![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Duck and Cover - Archer Productions, Inc.
Selected for the 2004 National Film Registry of "culturally, historically and aesthetically significant" motion pictures. Famous Civil Defense film for children in which Bert the Turtle shows what to do in case of atomic attack.
Keywords: Atomic-nuclear: Civil defense; Animation
Downloads: 461,339
Average rating:  (70 reviews) |  |
| My Japan - U.S. Treasury Department
Complex and disturbing anti-Japanese propaganda film produced to spur the sale of U.S. war bonds. CONTENT ADVISORY: Explicit racism and extreme violence.
Keywords: World War II: Japan; Propaganda; World War II: Homefront
Downloads: 221,592
Average rating: (80 reviews) |  |
| Perversion for Profit (Part I) - Unknown
Anti-pornography film produced by financier Charles Keating, linking pornography to the Communist conspiracy and the decline of Western civilization.
Keywords: Culture wars; Sexualities; Pornography
Downloads: 216,634
Average rating:  (66 reviews) |  |
| Are You Popular? - Coronet Instructional Films
One of the best examples of post-World War II social guidance films, with examples of "good" and "bad" girls, proper and improper dating etiquette, courtesy to parents, and an analysis of what makes some people popular and others not. A scream and a sobering document of postwar conformity. Director: Ted Peshak. Cinematography: Bill Rockar. Writers: Robert Chapin and Patricia Kealy. Editor: George Wilbern...
Keywords: Social guidance; Teenagers; Gender roles
Downloads: 186,440
Average rating: (43 reviews) |  |
| As Boys Grow - Medical Arts Productions
Sex education film aimed at teenage boys, with the coach as authority figure and teacher.
Keywords: Sex education; Children; Gender roles
Downloads: 173,510
Average rating: (20 reviews) |  |
| [Amateur film: New Orleans Carnival Week, February 22, 1941] - Unknowm
Mardi Gras: Parade of Nor.
Keywords: New Orleans; Mardi Gras; Celebrations
Downloads: 162,412
Average rating: (7 reviews) |  |
| Experiments in the Revival of Organisms - Techfilm Studio, Moscow
This disturbing film records the successful experiments in the resuscitation of life to dead animals (dogs), as conducted by Dr. S.S. Bryukhonenko at the Institute of Experimental Physiology and Therapy, Voronezh, U.S.S.R. Director: D.I. Yashin. Camera: E.V. Kashina. Narrator: Professor Walter B. Cannon. Introduced by Professor J.B.S. Haldane.
Keywords: Animals: Dogs; Medicine: Veterinary: Experiments; Life extension
Downloads: 161,706
Average rating: (37 reviews) |  |
| Boys Beware - Sid Davis
Anti-homosexual film targeted at teenage boys, urging them to avoid encounters with potential molesters.
Keywords: Homosexualities; Crime and criminals (Molestation); Los Angeles
Downloads: 160,402
Average rating: (104 reviews) |  |
| Blonde Stag Film
Keywords: need keyword; Stag
Downloads: 155,699
Average rating:  (20 reviews) |  |
| Day of Thanksgiving, A - Centron Corporation
An American family unable to afford a Thanksgiving turkey reviews the things for which they feel thankful. This patriotic film is unusual in that it does not link freedom and happiness with the pursuit of wealth. Produced with nonprofessional actors in Lawrence, Kansas. Written by Margaret Carlile (Trudy) Travis.
Keywords: Patriotism; Holidays: Thanksgiving; Families: 1950s
Downloads: 138,757
Average rating: (8 reviews) |  |
| Classic Television Commercials (Part I) - Various
Collection of TV commercials significant to the history and development of TV as an advertising medium.
Keywords: Advertising: Television commercials; Consumerism; Advertising: History
Downloads: 137,268
Average rating: (10 reviews) |  |
| Atom Bomb [Joe Bonica's Movie of the Month] - Bonica (Joe)
Early atomic weapons testing.
Keywords: Atomic-nuclear: Weapons; Cold War
Downloads: 116,526
Average rating: (26 reviews) |  |
| Lucky Strike Cigarette Commercial: Square Dance - Handy (Jam) Organization
Lucky Strike cigarette commercial with stop-motion animation of square-dancing cigarettes.
Keywords: Advertising: Television commercials; Substance abuse: Tobacco; Animation: Stop-motion
Downloads: 114,485
Average rating: (23 reviews) |  |
| Destination Earth - Sutherland (John) Productions
In this corporate-sponsored cartoon, Martian dissidents learn that oil and competition are the two things that make America great.
Keywords: Economics; Oil industry; Advertising: Animation
Downloads: 109,013
Average rating: (21 reviews) |  |
| Peeping Toms Paradise
from tape 0517 PA8151 Burlesque (including Sheree) 016.10, PA6908
Keywords: need meta
Downloads: 105,803
Average rating: (14 reviews) |  |
| Brunette
Keywords: Vintage Erotica
Downloads: 98,947
Average rating: (7 reviews) |  |
| A is for Atom - Sutherland (John) Productions
Animated classic presenting what an atom is, how energy is released from certain kinds of atoms, the peacetime uses of atomic energy and the byproducts of nuclear fission.
Keywords: Atomic-nuclear: Energy; Physics; Animation
Downloads: 96,017
Average rating: (22 reviews) |  |
| Afro Mood Burlesque
A burlesque short starring Amalia Aguilar. Part of "Joe Bonica presents the Movie of the Month" nudie film series.
Keywords: Burlesque
Downloads: 93,333
Average rating: (11 reviews) |  |
| Co-Ed Secrets Stag Film
Keywords: need keyword; Stag
Downloads: 93,299
Average rating: (21 reviews) |  |
| Make Mine Freedom - Sutherland (John) Productions
This Cold War-era cartoon uses humor to tout the dangers of Communism and the benefits of capitalism.
Keywords: Cold War; Animation: Advertising; Capitalism
Downloads: 83,091
Average rating: (28 reviews) |  |
| Dating: Do's and Don'ts - Coronet Instructional Films
Classic instructional film for teen daters, presented here in the rare (but incomplete) Kodachrome version.
Keywords: Social guidance; Social guidance: Dating; Gender roles
Downloads: 81,349
Average rating: (17 reviews) |  |
| Hindenburg Explodes
Footage from Castle and Pathé coverage of the Hindenburg disaster at Lakehurst. Also shots of the big ships over New York.
Keywords: need keyword
Downloads: 81,221
Average rating: (7 reviews) |  |
| [Countdown Leader: Technicolor Corporation]
Countdown leader.
Keywords: Motion pictures: Projection
Downloads: 73,791
Average rating: (12 reviews) |  |
| Indian Love Burlesque
Keywords: need meta
Downloads: 73,505
Average rating: (7 reviews) |  |
| Perversion for Profit (Part II) - Unknown
Anti-pornography film produced by financier Charles Keating, linking pornography to the Communist conspiracy and the decline of Western civilization.
Keywords: Culture wars; Sexualities; Pornography
Downloads: 71,074
Average rating: (38 reviews) |  |
| Molly Grows Up - Photo & Sound Productions for Medical Arts Productions
Menstruation education film for young teenage girls, redolent with dated detail.
Keywords: Sex education; Gender roles; Children
Downloads: 68,274
Average rating: (14 reviews) |  |
| Despotism - Encyclopaedia Britannica Films
Measures how a society ranks on a spectrum stretching from democracy to despotism. Explains how societies and nations can be measured by the degree that power is concentrated and respect for the individual is restricted. Where does your community, state and nation stand on these scales? The companion Encyclopedia Britannica Film "Democracy" can be found here.
Keywords: Political science
Downloads: 67,960
Average rating: (47 reviews) |  |
| Stripper #1
Downloads: 67,301
Average rating: (8 reviews) |  |
| In My Merry Oldsmobile - Fleischer Studios
Surprisingly licentious advertising cartoon produced by the Fleischer brothers.
Keywords: Animation: Advertising; Automobiles: Advertising; Sexualities
Downloads: 66,949
Average rating: (18 reviews) |  |
| Television Commercials (1950s-1960s) - Various
Examples of broadcast advertising from the 1950s and 1960s.
Keywords: Advertising: Television commercials; Consumerism
Downloads: 66,593
Average rating: (23 reviews) |  |
| Soundie - Reg Kehoe and his Marimba Queens
An amazing short by an "orchestra" of vibraphone players. Some viewers have noted that this film seems to be a mirror image of how things are supposed to be. This is because original Soundie films were printed backwards so that they could appear correct when played in the Panoram machine (an early film jukebox).
Keywords: soundie
Downloads: 64,754
Average rating:  (31 reviews) |  |
| A-Bomb Blast Effects
Footage from an atomic bomb test - perhaps Operation Tumbler-Snapper?
Keywords: need keyword
Downloads: 61,995
Average rating: (11 reviews) |  |
| Death to Weeds - Handy (Jam) Organization
Shows new herbicides incorporating 2-4-D.
Keywords: Herbicides; Chemical industry; Agriculture: Herbicides and pesticides
Downloads: 60,628
Average rating:  (5 reviews) |  |
| Survival Under Atomic Attack - U.S. Office of Civil Defense
"Explains" the dangers of the atomic bomb, the effects of radiation and how to protect oneself if caught in the open or in the home.
Keywords: Atomic-nuclear: Civil defense; Cold War
Downloads: 60,065
Average rating: (10 reviews) |  |
| Design for Dreaming - MPO Productions
Set at the 1956 General Motors Motorama, this is one of the key Populuxe films of the 1950s, showing futuristic dream cars and Frigidaire's "Kitchen of the Future."
Keywords: Futurism; Automobiles: Advertising; Gender roles
Downloads: 57,239
Average rating: (22 reviews) |  |
| One Got Fat: Bicycle Safety - Interlude Films
A group of children, all wearing ape masks, rides their bicycles to the park for a picnic. Along the way, all but one are eliminated for violating basic bike safety rules. This strange film was narrated by Edward Everett Horton. Script and Direction: Dale Jennings. Photography: Max Hutto. Art Direction: Ralph Hulett. With Dick Hutto, Janice Powell, Lucie Hagens, Ralph Hulett, Clyde L. Johnson, Dave Hembree, Colleen Hutto, Charles Hagens, Kevin Lindsay, Dan Whitehead, Don Moody, Diane Chambers, S...
Keywords: Bicycles; Safety: Bicycle; Animals: Apes
Downloads: 56,952
Average rating: (32 reviews) |  |
| Shake Hands With Danger - Centron Productions
Safety film about dangers associated with earthmoving equipment operation, showing many great simulated accidents on construction sites. CONTENT ADVISORY: May be frightening and surprising to some viewers, and contains great country-style song by a Johnny Cash-soundalike.
Keywords: Safety: Occupational; Music: Country and Western; Motion pictures: Stunts
Downloads: 56,520
Average rating: (20 reviews) |  |
| Cherry Knight
Keywords: Vintage Erotica; Erotic Dance
Downloads: 55,273
Average rating: (6 reviews) |  |
| Corvair in Action, The - Handy (Jam) Organization
Promotional film for the controversial Chevrolet Corvair.
Keywords: Automobiles: Advertising
Downloads: 54,446
Average rating: (20 reviews) |  |
| Tale of Two Cities, A - U.S. War Department
How the atomic bomb destroyed the people and cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan.
Keywords: World War II: Japan; Atomic-nuclear: Weapons; World War II: Nuclear weapons
Downloads: 54,274
Average rating: (13 reviews) |  |
| Detroit: City on the Move - Handy (Jam) Organization
Promotional film made for the City of Detroit, an unsuccessful bidder for the Olympic Games. With views of city highways, automobile manufacturing, a diverse population, and social activities, all shot prior to the city's economic decline.
Keywords: Detroit, Michigan; City planning; Race relations
Downloads: 53,870
Average rating: (15 reviews) |  |
| Social-Sex Attitudes in Adolescence - Crawley Films, Ltd.
Social-sex development of Bill and Mary and how they came to meet, fall in love and marry.
Keywords: Sex education; Social guidance; Gender roles
Downloads: 53,842
Average rating: (7 reviews) |  |
| Human Reproduction - Audio Productions, Inc.
Though this sex education film concentrates on presenting the anatomy and physiology of human reproduction in sober medical terms, its release kicked off a controversy in many American cities and towns over the legitimacy of sex education in the public schools. The film is narrated from the point of view of an adult who tries to decide how to answer his son's natural questions about sex and reproduction...
Keywords: Sex education; Biology: Reproduction; Families
Downloads: 53,568
Average rating: (6 reviews) |  |
| Cheerios/V-8 - Filmways (?)
Cereal commercial targeted at children of the space age.
Keywords: Space: Culture; Advertising: Television commercials; Agriculture: Food industry: Cereals
Downloads: 51,890
Average rating: (18 reviews) |  |
| Communications Primer, A
PA9049 Communications Primer, A 16 Eastmancolor print
Downloads: 49,172
Average rating: (5 reviews) |  |
| Malibu Mermaid
Mild stag film starring Adele Doleman
Keywords: need keyword
Downloads: 47,746
Average rating: (8 reviews) |  |
| Living Stereo - Handy (Jam) Organization
Introducing stereophonic phonograph records.
Keywords: Media: Phonograph
Downloads: 47,524
Average rating: (7 reviews) |  |
| Stillman Fires Collection: Tacoma Fire Dept
Footage of the Tacoma Narrows bridge wobbling and eventually, collapsing. from Stillman Fires Collection.
Keywords: need keyword
Downloads: 47,179
Average rating: (13 reviews) |  |
| Our Enemy: The Japanese - U.S. Office of War Information, Bureau of Motion Pictures
Stridently anti-Japanese film that attempts to convey an understanding of Japanese life and philosophy so that the U.S. may more readily defeat its enemy. Depicts the Japanese as "primitive, murderous and fanatical." With many images of 1930s and 1940s Japan, and a portentious and highly negative narration by Joseph C. Grew, former U.S. ambassador to Japan.
Keywords: World War II: Japan; Propaganda
Downloads: 45,688
Average rating: (6 reviews) |  |
| Your Name Here - Calvin Communications
The ultimate generic industrial film, built around every script and visual cliche.
Keywords: Motion pictures: Production; Motion pictures: Sponsored; Humor
Downloads: 44,759
Average rating: (37 reviews) |  |
