The A/V Geeks have been chugging along digitizing thousands of TV commercials held at Duke University’s Hartman Center for Advertising. We’ve done 6000 so far! Another couple thousand are online for your viewing pleasure! You can watch them online at this awesome site – adViews. You will need iTunes to view and download the commercials – although the content is free. Tell your friends!
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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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Animation with an agenda. Films include: Cautious Twins, Two Hundred, How Animators See Us: Foibles, Three Faces of Stanley, Winged Scourge, Story of Menstruation, About Conception and Contraception, Clutch Cargo short. 
The AV Geeks try to get into the holiday spirit and program about bunch of films about Santa Claus. Films include – the inane Santa Claus Story, the baffling Santa Claus Suit, the violent Santa Claus’ Punch and Judy and more! 
A 1980s Christian investigative report linking rock music and suicide. Lots of criticism of Boy George, AC/DC, Mick Jagger, transvestites, drugs, sex, satanism, etc. Many great moments, especially their description of the time they tried to shut down a Prince concert.
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October 8th, 2009 - 10:59 am
At first I was thrilled by this. But then I found out you can only access this collection with iTunes. I can’t use iTunes. I wont’ use iTunes. So, ultimately I can’t access any of this. Very short sighted.
October 8th, 2009 - 11:13 am
I hear your concerns. For right now, iTunes is the only way to access the material, but Duke is looking to find other ways to make the ads available.
October 12th, 2009 - 2:03 pm
Let us know when they do. Don’t get me wrong. It’s great news that they’re making these available to the public. I guess I’ll just have to wait a little longer. Or find away to access it without iTunes.
November 24th, 2009 - 10:23 pm
I concur entirely. You’ve done God’s work by digitizing these ads, but I refuse to be limited by viewing these in Itunes only. Whatever happened to good old MPEG 2? It’s an open file format and good quality. Until these become easier to view and use, I’m sorry but they will sadly remain unseen by me and many others.