CreatorsOk
jeffquitney

jeffquitney

patreon


jeffquitney posts

4-Track Cartridge: "Revolutionary New Triumph in Tape" 1958 RCA

more at http://quickfound.net/


'Introducing the giant four-track tape cartridge, an obsolete consumer recording format that survived for eight years.'


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. View Post

Water Cooled Engines: "Water Boy" 1936 Chevrolet Division, General Motors

more at http://quickfound.net/


A DRAMATIZATION OF THE COOLING SYSTEM OF THE AUTOMOBILE, SHOWING HOW THE WATER CIRCULATES AROUND THE CYLINDERS, COOLING THEM AND IN TURN BEING COOLED BY THE AIR DRAWN IN THROUGH THE RADIATOR.


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 brightnes...

View Post

Round Trip: The USA in World Trade 1952 Encyclopaedia Britannica Films

more at http://quickfound.net/


'An American auto worker, a Southern farmer, a British machinist, a housewife, a French laborer and a Mexican farmer give their views on world trade. Points up the extent and importance of world trade, the effects of tariffs and the plans for trade agreements.'


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

View Post

Second Trip of President Woodrow Wilson Abroad And His Arrival at Paris, March 13, 1919

more at http://quickfound.net/


'Telegraph cables are installed in Wilson's Paris hdqrs. He and Adm. Grayson play shuffleboard on the liner George Washington. Pres. Poincare, For. Min. Pichon, Robert Lansing, Amb. Sharp, and Fr. Gen. Berdoulat greet the Wilsons, Col. House, Gens. Liggett and Bliss, and Adm. Grayson at the Gare des Invalides, Paris. The Presidential party visits the cathedral at Rheims. Wilson, Adm....

View Post

Mutt Jeep: "Operation of the M-151 Series 1-4 Ton Utility Trucks" 1966 US Army Training Film TF55-3707

more at http://quickfound.net/


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.

The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equaliz...

View Post

Nike Missile & NATO Manuevers: "Pictorial Report No. 20" 1955 US Army; The Big Picture TV-330

more at http://quickfound.net/


'A guided tour through a U.S. Army "Nike" installation highlights this week's episode of THE BIG PICTURE.'


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 proces...

View Post

Engine & Motor Models: "We Use Power" 1956 Churchill Films

more at http://quickfound.net/


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.

The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equaliz...

View Post

The Nurse Combats Disease 1962 US Public Health Service Communicable Disease Center; National Library of Medicine

more at http://quickfound.net/


'This program reviews with the aid of drawings the nurse's role in the prevention of disease. Emphasis is placed on factors which influence the transmission of disease. Techniques which can be used for preventing the transmission of disease are reviewed. Factors which affect the natural history of disease are also discussed. These factors include the characteristics of the organisms ...

View Post

Conquest by Air 1945 US Army Air Forces; Air Power in World War II

more at http://quickfound.net/


'Reel 1 shows a flashback of French troops storming German trenches during World War I; B-26's, B-17's, and P-38's in the air and bombs falling on Rouen, France, on Aug. 17, 1942; unescorted B-17's over Schweinfurt, Germany, under heavy attack by FW-190's; Gen. Eisenhower and his aides conferring; the unloading of dead and wounded from B-17's returned from the Schweinfurt raid; panor...

View Post

Hell On Wheels: The 2nd Armored Division in World War II 1951 US Army Film MISC-7864

more at http://quickfound.net/


HELL ON WHEELS


HISTORICAL RECORD OF THE COMBAT ACTIVITIES OF THE 2D ARMORED DIVISION DURING WORLD WAR II.


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...

View Post

Target USA 1951 Cornell Production; Civil Defense Under Atomic Attack


more at http://quickfound.net/


Silent (soundtrack missing).


'Great civil defense imagery; empty Manhattan streets; signs; sirens; people running and squeezing into shelters; panic; people waiting in shelters; civil defense planners with building models.'


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

View Post

Armored Bulletproof Vest Testing in Korea 1952 US Army; from Pictorial Report No. 1; The Big Picture TV-202

more at http://quickfound.net/


'Round-up of stories of unusual interest to many viewers. This is something new in THE BIG PICTURE series and we expect it to gain very favorable reaction. The first Report covers... testing of the armored vest in actual combat...'


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

View Post

Korean War: "UN Forces Escape Chinese Trap" 1951 US Army; The Big Picture TV-173

more at http://quickfound.net/


From November 20, 1950 to December 20, 1950


'This film includes the Army's 7th Division at the Manchurian border...Men of the 7th enjoy a hot Thanksgiving Day dinner on the banks of the Yalu River...The evacuation of the Hungnam beachhead. Captain Zimmerman interviews Sergeant Charles W. Dumas of Providence, Rhode Island. Sergeant Dumas was a combat correspondent wit...

View Post

Auto Accidents: "Live and Let Live" 1947 Aetna Casualty & Surety Company

more at http://quickfound.net/


Model cars in tabletop stop frame animation.


'Demonstrates causes and effects of such unsafe driving practices as passing on a curve, driving after drinking, following too closely, and speeding. Lots of near misses.'


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

View Post

Project Centaur Progress Report 3rd Quarter 1959 USAF-Convair; Liquid Hydrogen Upper Stage

more at http://quickfound.net/


Originally a public domain film, 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 noisy tha...

View Post

Polio Vaccine: Unconditional Surrender" 1956 Eli Lilly

more at http://quickfound.net/


'The development of polio vaccine and the significance of its discovery.'


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 vol...

View Post

WWII Weapons: "How Good is a Gun?" ~ 1944 US War Department Film WF-19

more at http://quickfound.net/


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...

View Post

FBI Agent Training: "Focus on the FBI" ~ 1959 Federal Bureau of Investigation

more at http://quickfound.net/


'NEWSREEL: Follows twenty-seven year old law school graduate, Tom Holliday, progress through thirteen week training course at FBI Academy at Quantico, Virginia. Trainees learn when, where, what, and how to investigate bank robbies, kidnappings, extortion and espionage crimes, and laws and federal statutes covering these crimes. Demonstrates how to photograph and read burned paper, ho...

View Post

Norris Dam, Tennessee Valley Authority 1935 Chevrolet Leader News Vol. 1 No. 1

more at http://quickfound.net/


BUILDING OF NORRIS DAM IN TENN. VALLEY...


'Title Card: "Tennessee Valley" over TVA project.


Tennessee Valley Authority. High shot construction site in Tennessee Valley with pulleys and cables above. Workers climbing up ladder on wall of dam. VS dam under construction. ECU wheels of anchor cars roll slowly across railroad tracks (walls of dam and moun...

View Post

AFRTS Television Journal Volume 2, Number 6, 1970 US Army; Armed Forces Radio & Television Service

more at http://quickfound.net/


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...

View Post

An Khe Vietnam, 1st Air Cavalry 1966 US Army; from Your Army Reports No. 3

more at http://quickfound.net/


'This film report includes... stories on the First Cavalry Airmobile Division in Vietnam...'


Originally a public domain film from the National Archive, 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...

View Post

Korean War: Reds Launch Expected Spring Offensive 1951 US Army; The Big Picture TV-178

more at http://quickfound.net/


From April 20 to May 20, 1951


'Includes: Establishing the Lincoln Line... The need for blood in Korea... A powerful air-ground assault against the Reds. The Army Medical Corps is represented on this program with interviews with Nurse Captain Molly Younger, who served with a front line surgical team in Korea, and Sergeant Preputnick, who was an aid man with a rifle co...

View Post

Apollo 6 Preflight Briefing Film: "T-5 Days" 1967 NASA; Lunar Module Test (Bad Sound)

more at http://quickfound.net/


The soundtrack on this film was absolutely horrible, and I could not do much to improve it.


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, n...

View Post

Radio Set AN/VRC12 1963 US Army Training Film TF11-3305

more at http://quickfound.net/


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...

View Post

2nd Armored Division in Europe 1955 US Army; The Big Picture TV-326

more at http://quickfound.net/


'THE BIG PICTURE cameras will tell the story of two young Army privates who have recently been sent from their training camps in the U.S. to join the 2nd Armored, a division in Europe.'


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...

View Post

Ryan Firefish Sea Drone ~ 1966 Ryan Aeronautical

more at http://quickfound.net/


Originally a public domain film, 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 noisy tha...

View Post

Objective Berlin: The 83rd Infantry Division in Europe 1951 US Army Film MISC-7814; World War II


83RD INFANTRY DIVISION IN EUROPE, THE


COMBAT ACTIVITIES IN EUROPE DURING WORLD WAR II.


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 ...

View Post

Gemini XI Mission 1966 NASA; Charles "Pete" Conrad Jr. and Richard F. Gordon Jr.

more at http://quickfound.net/


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...

View Post

Ledo-Burma Road Activities 1944 War Department; from "Combat Bulletin No. 19"; World War II

more at http://quickfound.net/


COMBAT BULLETIN NO. 19


...ACTIVITIES ON LEDO AND BURMA ROADS...


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 normalizat...

View Post

Maico Hearing Aids, Minneapolis ~ 1954 NAM; from "Industry on Parade"

more at http://quickfound.net/


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 ...

View Post