Category Archives: Past Shows

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A/V Geeks Present “Rules Rules Rules”

[ June 19, 2012; 9:00 pm to 11:00 pm. ] 9:00pm, Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Kings 14 West Martin Street, Raleigh, NC 27601

 Join us for a night of films that desperately attempt to hedge off the tide of anarchy and chaos. Watch kid’s free spirits crushed under the weight of society’s rules and manners. Films included: Rules, Laws and You, Rules To View A Zoo By, School [...]

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Celluloid Salesman at the NC Museum of Art

[ February 17, 2012; 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm. ] Skip Elsheimer, visionary collector of 24,000 16 mm educational and industrial movies, brings a typically inspired kaleidoscope of edutainment focusing on the postwar Madison Avenue advertising world. Watch sly marketers use the classroom to mold a generation of consumers. N.C. State University film studies professors Marsha and Devin Orgeron join him with their new book, [...]

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A/V Geeks Challenge : CAN YOU TAKE IT?!?

[ February 29, 2012; 9:00 pm to 11:00 pm. ]

The A/V Geek present a night of challenging films from their vast collection 16mm educational films (some which come from hospitals and health departments). Can you take it without running out screaming and clawing your eyes out?

9pm, Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Doors open at 8:30pm.

Kings Barcade 14 West Martin Street, Raleigh, NC 27601
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Special prizes for attendees [...]

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The Last Time We Were Green

[ February 4, 2012; 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm. ] The A/V Geeks are proud to return to Richmond to present at the RVA Environmental Film Festival 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 Down the River, Land Betrayed, Help Woodsey Spread the [...]

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Big Trouble In Little China (1986)

[ February 3, 2012; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] A/V Geeks present one of their favorite action fantasy films. Kurt Russell plays trucker Jack Burton who battles fantastical beings in the bowels of San Francisco’s Chinatown in order to find his truck and possibly save the world! Show up early to get a good seat and watch a short film from the AV Geeks [...]

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A/V Geeks Present “The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932)”

[ January 6, 2012; 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm. ]

Woe to anyone who stands in the way of the fiendish Fu Manchu (played by Boris Karloff) and his plans to secure the sword and mask of Genghis Khan to rule the world! Show up early to see a short film from the A/V Geeks and to get a good seat. Stay after to play [...]

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A/V Geeks and LoVid Present “The Tricks That TV Plays” and “A Tone”

[ January 26, 2012; 9:00 pm to 11:00 pm. ]

A/V Geeks share an interesting evening with homebrew video and audio synthesizer masters LoVid. A/V Geeks will be presenting a couple of similar themed films with “The Tricks That TV Plays” – films that highlight the visual tricks that television can play on its viewers – films include Seeing Through Commercials, Vidtronics Demo Tape and [...]

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A/V Geeks Present “T is for Terrorist”

[ December 21, 2011; 9:00 pm to 11:00 pm. ] The A/V Geeks present an evening of 1970s films about terrorism. Most of these fascinating instructional films were made for police training and they remind us that our country have been plagued by terrorist acts since its very beginning. Films include – Postmark Terror, Surviving Hostage Situations, Terrorism – A Survivable Threat and more! Doors [...]

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A/V Geeks Present “The Only Way To Fly”

[ December 3, 2011; 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm. ] Saturday, December 3, 2011
Time 7:00pm until 10:00pm

Do you remember when you could drive your car on the tarmac, buy your tickets on the plane, or greet your grandmother at the terminal gate? These old 16mm educational and promotional films from the A/V Geeks Film Archive fondly look back to a day when air travel was a [...]