![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Light Of Your Life A - General Electric
Keywords: Motion Pictures: Sponsored; Motion Pictures: In Education; Electricity; Perception: Light
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| Profile: Jamison Handy (Part I) - WWJ-TV (Detroit)
Interview with Jam Handy (1886-1983), pioneer producer of sponsored and industrial films. The program, hosted by WWJ-TV host Bob Leslie, has low sound level throughout, but is included here because of its historical importance.
Keywords: Motion pictures: History; Motion pictures: Sponsored; Sales: Training
Downloads: 997
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| Boulder Dam (Parts III and IV) - U.S. Bureau of Reclamation in collaboration with Six Companies, Inc. and The Babcock & Wilcox Company
Shows the beginning of construction on the Hoover Dam (later called Boulder Dam) project in southern Nevada. With excellent footage of Boulder City, the model housing community built to provide residences for project workers.
Keywords: Infrastructure: Dams; Boulder Dam; Nevada
Downloads: 3,817
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| Boulder Dam (Part I) - U.S. Bureau of Reclamation in collaboration with Six Companies, Inc. and The Babcock & Wilcox Company
Shows the beginning of construction on the Hoover Dam (later called Boulder Dam) project in southern Nevada. With excellent footage of Boulder City, the model housing community built to provide residences for project workers.
Keywords: Infrastructure: Dams; Boulder Dam; Nevada
Downloads: 4,894
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| Story of Carpet, The
0687 PA8636 Story of Carpet, The
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| Censorship: A Question of Judgment? - Horizon Productions Services
Should the sponsor of a high-school newspaper have the power to determine whether a picture of a student fight should be printed?
Keywords: Social guidance; Censorship
Downloads: 1,117
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| Focus Leader 02
Focus Leader, Caterpillar Style!
Keywords: Leaders
Downloads: 2,773
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| Fun That Builds Good Health, The - Coronet
Presents a variety of choices of recreation in terms of good times and good health. Director: Gil Altschul. Cameraman: Bruce Colling. Writers: George Tychsen, Hartley Pfeil, Full. Editor: Dick Kirschner. Narrator: George Stone. Educational Collaborator: Erwin F. Beyer, Department of Physical Education, The University of Chicago.
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| Getting Acquainted With Engineering (Part I)
Discusses the problem of capable boys who are lost to engineering because of their misconceptions about the type of work involved. Stresses the importance of high school background, testing and counseling. Narrator: E.R. Buuman.
Keywords: need keyword
Downloads: 1,136
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| Holiday for Bill (Part I) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Cliche-ridden rural/urban improbable romance concocted to promote Ford tractors.
Keywords: Rural America; Music; Gender roles
Downloads: 2,949
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| I Am a Doctor (Part I)
0726 PA8811 I Am a Doctor
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| Inside Information - Handy (Jam) Organization
How the X-ray works and its use in police work, surgery, industrial engineering and automobile manufacturing.
Keywords: Perception: X-rays; Motion pictures: Special effects; Motion pictures: X-rays
Downloads: 7,152
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| Making A Difference By Making The Grade - U.S. Department of Defense
Keywords: Motion Pictures: Government; Military; Society: Education
Downloads: 788
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| Making Ends Meet
Demonstrates the value of inexpensive meals, saving in food buying and the importance of milk in the diet, as suggestions for adequate nutrition under the war-time national nutrition program.
Keywords: need keyword
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| Motivation and Reward in Learning - Yale University, Institute of Human Relations
Uses white rats to picture trial-and-error problem solving and to demonstrate the importance of motivation and reward in the learning process.
Keywords: Psychology; Animals: Rats
Downloads: 5,618
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| No Time for Ugliness (Part I)
Shows that cities' approaches are marred by billboards and neon signs. Intimates that a demanding citizenry can have these unsightly signs removed.
Keywords: need keyword
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| Obligations - Simmel-Meservey
Members of two families illustrate correct and incorrect manner of taking care of their obligations to one another.
Keywords: Social guidance: Etiquette; Social guidance; Kinship
Downloads: 2,289
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| Oil Today - Power Tomorrow
The story of how oil is brought to the earth's surface and turned into power. Emphasizes the men who work in the oil industry and the significance of oil as a source of power and heat in today's modern world.
Keywords: need keyword
Downloads: 3,372
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| One Bad Knight
0709 PA8686 One Bad Knight
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| Open Road A - Bethlehem Steel Company
Educational film about how steel is used to make highways, including problems that occur with time and use.
Keywords: Infrastructure: Roads and Highways; Civil Engineering; City Planning; Metals: Steel: Steel Industry
Downloads: 1,644
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| Opportunities Unlimited - Transfilm
Presented by LIFE and Fortune Magazines, an animated economic overview of the rise of the "middle income consumer." Directed by Steve Muffatti,animated by Ben Farish, Bill Hudson, Keith Robinson, and Howard Smith. Produced by Transfilm. 0661 PA8718 Opportunities Unlimited 16 Koda comp print;
Keywords: Motion Pictures: Sponsored; Consumerism; Economics; Animation: Advertising
Downloads: 2,119
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| Our Shrinking World - Young America Films, Inc.
How developments in transportation and communication are hastening globalization.
Keywords: Globalization
Downloads: 8,149
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| Our Texas Heritage
Depicts important historical events, from the establishment of Franciscan missions to the early 1900's. Illustrates the arrival of immigrants with their various cultures, the Texas Rangers and forts that helped to protect these pioneers, the Alamo and other battles to establish a republic, trail blazers with their longhorns, to prospectors who found natural resources, reveal why Texans are proud of their heritage.
Keywords: need keyword
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| Partners in Progress
The Atlanta Board of Education presents Partners in Progress, produced by Charles O. Beeland Productions, Atlanta. 0738 PA9045 Partners in Progress 16 Koda print
Keywords: Motion Pictures: In Education; Communication: Telephone; World War II: Postwar Issues; U.S.: South
Downloads: 996
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| Photography - Holmes (Burton) Films, Inc.
Careers in photography and cinematography.
Keywords: Occupations: Photography; Media: Photography; Motion pictures: Production
Downloads: 6,086
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| Plastics
Surveys the growth of the plastic industry, stressing the new materials developed during World War II. Shows the manufacture and fabrication of articles from plastic materials. This was the first film released by Young America Films (January, 1945).
Keywords: need keyword
Downloads: 1,790
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| Pork People Like - Gliessman Studios
Ag film illustrating the different qualities of pork and showing how to acquire the best in meat purchases.
Keywords: Meat: Production
Downloads: 2,397
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| Programmer with Magic Memory: Another Newsmaker - Handy (Jam) Organization
Presents a special device that automatically tunes in your favorite preselected TV shows. This is a silent film.
Keywords: Media: Television; Leisure; User interfaces
Downloads: 3,553
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| Pursuit Of Profit
Presents a survey of independent businesses to show how free enterprise operates and contributes to the strength and stability of the country.
Keywords: need keyword
Downloads: 1,380
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| Sentinel in the Sky - Strauss (Henry) and Company, Inc.
Modern radar for passenger aircraft. Shows how man has always reached for vision of the things beyond his sight, beginning, perhaps, with the ancient sailor who first climbed the mast to see over the horizon. In modern times the quest has led to such airborne aids as the gyro compass, horizon indicator and radio direction finding navigational systems. Sequences on radar show its basics and how it works in modern planes...
Keywords: Animation; Radar; Aviation: Navigation
Downloads: 6,543
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| Social Seminar: Guy
Presents the experiences of Guy, a 15-year-old Mexican-American who spends a great deal of time stoned on reds. Shows his flight into passivity and escape from the realities of an ungiving environment. Questions why he needs to escape and what should change in his surroundings to make his life more challenging.
Keywords: need keyword
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| Something to Be Proud Of (Part I)
0732 PA9026 Something to Be Proud Of
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| Sound And The Story - Handy (Jam) Organization
RCA Victor presents Sound and the Story, copyright Radio Corporation of America
Keywords: Motion Pictures: Sponsored; Consumerism; Media: Phonograph; Perception: Sound
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| Sound Waves And Their Sources
Sources of sounds and characteristics of sound waves, shown by means of oscilloscopes and animated diagrams.
Keywords: need keyword
Downloads: 4,983
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| Southwestern States
Portrays life in areas of Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Arizona. Refers to the topography, rainfall, stock raising and mining industries.
Keywords: need keyword
Downloads: 1,248
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| Special Delivery - U.S. Army Air Forces
Airplanes and missions of the U.S. Army Air Forces, emphasizing Operation Crossroads (the Bikini Island atomic bomb tests).
Keywords: Atomic-nuclear: Weapons; World War II: Army Air Forces; Aviation: Military
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| Subversion And Espionage Directed Against The Military
Keywords: need meta
Downloads: 2,289
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| Success in Business - Unknown
Story of a middle-class white-collar worker who finds the way to succeed in business, making his wife and family happy and enjoying affluence.
Keywords: Business; Occupations: Clerical
Downloads: 1,933
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| Suggestion Box - U.S. Office of War Information
How war plant workers made suggestions that resulted in efficiency and economy.
Keywords: World War II: Homefront; World War II: Industrial production
Downloads: 1,525
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| Things People Want, The - Handy (Jam) Organization
Distinctive sales training film on the hierarchy of human needs, starring a young John Forsythe.
Keywords: Sales: Training
Downloads: 5,729
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| This Nations Power
Shows marvelous precision tools & machines in Chevrolet plants used in making that automobiles. Further shows ingenious design of Chevrolet.
Keywords: need keyword
Downloads: 1,845
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| Time For Coffee - William J. Ganz Company
Title card: This film was made possible by the cooperation of: The A&P Coffee Division and the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company
Keywords: Motion Pictures: Sponsored; Consumerism; Agriculture: Food Industry; Beverage Industry; Coffee
Downloads: 2,564
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| To Enrich Mankind
A man in white coat talking to Archimedes in room full of stone and bronze busts of famous scientists researchers. We learn about how machines have improved Western civilization.
Keywords: need keyword
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| Trail of the Rocket (Part I) - Wilding Picture Productions, Inc.
Singers Lucille and Johnny, whose radio show is sponsored by Oldsmobile, are invited to visit the Olds factory to see why the product is superior. While touring the plant, Johnny becomes concerned that another visitor is a Martian spy dedicated to subverting Earth's autonomy. Some might call this film a McCarthyite allegory; others a slow-moving plant tour. Story: Gordon Miller. Camera: John Niklasch...
Keywords: Automobiles: Advertising; Automobiles: Manufacturing; Cold War
Downloads: 4,297
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| We the People
0580 PA8277 We the People
Downloads: 1,574
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| Which Way This Time?
Shows how disastrous inflation during and after World War II was prevented by government controls. Depicts the depressions and misery that post-war inflations have caused.
Keywords: need keyword
Downloads: 1,139
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| Your Town: A Story of America - Audio Productions Inc.
Tribute to the strengths of the American system of free enterprise, funded by a large manufacturers' association. Young Jerry, who stops to observe a rowdy labor action at a local factory, is almost drawn into a brawl but for a policeman who takes him into "protective custody" and drives him home. There, Gramp explains how every man, woman and child in town has a stake in the factory's success, and convinces Jerry that modern capitalism isn't all bad.
Keywords: Free enterprise; Economics
Downloads: 3,007
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| Dial D For Design (Pt 1) - Cinefonics, Inc.
Produced by Cinefonics, Inc (a division of Cook Research Laboratories) and based on Engineering and Systems Integration Studies by Cook Research Laboratories. Written and Produced by Charles O. Probst, Directed by Ronald S. Klein. Opening title card: The purpose of this film is to illustrate a method to design, develop and test integrated displays and controls in accordance with MIL-P-25996. Obviously specific procedures vary according to contracts and projects...
Keywords: Motion Pictures: Sponsored; Motion Pictures: Industrial; Engineering; Weapons
Downloads: 998
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| Activity Group Therapy (Part I) - Campus Film Distributors Corporation
Shows socially-maladjusted boys 10 to 11 years old being benefitted therapeutically by "acting out" their disturbances upon their environment and each other in a realistic situation with an emotionally neutral therapist and concealed cameras and microphones. A fascinating mental health film produced for professional audiences, depicting truly anarchic behavior.
Keywords: Psychology; Medicine: Psychiatry; Children: Psychology
Downloads: 5,868
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| Barry Goldwater Speaks Out - UPI Newspix
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