Villon Films

Stock Footage Collection

We have footage available on the following topics.
For more information, please contact us.

Africa
USA
Britain
Europe
Other Locations
Arts and Crafts
Silent Films
Personalities

Africa

South Africa: history, politics, people, 1900-2000
South African and Rhodesian newsreels
Apartheid period
Pro-apartheid propaganda
History of cinema in South Africa, including historical films
South African writers, actors, film directors, musicians
Snow in Johannesburg
White and black sports in South Africa
Africans and whites in World War I & II
Zulus
Bushmen
Lobola (bride price)
AIDS in Africa
Rhodesia and Nyasaland during colonial times
Rhodesian civil war
Ethnographic
African music, traditional and modern
Zambian children and music
African women
Egypt, '60s and early '70s
Traditional healers, historical and current
African religions
Weaving in Lesotho
Swaziland, late '60s
Tanzania, 1970s
Botswana, 1970s
Mozambique
Agriculture and industry
Mali
Cape Verde folk music

(see also Personalities)

USA

American Indian life (Crow & Navajo)
Anti-war movement, late '60s, early '70s, including Chicago Riots and
Yippies
NASA
Nuclear energy
Atomic bombs
Cigarette and soap commercials, including Ronald Reagan
Vacationing in the Catskill Mountains, 1920-1986
Road-building, 1960s
History of automobile, 1920s
Jewish history, Jewish humour, Jewish folklore, Jewish vacations, early
films about Jews Israel lobby
Education, including classrooms during late '60s
American foreign relations, including Africa, Cuba, USSR during Cold War,
Central America
Spy activities, including U-2 affair
US navy, including 1920s
Wars: Spanish-American, World War I and II, Korea
OSS in World War II
Auto factory, late '60s
Black Panthers
National Council of Negro Women
Cuban-Americans
Brown University, 1970s, others, 1999. Student protests, Columbia, 1969
AIDS
New York, lower east side, late '60s
New Year's celebrations, 1939
Retirement home, New Jersey, 1970s
Country fair, 1920s
Boxing through the years
Immigrants on Ellis Island
Catskill Mountain railway, early
Kind to Animals Week, 1940s
Scenic views, 1940s
Hula dancing
Be Kind to Animals Week, 1940s
Sinking of ship "Mission San Francisco" in Delaware

Britain

British princes ride in the park, 1950s
1950s holidays, primary school
1960s life, including motorcycle gangs, immigrants, schools, striptease
clubs, Chelsea Pensioners, London scenes and life
Sports
Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, 1962
Devon ponies
Ballroom dancing, 1950s

Europe

World War I and II
Nazi propaganda film about mentally impaired
History of Germany
Rebuilding of Reichstag
Black Sea locations, 1997
Istanbul, 1997
Danube River, 1999: Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia,
Romania, Ukraine, Bulgaria. Also, Danube region, historical
Ukraine, World War II, and 1990s
Yugoslavia, World War II and 1999
Romanian oil fields, 1920s
American Cold War propaganda
U-2 affair (1960)
Norway, early '70s and World War II
Sweden, late '60s
Russia, Cold War period, including propaganda films
Spanish Civil War
Italy, towns and electronics industry, 1980s

Other Locations

Cuba, 1898-1970s
Jamaica, early '60s
British Honduras (Belize), early '60s
Dominican Republic, late '60s
Trinidad carnival
Peru
Middle East: Israel, Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon, late '60s and early '70s
China, World War II
Korean War
Canada, sailing flotilla, 1997

Arts & Crafts

Print-making
weaving
canoe-building
candle-making
Manfred Henninger (German artist)
Erica Rutherford (Canadian artist)

Silent Film Collection

Westerns: "Code of the West", "Just in Time" (Douglas Fairbanks), "A Western Escape".
"Story of Santa Claus", Amos 'n Andy cartoon
"Uncle Tom's Cabin" (one reel only)
"A Child of the Ghetto"
"The Pawnbroker"
"A Zulu's Heart" (DW Griffith)
"Rastus in Zululand"
"Love in a Hammock"
"The American Soldier in Love and War"
"Interrupted Bathers"
"Seamstresses"
"Circus Days"
"The Studio Pest"
"Adventures of Tony the Cub"
"Monkey Business"
Krazy Kat cartoons
cartoon fragment of Russian anarchists.

Personalities