![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Blues Maker - Univ Of Mississippi
Shows Mississippi blues singer, Fred Mc Dowell, singing and talking about his blues. Includes scenes of the area which helped to shape his country blues.
Downloads: 4,856
Average rating:  (5 reviews) |
| John F Elsheimer, Sr tribute page
Downloads: 377
Average rating: (1 review) |
| Munchers: A Fable
Proto-claymation goes awry with talking teeth and a demonic tooth decay character. A food group hoe-down highlights the importance of good nutrition to help maintain healthy teeth.
Keywords: dental hygiene; dancing clay; animation
Downloads: 9,226
Average rating: (11 reviews) |
| Joy of Living With Fragrance
Shows what the magic of fragrance can do for every woman. Gives her added confidence, a heightened personality and a uniqueness that is all her own. Tells where exotic scents come from and offers suggestions on the selection and application of various perfumes and colognes.
Downloads: 6,898
Average rating: (5 reviews) |
| Thread Of Life - Warner Brothers
A film about genetics and heredity in man, various traits are shown and the methods by which they are transmitted is explained.
Downloads: 9,441
Average rating: (5 reviews) |
| To Hear Your Banjo Play
Presents the origin of the banjo, the development of southern folk music and its influence upon Americans. Pete Seeger plays his banjo and narrates the story.
Keywords: American folk music
Downloads: 17,615
Average rating: (9 reviews) |
| Check the Neck
A film made for police, firemen and first responders to alert them to special care that needs to be taken when rescuitating a laryngectomee - a person whose larynx has been removed, usually due to cancer.
Keywords: rescuitation
Downloads: 2,551
Average rating:  (3 reviews) |
| Mr. Finley's Feelings
Our animated hero questions his sanity after blowing his top and driving his car into a police station.
Keywords: animation; mental hygiene
Downloads: 7,066
Average rating: (8 reviews) |
| VD is for Everybody
The American Social Health Association was always experimenting with new ways to educate the public about venereal disease. They helped produce the first VD education film, "Fit to Fight", in 1918 in order to educate soldiers being shipped abroad to fight in the first World War. Although this popular TV public service announcement informs the public that everybody is susceptible to venereal disease, strangely, it also seems to imply that having VD will make you successful, attractive and happy...
Keywords: venereal disease; PSA; Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Downloads: 67,848
Average rating: (22 reviews) |
| Gateways to the Mind
The story of what science has learned about the human senses and how they function. Includes documentary sequences.
Downloads: 8,086
Average rating: (5 reviews) |
| Beginning Responsibility: Lunchroom Manners
The rude, clumsy puppet Mr. Bungle shows kids how to behave in the school cafeteria - the assumption being that kids actually want to behave during lunch. This film has a cult following since it appeared on a Pee Wee Herman HBO special.
Keywords: social engineering; puppet chaos
Downloads: 50,258
Average rating: (25 reviews) |
| Way Stations In Space
Introduction to the basic scientific principles of using a manned space platform in helping explore the universe.
Keywords: yesterday's tomorrow today; SPACE!
Downloads: 15,642
Average rating: (5 reviews) |
| Good Health Practices, Part I
The makers of Soapy the Germ Fighter are back to teach other things to keep us healthy. Young Jim and Judy learn about proper eating, keeping clean, proper rest and good toilet habits. The enthusiastic narrator reminds us not to be bashful or silly about bathroom habits and that we should go whenever we feel like it.
Keywords: personal hygiene; talking soap
Downloads: 5,037
Average rating: (4 reviews) |
| Meat - From Range To Market
Gives an overview of the meat industry, including methods of inspection methods of cutting and packaging meats and uses of by-products. Includes beautiful assembly line footage of different aspects of meat processing.
Keywords: meat; assembly line
Downloads: 3,617
Average rating: (4 reviews) |
| Brothers and Sisters - filmstrip
Little Steve wishes that he didn't have so many siblings. But when he dreams that his siblings all go away, is he really happy? This ZIP file contains each individual frame as a separate TIFF.
Keywords: filmstrip
Downloads: 11,757
Average rating: (3 reviews) |
| Alphabet Conspiracy - Frank Capra Productions
Part of the Bell Science series. The story of the science of language and linguistics centered around plot to destroy the alphabet and all language. Features Dr. Frank Baxter and the brilliant Hans Conried.
Downloads: 6,284
Average rating: (2 reviews) |
| Democracy
Presents nature of meaning of democracy; develops keen appreciation for meaning of democracy by analyzing 4 major concepts on which exists substantial body of general agreement. Points out that true democracy is characterized by at least 2 signs. This is the companion film to Despotism which is located in the Prelinger Archive section.
Downloads: 4,384
Average rating: (2 reviews) |
| Halls Vapor Action Commercial
Halls Vapor Action television commercial.
Keywords: commercial
Downloads: 3,255
Average rating: (2 reviews) |
| Trying New Things - filmstrip - Vera Pickard
From the "Developing Your Personality" filmstrip series, we see Pete Harvey conquer his fears of trying a new thing - swimming. This ZIP file contains each individual frame as a separate TIFF.
Keywords: filmstrip
Downloads: 2,042
Average rating: (2 reviews) |
| Joy Ride - an Auto Theft
This cautionary tale was aimed towards young, thrill-seeking teens. The exciting car chase at the end of the film may have glamorized joy-riding to students more than actually demonize it. If nothing else, the film reveals the primary perpetrator of auto thefts - bored, horny boys.
Keywords: driver education; juvenile deliquency; kids in peril
Downloads: 12,821
Average rating: (15 reviews) |
| Squeak the Squirrel
Shows how a gold-mantled ground squirrel at Crater Lake National Park has learned to solve problems connected with getting food. Illustrates how an animal can learn to find food that is hidden from view or out of reach. This is one of the AV Geeks favorite films, mostly because Squeak is somewhat of a working class hero who, inspite of what obstacles "the Man" puts in his way, always perseveres.
Keywords: animals; wexler
Downloads: 11,679
Average rating: (7 reviews) |
| Hidden Grievance
Perhaps that Cajun-sounding employee has a bigger problem than what he keeps griping about and now the union is involved. What a mess! What is a foreman supposed to do?
Keywords: workplace politics
Downloads: 2,300
Average rating: (5 reviews) |
| Private SNAFU - Booby Traps - Robert Clampett
Private Snafu learns about the hazards of enemy booby traps the hard way. This is one of 26 Private SNAFU ('Situation Normal, All Fouled Up) cartoons made by the US Army Signal Corps to educate and boost the morale the troops. Originally created by Theodore Geisel (Dr. Seuss) and Phil Eastman, most of the cartoons were produced by Warner Brothers Animation Studios - employing their animators, voice actors (primarily Mel Blanc) and Carl Stalling's music.
Keywords: military; animation; Private SNAFU
Downloads: 79,723
Average rating: (8 reviews) |
| Grapevine, The
While trying to address the problems of gossip in the workplace, this film does an excellent job of offending everyone involved the overreacting manager, the nosey secretary and the chattering female grapevine participants. Shown to audiences nowadays, you can see folks flinch every time a female employee is referred to as a girl
Keywords: workplace politics
Downloads: 5,575
Average rating: (6 reviews) |
| Living with the Atom
Explains the atom as the basic structure of matter. Depicts the birth of the atomic age from Alamogordo, Hiroshima and Nagasaki through the development of the thermonuclear H-bomb. Addresses the morality behind the awesome power of atomic energy.
Keywords: science vs. religion
Downloads: 6,555
Average rating: (3 reviews) |
| Ghost Rider - George Thurman, Chuck Ungar
Kevin, feeling very sad and lonely after spending his first day in a new junior high school meets a young girl on his bus ride home who drops a pencil and suddenly disappears. Is this mysterious young girl a ghost of a girl who died on a bus years before? Why is she so adamant that Kevin learn bus safety rules? Like many films from the late 1970s and early 1980s, this film uses supernatural elements to keep kids' attention.
Keywords: school bus society; kids in peril
Downloads: 8,273
Average rating: (17 reviews) |
| Electric Eel
Irwin Moon shows us the electric eel and demonstrates its amazing abilities to shock fish for food and to use "radar" to find the fish.
Keywords: science vs. religion
Downloads: 21,397
Average rating: (7 reviews) |
| Brotherhood of Man, The
An animated film, in humorous style, which makes the point that dissimilarities between people are not basic but result from superficial environmental influences. Based on the pamphlet 'RACES OF MANKIND' by Ruth Benedict and Gene Weltfish. SPONSOR: United Auto Workers. PRODUCTION CO.: United Productions of America. DIRECTOR: Robert Cannon. WRITERS: Ring Lardner Jr., Maurice Rapf, Phil Eastman. MUSIC: Paul Smith...
Downloads: 4,452
Average rating: (4 reviews) |
| Know For Sure - Darryl F. Zanuck
A Hollywood-produced melodramatic short that deals with prophylaxis, diagnosis and clinical treatment of syphilis. Discusses follow-up treatment, sources of infection and community control. Unfortunately, this is edited version which is missing the graphic syphilis sores on male genetalia and the demonstrations on how to use condoms. (I say "unfortunately" because those scenes give the film a different tone than the milder version you'll see here...
Keywords: venereal disease; public hygiene
Downloads: 3,580
Average rating: (4 reviews) |
| Our Mr. Sun - Frank Capra Productions
From the description in Rick Prelinger's Field Guide to Sponsored Films: Popular scientific film directed by Frank Capra that launched the Bell System Science series. Combining animation and live action, Our Mr. Sun uses a scientist-writer team to present information about the sun and its importance to humankind. NOTE: Produced in Technicolor, the film was originally telecast in 1956 and 1957 to 9 million homes; some 600 16mm prints were distributed to schools and community organizations through...
Keywords: sun; bell science series; science; animation
Downloads: 22,150
Average rating: (4 reviews) |
| [Rural Civil Defense TV Spots 1965] - Dept of Civil Defense
Public service announcements by the U.S. Civil Defense office inform farmers what to do in case of nuclear attack using marionettes.
Keywords: civil defense; atomic; puppets
Downloads: 19,516
Average rating:  (9 reviews) |
| Carnivorous Plants
On the surface, this film may seem like an average biology film, but like most of films from the Moody Institute of Science, there is an ulterior motive. The filmÂs host Irwin Moon had an interest in science as a child and later incorporated that interest into his life as a pastor. He would tour the country giving his ÂSermons of Science where the marvels of science provide the visible evidence of a Divine plan of creation...
Keywords: science vs. religion
Downloads: 9,860
Average rating: (5 reviews) |
| Mystery of Time
On the surface, this film may seem like an average science film about time and space, but like most of films from the Moody Institute of Science, there is an ulterior motive. The films host Irwin Moon had an interest in science as a child and later incorporated that interest into his life as a pastor. He would tour the country giving his Sermons of Science where the marvels of science provide the visible evidence of a Divine plan of creation...
Keywords: religion vs. science
Downloads: 9,922
Average rating: (5 reviews) |
| Purely Coincidental
This film, aimed at food factory employees, lays on the heavy melodrama to make its point about the food safety. Guilt, assembly lines of food products and a dramatic soundtrack make this an A/V Geeks favorite.
Keywords: work safety; assembly line
Downloads: 5,902
Average rating: (5 reviews) |
| You and Your Work
Young Frank Taylor loathes working at a shoe store, but discovers that he is doomed to hate any job unless he changes his attitude. After a motivational lecture by his high school guidance counselor, Frank looks forward to working the rest of his life selling shoes.
Keywords: career counseling
Downloads: 3,295
Average rating: (5 reviews) |
| Your Junior High Days
This film prepares elementary school kids for the harsh lessons of junior high: You will no longer be the smartest or best athlete. Your carefree days of the teacher holding your hand are over. Your friends will leave you to befriend more interesting kids. You can be an individual by following the interests and clothing styles of the popular people. And finally, you are responsible for remembering your own gym locker combination.
Keywords: social engineering
Downloads: 6,499
Average rating: (5 reviews) |
| Face of Lincoln, The
Presents Professor Merrell Gage, retired head of the Department of Sculpture at the University of Southern California, describing the life and career of Abraham Lincoln as he sculpts a lifelike bust of the 16th President, making physical changes in the subject's hair, beard and expression to correspond to events in Lincoln's life.
Keywords: presidential history; Art with a capital A
Downloads: 4,576
Average rating: (6 reviews) |
| Down and Out
While attempting to show us the common hazards which cause workers to lose their balance, this film has more slapstick than most Three Stooges shorts - the films hero fall down more than thirty times. Its not clear whether the film was meant to be funny as workers probably were laughing at this poor schnook more than learning from his mistakes.
Keywords: work safety
Downloads: 6,288
Average rating: (7 reviews) |
| Buying Food
Made for home economics class, this is a primer on sensible food shopping. We learn to read canned food labels and get a glimpse at the mysterious grading system for various foods (and may understand why food grades are no longer advertised unless they are Grade A). Many of this films messages are still poignant today, especially since supermarkets are designed to encourage impulse buying.
Keywords: home economics
Downloads: 15,858
Average rating: (7 reviews) |
| I Like Bikes...
This quirky film educates young drivers to try to share the road with bicyclists. We follow the growth of Lisa from a pig-tailed bicyclist to a teen driver who now must tolerate unpredictable bike-riders. GM likes bikes too! It's narrated by Jim Stringer - who did much of the music for Centron Films in the late 1970s and 1980s.
Keywords: driver education; traffic safety
Downloads: 5,558
Average rating: (7 reviews) |
| Destruction: Fun or Dumb?
Deals with one of the major problems facing school administrators in every part of the country. Designed to make students realize that vandalism is dumb.
Downloads: 5,310
Average rating: (9 reviews) |
| Soapy The Germ Fighter
Young Billy Martin has to learn that being clean isnt the same as being a sissy. One night, a giant, talking cake of soap wearing tights and a puffy-sleeved shirt assures him of this fact. This film, like many personal hygiene films, taught kids about germs and what to do to avoid them in case their parents neglected to do so.
Keywords: personal hygiene
Downloads: 14,400
Average rating: (15 reviews) |
| 200
This trippy tribute to our country's 200th birthday was funded by a Bicentennial Project Grant and animated by Vincent Collins who made other psychedelic cartoons. This film was produced by the United States Information Agency -the government's propaganda agency.
Keywords: patriotism; propaganda
Downloads: 19,747
Average rating: (14 reviews) |
| Keep Off The Grass
Tom gets in trouble when his mother finds a joint in his room. Instead of punishing Tom, his father challenges him to learn more about marijuanas evil effects on society. Nobody gets killed in this Sid Davis film, yet Tom still learns a harsh lesson after being mugged by druggies and learning that his best friend sells pot to school children
Keywords: drugs; juvenile deliquency; sid davis
Downloads: 18,138
Average rating: (16 reviews) |
| Sudden Birth
This film was made to instruct police officers on the basics of childbirth and to show them an actual birth - mostly so they wouldn't panic or pass out when confronted with such a scenario. WARNING! The poor acting by actual police officers and doctors and low production values in this film make the live birth scene even more shocking than others from this genre.
Keywords: police training; miracle of birth
Downloads: 126,069
Average rating: (19 reviews) |
| Medical Quackery PSA
Keywords: avgeeks; PSA
Downloads: 5,612
Average rating: (7 reviews) |
| Innocent Party
Like many other Centron venereal disease films, Innocent Party focuses on the morality and emotions associated with venereal disease rather than the medical aspects. The actual mechanics of syphilis transmission are only briefly mentioned let alone prevention via condom use, yet the shame and anguish are clear for all to see. This film echoes the common theme found in many venereal disease films - that premarital sex leads to VD.
Keywords: venereal disease; public hygiene
Downloads: 10,113
Average rating: (7 reviews) |
| Sure, Mac, Sure... PSA
A humorous spot dispelling the myth that alcohol's effects can be reduced by eating food.
Keywords: driver education; evil alcohol
Downloads: 5,009
Average rating: (6 reviews) |
| Answering the Child's Why
A cautionary film for parents and teachers that dramatizes actual situations in which youngsters meet both positive and negative attitudes toward their questions. Suggests effects on their personalities of each type of attitude.
Keywords: mental hygiene
Downloads: 6,332
Average rating: (5 reviews) |
| Great American Chocolate Factory, The
A fascinating look at how milk chocolate is made. This film came to the AV Geeks archive by way of a Pennsylvania public school film library.
Keywords: assembly line; food
Downloads: 6,632
Average rating: (5 reviews) |
