A grab bag of vintage treasures! Harlem Revue from the 1930s is a captivating gander at African American culture, oppression, music, and history from a turbulent time in the United States. Stupendous performers Bill Powers and the Brown Sisters,...
Target Invisible dramatizes a bombing mission over Japan to illustrate how radar helped the United States defeat the Japanese in World War II. Using a deftly assembled mixture of actual WWII footage and produced drama, the film details radar in...
As We Like It documents a reverent history of beer, throughout world history and in 1950s America. Full of hilariously over the top adult beverage promotion, the film describes beer as a necessity to a healthy economy, community cooperation, and...
A glorious old beer film! Made by the Pabst Brewing Company, this film was used to train their managers and distributors how to sell more beer. The animation is top-quality for the time period, and the acting is campy and delightfully awful. They...
All the Way Home is a superb film about neighborhood racial integration from the 1950s. Addressing the fears, concerns, and tension about integration for white neighborhoods, the film treats these subjects with a surprising honesty. The elements of...
An educational relic, This is the Dairy Industry takes viewers on a stroll through milk and dairy products production in the 1950s. Some amazing statistics are also thrown out: its alleged that 30% of the American diet is based on milk products. The...
This over the top anti-activist and anti-communist film, Tragedy or Hope, is a bombastic moral majority inspired film from the 1970s. Why would a normally decent person like John Smith choose communism? Its a diabolic scheme funded by communists...
A riotous vintage film! The Pursuit of Profit is one of the most enjoyable capitalist propaganda movies ever made. From the creepy narrator (Twilight Zone-esque) to the obsession with free enterprise, to the absurd promotion of a unquestioning,...
Logic By Machine offers a historical snapshot of computers in the mid-1960s. With an eerie soundtrack by Morton Subotnick, and crude animation, the story of how computers make our lives easier and better is told in sometimes excruciating detail....
Inside Information explores the different uses of X-rays, as well as the machines that harness them. Wonderful vintage technology in action, the film shows: police checking for bombs by X-raying packages, X-rays being used to check for defects in...