![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | American Fashion and Department Stores: The Pro-Mass Production View
Presumably a sponsored film commissioned by Montgomery Ward, but no further information is available since the title and end credits are missing. A recreation of a marketing class where the history of mass production is discussed as it relates to the department store industry (with a heavy focus on Montgomery Ward's history). 0648 PA8725 [Unidentified: American Fashion and Department Stores: The Pro-Mass Production View] 16 Koda print; no main title; 0:22:05
Keywords: Motion Pictures: Sponsored; Consumerism; Economics; Shopping Centers
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![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Event Horizon - Michael Renkema
Guitar based track with bass & drum machine. The guitar chords are all exploratory, dissonant sounding. The chorus could be worth sampling.
Keywords: Psychedelic Rock
Downloads: 2,777
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| Headache - Alex Ryterski
A short avante garde film I created after a fit of bliss due to camera repair. Created in less than four hours, that means the finished product in four hours. Set to Luidwig Van Beethoven's "Fur Elise" A Half Horse Film
Keywords: Avante Garde Films; Experimental Films
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| Communication - DeVry School Films, Inc.
Interested animated instructional film detailing electronic communications in the early part of the century. Interestingly enough, the popular vocational school DeVry claims that they began as a school in 1931, with no mention of the production of these informational films as early as (in the case of this film) 1928. 0616 PA8110 History of Communication
Keywords: Communication: Telephone; Motion Pictures: Sponsored; Motion Pictures: Industrial; Electronics; Engineering
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| Scenes from - Brian McKenna
A short documentation of a store-front video installation, edited down from a 2 hour tape which uses found footage and sound to explore issues of mass media and advertising. Examples of news and commercials are juxtaposed with dialogue from documentaries about mind-control, drug testing, media, and hypnosis.
Keywords: hypnosis; media: television news; advertising
Downloads: 1,492
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| North Shore'n - Plucky
A late summer trip into the woods.
Downloads: 522
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| Precipitins
Identification of human vs. animal blood, stains through chemical tests - scientists, labs, chemists, rabbits, experiments, blood, nurses, lab technicians, microscopes, test tubes, etc.
Keywords: Motion Pictures: In Education; Science; Health and Hygiene; Pricipitins
Downloads: 1,729
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| Radiation Safety in Nuclear Energy Explorations (Part I)
0514 PA8063 Radiation Safety in Nuclear Energy Explorations
Downloads: 2,986
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| Sheet Metal Worker, The - Holmes (Burton) Films, Inc.
Vocational guidance and training film.
Keywords: Occupations: Metalworking
Downloads: 2,443
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| Show 'Em the Road (Part I) - Davis (Sid) Productions
Southern California teenagers join the Mobilgas "Safety and Economy" competition, driving from the Los Angeles area to the Inland Empire, the desert, to Las Vegas, Nevada and Hoover Dam, then back home again. Producers and Directors: Sid Davis and Arthur L. Swerdloff.
Keywords: Car culture: Youth; U.S.: West; California: Scenics
Downloads: 3,685
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| Story of Enterprise - Fotovox, Inc.
How a young couple parlays their frozen custard booth into a multimillion dollar business and constructs a parable of capitalist economics. With Prof. Clifton L. Ganus of Harding College, Searcy, Arkansas.
Keywords: Economics; Cold War; Capitalism
Downloads: 12,763
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| Test Tube Tale - Handy (Jam) Organization
The magic of industrial chemistry and its effects on our immediate environment. Shows new products such as nylon stockings and transparent raincoats, and also how chemists are finding ways of controlling pollution from factory chimneys and vehicle exhausts. Ends with a call to young men to join this dynamic profession. Though World War II is not explicitly mentioned, the strategic importance of chemistry weaves a covert thread through this short film.
Keywords: Chemistry; Occupations: Research; World War II: Prewar preparedness
Downloads: 5,077
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| These Are My People (Part I) - Columbia Gas System Service Corporation
0663 PA8643 These Are My People from 037.07; Columbia Gas System 1959
Keywords: Motion Pictures: Sponsored; Petroleum Industry; Occupations: Petroleum Workers; Oil Industry
Downloads: 1,212
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| Threading the 16mm Projector - Iowa State University, Motion Picture Services
How-to film produced to ensure quality shows and prevent destruction of films.
Keywords: Motion pictures: Projection
Downloads: 3,392
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| U.S. Customs Safeguards Our Foreign Trade, The - Emily Benton Frith
Shows the work of the United States Customs Service on the Canadian border, on the Mexican border, and in the eastern and western harbors of the United States. Produced and directed by Emily Benton Frith. Narrator: Don McNamara.
Keywords: need keyword
Downloads: 970
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| What Is Business? - Coronet Instructional Films
Business produces Mother's pen, the bread on the breakfast table, and the pop-up toaster into which the bread goes.
Keywords: Economics; Free enterprise
Downloads: 3,217
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| What Mr. Bell Had In Mind
0736 PA9012 What Mr. Bell Had In Mind
Downloads: 1,422
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| White Ammunition - Blake (B.K.) Inc.
How milk is made, transported and processed.
Keywords: Food: Dairy industry; Agriculture: Dairy industry; Animals: Cows
Downloads: 2,413
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| White Wonder - Wilding Picture Productions
Salt, its extraction and uses in national defense, industry, agriculture, and the home. A feast of late-1950s imagery of everyday life, culture and industry.
Keywords: Salt; Occupations: Mining
Downloads: 4,418
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| Winning Against Odds - Caterpillar Tractor Co.
0586 PA8230 Winning Against Odds
Keywords: Motion Pictures: Sponsored; World War II: Homefront; World War II: Industrial Production
Downloads: 1,389
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| Biblical Bricks - Ferder
Downloads: 1,418
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| [Amateur film: Bohemian Grove] - Unknown
Bohemian Club members relax and line up for a meal at the Bohemian Grove encampment.
Keywords: San Francisco: Bohemian Club; Recreation; Gender roles
Downloads: 5,293
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| Chance You Take - General Tire and Rubber Company
Keywords: Motion Pictures: Sponsored; Automobiles: Design And Manufacturing; Occupations: Rubber Workers
Downloads: 1,947
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| [Eisenhower Campaign Spots, 1956 Presidential Campaign] - Various
Collection of political commercials.
Keywords: Political campaigns and elections; Eisenhower, Dwight David; Presidents
Downloads: 6,325
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| Knight Clubs
0690 PA8685 Knight Clubs
Downloads: 894
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| Patty Learns to Stop, Look and Listen - Emily Benton Frith
Patty Garman carelessly runs onto a crowded highway and is hit by a car. The details of her treatment and recovery are shown. Produced and Photographed by Emily Benton Frith. Commentator: Don McNamara. Sound by Telefilm.
Keywords: need keyword
Downloads: 1,678
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| Profit For Perversion
My first edited down film, just a minute or so of Mr Putnam talking about the high points of perversion.
Keywords: clipfilm; perversion; profit
Downloads: 2,171
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| 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
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| Radiological Defense - U.S. Office of Civil Defense
Nuclear fallout menaces Americans.
Keywords: Atomic-nuclear: Civil defense; Cold War
Downloads: 10,159
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| Releases - Megan Shaw Prelinger
Waterbirds being released after rehabilitation treatment at the International Bird Rescue Research Center, Cordelia, California (http://www.ibrrc.org). This center treats birds affected by oil spill incidents such as the current one in Alaska's Aleutian Islands. Unrestricted use permitted for educational and private entertainment purposes; commercial use prohibited without permission.
Keywords: Animals: Birds: Waterbirds; Nature: Wildlife rehabilitation
Downloads: 3,646
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| Remember These Faces - U.S. Treasury, War Finance Division
Intense view of American soldiers in combat, produced to sell World War II bonds.
Keywords: World War II: Homefront; World War II: Europe
Downloads: 11,535
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| Ring of Steel - Film Unit, Office For Emergency Planning
U.S. armed forces protect the homefront.
Keywords: Military; World War II: Homefront
Downloads: 2,642
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| Social Acceptability - Crawley Films, Ltd.
Adults must provide teenagers with guidance in social skills if they are to make a harmonious adjustment to social life. The mother and daughter in this film have far to go.
Keywords: Social guidance; Gender roles; Psychology
Downloads: 4,527
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| Speaking of Rubber (Part I) - Roush (Leslie) Productions, Inc.
Narrated by a retired "rubber man," this classic industrial film shows the uses and manufacturing of rubber products. With excellent images of making boots, tire manufacturing, traction tests, and innovative uses of rubber.
Keywords: Rubber; Occupations: Rubber workers; Chemistry
Downloads: 4,081
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| Who Are the People of America? - Coronet Instructional Films
Explains how the United States came to be a diversely populated nation.
Keywords: Diversity; Patriotism; Immigration
Downloads: 5,835
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| Why Kill the Goose: The Profit System - Fotovox, Inc.
Sings the praises of the American profit system, arguing that profits, although much smaller than generally believed, make possible a continuing stream of technological advances and new and better products which contribute to the rising living standards. With Prof. Clifton L. Ganus of Harding College, Searcy, Ark.
Keywords: Economics; Cold War
Downloads: 1,757
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| Wise Use of Credit, The
0646 PA8673 Wise Use of Credit, The
Downloads: 6,363
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| Wonderful World (Part I) - Handy (Jam) Organization
World Travelogue sponsored by Coca-Cola. 0731 PA8798 Wonderful World from 037.08
Keywords: Motion Pictures: Sponsored; Travelogue; Tourism; Beverage Industry
Downloads: 3,461
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| WTF? the madonna remix project [blipcd23] - Various Artists
This album was triggered by a small sound byte of speech left by Madonna as a decoy to frustrate users sharing her songs via Peer-to-peer (P2P) networks on the internet. Any holes a goal in this riotous wondrous fairy tale journey through 14.5 tracks of deep anal hilarity. http://www.justablip.co.uk
Keywords: Experimental
Downloads: 38,082
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| Brandon (Part I) - Louise Branch
Travelogue portrait of the city of Brandon, in Prince George County, Virginia. Directed and produced by Louise Branch and Frances Flynn Paine. 0645 PA8769 [Brandon (Long version)]
Keywords: Travelogue; U.S. History: Colonial; U.S.: South
Downloads: 998
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| How the Ear Functions - Bosse (Karl Kurt)
Structure and function of the human hearing system, with excellent animation.
Keywords: Perception: Sound; Animation
Downloads: 24,564
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| Last Date - Lewis D. Collins
Tells the story of Jeanne, a popular pretty girl until speed and an accident ruin her life. Directed by Lewis D. Collins. Story by Bruce Henry. With Richard (Dick) York (Nick); Joan Taylor (Jeanne Dawson); and Robert Stern (Larry Gray). Winner of the annual award of the National Committee on Films for Safety as 1949's best non-theatrical picture.
Keywords: need keyword
Downloads: 3,646
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| Trader Thorne - Wilding Picture Productions
Auto dealer sales film explaining why trade-ins are necessary -- because almost all customers already have cars. Director: Jack Tilles. Writer: George Wilcock. Camera: John Niklasch. Sound: Raymond Esh. Art Director: Edward Jewell. Editor: Foster Travis. With Hugh Beaumont (Joe Thorne), Glen Denning (Herb Potter), Frances Helm (Charlotte), Ed Prentiss (Mr. Fuller), Barry Hopkins (Mr. Thaler), Art Van Harvey (Mr...
Keywords: Automobiles: Sales; Sales: Training
Downloads: 3,876
Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
| Wonderful World of Wash 'n' Wear, The - Handy (Jam) Organization
Synthetic fabrics plus electric laundry equipment make washday a pleasure. Host: Jeffrey Lynn.
Keywords: Materials: Synthetics; Home economics; Appliances: Sales
Downloads: 14,017
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| Your Hit Parade Commercial
Television commercial for Hit Parade cigarettes.
Downloads: 16,136
Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
| America's Distribution of Wealth - National Education Program
Demonstrates the widespread ownership of America's basic wealth and the equitable distribution of national income. With Prof. Clifton L. Ganus of Harding College, Searcy, Ark.
Keywords: Economics; Cold War
Downloads: 6,420
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| Answering the Child's Why
A cautionary film for parents and teachers that dramatizes actual situations in which youngsters meet both positive and negative attitudes toward their questions. Suggests effects on their personalities of each type of attitude.
Keywords: mental hygiene
Downloads: 6,332
Average rating: (5 reviews) |  |
| Black Marketing
Keywords: need meta
Downloads: 2,257
Average rating: (6 reviews) |  |
| Chicken of Tomorrow, The - Audio Productions
How scientific agriculture changes the life and taste of the chicken.
Keywords: Agriculture: Poultry
Downloads: 7,244
Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
| Human Reproduction - Audio Productions, Inc.
Though this sex education film concentrates on presenting the anatomy and physiology of human reproduction in sober medical terms, its release kicked off a controversy in many American cities and towns over the legitimacy of sex education in the public schools. The film is narrated from the point of view of an adult who tries to decide how to answer his son's natural questions about sex and reproduction...
Keywords: Sex education; Biology: Reproduction; Families
Downloads: 53,568
Average rating: (6 reviews) |  |
