Little Raleigh Radio as seen at DesignBox

August has been a busy month for Raleigh, especially in terms of crowdfunded community service campaigns. Just as the A/V Geeks are wrapping up their efforts to raise money for the digitization of 16mm films, the Little Raleigh Radio fundraising project is winding down as well. Although the $10,000 all or nothing campaign recently met the original goal, there is still time to contribute to this exciting new project for Downtown Raleigh.

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If you aren’t familiar with A/V Geeks, it’s an outfit run by Skip Elsheimer with the noble and unique mission to rescue and digitize tens of thousands of vintage educational 16mm films. He was extremely courteous in digitizing a special request for Goodnight Raleigh, the midcentury film above.  The excerpts show Balentine’s Cafeteria (now demolished) and other scenes from Cameron Village, including Colonial Foods. It also includes the NC State Brickyard, before it had bricks, circa 1964.

He is currently in the final stretch of a month-long crowdfunding campaign to digitize more films like this one. Every $35 contribution will digitize 10 minutes of film.

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Photo by Ian F.G. Dunn

For the past 3+ years, Goodnight Raleigh and our readers have been fortunate to have Ian F.G. Dunn as a contributing photographer and historian. Opening this Friday and lasting throughout the month of August, his work will be on display at Flanders Gallery for the exhibit Terrains of Absence.

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