![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | 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: 129,082
Average rating:  (19 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) |  |
| 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: 52,812
Average rating:  (26 reviews) |  |
| Gay Sex before Zippers - Chris Carlsson
Harry Hay describes gay sex when BVD's were still predominant underwear, before zippers in the 1930s... men would meet at Presidio guardhouse and go into the bushes.
Keywords: Presidio; Gay Sex; Harry Hay
Downloads: 42,295
Average rating:  (8 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: 48,427
Average rating: (25 reviews) |  |
| San Francisco celebrates VE Day 1918
Newsreel footage from the Market Street celebration of the end of WWI in San Francisco, 1918.
Keywords: WWI; San Francisco; 1918
Downloads: 15,143
Average rating: (5 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: 18,229
Average rating: (11 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: 68,315
Average rating: (22 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: 20,043
Average rating: (9 reviews) |  |
| Congruent Triangles - Bruce and Katharine Cornwell
Bruce and Katharine Cornwell are primarily known for a series of remarkable animated films on the subject of geometry. Created on the Tektronics 4051 Graphics Terminal, they are brilliant short films, tracing Klee-like geometric shapes to intriguing music, including the memorable 'Bach meets Third Steam Jazz' musical score in ‘Congruent Triangles.’ In this melding of art and science, the Cornwells create a quasi-hypnotic take on a mathematical construct.
Keywords: mathematics, science
Downloads: 7,532
Average rating:  (2 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: 27,545
Average rating: (6 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: 22,789
Average rating: (4 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: 13,741
Average rating: (13 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: 80,208
Average rating: (8 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: 22,428
Average rating: (7 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: 17,978
Average rating: (9 reviews) |  |
| Pop Goes The Whistle - Darrell Wright
Is somebody crazy? Pop Goes the Whistle.
Keywords: Intermission; Popcorn; Drive In Movie Advertisement
Downloads: 19,732
Average rating:  (18 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: 9,699
Average rating: (5 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: 3,960
Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
| Gateways to the Mind
The story of what science has learned about the human senses and how they function. Includes documentary sequences.
Downloads: 8,411
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: 144,555
Average rating: (9 reviews) |  |
| Square Dancing - Bob Osgood
"Sets In Order", a magazine devoted to square dancing, created this film to attract new audiences.
Keywords: dancing
Downloads: 6,612
Average rating: (2 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: 16,118
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: 9,750
Average rating: (2 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: 12,912
Average rating: (11 reviews) |  |
| Operation Ivy
Detonation of the hydrogen bomb.
Downloads: 38,908
Average rating: (17 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: 15,852
Average rating: (5 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: 10,055
Average rating: (5 reviews) |  |
| Cigarettes (version 2)
Get the item that adds to your personal comfort. Lucky Strike cigarette commercial with stop-motion animation of square-dancing cigarettes. Teleconference meeting filmed in New York City, with participation from, and shown to, Philip Morris employees in various cities around the United States, to educate employees about public policy issues facing the Philip Morris companies and to encourage them to become politically active on those matters...
Keywords: Intermission; Cigarettes; Drive In Movie Advertisements
Downloads: 14,226
Average rating:  (1 review) |  |
| The Story - ACI Productions
A filmmaker, Homer, records his young son, Matt, telling an imaginative story to his two younger sisters, Lisa and Maggie. Records the spontaneous tale with all the interruptions, comments and reactions of the sister. Can you name the celebrity in this film?
Keywords: before they were famous
Downloads: 13,930
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: 10,089
Average rating: (5 reviews) |  |
| [Sperm footage]
Lab footage of sperm.
Keywords: sperm
Downloads: 6,957
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| Twenty-Five Hour Day
Keywords: military; Vietnam
Downloads: 8,524
Average rating: (5 reviews) |  |
| White Night Riot
Riot and destruction at City Hall in the wake of the slap-on-the-wrist manslaughter verdict against Dan White, murderer of Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone.
Keywords: riot; White Night; Harvey Milk
Downloads: 12,718
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| Trouble With Women, The
With such a provocative title, this film illustrates some of the perceived problems a supervisor might face working with women, but ultimately demonstrates where the real problem lies. The irritated supervisor in this film shows up again in The Grapevine.
Keywords: workplace politics; gender issues
Downloads: 11,491
Average rating: (7 reviews) |  |
| Goldilocks and the Three Bears
The classic fable is told with live trained bears and a cloyingly sweet young girl.
Keywords: kids and kritters; kids in peril
Downloads: 8,846
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| 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: 18,322
Average rating: (16 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: 15,182
Average rating: (8 reviews) |  |
| Medical Quackery PSA
Keywords: avgeeks; PSA
Downloads: 5,757
Average rating: (7 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: 6,710
Average rating: (3 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: 11,899
Average rating: (3 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: 14,521
Average rating: (15 reviews) |  |
| Harvey Milk's Last Words
Harvey Milk's last words, delivered posthumously, recorded in case of his assassination... excerpted from The Life and Times of Harvey Milk.
Keywords: Harvey Milk; last words; Gay
Downloads: 13,351
Average rating: (2 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: 6,458
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: 12,959
Average rating: (15 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: 10,224
Average rating: (7 reviews) |  |
| Crowds at Ocean Beach
Turn of the 19th century crowds at Ocean Beach
Keywords: Ocean Beach; Cliff House; 1900
Downloads: 3,430
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| Post-Quake scenes
Footage taken about a month after the massive earthquake and fire of 1906.
Keywords: Earthquake; Fire; 1906
Downloads: 7,760
Average rating:  (5 reviews) |  |
| Case for Beer, A
A cautionary film for convenience store owners about underage alcohol sales.
Keywords: happy alcohol
Downloads: 7,282
Average rating: (8 reviews) |  |
| The Farm - Kathy Katz and Mike Kavanaugh
An excerpt from a 45-minute documentary about The Farm, the remarkable rural oasis under the freeways in San Francisco from 1974-1986, an autonomous zone that housed farm animals, rehearsal and performance space, theater and punk rock...
Keywords: Farm; San Francisco; 1970s
Downloads: 6,542
Average rating: (7 reviews) |  |
