![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Operation Crossroads (Part I) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Documents Able Day and Baker Day blasts of the atomic bomb tests at Bikini Island in the Pacific. Contains footage from many of the ground and aerial cameras set up to record the blasts, beginning with B-29 aircraft "Dave's Dream" dropping an atomic bomb on Bikini Atoll.
Keywords: Atomic-nuclear: Weapons; Marshall Islands; Pacific Ocean
Downloads: 21,295
Average rating:  (3 reviews) |  |
| Negro Colleges in Wartime - U.S. Office of War Information, Bureau of Motion Pictures
Education and training of African Americans as part of the World War II effort.
Keywords: World War II: African Americans; Colleges and universities; African Americans
Downloads: 5,032
Average rating:  (3 reviews) |  |
| [Knife-Thrower and Children] - Universal-International Newsreel
Texas: Knife-thrower Louella Gallagher throws knives at her daughters Connie Ann, 5, and Colleena Sue, 2-1/2, missing them skillfully as the knives enter a board. Newsreel story.
Keywords: Newsreels; Mothers; Surrealism
Downloads: 9,253
Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
| Marriage Is a Partnership - Coronet Instructional Films
Flashback on the problems, adjustments and transformations occurring in the first year of a couple's married life.
Keywords: Marriage; Gender roles
Downloads: 20,501
Average rating: (5 reviews) |  |
| D-Day Minus One - U.S. Army Air Forces
Record of the operations of the U.S. 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions in the 1944 invasion of France.
Keywords: World War II: Europe
Downloads: 17,773
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) |  |
| Story of Selecting Kosher Meat Products for Their Stores, The - Unknown
Kosher meat slaughter, inspection, and butchering; shoppers in Stroh and Goldberg butcher shops. Probably filmed in New York City. CONTENT ADVISORY: Disturbing slaughterhouse scenes.
Keywords: Judaism; Meat: Inspection; Meat: Production
Downloads: 13,414
Average rating: (7 reviews) |  |
| [Eisenhower Campaign Spots, 1952 Presidential Campaign] - Disney (Roy)
The "I Like Ike" animated television commercial, produced by Roy Disney and Citizens for Eisenhower-Nixon.
Keywords: Political campaigns and elections; Eisenhower, Dwight David; Presidents
Downloads: 26,120
Average rating: (14 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) |  |
| Operation Cue (1955) - U.S. Federal Civil Defense Administration
Eerie nuclear tests on houses and dummies at the Nevada Test Site.
Keywords: Atomic-nuclear: Weapons
Downloads: 29,607
Average rating: (12 reviews) |  |
| Come Join the Fun! - Charles Keating
Outstanding news reporter George Putnam, star of the Prelinger Archives classic "Perversion for Profit", shares his true feelings about pornography in this heart-felt appeal to the public.
Keywords: pornography; propaganda; parody
Downloads: 46,393
Average rating: (37 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) |  |
| 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) |  |
