free video files

[Mike Clasby]

Short answer – Prelinger Archives

HERE’S 3000+ Free and Public Domain, most in Mpeg2

Prelinger Archives – 1,975 items
https://www.archive.org/details/prelinger
Has a host of “ephemeral” (advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur) films, examples:
Duck and Cover
Are You Popular?
Girls Beware
Boys Beware
Great color in:
American Engineer (Part I-IV)
American Look (Part I-III)
That Junior Miss Spirit (Part I & II)
The Story of a Star
Vision in the Forest (Country Singer Vaughn Monroe and family meets Smokey the Bear)
Roads to Romance: The Santa Cruz Trail and Land of the Giant Cactus
Freedom Highway
Amateur films of World’s Fairs (USA) in beautiful Kodachrome

Feature Film (630 movies) section (buttons at top) with:
https://www.archive.org/details/feature_films
She Gods of Shark Reef
Night of the Living Dead
Little Shop of Horrors (the original)
Metropolis
Charlie Chaplain
The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
M (German)
(Color)
Hercules
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians
Under the Twelve Mile Reef
The Big trees (KirkDouglas in the Redwoods)
Captain Calamity (South Seas)
Royal Wedding
and Popeye, Superman and Betty Boop
and more

Cinemocracy
https://www.archive.org/details/cinemocracy
13 “Why We Fight” movie from WWII
directors: John Ford, John Huston, Frank Capra, and William Wyler

Film Chest Vintage Cartoons – 59 items
https://www.archive.org/details/classic_cartoons
Betty Boop, Popeye, Superman and Bugs Bunny

AV Geeks – 95 items
https://www.archive.org/details/avgeeks
More Geeky Stuff:
Soapy the Germ Fighter
Private SNAFU-Booby Trap (Seuss as a GI, yes boobies)
VD is for everybody
Beginning Responsibility: Lunchroom manners
Drugs are like that

SabuCat Movie Trailers – 102 items
https://www.archive.org/details/sabucat_trailers
Bring Up Baby
Attack of the 50 Foot Woman
Day the Earth Stood Still
Amazing Transparent Man

Universal Newsreels – 601 items
produced from 1929 to 1967