![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Ride for Cinderella, A - Handy (Jam) Organization
Cinderella relies on a Chevrolet to carry her home by midnight through obstacles and storms.
Keywords: Animation: Advertising; Folk tales; Automobiles: Advertising
Downloads: 29,613
Average rating:  (7 reviews) |  |
| Ask Me, Don't Tell Me - Myers (David)
San Francisco teenage gangs and the unfriendly world they inhabit.
Keywords: San Francisco: Juvenile delinquents; Teenagers; Juvenile delinquency
Downloads: 22,767
Average rating: (6 reviews) |  |
| Safety: In Danger Out of Doors
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Downloads: 7,501
Average rating: (6 reviews) |  |
| Master Hands (Part I) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Classic "capitalist realist" drama showing the manufacture of Chevrolets from foundry to finished vehicles. Though ostensibly a tribute to the "master hands" of the assembly line workers, it seems more of a paean to the designers of this impressive mass production system. Filmed in Flint, Michigan, just months before the United Auto Workers won union recognition with their famous sitdown strikes. Released the same year as two other films with which it shares similarities: MODERN TIMES and TRIUMP...
Keywords: Automobiles: Manufacturing; Labor: 1930s; Occupations: Automotive
Downloads: 21,546
Average rating: (5 reviews) |  |
| [Amateur film: Medicus collection: New York World's Fair, 1939-40] (Reel 5) (Part III) - Medicus (P.)
Detailed documentation of the "World of Tomorrow" in beautiful Kodachrome.
Keywords: World's Fairs: New York, 1939-40; Amateur films
Downloads: 11,831
Average rating: (5 reviews) |  |
| Modes of the Moment - Unknown
Early "footery fashions" film sponsored by the Walk-Over Company.
Keywords: Shoes; Fashion
Downloads: 7,928
Average rating: (5 reviews) |  |
| Step-Saving Kitchen - U.S. Department of Agriculture, Motion Picture Service
Demonstrating a U-shaped kitchen developed by the housing staff of the Bureau of Human Nutrition and Home Economics. Advocates and demonstrates modern farm kitchens. Direction: Irving Rusinow. Subject Matter: Lenore E. Sater, Helen Holbrook. Script: Frances R. Wasser. Camera: Homer Boor. Narration: Lenore E. Sater. Sound: Reuben Ford. Functional House Dresses: Clarice Scott and Staff.
Keywords: Houses and homes: Kitchens; Occupations: Housework; Gender roles
Downloads: 9,165
Average rating: (5 reviews) |  |
| Angry Boy (Part I) - Affiliated Film Producers
Alexander Hammid's sensitive narrative of how a pre-adolescent boy is helped by a psychiatrist to come to terms with his feelings.
Keywords: Psychology; Medicine: Psychiatry; Children: Psychology
Downloads: 13,255
Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
| Mother Takes a Holiday (Part II) - Handy (Jam) Organization
How the all-electric home emancipates women: a drama of how the women in the family manipulate their men to upgrade the laundry facilities.
Keywords: Gender roles; Appliances: Sales; Home economics: Laundry
Downloads: 9,082
Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
| World's Fair Night Aerials
Keywords: need meta
Downloads: 6,012
Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
| Volcanoes
Downloads: 9,902
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| American Girl, An - the Problems of Prejudice (Part I)
An adolescent girl in a small town tests her democratic heritage when she pretends to be Jewish and encounters prejudice. She explores the problem of antiSemitism by reading her diary at a PTA meeting.
Keywords: need keyword
Downloads: 4,447
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| Just a Spark - Handy (Jam) Organization
Chevrolet automobiles fight forest fires.
Keywords: Automobiles: Engineering
Downloads: 2,846
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| Master Hands (Part IV) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Classic "capitalist realist" drama showing the manufacture of Chevrolets from foundry to finished vehicles. Though ostensibly a tribute to the "master hands" of the assembly line workers, it seems more of a paean to the designers of this impressive mass production system. Filmed in Flint, Michigan, just months before the United Auto Workers won union recognition with their famous sitdown strikes. Selected for the 1999 National Film Registry of "artistically, culturally, and socially significant"...
Keywords: Automobiles: Manufacturing; Labor: 1930s; Occupations: Automotive
Downloads: 8,518
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| [Amateur film: Medicus collection: New York World's Fair, 1939-40] (Reel 2) (Part I) - Medicus (P.)
Detailed documentation of the "World of Tomorrow" in beautiful Kodachrome.
Keywords: World's Fairs: New York, 1939-40; Amateur films
Downloads: 13,563
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| [Amateur film: Medicus collection: New York World's Fair, 1939-40] (Reel 2) (Part III) - Medicus (P.)
Detailed documentation of the "World of Tomorrow" in beautiful Kodachrome.
Keywords: World's Fairs: New York, 1939-40; Amateur films
Downloads: 9,478
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| America Goes Over (Part II) - U.S. Army, Signal Corps
Government-produced historical record of major World War I battles.
Keywords: World War I
Downloads: 8,904
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| Chevrolet Leader News (Vol. 3, No. 2) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Promotional newsreel containing a variety of Chevrolet-centric stories.
Keywords: Car culture: Newsreels; Automobiles: Advertising
Downloads: 13,736
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| Divide and Conquer (Part II) - U.S. War Department
Shows the German invasion of Denmark, Norway, Holland, Belgium and France, including the evacuation of the British forces at Dunkirk. From the "Why We Fight" series.
Keywords: World War II: General; World War II: Europe
Downloads: 15,139
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| Freedom and Power (Part II) - Wolff (Raphael G.) Studios, Inc.
This opulently produced film defines freedom as the abundance of electric power, and reviews U.S. history from an electrocentric viewpoint. With animation.
Keywords: Electricity; Patriotism; Animation: Advertising
Downloads: 5,573
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| From the Ground Up - Unknown
Promotional film for "Nutrilite," a 1950s-vintage food supplement.
Keywords: Agriculture: Food industry: Supplements; Nutrition
Downloads: 13,871
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| Golden Years, The - Handy (Jam) Organization
Bowling made respectable and appealing to middle-class Americans through modernization and "Populuxe" design.
Keywords: Recreation; Sports: Bowling; Families
Downloads: 18,951
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| Good Eating Habits - Coronet Instructional Films
Drama focusing on gluttony and "hidden hunger," where well-nourished people eat poorly and malnourish themselves.
Keywords: Nutrition; Food; Social guidance
Downloads: 10,590
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| Looking Ahead Through Rohm & Haas Plexiglas (Part II) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Plastics industry makes the transition from military applications to peacetime futuristic designs.
Keywords: Materials: Plastics; Design
Downloads: 7,571
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| Master Hands (Part II) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Classic "capitalist realist" drama showing the manufacture of Chevrolets from foundry to finished vehicles. Though ostensibly a tribute to the "master hands" of the assembly line workers, it seems more of a paean to the designers of this impressive mass production system. Filmed in Flint, Michigan, just months before the United Auto Workers won union recognition with their famous sitdown strikes. Selected for the 1999 National Film Registry of "artistically, culturally, and socially significant"...
Keywords: Automobiles: Manufacturing; Labor: 1930s; Occupations: Automotive
Downloads: 8,200
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| Master Hands (Part III) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Classic "capitalist realist" drama showing the manufacture of Chevrolets from foundry to finished vehicles. Though ostensibly a tribute to the "master hands" of the assembly line workers, it seems more of a paean to the designers of this impressive mass production system. Filmed in Flint, Michigan, just months before the United Auto Workers won union recognition with their famous sitdown strikes. Selected for the 1999 National Film Registry of "artistically, culturally, and socially significant"...
Keywords: Automobiles: Manufacturing; Labor: 1930s; Occupations: Automotive
Downloads: 6,316
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| [News Magazine of the Screen, December 1950] (Part I) - Warner Pathe News
Newsreel stories reformatted for educational presentation, including the assassination attempt on President Harry S. Truman.
Keywords: Newsreels; Presidents
Downloads: 6,146
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| Steel: A Symphony of Industry - Audio Productions
Dramatic presentation of steel production.
Keywords: Metals: Steel; Labor: 1930s
Downloads: 9,527
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| Universal-International Newsreel
Keywords: Newsreels; Lyndon B. Johnson; Barrel Jumping
Downloads: 4,797
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| Adelante Cubanos (Part II) - Professional Films
Exhorts the Cuban people to support industrialization on the island and the production of consumer goods.
Keywords: Cuba
Downloads: 3,636
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| America Goes Over (Part IV) - U.S. Army, Signal Corps
Government-produced historical record of major World War I battles.
Keywords: World War I
Downloads: 6,755
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| American Girl, An - the Problems of Prejudice (Part II)
An adolescent girl in a small town tests her democratic heritage when she pretends to be Jewish and encounters prejudice. She explores the problem of antiSemitism by reading her diary at a PTA meeting.
Keywords: need keyword
Downloads: 2,312
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| Conductor, Part 3
Downloads: 380
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| Day is New, The - U.S. Office of Inter-American Affairs
Life and daily activities of the residents of Mexico City.
Keywords: Mexico; Mexico City; World War II: Good Neighbor Policy
Downloads: 1,080
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| Divide and Conquer (Part III) - U.S. War Department
Shows the German invasion of Denmark, Norway, Holland, Belgium and France, including the evacuation of the British forces at Dunkirk. From the "Why We Fight" series.
Keywords: World War II: General; World War II: Europe
Downloads: 11,949
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| Divide and Conquer (Part IV) - U.S. War Department
Shows the German invasion of Denmark, Norway, Holland, Belgium and France, including the evacuation of the British forces at Dunkirk. From the "Why We Fight" series.
Keywords: World War II: General; World War II: Europe
Downloads: 11,687
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| Evening at Home (Service): A Film Lesson in Citizenship, An
Downloads: 587
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| [Amateur film: Golden Gate International Exposition] - Unknown
Amateur pictures, including aerials and color shot from ground level, of the San Francisco World's Fair on Treasure Island.
Keywords: World's Fairs: San Francisco, 1939-40; Amateur films
Downloads: 10,617
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| International Moves the Browns to Sterling Street - Handy (Jam) Organization
Motivational film for International Silver salespeople describing how installment buying has made silver tableware available to a broad range of consumers.
Keywords: Consumerism; Marriage; Sales: Training
Downloads: 3,555
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| Know the Cause
Downloads: 2,599
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| Laboratory Diagnosis of Rabies, The
Downloads: 1,053
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| [Lincoln Highway Dedication] - Unknown
Dedication of the western terminus of the Lincoln Highway (old U.S. 30), the legendary transcontinental route, in Lincoln Park, San Francisco.
Keywords: San Francisco: Infrastructure; Infrastructure: Roads and highways; Celebrations
Downloads: 14,766
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| Miracles From Agriculture - U.S. Department of Agriculture
Presents today's supermarkets as the showplaces of agriculture; discusses methods of improvement in the growing, handling, processing, and shipping of food products.
Keywords: Agriculture: Food industry; Consumerism
Downloads: 4,359
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| Modern New Orleans
Downloads: 3,559
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| News Magazine of the Screen, The (Vol. 7, Issue 6) - Warner Pathé News
Newsreel stories reformatted for classroom use.
Keywords: Newsreels
Downloads: 2,106
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| News Magazine of the Screen
Downloads: 1,853
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| Open Door: The Story of Foreman Jim Baxter and His Family, The (Part II) - Handy (Jam) Organization
A General Motors foreman learns not just to be a better manager, but where his place is in the system of production.
Keywords: Management
Downloads: 1,507
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| Open Road, The - Telefilm Industries, Inc.
Downloads: 872
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| Stillman Fires Collection: Empire State Building
from Stillman Fires Collection.
Keywords: need keyword
Downloads: 3,337
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| Science in Action: Aero Medicine (Part II) - California Academy of Sciences
Kinescope of Fifties science TV program featuring discussions and demonstrations. This episode is dedicated to the study of the effects of space travel on human physiology.
Keywords: Science; Television programs; Space: Culture; Health and Hygiene
Downloads: 1,628
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
