![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | 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) |
| 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) |
| Santa Claus' Punch and Judy
Santa magically creates a Punch and Judy puppet show to the delight of children at a Christmas party. WARNING! Parents may wish to watch this before exposing innocent eyes to the comic brutality of a Punch and Judy puppet show from the late 1940s - including some very non-PC scenes. Punch & Judy professor/historian Geoff Felix describes the film: The value of this film is that it is a record of a performance by George Prentice whose Punch and Judy show achieved great popularity in Variety during...
Keywords: Santa; puppet chaos; senseless violence
Downloads: 13,328
Average rating: (13 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) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| Wonder of Water
Attention is drawn to the interesting chemical structure of water and then to its amazing life-sustaining properties.
Keywords: science vs. religion
Downloads: 3,021
Average rating:  (3 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) |
| Our Obligation - Los Angeles Fire Department
Amazing work of melodrama for PTAs and school boards, this film tells the story of a school fire, the panic that developed and the loss of life that occurred. Discusses the obligation of teachers, school administrators and parents to provide fireproof buildings and all other safety devices necessary to prevent fires.
Downloads: 2,000
Average rating: (5 reviews) |
| If Mirrors Could Speak : Self-Image Film
In hopes of keeping kids' attention, social engineering films would often use supernatural elements to make their points. In this film, we see a magic talking mirror that reflects bratty kids as clowns. Most of the misbehaving kids understand how their behavior is disruptive and make amends. Surprisingly, one kid doesnt care if he is a "clown" and continues being a jerk probably for the rest of his life...
Keywords: social engineering
Downloads: 144,199
Average rating:  (9 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) |
| Private SNAFU - The Home Front
Private Snafu imagines the good times his family is having back home while he's stationed in the Arctic. Technical Fairy First Class shows that even his family is helping with the war effort - his dad building tanks, his mom planting a Victory Garden, Grandpa riveting battleships, and his girl joining the WAC's and even the family's horse is pitching in. 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 th...
Keywords: military; animation; Private SNAFU
Downloads: 26,957
Average rating: (6 reviews) |
| Drugs Are Like That
Anita Bryant (famous Florida orange juice and anti-gay spokeswoman) narrates this film that tries to simplify its drug abuse message with an analogy of kids putting together a contraption out of Lego blocks. Although the metaphors often don't make sense, the visual impact of the film is stunning and could easily be quite popular with individuals consuming illicit drugs. Also, like most anti-drug films, this could be a tempting introduction to drugs for some youths yearning to escape their "borin...
Keywords: drugs
Downloads: 47,589
Average rating: (24 reviews) |
| Appreciating Our Parents
Young Tommy sneaks around and discovers that his parents work hard to take care of him and his messes. After watching them slave and toil, he learns that he should be "a real member of his family team," so he can get a bigger allowance. Films like this tried to introduce kids to the idea of being a productive member of society.
Keywords: social engineering
Downloads: 4,004
Average rating: (7 reviews) |
| Comparative Tests On A Human And A Chimpanzee Infant Of Approximately The Same Age, Part 2 - Pennsylvania State Univ. Psych. Cinema Register
Compares the reactions of a normal human infant between the ages of 10 and 14.5 months to psychological tests, and the responses of a chimpanzee companion, age 7.5 to 12 months, to the same tests. Brings out the effects of different rates of growth and learning abilities and illustrates the capacity of the animal to outdo the child in many tests. Includes hand preference, startle reaction time, delayed reaction, cap-on-head, detour, tickle, ice and rotation test.
Downloads: 9,426
Average rating: (2 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) |
| Among Your Souvenirs
Portrays the menace foreign plant and animal pests present to U S Agriculture and Public Health. Shows how tourists unwittingly bring serious foreign pests into the United States in innocent looking items. Depicts Inspections carried on to stop these invasions.
Keywords: tourists; souvenirs; government
Downloads: 447
Average rating: (4 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) |
| Operation Ivy
Detonation of the hydrogen bomb.
Downloads: 38,656
Average rating: (17 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) |
| National Drinking Game PSA
The disembodied voice shows up a lively party and manages to make everybody feel bad about drinking by having them play the "National Drinking Game" - a quiz to help determine if a person is an alcoholic. NOTE - This clip has a complete film countdown along with a "china girl" (not a girl of Chinese origin, but a clip of an attractive girl used by film processors to ensure that colors - such as skin tones - are being accurately duplicated).
Keywords: PSA; evil alcohol
Downloads: 12,698
Average rating: (11 reviews) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| Duncan Hines Cake Mix Commercial
Duncan Hines Cake Mix Commercial
Keywords: commercial
Downloads: 4,096
Average rating: (4 reviews) |
| Hellman's Mayonnaise Commercial
Hellman's Mayonnaise television commercial
Keywords: commercial
Downloads: 4,972
Average rating: (6 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) |
| 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) |
| Let's Make A Sandwich
Sally Gasco (short for "gas company") and her mother make tuna rarebit for their young boy guests. Thanks to their gas stove, this process is quick and easy.
Keywords: food; sponsored film
Downloads: 7,494
Average rating: (8 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) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| Pampers Commercial
Pampers commercial for television
Keywords: commercial
Downloads: 5,219
Average rating:  (3 reviews) |
| Parent To Child About Sex
While this films producers should be applauded for their sensible approach in teaching parents how to talk to kids about sex, the awkward reading of cue cards and embarrassing situations will produce nervous giggles among even the most jaded audiences. This film was produced by some of the pioneers of sex education whose ideas are still being challenged by school boards today.
Keywords: puberty
Downloads: 17,590
Average rating: (11 reviews) |
| Talking Car, The
This remake of a 1953 film attempts to teach youngsters to see and be seen before crossing the street. The kid, played by Brian Forster, starred on Partridge Family a year later.
Keywords: traffic safety
Downloads: 6,229
Average rating: (4 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) |
| Bicycle Safety
Points out that the bicycle rider is responsible for maintaining the bicycle in good condition, obeying traffic rules and watching out for others. The film also reads like a laundry list of hazardous things to attempt on your bicycle! Those familiar with Lawrence, Kansas (Centron's home) may recognize some landmarks.
Downloads: 3,668
Average rating: (6 reviews) |
| Ole' 23 - John Eggert
A teacher hopes to instill a sense of responsibility in his students by having them "fix up" the school's activity bus. Will it work?
Keywords: school bus society; jocks vs. geeks
Downloads: 2,139
Average rating: (4 reviews) |
| Goodbye to Garbage
This film introduces housewives to the miracle appliance that is the garbage disposal.
Downloads: 2,336
Average rating: (3 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) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| Skipper Learns A Lesson
In a departure from Sid Davis' traditional "kids in peril" scenarios, this film introduces us to Skipper - a bigoted dog who doesnt like the "funny looking' diverse neighborhood kids that his owner is playing with. Skipper also has problems with the neighborhood dogs, but learns his lesson when he accidentally gets covered in poster paint. Even though this film is awkward and the message is forced, it is one of the first made for young children that addresses the problems of racial intolerance.
Keywords: social engineering; kids and kritters
Downloads: 2,958
Average rating: (7 reviews) |
| Seagrams Nightmare
An odd comedy skit/salespitch for Seven Crown liquor for bar owners. While this film doesn't have a proper title, the tail leader says "Seagrams Nightmare".
Keywords: happy alcohol
Downloads: 4,307
Average rating: (7 reviews) |
| Alcohol Is Dynamite
Teens Bud and Jack, eager to get some alcohol from the liquor store, ask the adult to buy it for them. Instead, the adult tells them a story of three teenagers who learn the hard way that "alcohol is a violent narcotic. In true Sid Davis form, the story ends with one innocent teen being killed and one who becomes an alcoholic bum, leaving the others to deal with guilt from their night of reckless abandon
Keywords: evil alcohol; juvenile deliquency; kids in peril; sid davis
Downloads: 14,984
Average rating: (8 reviews) |
| [Sperm footage]
Lab footage of sperm.
Keywords: sperm
Downloads: 6,789
Average rating: (2 reviews) |
