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Short animated cartoon on the nutritional benefits of eating meat, including information about proteins, fats, vitamins, etc. Includes some raciall...

Industrial film showing galvannealed square deal fence production at Keystone Steel & Wire in Peoria, Illinois.

Sponsored film made for the "Hands Across the City" fundraising campaign by the Peoria Community Fund Association in 1935.

A variety show is performed at Peoria's Palace Theater. Includes live performances by a number of singers and dancers in front of a band of female ...

Silent Prizma Color film showing the damage to the architecture of Reims, France from fighting in World War I. Includes views of the cathedral, sur...

Fragment from A Citrate Special, an unidentified "prank film" from the late teens or early '20s. This print is missing the opening credits...

“The integrity of the home is one of the basic principles of American life. In this story Jim plans to leave home because of unpleasantness; before...

Snipe made by Filmack Trailer Company advertising the Pekin Theatre's Jitterbug Contest, where contestants could win a Charlie McCarthy radio court...

Promotional snipe advertising a sneak preview screening of The Awful Truth (1937) before its official theatrical run. 

Trailer for "Offical Spanish Civil War Pictures."

Snipe made by Filmack Trailer Company advertising the Pekin Theatre's midnight Halloween Party. Still graphic cards depicting owls, black cats and ...

Theater commercial criticizing the economic policies of Franklin D. Roosevelt's government. The spot was sponsored by "The Crusaders on the Screen,...

Snipe advertising the cool temperatures of a movie theatre, likely made by the Filmack Trailer Company in Chicago around 1932. The ad boasts "our m...

Theatrical advertisement for the All-Crop Harvester, a tractor-drawn combine sold by Wisconsin-based agricultural equipment manufacturer