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 ArchiveAnswering The Child’s Why (1951)
Dramatizes actual situations in which youngsters meet both positive and negative attitudes toward their questions. Suggests effects on their personalities of each type of attitude.
This film is available on the Why Why Why DVD-R From The ArchivePoultry On The Farm (1937)
Gives information about various types of poultry and shows the incubation and hatching of an egg. Found useful in stimulating an interest in poultry. |
From The ArchiveI Spy Racism
From The ArchiveAs the Office Turns 2
From The ArchiveThe Last Time We Were Green
From The ArchiveTV: A Welcome Guest In the House
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I Spy the 1965 TV show was the first U.S. show that featured a lead black actor, Bill Cosby, and helped usher in a more racially diverse primetime. In the late 1960s, both lead actors were asked to do TV specials that addressed the problems of racism and racial identity. Bill Cosby hosts the fascinating Black History – Lost, Stolen Strayed and Robert Culp hosts Black and White – Uptight. 
The AV Geeks closely examine all the nasty little things that grow in an office culture. Films include: Office Safety – The Thrill Seekers, Office Practice: Your Attitude, Who Did What to Whom?, Your Image: Make It Work for You, Keeping a Job is Work and more! 
A collection of 16mm ecology films from the 1960s and 1970s which raise the question, “Why did we ever stop being green?” Films include: Pitch In, Uncle Smiley Goes Recycling, Land Betrayed, Help Woodsey Spread the News and more!
The A/V Geeks present an evening of educational films about television and how we should watch it. Films include – Action and Violence, Television Serves Its Community, Basic Television Terms (featuring Leonard Nimoy), TV or Not TV, old TV Guide commercials and more.