-class American family when they are stimulated to review the things for which they are thankful. Bill Johnson, a garage ...

Feeding the World (Farming): A Film Lesson in Vocational Guidance

Feeding the World (Farming): A Film Lesson in Vocational Guidance

2.8K views Prelinger Archives

Giovinezza

Giovinezza

2.8K views Prelinger Archives

[Home Movies: Fishing, 1954]

[Home Movies: Fishing, 1954]

1954 2.7K views Prelinger Archives

Man and boy fishing, boy playing in snow, boy and older woman; color: woman in kitchen, boys in cowboy outfits, train year, birthday, child with toys`

America's Distribution of Wealth

America's Distribution of Wealth

1955 2.7K views Prelinger Archives

Animated charts are used to show graphically the widespread ownership of America's basic wealth and the equitable distribution of the national income.