A/V Geeks 16mm Films | These Are the People (1944) @avgeeks | Uploaded October 2024 | Updated October 2024, 12 hours ago.
The film highlights the contributions of Kimberly Clark employees during wartime, emphasizing their roles in producing essential materials like paper for military use, and innovative products such as Kimo, Kimac, and other war-related items. It details how these individuals, including men and women from various departments, transformed their operations to meet wartime demands, showcasing their unity, dedication, and the significant impact of their work on the war effort. The narrative culminates in the recognition of their achievements with the Army Navy E Award for outstanding production.
Keywords
Kimberly Clark, wartime production, paper mills, military supplies, Kimo, Kimac, innovation, Army Navy E Award, dedication, unity, essential materials, small town workers.
We digitized and uploaded this film from the Prelinger Archive. Email us at footage@avgeeks.com if you have questions about the footage and are interested in using it in your project.
The film highlights the contributions of Kimberly Clark employees during wartime, emphasizing their roles in producing essential materials like paper for military use, and innovative products such as Kimo, Kimac, and other war-related items. It details how these individuals, including men and women from various departments, transformed their operations to meet wartime demands, showcasing their unity, dedication, and the significant impact of their work on the war effort. The narrative culminates in the recognition of their achievements with the Army Navy E Award for outstanding production.
Keywords
Kimberly Clark, wartime production, paper mills, military supplies, Kimo, Kimac, innovation, Army Navy E Award, dedication, unity, essential materials, small town workers.
We digitized and uploaded this film from the Prelinger Archive. Email us at footage@avgeeks.com if you have questions about the footage and are interested in using it in your project.
![[Home Movie: Plainfield Reel 2]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Xyy3qSaucvM/hqdefault.jpg "[Home Movie: Plainfield Reel 2]
This 1950s home movie captures the essence of suburban life in Plainfield, New Jersey, showcasing the town’s development, community pride, and cultural activities. It features aerial views of the town, stately homes, blooming gardens, and landmarks like City Hall and Drake House. The footage highlights local parades celebrating groups such as the Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, and servicemen, as well as scenes of residents attending church services and participating in lawn parties. Civic life is documented through shots of schools, fire departments, and new construction projects, while local events, such as the welcome-home parade for Olympic star Milt Campbell, demonstrate the town’s vibrant spirit. The movie also captures scenes from schoolyards, football games, and community gatherings, offering a nostalgic glimpse into the close-knit fabric of 1950s American suburban life.
We digitized and uploaded this film from the A/V Geeks 16mm Archive. Email us at footage@avgeeks.com if you have questions about the footage and are interested in using it in your project.")
![[Global Concepts In Maps Cans 1-3, silent, late 1940s]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/a--IY2cg5tk/hqdefault.jpg "[Global Concepts In Maps Cans 1-3, silent, late 1940s]
This 1940s footage shows a curious boy engaging in hands-on learning about geography, maps, and globes in his bedroom, reflecting a deep interest in understanding the world. The scenes depict him tracing the outline of the African continent on a globe, studying printed maps, and experimenting with various types of projections and globes.
He uses tools like rulers, flexible tape, and plastic overlays to measure the globe, mark the equator, and align longitude and latitude lines. The boy creates visual demonstrations with different map projections such as Mercator, Cylindrical, Conic, and Gnomonic, exploring how the Earths surface is represented in various ways. He moves from studying a small rubber ball marked with continents to experimenting with a larger globe, and eventually, he stretches plastic shapes of continents over maps on his walls. The boy also examines a light-up globe with a magnifying sheet, which enhances his understanding of cities like Tokyo, Seattle, and Panama.
The boys bedroom becomes a space filled with maps and globes, as he surrounds himself with Polar Projections and other map styles pinned to his walls. He repeatedly reflects on his studies, examining each globe and map with great focus. The scene ends with the boy observing the different projections and pondering the relationship between them, demonstrating an early fascination with cartography and the worlds geography.
We digitized and uploaded this film from the A/V Geeks 16mm Archive. Email us at footage@avgeeks.com if you have questions about the footage and are interested in using it in your project.")
