![[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) |  |
| Ingenuity in Action (Part I) - Davis (Sid) Productions
Made for hot rod fans; explains how to prepare and enter a car show; also serves as an ethnographic account of the "nomadic tribe of hotrodders".
Keywords: Car culture: Youth; Car culture: Hot rods; California: History and culture
Downloads: 14,789
Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
| Styling and the Experimental Car
Illustrates the design process involving in making a new car - the Mustang.
Keywords: need keyword
Downloads: 29,799
Average rating:  (4 reviews) |  |
| Communism - Coronet Instructional Films
Educational film on the Cold War conflict.
Keywords: Cold War; Communism
Downloads: 44,511
Average rating:  (15 reviews) |  |
| Boy in Court - Willard Pictures, Inc.
Juvenile court labors to provide a humane alternative for rehabilitating at-risk youth offenders.
Keywords: Juvenile delinquency; Crime and criminals; Great Depression (1930s)
Downloads: 6,637
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| Blonde Stag Film
Keywords: need keyword; Stag
Downloads: 155,699
Average rating:  (20 reviews) |  |
| Profile In Blue - Norman Rafsol
A profile of the Nassau County Police Department's history and departments, set to an interesting music score.
Keywords: Police
Downloads: 4,198
Average rating: (4 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: 77,986
Average rating: (16 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) |  |
| 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) |  |
| 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) |  |
| [Countdown Leader: Technicolor Corporation]
Countdown leader.
Keywords: Motion pictures: Projection
Downloads: 73,791
Average rating: (12 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) |  |
| Hot Number
Keywords: Vintage Erotica
Downloads: 38,105
Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
| Brunette
Keywords: Vintage Erotica
Downloads: 98,947
Average rating: (7 reviews) |  |
| Red Chinese Battle Plan - U.S. Navy
Cold War-era anti-Chinese propaganda film featuring footage of revolutionary activities and combat, 1921-64.
Keywords: Cold War; China; Communism
Downloads: 25,215
Average rating: (7 reviews) |  |
| Woodworker, The - Holmes (Burton) Films, Inc.
Woodworking in mills, construction and cabinetmaking.
Keywords: Occupations: Woodworking
Downloads: 39,230
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| Cherry Knight
Keywords: Vintage Erotica; Erotic Dance
Downloads: 55,273
Average rating: (6 reviews) |  |
| Co-Ed Secrets Stag Film
Keywords: need keyword; Stag
Downloads: 93,299
Average rating: (21 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) |  |
| 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) |  |
| Sheree Tiger Dance
Vintage erotic dance video showing a woman named Sheree dancing first in a tiger-print outfit, then in a bikini.
Keywords: Vintage Erotica; Erotic Dance
Downloads: 39,815
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| 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) |  |
| Kings Mountain Airplane Crash - Universal-International Newsreel
Near Woodside, California: Aftermath of air crash on Kings Mountain hillside. Newsreel story.
Keywords: Newsreels; Aviation: Crashes; Disasters
Downloads: 8,354
Average rating: (5 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) |  |
| 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) |  |
| 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) |  |
| Going Steady? - Coronet Instructional Films
Attempts to provoke teens into discussion on the complex issue of going steady. Provides little support for the practice.
Keywords: Social guidance; Teenagers; Social guidance: Dating
Downloads: 26,599
Average rating: (11 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) |  |
| Peeping Toms Paradise
from tape 0517 PA8151 Burlesque (including Sheree) 016.10, PA6908
Keywords: need meta
Downloads: 105,803
Average rating: (14 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) |  |
| Breakfast Pals - Cartoon Films, Limited
Snap, Crackle and Pop take on Soggy, Mushy and Toughy.
Keywords: Advertising: Screen ads; Animation: Advertising; Agriculture: Food industry: Cereals
Downloads: 44,173
Average rating: (10 reviews) |  |
| Movie Trailers: "Marathon of Fright" - Unknown
Tongue-in-cheek horror movie trailer.
Keywords: Motion pictures: Trailers; Animation
Downloads: 15,197
Average rating: (6 reviews) |  |
| Indian Love Burlesque
Keywords: need meta
Downloads: 73,505
Average rating: (7 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) |  |
| In the Suburbs - On Film, Inc.
Thoughtfully made advertising sales promo film extolling 1950s suburbanites as citizens and consumers.
Keywords: Suburbia; Cold War; Consumerism
Downloads: 41,003
Average rating: (15 reviews) |  |
| Ingenuity in Action (Part II) - Davis (Sid) Productions
Made for hot rod fans; explains how to prepare and enter a car show; also serves as an ethnographic account of the "nomadic tribe of hotrodders".
Keywords: Car culture: Youth; Car culture: Hot rods; California: History and culture
Downloads: 15,813
Average rating: (5 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: 53,554
Average rating: (14 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) |  |
| A-Bomb Blast Effects
Footage from an atomic bomb test - perhaps Operation Tumbler-Snapper?
Keywords: need keyword
Downloads: 61,995
Average rating: (11 reviews) |  |
| How the Ear Functions - Bosse (Karl Kurt)
Structure and function of the human hearing system, with excellent animation.
Keywords: Perception: Sound; Animation
Downloads: 24,564
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| How to Be Well Groomed - Coronet Instructional Films
Siblings Don and Sue show how they keep themselves well groomed throughout the school week and for their Friday night dates.
Keywords: Social guidance; Health and hygiene
Downloads: 14,117
Average rating: (5 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) |  |
| [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) |  |
| Classic Television Commercials (Part II) - 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: 38,557
Average rating: (5 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: 56,192
Average rating: (31 reviews) |  |
| House in the Middle, The - National Paint, Varnish and Lacquer Association
Atomic tests at the Nevada Proving Grounds (later the Nevada Test Site) show effects on well-kept homes, homes filled with trash and combustibles, and homes painted with reflective white paint. Asserts that cleanliness is an essential part of civil defense preparedness and that it increased survivability. Selected for the 2002 National Film Registry of "artistically, culturally, and socially significant" films.
Keywords: Atomic-nuclear: Civil defense; Cold War; Waste disposal
Downloads: 42,772
Average rating: (36 reviews) |  |
| [Still Images of People Walking on New York Streets]
Downloads: 682
Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
| This Is My Railroad (Part I) - Unknown
Operations of the Southern Pacific Railroad, with many images of the territory that it serves. With excellent footage of snow management and removal operations in the Sierra Nevada mountains.
Keywords: Transportation: Railroad; U.S.: West; California: History and culture
Downloads: 18,343
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| This Is My Railroad (Part II) - Unknown
Operations of the Southern Pacific Railroad, with many images of the territory that it serves. With excellent footage of snow management and removal operations in the Sierra Nevada mountains.
Keywords: Transportation: Railroad; U.S.: West; California: History and culture
Downloads: 14,839
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
