US federal government films. Streaming 24 hours a day, synchronized to the second across all viewers worldwide.
A silent newsreel of the 1924 Douglas World Cruisers flight, the first aerial circumnavigation of the globe, by Army Air Service pilots. It began in Seattle.
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CH 83 RED TAPE: Today at 1:48 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 3:17 PM UTC • Mon, Nov 2 at 4:46 AM UTC
Also scheduled on: 86:POSTCARD
US federal government films.
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CH 83 RED TAPE: Today at 2:06 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 3:35 PM UTC • Mon, Nov 2 at 5:04 AM UTC
Also scheduled on: 50:INKWELL, 54:SQUIGGLE
A Ford Motor Company tour of Glacier National Park: winding mountain roads, grand hotels and big Montana views.
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CH 83 RED TAPE: Today at 2:15 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 3:44 PM UTC • Mon, Nov 2 at 5:13 AM UTC
Satellite views of the Olympic Peninsula dissolve through the years, with park boundaries drawn on. Watch the forest and clear-cuts change.
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CH 83 RED TAPE: Today at 2:24 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 3:53 PM UTC • Mon, Nov 2 at 5:22 AM UTC
Also scheduled on: 84:T-MINUS
A silent 1928 Harvard anthropology travelogue: Mongolians on horseback, traditional hairstyles and clothing, and everyday customs. A dated outsider's view.
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CH 83 RED TAPE: Today at 2:25 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 3:54 PM UTC • Mon, Nov 2 at 5:23 AM UTC
Also scheduled on: 86:POSTCARD
US federal government films.
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CH 83 RED TAPE: Today at 2:38 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 4:07 PM UTC • Mon, Nov 2 at 5:36 AM UTC
Also scheduled on: 32:SAUCER
A rough but charming 1930s home movie from Fort Bragg: soldiers in camp, doing their chores, including the dreaded K.P. Silent 16mm.
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CH 83 RED TAPE: Today at 2:49 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 4:18 PM UTC • Mon, Nov 2 at 5:47 AM UTC
Also scheduled on: 85:FAMILY REEL
How satellites help farmers track the water their crops drink. Landsat maps agricultural water use so every drop counts.
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CH 83 RED TAPE: Today at 3:03 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 4:32 PM UTC • Mon, Nov 2 at 6:01 AM UTC
Also scheduled on: 84:T-MINUS
Silent footage from the 1924 Douglas World Flight, the first aerial trip around the globe by U.S. Army Air Service pilots. The film is incomplete.
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CH 83 RED TAPE: Today at 3:08 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 4:37 PM UTC • Mon, Nov 2 at 6:06 AM UTC
Also scheduled on: 86:POSTCARD
US federal government films.
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CH 83 RED TAPE: Today at 3:26 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 4:55 PM UTC • Mon, Nov 2 at 6:24 AM UTC
Also scheduled on: 32:SAUCER, 52:ONCE UPON, 54:SQUIGGLE
Silent 16mm home-movie footage of a July 1930 U.S. Army training exercise near Fort Hoyle, Maryland, part of the between-the-wars civilian training camps.
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CH 83 RED TAPE: Today at 3:36 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 5:05 PM UTC • Mon, Nov 2 at 6:34 AM UTC
Also scheduled on: 23:MUSTER
US federal government films.
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CH 83 RED TAPE: Tomorrow at 3:46 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 5:15 PM UTC • Mon, Nov 2 at 6:44 AM UTC
Also scheduled on: 81:HALL PASS
A farmer is sold on rubber tires for his tractor instead of steel wheels, with a peek at how tractor tires get made. Part I.
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CH 83 RED TAPE: Tomorrow at 3:56 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 5:25 PM UTC • Mon, Nov 2 at 6:54 AM UTC
US federal government films.
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CH 83 RED TAPE: Tomorrow at 4:07 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 5:37 PM UTC • Mon, Nov 2 at 7:06 AM UTC
Also scheduled on: 32:SAUCER
A short look at how the New Deal helped African Americans. A period newsreel viewpoint.
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CH 83 RED TAPE: Tomorrow at 4:31 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 6:00 PM UTC • Mon, Nov 2 at 7:29 AM UTC
US federal government films.
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CH 83 RED TAPE: Airing Now (3:13 PM UTC) • Tomorrow at 4:42 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 6:11 PM UTC
An elegy to the sour fruit: how lemons are grown and used, including some unusual applications. California citrus, front and center.
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CH 83 RED TAPE: Today at 3:48 PM UTC • Tomorrow at 5:17 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 6:46 PM UTC
US federal government films.
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CH 83 RED TAPE: Today at 3:57 PM UTC • Tomorrow at 5:26 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 6:55 PM UTC
Also scheduled on: 24:DEAD DROP, 32:SAUCER
An early look at tourism in the American West, with a stop at Bryce Canyon's rock spires. Postcard scenery, vintage style.
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CH 83 RED TAPE: Today at 4:06 PM UTC • Tomorrow at 5:35 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 7:04 PM UTC
Also scheduled on: 86:POSTCARD, 87:HABITAT
US federal government films.
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CH 83 RED TAPE: Today at 4:13 PM UTC • Tomorrow at 5:43 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 7:12 PM UTC
Also scheduled on: 81:HALL PASS
The Goodyear pitch rolls on: tractor tires versus steel wheels, plus factory scenes. Part II.
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CH 83 RED TAPE: Today at 4:27 PM UTC • Tomorrow at 5:56 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 7:25 PM UTC
US federal government films.
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CH 83 RED TAPE: Today at 4:43 PM UTC • Tomorrow at 6:12 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 7:41 PM UTC
Also scheduled on: 32:SAUCER
US federal government films.
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CH 83 RED TAPE: Today at 5:06 PM UTC • Tomorrow at 6:35 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 8:04 PM UTC
US federal government films.
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CH 83 RED TAPE: Today at 5:23 PM UTC • Tomorrow at 6:52 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 8:21 PM UTC
Aboard the Coast Guard cutter Bear, a voyage through Arctic ice to the Aleutians and Point Barrow. A government travelogue with dated views of Alaska Natives.
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CH 83 RED TAPE: Today at 5:30 PM UTC • Tomorrow at 6:59 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 8:28 PM UTC
US federal government films.
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CH 83 RED TAPE: Today at 5:42 PM UTC • Tomorrow at 7:11 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 8:40 PM UTC
Also scheduled on: 82:SMOKESTACK
US federal government films.
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CH 83 RED TAPE: Today at 5:55 PM UTC • Tomorrow at 7:25 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 8:54 PM UTC
What happens to bees and blooms if spring arrives early? Two NASA animations on honey bees, flowering plants and a warming climate.
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CH 83 RED TAPE: Today at 6:12 PM UTC • Tomorrow at 7:41 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 9:10 PM UTC
Also scheduled on: 84:T-MINUS, 87:HABITAT
A government film on forest fire prevention and the trouble wildfires cause. Smokey's older, scarier cousin.
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CH 83 RED TAPE: Today at 6:13 PM UTC • Tomorrow at 7:42 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 9:11 PM UTC
Also scheduled on: 31:HUSH, 81:HALL PASS
A USDA film ties the growth of American farming to the country's rise, from pioneer homesteads to land-grant colleges.
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CH 83 RED TAPE: Today at 6:27 PM UTC • Tomorrow at 7:56 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 9:25 PM UTC
Also scheduled on: 73:CALL NUMBER, 81:HALL PASS
How the WPA's public works put unemployed Americans back on the job and benefit everyone. Part two of a 1937 series.
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CH 83 RED TAPE: Today at 6:55 PM UTC • Tomorrow at 8:24 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 9:53 PM UTC
A silent-era visit to Mount Rainier National Park, with the scenery above the clouds. Little source detail beyond the title.
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CH 83 RED TAPE: Today at 7:10 PM UTC • Tomorrow at 8:40 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 10:09 PM UTC
A 1950s promotional film for Nutrilite food supplements, selling health from the farm field up.
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CH 83 RED TAPE: Today at 7:23 PM UTC • Tomorrow at 8:52 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 10:21 PM UTC
Also scheduled on: 82:SMOKESTACK
The banana's whole journey, from jungle clearing to American grocery stores, in a 1935 Castle Films short.
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CH 83 RED TAPE: Today at 7:42 PM UTC • Tomorrow at 9:11 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 10:40 PM UTC
Delegates gather outside the Congress Hotel at the 1916 Republican National Convention in Chicago, with Governor Whitman of New York in the mix.
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CH 83 RED TAPE: Today at 7:53 PM UTC • Tomorrow at 9:22 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 10:51 PM UTC
Also scheduled on: 73:CALL NUMBER, 80:EXTRA EXTRA
George Reeves' Superman stops a robbery and teaches kids to save with school savings stamps, in a short made for the US Treasury.
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CH 83 RED TAPE: Today at 7:54 PM UTC • Tomorrow at 9:23 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 10:53 PM UTC
Also scheduled on: 51:POW!, 54:SQUIGGLE, 64:JINGLE
Three short 1944 pitches shown in a Baltimore theater to Black moviegoers, on daylight saving and civil defense. Home front persuasion, up close.
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CH 83 RED TAPE: Today at 8:12 PM UTC • Today at 10:33 PM UTC • Today at 12:07 AM UTC
Also scheduled on: 23:MUSTER, 64:JINGLE, 73:CALL NUMBER
Unidentified family home movies bought at a Walla Walla auction. Reel 1, Yellowstone Park, July 1929.
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CH 83 RED TAPE: Today at 8:14 PM UTC • Today at 8:58 PM UTC • Tomorrow at 9:43 AM UTC
Also scheduled on: 73:CALL NUMBER, 74:INTERTITLE, 85:FAMILY REEL, 86:POSTCARD
US federal government films.
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CH 83 RED TAPE: Today at 8:32 PM UTC • Tomorrow at 10:01 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 11:30 PM UTC
Also scheduled on: 24:DEAD DROP, 32:SAUCER
Home movies of Bebe Daniels and Ben Lyon: a California beach house, lounging with their mothers at home, and showing off baby daughter Barbara.
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CH 83 RED TAPE: Today at 8:41 PM UTC • Tomorrow at 10:10 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 11:39 PM UTC
Also scheduled on: 73:CALL NUMBER, 85:FAMILY REEL
A 1957 survey of peacetime atomic energy, from power plants to radioisotopes in medicine, farming and industry.
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CH 83 RED TAPE: Today at 9:15 PM UTC • Tomorrow at 10:44 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 12:13 AM UTC
Also scheduled on: 50:INKWELL, 54:SQUIGGLE, 82:SMOKESTACK
April 1945 on the Elbe: American, British and Russian troops meet at Torgau, and the war in Europe is squeezed from both sides. Shot in color.
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CH 83 RED TAPE: Today at 9:44 PM UTC • Tomorrow at 11:13 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 12:43 AM UTC
Also scheduled on: 23:MUSTER, 73:CALL NUMBER, 80:EXTRA EXTRA
Horses, buggies, bicycles and early automobiles share the road in this silent 1920s Agriculture Department film. A trip that took forever gets quicker.
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CH 83 RED TAPE: Today at 10:11 PM UTC • Tomorrow at 11:40 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 1:09 AM UTC
Also scheduled on: 16:HEARTH, 82:SMOKESTACK
A 1954 civil defense film asks what an atomic blast does to a tidy house versus a messy one, using tests in Nevada. Housekeeping as survival.
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CH 83 RED TAPE: Today at 10:21 PM UTC • Tomorrow at 11:50 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 1:19 AM UTC
Also scheduled on: 32:SAUCER, 82:SMOKESTACK
Cowboy star Bob Custer battles rustlers and rescues the heroine in a B-western from the last days of the silent era.
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CH 83 RED TAPE: Today at 11:24 PM UTC • Tomorrow at 12:53 PM UTC • Tomorrow at 2:22 AM UTC
Also scheduled on: 40:TUMBLEWEED
Cleveland's fire department rolls out of the engine house while spectators line the street. Likely a drill, but a crowd-pleaser all the same, in 1903.
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CH 83 RED TAPE: Today at 12:33 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 2:02 PM UTC • Tomorrow at 3:31 AM UTC
Also scheduled on: 70:FLICKER
Artist Selma Burke, a retiring Wilmington councilman, and Black baseball. A July 1945 newsreel made for Black audiences.
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CH 83 RED TAPE: Today at 12:35 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 2:04 PM UTC • Tomorrow at 3:33 AM UTC
Also scheduled on: 15:HOOFER, 40:TUMBLEWEED, 73:CALL NUMBER, 80:EXTRA EXTRA, 86:POSTCARD, 87:HABITAT
A team of six dashes up as tourists arrive at the Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel in Yellowstone. 1899, coach travel and Wild West tourism.
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CH 83 RED TAPE: Today at 12:41 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 2:10 PM UTC • Mon, Nov 2 at 3:39 AM UTC
Also scheduled on: 70:FLICKER, 86:POSTCARD
A 1948 campaign film on Governor Thomas E. Dewey's life and career, from his 1935 prosecutor appointment onward.
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CH 83 RED TAPE: Today at 12:42 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 2:11 PM UTC • Mon, Nov 2 at 3:40 AM UTC
Also scheduled on: 82:SMOKESTACK
A waterfall against heavy timber at Yellowstone, Lower Falls of the Grand Canyon. An 1897 travelogue of scenery.
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CH 83 RED TAPE: Today at 12:52 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 2:21 PM UTC • Mon, Nov 2 at 3:50 AM UTC
Also scheduled on: 70:FLICKER, 86:POSTCARD
A Depression-era documentary on the Mississippi River from the Civil War into the 1920s: exploration, exploitation and soil erosion. 1938.
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CH 83 RED TAPE: Today at 12:53 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 2:22 PM UTC • Mon, Nov 2 at 3:51 AM UTC
Also scheduled on: 82:SMOKESTACK
The funeral procession of President McKinley arrives at Westlawn Cemetery in Canton, Ohio. A solemn 1901 newsreel moment, filmed by Edison cameras.
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CH 83 RED TAPE: Today at 1:24 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 2:53 PM UTC • Mon, Nov 2 at 4:22 AM UTC
Also scheduled on: 70:FLICKER
Horse-drawn wagons dump trash from a New York pier onto a waiting barge, while men with shovels spread the pile. 1903.
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CH 83 RED TAPE: Today at 1:28 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 2:57 PM UTC • Mon, Nov 2 at 4:26 AM UTC
Also scheduled on: 70:FLICKER
July 1920: Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge are officially notified of their Republican ticket. Ohio, handshakes and a very 1920 campaign.
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CH 83 RED TAPE: Today at 1:29 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 2:58 PM UTC • Mon, Nov 2 at 4:27 AM UTC
Also scheduled on: 80:EXTRA EXTRA
About thirty men and boys sort paper refuse into sacks at a New York City incinerating plant, 1903. Gritty city life on film.
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CH 83 RED TAPE: Today at 1:40 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 3:09 PM UTC • Mon, Nov 2 at 4:38 AM UTC
Also scheduled on: 70:FLICKER
A fire chief's buggy leads engines, hose carts and ladder trucks galloping toward the camera. Harrisburg's finest, filmed by Edison in 1896.
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CH 83 RED TAPE: Today at 1:42 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 3:11 PM UTC • Mon, Nov 2 at 4:40 AM UTC
Also scheduled on: 16:HEARTH, 70:FLICKER
August 1917: Teddy Roosevelt hosts the Belgian Mission at Sagamore Hill, led by Baron Ludovic Moncheur. Silent, formal, very wartime.
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CH 83 RED TAPE: Today at 1:43 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 3:12 PM UTC • Mon, Nov 2 at 4:41 AM UTC
Also scheduled on: 80:EXTRA EXTRA
More than 350 street cleaners and over 100 carts parade through New York for a review of the celebrated White Wings. 1903.
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CH 83 RED TAPE: Today at 1:44 AM UTC • Tomorrow at 3:13 PM UTC • Mon, Nov 2 at 4:42 AM UTC
Also scheduled on: 70:FLICKER