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To New Horizons
ES ES-OVNI RSC-2646 · Item · 1940
Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

Definitive document of pre-World War II futuristic utopian thinking, as envisioned by General Motors. Documents the "Futurama" exhibit in GM's "Highways and Horizons" pavilion at the World's Fair, which looks ahead to the "wonder world of 1960".
To Market, To Market
ES ES-OVNI RSC-2654 · Item · 1942
Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

Proliferation of outdoor advertising billboards through Chicago and the methods of analyzing potential advertising sites. This part explains the strategy behind the placement of outdoor media. (The Prelinger Archives are a source of educational material, mainly ordered by theme, giving a vision of the dark side, the underbelly, perhaps naive of the American dream and the America that is ten hidden behind the media curtain).

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To Exist is to Resist
To Exist is to Resist
ES ES-OVNI CTX-S013-SS004-0001 · Item · 2008
Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

To Exist is to Resist is the testimony of a fight that goes beyond the borders of the country where it takes place: the fight for a home. The film offers a reflection on private property from the perspective of those who have already taken over more than 160 buildings in the country of the Bolivarian Revolution. Throughout the film, we are taken into the heart of the “National Committee for the Homeless” by means of its main protagonists, dreamer-soldiers, “tomadores”, who take abandoned buildings in order to give them back to the people who built their ceilings and walls, and could only look at the locked door from the outside...
To Damascus
To Damascus
ES ES-OVNI CTX-S011-SS006-0084 · Item · 2005
Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

Floating far above them, we gaze on cities and landscapes. Down there is reality. How do you navigate down there? How do you sense reality? Is it even possible? Or do knowledge and understanding block the view?.
To 9 God Emperors
To 9 God Emperors
ES ES-OVNI CTX-S013-SS007-0027 · Item · 2005
Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

Rituals from Phuket island, Thailand South, dedicated to the sons or representations of Doumu Godess (Kwam Im on Thailand). Ascetics devotees in Chinese Temples performing in trance doing transfixion, fire walks, hot oil flagellation, nails bridge walk and procession for their purification.

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Tireless Marketers (vol 8)
ES ES-OVNI RSC-845 · Item · 1996
Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

Documents the growth of advertising and its migration from film to television. They are sweet and subtle precursors of the infomercial, like the animated journey of a drop of gasoline through the bowels of a Chevy 1935, and "RDF Greenwich Village" an oasis in the suburbs, where a modern neighboor rests on its modern corduroy clothing, 100% cotton.