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Ephemera
see all genres ›Archivist/filmmaker Rick Prelinger coined the term “ephemeral film” to describe films produced outside the contexts of art and entertainment. He has referred to the style of the industrially-sponsored films as “capitalist realism.” Films made with practical purposes in mind are considered ephemeral: advertising films, educational films, training films, government-produced films and home movies all fit the bill (as well as works that incorporate found footage in new configurations).
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Genres / Ephemera
SUB-GENRES · Advertising · Amateur · Educational · Industrial · Newsreel · Snipe
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Across the Border
ACROSS THE BORDER is a collage of found footage and documentary images, radio Spanish/English tracks and commentary by Philippe Bourgois, a Stanford Anthropologist trapped in an offensive by the United States-backed Salvadoran Military forces. The film’s position against U.S. intervention in the third...Start your free trial to watch
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Alphabet Soup
A is for Alphabet, B is for Batty, C is for Crooky! Renowned artist William Wegman brings his dogs (Fay Ray and offspring Batty, Chundo and Crooky) together to teach children the alphabet. Children and adults will be transfixed by the amazing dogs as they magically form the letters of the alphabet while cooking up a pot of...Start your free trial to watch
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Am I Trustworthy?
Are you trustworthy? Do you return things that you borrow? Do you complete the things that are asked of you? If you're like Eddie, you will. You'll even strive to do better. Maybe you'll even make a chart to track your progress. Maybe you won't. If Coronet has any say in it, you will.Start your free trial to watch
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As Others See Us
Are you dressed correctly? Are you eating properly? No. You are doing it all wrong. This short will correct your behavior. Or else! Produced by Social Science Films in 1953, you'll know exactly how others see you within ten minutes. It won't be pretty.Start your free trial to watch
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The Battle of Britain
Originally released in 1943, THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN represents the fourth movie in Frank Capra's epic WHY WE FIGHT documentary series. This film traces the fate of the British during the dark days of the Blitz. It is a portrait of the desperate, but ultimately successful struggle to prevent a Nazi invasion...Start your free trial to watch
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The Battle of Midway
The stars and director of THE GRAPES OF WRATH re-united under very different circumstances two years later for this undeniably hyperbolic yet stirring portrait of U.S. Naval forces rallying to defeat Axis conquerors. "Tom Joad" (Henry Fonda) and "Ma Joad" (Jane Darwell) were among the voice actors...Start your free trial to watch
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Being
A man sits in front of his TV. The program that he occasionally glances at is a montage of popular culture images: old movies, commercials and news clips. Accompanying the fleeting images is a loosely synchronous narrative on the evolution of man's belief systems. The man's behavior watching television becomes a commentary on...Start your free trial to watch
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Cette nuit-là
CETTE NUIT-LA presents Jacques Tati in a screen advertisement which was projected in French cinemas. Film ads in Europe predated the American practice by several decades. As with newsreels, commercials were often left behind in theatres as the producers did not request return of the prints.Start your free trial to watch
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Clo-cloche
CLO-CLOCHE presents Michel Simon in a screen advertisement for cigarettes which was projected in French cinemas. Film ads in Europe predated the American practice by several decades. As with newsreels, commercials were often left behind in theatres as the producers did not request return of the prints.Start your free trial to watch
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Dance, Little Children
Remember Lynn. You will see her again. The legendary Herk Harvey (CARNIVAL OF SOULS) knows how to bring fear to a small town. Fear, here, arrives with two initials: the letter "V" and the letter "D" (and I think we all know what that means). Unfortunately, Lynn falls for the wrong guy. Things go a bit too...Start your free trial to watch
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The Day I Vanished
After shooting himself with a mysterious syringe that renders him invisible, a man wreaks havoc on those unfortunate enough to have wandered into his domain. He-Man creator and genre auteur Don Glut pays tribute to H.G. Wells' creation with a series of sight gags and charmingly rough science-fiction...Start your free trial to watch
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December 7th
John Ford and Gregg Toland's DECEMBER 7TH was banned by the U.S. government for nearly fifty years. This restored version runs 82 minutes (with subtitles added to the controversial Japanese language sequences) whereas a censored 34 minute version of the film was released in the 1940s and earned John Ford his fourth Academy...Start your free trial to watch
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The Decision is Yours
"It only takes once." Really? Yes, really. Something doesn't seem quite right in this U.S. Navy-produced tale of what you should do and what you shouldn't, relationship-wise. Should I do this? Should I do that? THE DECISION IS YOURS. "Everyone? Out having a great big orgy?" You tell him, voice-of-reason.Start your free trial to watch
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Dewar's
In 1897, two years after they expanded out of Scotland and opened their first New York office, Dewar's Scotch commissioned the Edison Manufacturing Company to produce this advertisement to be projected onto the roof of a building in Herald Square. Featuring a single shot of kilted men dancing a happy jig (perhaps due to the...Start your free trial to watch
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Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y
Buckle up for DIAL H-I-S-T-O-R-Y, the acclaimed hijacking documentary that eerily foreshadowed 9/11. We meet the romantic skyjackers who fought their revolutions and won airtime on the passenger planes of the 1960s and 1970s. By the 1990s, such characters were apparently no more, replaced on our TV screens...Start your free trial to watch