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Diesel Lubricating And Cooling Systems (1942)

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 fascin...

Replating Edge Connectors (1982)

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 an...

Building Skylab (1972)

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 mod...

Simple Machines (1982)

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 YouTu...

The Modern Miracle Of Today's Newspaper (1971)

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 Linot...

Astronaut Parachute Training and the OAO (1968)

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...

Research Toward Quieter Jet Engines (1970)

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.

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From Pink To Color... Sort Of

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 ...

True Ageusia For Supertasters!

True Ageusia: (Total Loss of Taste and Smell)

https://youtu.be/FVQ8Zf1i_qs

Apollo 11 Tracking Systems (1969)

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 miss...

Apollo Lunar Sample Laboratory - Report 57 (1969)

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 Apoll...

This Years Model

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...

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The Gasoline Engine (1982)

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 ...

The Atomic Age That Might Have Been

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 han...

Curated Hoarding

What is the difference between a Museum and a big pile of crap?

https://youtu.be/LgedRXrZ2GQ

The Laser Beam (1968)

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, communicatio...

Time Out At The AV Club

GoFundMe to help out the family of Joe Terry - https://www.gofundme.com/f/joseph-r-terry-funeral

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The Telephone Exchange (1982)

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.

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People Are Different And Alike (1967)

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 ...

This Is New York (1960)

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 Sa...

Transverse Waves (1969)

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.  &...

Dream Merchants (1960)

"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 Wo...

Hair Spring Straightening (1974)

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...

Gear Manufacturing: The Precision Line (1964)

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 machin...

Stagecraft: Scenery Frame Construction (1959)

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,...

My EIKI Telecine 16mm Transfer Setup

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...

Transistor Structure: Bell Labs (1965)

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 reall...

Atomic Energy (1982)

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 s...

Electricity: The Energy Of Electrons

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.  Def...

RCA Tube Manufacturing In Lancaster PA (1966)

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 st...