![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Life in the Central Valley of California - Coronet Instructional Films
Shows the agriculture, trade and infrastructure of California's Central Valley, all made possible by irrigation.
Keywords: California: History and culture; California: Central Valley
Downloads: 2,764
Average rating:  (3 reviews) |
| Your Permit to Drive - General Motors Photographic
Talking driver's license narrates this hymn to the beneficial effects of highways, cars, and driving.
Keywords: Safety: Driving; Car culture; Infrastructure: Roads and highways
Downloads: 6,018
Average rating:  (4 reviews) |
| Green Pastures - Sunn (Joseph)
Mud animation by pioneer San Francisco Chinese American animator Joseph Sunn. From the "Ralph Wolfe's Mud Stuff" series.
Keywords: Animation: Mud; Chinese Americans; Animation: Stop-motion
Downloads: 5,103
Average rating: (4 reviews) |
| Let Yourself Go - Handy (Jam) Organization
How architecture, furniture and transportation have been designed to help Americans relax.
Keywords: Psychology; Design; Stress
Downloads: 6,039
Average rating: (5 reviews) |
| Don't Talk to Strangers - Unknown
Dramatized film warning children of the dangers of strangers.
Keywords: Police; Crime and criminals; Children: Safety
Downloads: 24,228
Average rating: (7 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) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| I Want to Be a Secretary - Coronet Instructional Films
Follows a young woman through her clerical training and job search. Shows pre-World War II offices and office workers, primarily women. One of Coronet's earliest educational films.
Keywords: Social guidance; Occupations: Clerical; Gender roles
Downloads: 9,361
Average rating:  (6 reviews) |
| Trik Trak Commercial
Downloads: 4,148
Average rating: (10 reviews) |
| What Makes A Good Party? - Coronet Instructional Films
Shows teenagers how to plan and attend a party, suggesting games to play and songs to sing ("Jimmy Crack Corn").
Keywords: Social guidance: Etiquette; Celebrations; Parties
Downloads: 18,753
Average rating: (12 reviews) |
| Delicious Dishes
Delicious Dishes
Downloads: 9,253
Average rating: (10 reviews) |
| Bright Young Newcomer, The - Calvin Productions
How a laissez-faire office manager (male) stands aside as women workers compete with one another.
Keywords: Management; Gender roles
Downloads: 6,013
Average rating:  (12 reviews) |
| Pop Goes The Whistle - Darrell Wright
Is somebody crazy? Pop Goes the Whistle.
Keywords: Intermission; Popcorn; Drive In Movie Advertisement
Downloads: 19,344
Average rating: (18 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) |
| Visit to Santa, A - Williams (Clem) Films
Santa Claus rides in a parade and walks kids through a relentless department-store Christmas display. Filmed in Pittsburgh.
Keywords: Christmas; Santa Claus; Consumerism
Downloads: 38,223
Average rating: (42 reviews) |
