Very cool raw footage from Fox Movietone (and other rare stuff)

[BERIGAN]

Like outtakes of the 1927 Yankees-Pirates World series(wish there was more Babe Ruth footage, very closed stance, moving all around the batters box)

http://mirc.sc.edu/islandora/object/usc%3A17516

Bathing Belles, 1929

http://mirc.sc.edu/islandora/object/usc%3A19579

Barney Oldfield

http://mirc.sc.edu/islandora/object/usc%3A21102

Berlin on Election Day 1924 (swastikas are seen even then!)

http://mirc.sc.edu/islandora/object/usc%3A1529

Well, you get the idea. The University of South Carolina has a huge archive of moving images.

main page http://mirc.sc.edu/islandora/object/usc%3Amirc

Fox Movietone is there in the 2nd row...

One caveat, I found it very slow going at times...not the clips themselves, just getting to them. Gave up in the middle of the day, but seems to be working better after midnight EST.

Anyone ever heard of this archive before? Only found out about it via a post on facebook

Edited December 2, 2014 by BERIGAN

[GA Russell]

Sounds great, Conrad!

oldies.com has started selling DVDs of newsreels. I have seen 1960 and 1961 available.

[JSngry]

Just looking at the contents is enough to have me wondering if this is one of those things that I get into and don't get out of...

The sound footage of Calvin Coolidge's hunting trip on the Gullah Islands was surreal...