![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Don't Touch
We learn about the blasting caps and their danger to kids.
Keywords: boom!
Downloads: 3,709
Average rating:  (6 reviews) |  |
| How Do You Do? - Young America Films
Trains teenagers to act according to the rules of proper social etiquette. Promotes proper behavior as a means of gaining social poise and self-assurance. This film seems clearly to be a document from the postwar "behavior offensive," aimed at retraining adolescents to learn to be kids once again after experiencing premature adulthood during World War II.
Keywords: Social guidance; Social guidance: Etiquette; Teenagers
Downloads: 8,017
Average rating:  (7 reviews) |  |
| Jealousy - Affiliated Film Producers
Dramatizes the origin and nature of a wife's jealousy.
Keywords: Marriage; Gender roles; Psychology
Downloads: 7,143
Average rating: (9 reviews) |  |
| Journey to Banana Land - William J. Ganz Co.
United Fruit's paternalistic vision of Central America and its banana business.
Keywords: Latin America; Agriculture: Bananas
Downloads: 10,124
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) |  |
| Word to the Wives, A - Telamerica, Inc.
How two women trick a husband into buying a new kitchen.
Keywords: Consumerism; Gender roles
Downloads: 9,711
Average rating: (12 reviews) |  |
| Santa Claus' Punch and Judy
Santa magically creates a Punch and Judy puppet show to the delight of children at a Christmas party. WARNING! Parents may wish to watch this before exposing innocent eyes to the comic brutality of a Punch and Judy puppet show from the late 1940s - including some very non-PC scenes. Punch & Judy professor/historian Geoff Felix describes the film: The value of this film is that it is a record of a performance by George Prentice whose Punch and Judy show achieved great popularity in Variety during...
Keywords: Santa; puppet chaos; senseless violence
Downloads: 13,328
Average rating: (13 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) |  |
| This Is Hormel - Unknown
Perhaps one of the most disturbing films in the Prelinger collection. Do you really want to see your meat being prepared?
Keywords: Food industry: Meat production; Minnesota (History and culture); Animals: Pigs
Downloads: 27,583
Average rating: (20 reviews) |  |
