My job has just purchaced me a PocketPC (more on Palm vs. PocketPC later). The free software Pocket TVallows you to view MPEG movies. Screw downloading promotional videos and movie trailers. Here are some excellent online archives of moving images.



The Library of Congress has the following:
Coca-Cola Advertising ~ Films ~ 1951-1999 Fifty Years of Coca-Cola Television Advertisements: Highlights from the Motion Picture Archives at the Library of Congress

Coolidge Era ~ Multiformat ~ 1924-1929 Prosperity and Thrift: The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy, 1921-1929

Edison Companies Film and Sound Recordings Inventing Entertainment: the Early Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies

Factories, Westinghouse ~ Films ~ 1904 Inside an American Factory: Films of the Westinghouse Works, 1904

Film, Animated ~ 1900-1921 Origins of American Animation

McKinley, William, and Pan-American Exposition ~ Films ~ 1901 The Last Days of a President: Films of McKinley and the Pan-American Exposition, 1901

New York City ~ Films ~ 1898-1906 The Life of a City: Early Films of New York, 1898-1906

Presidential Inaugurations ~ Multiformat ~ 1789-2001 "I Do Solemnly Swear...": Presidential Inaugurations

Ranching Culture, Nevada ~ Multiformat ~ 1945-1982 Buckaroos in Paradise: Ranching Culture in Northern Nevada, 1945-1982

Roosevelt, Theodore ~ Films ~ 1898-1919 Theodore Roosevelt: His Life and Times on Film

San Francisco and 1906 Earthquake ~ Films ~ 1897-1916 Before and After the Great Earthquake and Fire: Early Films of San Francisco, 1897-1916

Spanish-American War ~ Films ~ 1898-1901 The Spanish-American War in Motion Pictures

Variety Stage ~ Multiformat ~ 1870-1920 The American Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment, 1870-1920

Work and Leisure ~ Films ~ 1894-1915 America at Work, America at Leisure: Motion Pictures from 1894-1915



The Internet Archive has the Prelinger Archives a collection of over 45,000 "ephemeral" (advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur) films. [hint search for CONTENT ADVISORY]