![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Democracy
Presents nature of meaning of democracy; develops keen appreciation for meaning of democracy by analyzing 4 major concepts on which exists substantial body of general agreement. Points out that true democracy is characterized by at least 2 signs. This is the companion film to Despotism which is located in the Prelinger Archive section.
Downloads: 4,384
Average rating:  (2 reviews) |  |
| Formations - Handy (Jam) Organization
Defensive driving film explaining the importance of awareness of surrounding vehicles.
Keywords: Safety: Driving; Automobiles: Advertising
Downloads: 2,438
Average rating:  (2 reviews) |  |
| Foundation Foods - Avis Films
Keywords: Nutrition
Downloads: 2,513
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| Laboratory Diagnosis of Rabies, The
Downloads: 1,053
Average rating:  (1 review) |  |
| Trichinosis - University of Iowa
Shows how trichinosis infestation occurs. Describes the preparation of microscope slide specimens and, through photomicrographic sequences, the life history of the parasite. CONTENT ADVISORY: Distasteful scenes of infested animals.
Keywords: Health and hygiene; Animals: Pigs; Veterinary medicine: Trichinosis
Downloads: 3,387
Average rating:  (2 reviews) |  |
| Max Fleischer News Sketches
Humorous "sketches" of human interest stories by Max Fleischer, who headed Handy's animation department in the mid 1940s and 1950s.
Keywords: need keyword
Downloads: 5,333
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| Meet Your Federal Government
Reviews the structure and function of the federal government, as seen through the eyes of a high-school senior. Explains the nature and functions of each of the three main branches and the system of checks and balances.
Downloads: 1,515
Average rating:  (3 reviews) |  |
| Romance of a Lemon - Castle Films
Elegy to the sour fruit: how it's farmed and how it's used, with some unusual applications.
Keywords: Agriculture: Citrus; California: History and culture
Downloads: 2,639
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| Unwelcome Affection
Keywords: Motion Pictures: Government; Sexual Harrassment; Social Guidance
Downloads: 3,169
Average rating:  (3 reviews) |  |
| Fire - Encyclopaedia Britannica Films
The benefits and dangers of fire.
Keywords: Fire; Chemistry
Downloads: 4,622
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| Goodbye, Mrs. Ant - University of Georgia, Agricultural Extension Service
The life cycle and habits of the ant, and how to control and exterminate them with insecticides. Begins with a wonderful sequence in which we hear ants screaming "We're hungry! We're hungry!"
Keywords: Insects; Health and hygiene; Poisons: Insecticides
Downloads: 6,009
Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
| Goodbye, Mr. Roach - Clemson College Extension Service
Detailed film about cockroaches, their habits and methods of extermination, with a harrowing sequence of roach nymphs hatching.
Keywords: Insects; Poisons: Pesticides
Downloads: 7,068
Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
| Helicopter, The - Encyclopaedia Britannica Films
Theory, operation and utility of helicopters.
Keywords: Aviation: Helicopters
Downloads: 7,119
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| Kitty Cleans Up
This film uses a childs curiosity about animals to convey its messages. Young Helen learns that she cleans herself just like her cat Kitty does. Unfortunately, Helen doesnt pick up on the fact the Kitty doesnt like to be groped by a room full of grimy school children. Films featuring animals and young children are usually as torturous to watch, as they were to make.
Keywords: personal hygiene
Downloads: 2,945
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| Police Dogs In Action - Lee C. Garrison
A profile of Police Dogs, how they are trained, and what happens when they are off the job.
Keywords: Police
Downloads: 4,032
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| Promotion Bypass
An older employee responds appropriately when he is told that the big promotion is going to a younger, more educated employee. Heres another film in the Calvin management series that provides no answers, but lets you decide which is the best way not to promote the old guy.
Keywords: workplace politics
Downloads: 1,931
Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
| Relaxed Wife, The - On Film, Inc.
Remarkable, surreal industrial film promoting "Atarax," a tranquilizer, and asserting how "ataraxic medicines" can help us all to achieve the relaxed state we long for. Created by Coni Johnston, Mel London, Joseph Cole, Bert Spielvogel, Tracy Ward (a pseudonym for Virginia Bell) and by Rune Hagman, Delores Phox, Jeanne Sharp, Dick Brophy, M. Opelle, Herb Hagens.
Keywords: Psychology; Pharmaceutical industry; Medicine: Psychiatry
Downloads: 24,009
Average rating: (5 reviews) |  |
| Safeguarding Military Information - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Loose lips sink ships.
Keywords: World War II: Homefront
Downloads: 4,565
Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
| Safety with Animals
Shows how to approach and handle animals, both wild and domestic, with an emphasis on dogs and horses. Surveys the general field of safety around animals pointing out the need for knowledge and skill, the dangers in handling wild animals and how to handle trained animals. Filmmakers seems to torment both kids and animals in the process of making this film.
Keywords: kids and kritters; kids in peril
Downloads: 3,614
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| Special Delivery - Safety Enterprises Corporation
How Superior Coach Co. school buses move children safely to and from school, told through the experience of Mickey Miller, who is just a bit too young to ride the bus to school and yearns to do so. Dramatic film in Ektachrome which uses closeups well. School bus driver: John Butler (police chief of Mansfield, Ohio, where this film was produced).
Keywords: Children: Psychology; Transportation: Buses: School buses; Safety: School buses
Downloads: 2,729
Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
| Surprise For Jean - John W. Barnes and Gordon Weisenborn.
Jean's mother plans a surprise party for Jean on her sixth birthday. While Jean and Frank are on an errand, Jean's friends come, hide and surprise her when she gets back. Associate Producers: John W. Barnes and Gordon Weisenborn. In collaboration with Willard Abraham, Ph.D., Roosevelt College. From the Primary Reading series.
Keywords: need keyword
Downloads: 2,560
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| We Use Power
Uses small models to explain how power is generated to run machines.
Keywords: need keyword
Downloads: 1,627
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| What's The Big Hurry?
Keywords: need meta
Downloads: 2,070
Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
| Live and Learn
Downloads: 2,334
Average rating: (6 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) |  |
| Bird Dogs - Pictorial Films
Hunting with specially-trained bird dogs.
Keywords: Animals: Dogs; Hunting
Downloads: 5,827
Average rating: (5 reviews) |  |
| Choosing a Classroom Film - McGraw-Hill Films
Illustrates the purposes of educational films and the standards by which to appraise them.
Keywords: Motion pictures: In education
Downloads: 3,407
Average rating: (5 reviews) |  |
| Easier Way, The - Handy (Jam) Organization
Presents the case for motion study in the workplace and advises supervisors on how to convince skeptics that it is a good thing.
Keywords: Time and motion study; Gender roles
Downloads: 3,110
Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
| Hare and the Tortoise, The - Encyclopaedia Britannica Films
Dramatized version of Aesop's fable starring farm animals, including an owl, a fox, a goose, a rooster, a raccoon and a hare.
Keywords: Animals: General; Mythology
Downloads: 13,445
Average rating: (5 reviews) |  |
| How Much? - Calvin
Goof on industrial film production.
Keywords: Motion pictures: Production; Motion pictures: Sponsored
Downloads: 2,819
Average rating: (5 reviews) |  |
| Just Imagine - Handy (Jam) Organization
Animated character "Tommy Telephone" produces a telephone by assembling 433 separate parts.
Keywords: Animation: Stop-motion; Communication: Telephone; Animation: Advertising
Downloads: 15,458
Average rating: (5 reviews) |  |
| Emergency Exit Promo
Short Movie Theater Ad advising to look for nearest Emergency exit.
Keywords: Motion Pictures: Public Announcements
Downloads: 2,890
Average rating: (6 reviews) |  |
| Murder on the Screen - Eastman Kodak Co.
Tracking down those responsible for damaging motion picture film.
Keywords: Motion pictures: Conservation
Downloads: 3,041
Average rating: (6 reviews) |  |
| Round and Round (Widgets) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Highly simplified explanation of free-enterprise economics that fails to mention the idea of profit.
Keywords: Economics; Animation: Stop-motion; Animation: Puppet
Downloads: 10,774
Average rating: (6 reviews) |  |
| Safest Place, The - Handy (Jam) Organization
How the automobile is the safest place a person can be.
Keywords: Safety: Automotive; Safety
Downloads: 3,305
Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
| Six Murderous Beliefs
Downloads: 3,173
Average rating: (5 reviews) |  |
| Table Manners - Christy Associates, Inc.
Emily Post narrates this traditionally minded film.
Keywords: Social guidance: Etiquette; Post, Emily
Downloads: 5,962
Average rating: (5 reviews) |  |
| Tear Gas Demo
0628 PA8755 [Tear Gas Demo]
Downloads: 2,332
Average rating: (5 reviews) |  |
| Ulcer at Work - Dwight Swain
Excellent noir-type film about pressures facing a white-collar worker whose ulcer drives him to psychological extremes.
Keywords: Mental health; Ulcers; Motion pictures: Film noir
Downloads: 9,937
Average rating: (5 reviews) |  |
| Up In Smoke - Brigham Young University
Dramatized portrait of greedy tobacco company executives who put money over health concerns.
Keywords: Substance abuse: Tobacco
Downloads: 8,748
Average rating: (5 reviews) |  |
| Your Chance to Live: Earthwatch - Screenscope
Presents the story of a teenage couple caught in the tragic path of a Tsunami as a means of explaining the nature of earthquakes and the consequences of their power.
Keywords: Earthquakes; Tsunamis; Civil defense
Downloads: 5,974
Average rating:  (6 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: 3,617
Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
| Down and Out
While attempting to show us the common hazards which cause workers to lose their balance, this film has more slapstick than most Three Stooges shorts - the films hero fall down more than thirty times. Its not clear whether the film was meant to be funny as workers probably were laughing at this poor schnook more than learning from his mistakes.
Keywords: work safety
Downloads: 6,288
Average rating: (7 reviews) |  |
| ABCs of Walking Wisely
Illustrates how people walk in streets like the alphabet. Shows among others the G-Walker, who doesn't look where he's going but says 'Gee, look at that,' the Y-Walker, who says 'Why walk when you can hitch a ride' and the familiar J-Walker.
Keywords: need keyword
Downloads: 5,378
Average rating: (7 reviews) |  |
| Bus Nut
We learn about bus safety from a young girl who is a self-professed "Bus Nut." Emphasizes the danger of horseplay while waiting for a school bus, the dangers of running in front of a school bus without clear signal from the bus driver, and the correct way to enter a school bus.
Keywords: school bus society
Downloads: 2,724
Average rating: (6 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) |  |
| The Dog Factory
Short comedy that involves a contraption that makes and unmakes dogs. Restored from the Library of Congress' Paper Prints Collection.
Keywords: comedy; animals
Downloads: 8,153
Average rating: (7 reviews) |  |
| Facing Reality - Knickerbocker Productions
Surreal presentation of the common ways in which people escape from reality -- daydreaming, identification, suppression and malingering.
Keywords: Psychology
Downloads: 6,285
Average rating: (7 reviews) |  |
| Facts on Friction
0690 PA8676 Facts on Friction
Keywords: FRICTION; MACHINERY; PHYSICS; PETROLEUM; LUBRICATION; AUTOMOBILES; MAINTENANCE; TRANSPORTATION; CHEVROLET
Downloads: 3,364
Average rating: (5 reviews) |  |
| Front Line, The - Niles (Fred) Communications Centers, Inc.
How to be an effective supermarket checker.
Keywords: Consumerism; Agriculture: Food industry; Occupations: Retail
Downloads: 19,658
Average rating: (8 reviews) |  |
