This is a film that was produced my the Atomic Industrial Forum, a lobbying group that promoted commercial nuclear power and other related causes. This film would have been intended to be shown in schools and contains a lot of great basic information about radiation in the...
2022-05-23 14:05:24 +0000 UTC View Post
If the world were a free ride I would give it up - but you gotta buy your way through life, and this is all I got going on. I couldn't make a dime doing anything else these days! I know - I have tried!
2022-05-18 13:49:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Gotta make ends meet, so no goofing around for me these days....
The U-Penn Haul - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_znnfw0tQFc
The Vault - 2022-05-18 13:48:52 +0000 UTC View Post
This 16mm film was a typical public service type made by regional utility companies in the 1970's, and would have been made specifically to be shown in schools. Here we learn about how curiosity kills the cat (over and over and over). There are lots of flash frames i...
2022-05-16 13:21:14 +0000 UTC View Post
This 16mm reel transports me right back to the sights, the sounds, and the smells of the Supermarket of 1976. This reel has lost most all of its Cyan layer but It's still watchable. Interesting what people were saying back then about what they were eating, particular...
2022-05-15 15:04:19 +0000 UTC View Post
This 16mm film from my archives highlights a stellar list of young Canadians making their own way in the world, many of them now very famous. Most notably in this list is a 19 year old Jeff Healey in his first filmed interview (not TV), playing with his high school band Bl...
2022-05-14 14:43:13 +0000 UTC View Post
From my archives - this excerpt from my 16mm print of the 1983 film "Making It Young" about young Canadians who are making their own way in the world. In this clip David Bradley shows his CBM setup for creating and mass producing his software for the Commodore 64. I ...
2022-05-13 20:53:19 +0000 UTC View Post
From my 16mm archives - I found this lost interview and performance by the late Jeff Healey in a Canadian educational film about careers for kids graduating high school titled "Making It Young". The film explores many young Canadian people who are making their career...
2022-05-13 16:48:42 +0000 UTC View Post
This very short length of 16mm film (not even a reel) is a TV ad for Crazy Cow cereal that has our Astronaut and the Kids all hopped up on the sugar rush of space chocolate. OH - and there's frozen pops too! Spoiler - you have to freeze them yourself. Darn! &nb...
2022-05-13 14:08:57 +0000 UTC View PostHello to all the new Patrons here! I need to put this post here because Patreon just "updated and enhanced" the site and now the messaging features are broken.... again. I am in contact with support and waiting for the bug to be fixed, but until then the messaging on my end is frozen....
2022-05-09 14:34:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Every Saturday nite, live at 7pm Eastern Time, USA.
2022-05-07 20:54:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Don't hate me... Everyone's doing it! Really I'm just trying to find new ways to make FranLab accessible to the Kids. Enjoy! If you can....
https://youtube.com/shorts/7ADmNtoM9Uw
2022-05-06 15:37:05 +0000 UTC View Post
This 16mm film was produced by NASA as the Aeronautics and Space Report No. 100 and features preparations for Apollo-Soyuz and the Earth Resources Technology Satellite which was renamed Landsat 1. I transferred the film with my own Eiki Telecine. Enjoy!
Wack-A-Troll never ends - but I wish it didn't have to be a full time job.
2022-05-04 19:07:04 +0000 UTC View Post
....if you can get the Ben Franklin Award for being an effects pedal pioneer and YouTuber? Probably not. It seems that they only give the medal to PhD's these days, even though historically the awards went to innovators who were not academics. Benjamin Franklin himself was only ...
2022-05-03 11:53:58 +0000 UTC View Post
This 16mm reel of the NASA Aronautics and Space Report No. 88 features an inside look at training for Skylab 2, and an early look at the research and testing for the Viking missions. I transferred the film with my own Eiki Telecine. Enjoy!
What a difference a day makes.... particularly when you have an army of people pushing to move the immovable object. It takes a community to make a difference. Thanks everyone, I am always grateful for your constant encouragement and support.
This short 16mm reel is presented in beautiful IB Technicolor and illustrates how the human circulatory system works through animations, live action, and some gross anatomy. I transferred the film with my own Eiki Telecine. Enjoy!
This 16mm reel was produced by the Hearst Corporation and has the tone of a film that is very much of its time. You might think the working title was "Broads in Space? Whoda Thunk It!"
Clarifications:....
This 16mm film was produced by NASA and highlights the mission of Skylab 4, which was the third and last crewed mission. This reel is faded and the transfer was done with my own Eiki Telecine with some moderate color correction required. Enjoy!
Discount bin impulse buy goes straight to my heart, and then to my channel. Enjoy!
2022-04-24 16:54:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Time once again for Viewer Mail! This little gem comes right from an episode of Star Trek - a handheld tube calculator without a keypad! Enjoy!
2022-04-22 22:17:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Condensed, edited, annotated, and indexed from the original live broadcast and enhanced with extra goodies! Lots of fun - and so many stories from one of the all-time great story tellers - Jill Sobule!
2022-04-22 00:12:21 +0000 UTC View Post
An inside look at a unique and very compact vacu-fluorescent display clock made by the same company that made the LUMITIME electro-mechanical clock I profiled last week. Enjoy!
2022-04-20 23:55:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Not the decade I was shooting for, but we got to learn something today. Enjoy!
2022-04-19 20:45:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Gone... but not forgotten. And you can still get them (sort of...)
2022-04-16 21:25:04 +0000 UTC View Post
