1940s
13184_SFMA5865_european_trip5
Gondolier rowing gondola in Venice beneath the Rialto bridge. People chatting in a Venetian piazza…
1970s
13181_5327_chicago4
Film tracing the evolution of blues music from the South to the ghettos of Chicago. Group of…
1960s
13159_7562_lawrence_ferlinghetti5
Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti walks his dog around San Francisco. His dog jumps onto a kitchen window…
1950s
13167_8918_space
A clip of the US Army Jupiter-C rocket launching Explore I, aka Satellite 1958 Alpha, into earth…
1970s
13181_17650_chicago2
Newsreel tracing the evolution of blues music from the South to the ghettos of Chicago. Shot of…
1990s, 1980s
10531_falling_bloopers2
Footage from the '80s and '90s of people falling or failing in some way physically. In the…
1970s
13158_40648_fire_explosions8
Shots of a town lit on fire by a train derailment. Firefighters spray fire hoses at a wreaked,…
2000s
tsunami_2
A crowd of many people wade through a flooded street. They have their belongings, cars and…
1970s
13159_27343_delta_queen
A riverboat approaches the camera. The shimmering water is shown. The boat is seen in another wide…
1930s, 1940s
7820_fire_proof_suit
Man wearing fire proof suit with a sprinkler attached to his head. Fireman holds fire hose and…
1910s
11708_hetch_hetchy
Old black and white footage of the construction of Hetch Hetchy, a California reservoir, in the…
1950s
9758_Samoa_2
Various aerial shots of the scenic parts of Samoa. Beaches, cliffs, forests, and residential areas…