Educational films featuring celebrities – either before they were famous or as a PR move after their careers slumped. Celebrities include John Cusack, Teri Garr, Cuba Gooding Jr and many more! Suggested donation $5
8:00pm, Friday, August 24th. Center for Documentary Studies 1317 W. Pettigrew Street, Durham NC
Films that document the eternal war between man and insectkind. Films include: Lice Are Not Nice, Hookworm, Use of Aircraft for Insect Control, Health Hazards of Pesticides, Insects Astray, Doomsday for Pests, Winged Scourge and Some Friendly Insects.
Dig out your old home movies (16mm, super 8, 8mm)!
Home Movie Day Raleigh allows individuals to relive old memories such as family vacations, weddings and birthday parties by screening their old reels of 8mm, Super8mm or 16mm films in a fun, festive environment. Film experts will be on hand to screen, inspect and offer tips on how to preserve home movies. So rifle through your attics, dig through your closets, call up grandma, find your family’s home movies and bring them to North Carolina State University’s Home Movie Day Raleigh event. Or simply come out to watch the home movies that others bring.
This local event is part of a worldwide Home Movie Day celebration, during which people in cities and towns gather to meet local film archivists, find out about the long-term benefits of film versus video and digital media, and watch old family films.
Saturday AUGUST 11th, 2007 from 1 – 4pm, NCSU North Campus, Caldwell Hall Basement Rooms G107, 2221 Hillsborough Street (Across from Bruegger’s Bagels)
A/V Geeks are proud to present a really awesome documentary about the Russian inventor, Leon Theremin, and his amazing instrument – a staple of many sci-fi soundtracks. Folks from the Moog Foundation – makers of the theremin instrument – will be in attendance! Show up early to get a good seat and see a short from the A/V Geeks archive. After the film, answering trivia questions for nifty prizes. FREE!
7pm, Friday, August 3rd,NC Museum of Natural Sciences 11 W. Jones St., Raleigh, NC
Amazing films about math from the A/V Geeks archive: Powers of Ten Sketch, Mathematical Curves, The Weird Number, Donald in Mathemagic Land and The Day Without Numbers.
Have over 22,000 films. Will travel. For more than a decade, we’ve been rescuing old 16mm school films from dumpsters and obscurity and showing them to folks like you.
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From The ArchiveBookkeeping and You (1947)
Shows the value of bookkeeping to business and the professions, and to the individual in keeping a record of personal finances. Features Dick York (star of several early educational films, Inherit the Wind and TV’s Bewitched).
This film is available on the Featuring an All-Star Cast DVD From The ArchiveThirty Second Dream (1977)
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From The ArchiveThose Naughty Animals
From The ArchiveSchoolhouse Shock
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Short films about motorcycles and the people who ride them. Films include – Not So Easy (featuring Peter Fonda and Evel Knievel), Vicious Cycles, Popsicle, Motorcycle Safety and Courtesy in Traffic and Beginning Motorcycle Rider Course: Unit 2 (Motorcycle Instrumentation).
Animals acting badly. Films include – Hoppy the
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Films about guns, hunting and how kids can’t get enough of them. Films include: Hunting, Handling Firearms, Sweet Sunday Gone, Guns: Be Safe Not Sorry and more!