![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | She Caught on Quick (Singer Screen Ad) - Handy (Jam) Organization
How to redecorate a worn-out-looking home with homesewn upholstery.
Keywords: Advertising: Screen ads; Sewing; Gender roles
Downloads: 3,243
Average rating:  (5 reviews) |  |
| Quiet Revolution, The - Ford Motor Company, Tractor and Implement Division
Shows how Ford earthmoving equipment helps the builders of Levittown, Pennsylvania achieve great economies of scale. With excellent images of home and infrastructure building.
Keywords: Suburbia; Levittown, Pa; Houses and homes
Downloads: 4,875
Average rating:  (3 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) |  |
| County Fair Bread Commercial
County Fair Bread Commercial
Keywords: need keyword
Downloads: 9,825
Average rating:  (3 reviews) |  |
| Let's Go Bowling (Part I) - Unknown
Culture and practice of bowling in 1950s America.
Keywords: Sports: Bowling; Recreation; Gender roles
Downloads: 9,362
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| Play Street
Keywords: need meta
Downloads: 1,417
Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
| Understanding The Dollar
A dramatization which explains the essential purposes of money as a medium of exchange, analyzes factors which affect the value of the dollar, and shows the effects of rising prices on people with various types of income.
Keywords: need keyword
Downloads: 2,505
Average rating:  (3 reviews) |  |
| What Makes Us Tick - Sutherland (John) Productions
Cartoon promoting the stock market as the engine of America's prosperity.
Keywords: Economics; Investing; Animation: Advertising
Downloads: 23,182
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| Writing Better Social Letters - Coronet Instructional Films
While a teenage brother and sister write a thank-you note to their grandmother after visiting her on vacation, we learn the five parts of a friendly letter and more about why and how to write one.
Keywords: Social guidance: Etiquette; Communication: Writing; Communication: Postal
Downloads: 3,274
Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
| Tide Commercial
Downloads: 3,158
Average rating: (5 reviews) |  |
| Allen Carpet Commercial
Commercial for Allen Carpets
Keywords: need keyword
Downloads: 1,920
Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
| Everyday Courtesy - Coronet Instructional Films
Courtesy in connection with invitations, telephone conversations, introductions and entertaining guests.
Keywords: Social guidance; Social guidance: Etiquette
Downloads: 4,840
Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
| Health: Your Posture - Centron Corporation
Young girl's mirror image teaches her fundamentals of good posture.
Keywords: Health and hygiene
Downloads: 3,367
Average rating: (5 reviews) |  |
| Man and His Culture - Encyclopaedia Britannica Films
Shows, in the imaginative form of a "report from outer space," how the ways of mankind might appear to visitors from another planet.
Keywords: Anthropology; Science fiction
Downloads: 15,857
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| Play In The Snow
Shows children enjoying winter sports, making a snow man, playing fox and geese, sledding and skiing.
Keywords: need keyword
Downloads: 3,236
Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
| Streamlines - Handy (Jam) Organization
Streamlines are not just beautiful, but also safer, cheaper and more comfortable.
Keywords: Design; Automobiles: Design and manufacturing; Physics
Downloads: 4,325
Average rating: (5 reviews) |  |
| The Fair
Keywords: need meta
Downloads: 1,010
Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
| [Union Square, San Francisco Fashion Show] - Universal-International Newsreel
1950s fashion show is staged on a runway set up in the middle of Union Square Park, San Francisco. Newsreel story.
Keywords: Newsreels; San Francisco: Fashion shows; Models
Downloads: 5,163
Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
| Adventures of Junior Raindrop, The - U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service
Delinquent raindrop explains the need for good watershed management.
Keywords: Nature: Environment; Animation: Advertising; Water
Downloads: 12,245
Average rating: (6 reviews) |  |
| #Bfl O {ggGX = STwWcfl x 2s4 (Calvin Workshop) - Calvin Company
Spoofy look at the motion-picture production process, made to encourage discussion among filmmakers.
Keywords: Motion pictures: Production; Animals: Chimpanzees; Communication: Typewriters
Downloads: 8,247
Average rating: (8 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: 79,723
Average rating: (8 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) |  |
| Extra (Esso Screen Ad) - Unknown
Part-animated screen ad for Esso "Extra" gasoline.
Keywords: Advertising: Screen ads; Animation: Advertising; Oil industry
Downloads: 12,720
Average rating: (7 reviews) |  |
| Holiday from Rules? - Portafilms
"Lord of the Flies" from an adult's point of view, starring four willful and confused children.
Keywords: Social guidance
Downloads: 5,906
Average rating: (6 reviews) |  |
| How Much? - Calvin
Goof on industrial film production.
Keywords: Motion pictures: Production; Motion pictures: Sponsored
Downloads: 2,819
Average rating: (5 reviews) |  |
| Information Machine, The
Applies graphic sensitivity to medium in cartoon form, and traces the history of storing and analyzing information from the days of the cavemen to today's age of electronic brains.
Keywords: need keyword
Downloads: 10,869
Average rating: (6 reviews) |  |
| Junior High Schools in New York City
An overview of all subjects and extracurricular activities which are available in the junior high schools of New York City.
Downloads: 3,132
Average rating: (7 reviews) |  |
| Kelloggs Variety Pak Commercial
Downloads: 1,774
Average rating:  (5 reviews) |  |
| Let's Go Bowling (Part II) - Unknown
Culture and practice of bowling in 1950s America.
Keywords: Sports: Bowling; Recreation; Gender roles
Downloads: 7,364
Average rating: (3 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) |  |
| Mental Health: Keeping Mentally Fit - Encyclopaedia Britannica Films
The four steps in acquiring, maintaining and improving mental health: express emotions naturally, respect yourself, respect others, and solve problems as they arise.
Keywords: Social guidance; Psychology; Mental hygiene
Downloads: 6,756
Average rating: (6 reviews) |  |
| Mother Goose Stories - Harryhausen (Ray)
Mother Goose steps out of the nursery rhyme book and brings to life some of the favorite characters of Mother Goose Land, including Little Miss Muffet, Old Mother Hubbard, Queen of Hearts, and Humpty Dumpty. Animated puppets are used throughout.
Keywords: need keyword
Downloads: 7,218
Average rating: (5 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) |  |
| Snap Out of It! (Emotional Balance) - Coronet Instructional Films
Discusses why an achievement-conscious boy becomes emotionally upset when he fails to get an expected 'A' in a history course.
Keywords: Social guidance; Psychology
Downloads: 3,415
Average rating: (5 reviews) |  |
| Something for Nothing - Handy (Jam) Organization
Cartoonist Rube Goldberg creates a little animation to explain how fuel is converted to power in the modern automobile engine.
Keywords: Animation: Rube Goldberg; Automobiles: Engineering
Downloads: 8,481
Average rating: (6 reviews) |  |
| True Experience of Officer Harold Sewell, The - Unknown
Dramatized screen ad showing how a flashlight powered by Eveready batteries prevents a train wreck.
Keywords: Advertising: Screen ads; Transportation: Railroad; Batteries
Downloads: 6,039
Average rating: (6 reviews) |  |
| Walking to School
0646 PA8752 Walking to School
Downloads: 2,570
Average rating: (7 reviews) |  |
| Westinghouse Air Conditioners Commercial 1
Westinghouse Air Conditioners Commercial
Keywords: need keyword
Downloads: 2,887
Average rating: (7 reviews) |  |
| Your Safety First
0512 PA8320 Your Safety First
Downloads: 5,453
Average rating: (5 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) |  |
| All-American Soap Box Derby (1936) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Official film of early Soap Box Derby competition in Akron, Ohio; tribute to ingenuity of the American Boy.
Keywords: Car culture: Children; Soap Box Derby; Gender roles
Downloads: 16,708
Average rating: (5 reviews) |  |
| Consuming Women (Women as Consumers) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Strange, highly generalized portrait of the American woman consumer.
Keywords: Consumerism; Gender roles
Downloads: 15,429
Average rating: (11 reviews) |  |
| Destruction: Fun or Dumb?
Deals with one of the major problems facing school administrators in every part of the country. Designed to make students realize that vandalism is dumb.
Downloads: 5,310
Average rating: (9 reviews) |  |
| Jay Can Do It
Shows how an 11-year old boy and his brothers share each other's interests and activities. Shows projects such as building a tree house, baking cookies and coloring Easter eggs. Suggests the character-building value of experimenting, creating and doing a job well.
Keywords: need keyword
Downloads: 5,786
Average rating: (11 reviews) |  |
| Klear Floor Wax Commercial
Klear Floor Wax Commercial
Keywords: need keyword
Downloads: 2,387
Average rating: (6 reviews) |  |
| Librarian, The - Holmes (Burton) Films, Inc.
Shows the work of different library personnel.
Keywords: Occupations: Librarians
Downloads: 39,980
Average rating: (9 reviews) |  |
| Monkeys Uncle Toy Commercial
Downloads: 10,140
Average rating: (6 reviews) |  |
| Mr. Finley's Feelings
Our animated hero questions his sanity after blowing his top and driving his car into a police station.
Keywords: animation; mental hygiene
Downloads: 7,066
Average rating: (8 reviews) |  |
| Much Better - Smith, Ken
Made by Ken Smith from Prelinger Archives footage.
Downloads: 9,617
Average rating: (10 reviews) |  |
