Americana 1940s: Factory workers archive footage
Archival footage shot by an amateur filmmaker in 1942 at the Morton Pottery Co. factory in Morton, Illinois. It contains stock footage of its workers and management: men and women standing in the backyard of the factory, the firm’s vintage sign welcoming visitors, two women digging with a shovel, pickaxe, and wheelbarrow, likely for a […]
Pennsylvania 1973 archive footage
Archival footage shot by an amateur filmmaker while visiting the USA, probably in 1973. It contains stock footage of the State of Pennsylvania: people riding horses on an Amish village farm, a roadside market with typical American food and clothes, Amish women and men with long beards in the countryside, woodcutters at work with an […]
Silverton 1977 archive footage
Archival footage shot by an amateur filmmaker while visiting the USA in 1977. It contains stock footage of Silverton, a town in San Juan County, Colorado: the town street sign, panoramas of the city, the Old Town Square, a reconstruction of the place where criminals used to be hanged, the grave of Bob Clark, traffic […]