![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | 1955 Chevrolet Screen Ads - Handy (Jam) Organization
Ten short theatrical "screen ads" promoting the 1955 Chevrolet models.
Keywords: Automobiles: Advertising; Advertising: Screen ads
Downloads: 42,475
Average rating:  (13 reviews) |
| ["China Girl' Test Slate] - Unknown
Test slate for color calibration featuring one of the anonymous female models known in the industry as "China Girl."
Keywords: Motion pictures: Production
Downloads: 7,522
Average rating:  (5 reviews) |
| [California Color Film / Golden Gate International Exposition] - Unknown
Views of pre-World War II San Francisco and the Golden Gate International Exposition.
Keywords: California: History and culture; World's Fairs: San Francisco, 1939-40; San Francisco: Scenics: Historical
Downloads: 7,521
Average rating:  (2 reviews) |
| [California Cotton Mills]
Workers and machines at the California Cotton Mills in Oakland.
Keywords: Occupations: Textile; Cotton
Downloads: 2,357
Average rating:  (2 reviews) |
| [California State Fair Highlights] - Progressive Film Producing Company of America
Includes stunt in which two railroad locomotives collide head-on.
Keywords: Stunts; Safety: Railroad; Transportation: Railroad: Accidents
Downloads: 5,850
Average rating: (3 reviews) |
| [California State Highway 101 Opening] - Unknown
Opening of California State Highway 101 at San Francisco, with 50,000 people in attendance; parade of automobiles from San Francisco Civic Center; Mayor James "Sunny Jim" Rolph of San Francisco; Mayor Taylor of San Mateo; county supervisors; Queen Clara Carli; aerial views of highway and air-to-air shots of airplane carrying dignitaries. The highway linked San Francisco with northern San Mateo County to the south.
Keywords: San Francisco: Infrastructure; Celebrations; Infrastructure: Roads and highways
Downloads: 3,143
Average rating:  (2 reviews) |
| [Caroll's Beauty Salon, Hamtramck, Michigan] - Unknown
Rare view inside a community beauty salon, possibly made as part of a long-forgotten promotional film.
Keywords: Beauty salons; Occupations: Cosmetology; Gender roles
Downloads: 7,137
Average rating: (2 reviews) |
| [Chevrolet Sales Convention Musical] - Handy (Jam) Organization
Rare record of song-and-dance at a Chevrolet sales convention, designed to motivate the sales force.
Keywords: Automobiles: Sales; Industrial theater; Advertising: In-house
Downloads: 7,318
Average rating: (12 reviews) |
| [Chinese Lion Dance: Marysville, California] - N/A
Bok Kai Festival crowds, games, parade and fireworks.
Keywords: Chinese Americans; California: Marysville; Celebrations
Downloads: 5,655
Average rating: (4 reviews) |
| [Completion of Northwestern Pacific Rail Road] (Part I) - Unknown
Golden Spike ceremonies and celebration for the completion of the Northwestern Pacific Rail Road, October 23-25, 1914. Filmed in Willits, Cain Rock, Arcata and Eureka, California.
Keywords: California: History and culture; Transportation: Railroad; California: Redwood Empire
Downloads: 6,806
Average rating: (1 review) |
| [Completion of Northwestern Pacific Rail Road] (Part II) - Unknown
Golden Spike ceremonies and celebration for the completion of the Northwestern Pacific Rail Road, October 23-25, 1914. Filmed in Willits, Cain Rock, Arcata and Eureka, California.
Keywords: California; Transportation: Railroad
Downloads: 10,297
Average rating: (1 review) |
| [Cornwall, N.Y., Memorial Day Celebration 1920] - Stillman, Ernest J.
[Cornwall, N.Y., Memorial Day Celebration 1920]
Downloads: 2,981
Average rating: (8 reviews) |
| [Countdown Leader: Technicolor Corporation]
Countdown leader.
Keywords: Motion pictures: Projection
Downloads: 73,791
Average rating: (12 reviews) |
| California Is Climate - Palmer (W.A.) Films, Inc.
Promotional film for the eastern San Francisco Bay Area (Alameda and part of Contra Costa counties) emphasizing its excellent weather, advanced infrastructure, and cultural and economic advantages.
Keywords: San Francisco Bay Area: Alameda County; San Francisco Bay Area: Industry; Weather
Downloads: 2,061
Average rating: (2 reviews) |
| California Picture Book - Castle Films
Pictorial travelogue of California, using a variety of stock footage.
Downloads: 3,305
Average rating: (2 reviews) |
| California the Golden - Unknown
Scenic tour of 1930s California.
Keywords: California: History and culture
Downloads: 2,690
Average rating: (3 reviews) |
| Caltrans Photolog Sample - California Department of Transportation
Keywords: need meta
Downloads: 3,249
Average rating: (8 reviews) |
| Campus on the March - RKO-Pathe
U.S. colleges and universities retool to assist war effort.
Keywords: World War II: Homefront; Colleges and universities
Downloads: 10,594
Average rating: (3 reviews) |
| Cancer - Encyclopedia Britannica Films, Inc.
Produced by Encyclopedia Britannica Films, in collaboration with William B. Wartman, M.D., School of Medicine, Northwestern University. Producer: Warren P. Everote.
Keywords: Motion Pictures: In Education; Science; Health and Hygiene; Medicine: Cancer
Downloads: 1,915
Average rating: (2 reviews) |
| Capitalism - Coronet Instructional Films
A group of teenagers on a high-school radio program discuss just what capitalism is, seizing onto the example of the butcher who supplies the weenies for their picnic. With Mickey Hugh (Ray Bennett); Franklyn Ferguson (John Howell). Educational Collaborator: James Harvey Dodd, Ph.D., Head, Department of Economics and Business Administration, Mary Washington College, University of Virginia.
Keywords: Economics
Downloads: 6,788
Average rating: (4 reviews) |
| Care of the Hair and Nails - Encyclopaedia Britannica Films
A fairy tale character uses magic to help youngsters learn good health habits.
Keywords: Health and hygiene
Downloads: 4,298
Average rating: (6 reviews) |
| Care of the Skin - Encyclopaedia Britannica Films
Structure of the skin; good cleanliness habits; the proper way to wash; the correct use of soap.
Keywords: Health and hygiene; Medicine: Dermatology
Downloads: 5,918
Average rating: (4 reviews) |
| Caroline Mission
0581 PA8491 [Caroline Mission]
Keywords: Motion Pictures: Religious; Religion
Downloads: 1,539
Average rating: (3 reviews) |
| Carving Magic
Sponsored film from Swift and Company about how to accurately carve meat. 0657 PA8663 Carving Magic 16 Eastman comp RP
Keywords: Motion Pictures: Sponsored; Consumerism; Food Industry: Meat
Downloads: 5,542
Average rating: (1 review) |
| Case of Spring Fever, A - Handy (Jam) Organization
Gilbert Willoughby is punished for voicing Luddite ideas (complaining about pesky springs) by "Coily," an obnoxious, animated spring who subjects him to the hassles of a springless world.
Keywords: Physics: Springs; Animation; Technology: Critiques
Downloads: 16,734
Average rating: (12 reviews) |
| Case of the Blurred Image, The
Downloads: 439
Average rating:  (1 review) |
| Caught Mapping - Handy (Jam) Organization
How road maps are drawn, field-checked and printed.
Keywords: Cartography; Geography; Infrastructure: Roads and highways
Downloads: 9,835
Average rating: (2 reviews) |
| Ceiling on Your Home, A - Unknown
Economic factors affecting postwar deflation; an appeal to the public to assist in retail price control; difficulties World War II veterans faced in locating jobs and housing.
Keywords: World War II: Postwar issues; Houses and homes; Economics
Downloads: 2,504
Average rating: (4 reviews) |
| 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
Average rating: (2 reviews) |
| Century 21 Calling - Fairbanks (Jerry) Productions
Romp through the futuristic landscape of the Seattle World's Fair, centered in the Bell System pavilion.
Keywords: World's Fairs: Seattle, 1962; Communication: Telephone; Futurism
Downloads: 43,231
Average rating: (22 reviews) |
| Century of Progress Exposition - Around the Fair With Burton Holmes
Downloads: 222
Average rating:  (0 review) |
| Century of Progress Exposition: Wings of a Century - Holmes (Burton) Films
The Chicago World's Fair, 1933-34.
Keywords: World's Fairs: Chicago, 1933-34
Downloads: 4,717
Average rating: (3 reviews) |
| Challenge of Ideas, The (Part I) - U.S. Army Pictorial Center
John Wayne, Edward R. Murrow and others discuss the ideological battle between U.S. and Soviet Union.
Keywords: Cold War
Downloads: 12,535
Average rating: (6 reviews) |
| Challenge of Ideas, The (Part II) - U.S. Army Pictorial Center
John Wayne, Edward R. Murrow and others discuss the ideological battle between U.S. and Soviet Union.
Keywords: Cold War
Downloads: 8,337
Average rating: (3 reviews) |
| Challenge to Democracy, A - U.S. War Relocation Authority
Government-produced film attempting to defend the massive internment of Japanese Americans in concentration camps during World War II.
Keywords: World War II: Japanese Americans: Internment
Downloads: 16,229
Average rating: (6 reviews) |
| Chance To Lose
Downloads: 4,411
Average rating: (2 reviews) |
| Chance to Play, A - March of Time
Promotes recreation (especially under nighttime lighting) as the answer to boredom, juvenile delinquency and social pathologies.
Keywords: Recreation; Juvenile delinquency; Children
Downloads: 3,775
Average rating: (4 reviews) |
| 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) |
| Changing City, The
0635 PA8740 Changing City, The
Keywords: need meta
Downloads: 2,698
Average rating: (6 reviews) |
| Charlies Atlas
Keywords: need meta
Downloads: 2,802
Average rating: (5 reviews) |
| Chateau Thierry and the Aisne-Marne Operation
Downloads: 305
Average rating: (0 review) |
| Cheating - Centron Productions
Expressionistic film showing John's cheating and how his peers punish him.
Keywords: Social guidance; Psychology; Juvenile delinquency
Downloads: 10,092
Average rating: (8 reviews) |
| Check . . . And Let Me Know - Calvin Workshop
Goof on the process of industrial filmmaking.
Keywords: Motion pictures: Production; Motion pictures: Sponsored
Downloads: 2,105
Average rating: (3 reviews) |
| Cheerios/V-8 - Filmways (?)
Cereal commercial targeted at children of the space age.
Keywords: Space: Culture; Advertising: Television commercials; Agriculture: Food industry: Cereals
Downloads: 51,890
Average rating: (18 reviews) |
| Cherry Knight
Keywords: Vintage Erotica; Erotic Dance
Downloads: 55,273
Average rating: (6 reviews) |
| Chevrolet Advertising Rings the Bell
0594 PA8173 Chevrolet Advertising Rings the Bell
Keywords: need meta
Downloads: 2,839
Average rating: (4 reviews) |
| Chevrolet Commercial
Downloads: 4,800
Average rating: (3 reviews) |
| Chevrolet Leader News (Vol. 1, No. 1) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Promotional newsreels featuring a variety of Chevrolet-centric stories, including: the building of Norris Dam in Tennessee; an automobile racing an ice boat across a lake in Mt. Clemens, Michigan; gasoline economy tests on Detroit streets; women showing off their hairstyles in an automobile moving along New York City streets; the Soap Box Derby at Dayton, Ohio; and a miniature dog riding in the glove compartment of an automobile in San Francisco.
Keywords: Car culture: Newsreels
Downloads: 4,531
Average rating: (5 reviews) |
| Chevrolet Leader News (Vol. 1, No. 2) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Promotional newsreel containing a variety of Chevrolet-centric stories, including the construction of U.S. 1 linking Key West, Florida with the mainland; a Baltimore ceremony awarding large Chevrolet keys to the oldest auto plant employees; a man leading a pony with his Chevrolet; the "Evans Auto-Railer," an automobile that runs down railroad tracks in Jackson, Michigan; old automobile advertising; a travelogue sequence set in St...
Keywords: Car culture: Newsreels; Automobiles: Advertising
Downloads: 4,405
Average rating: (5 reviews) |
| Chevrolet Leader News (Vol. 1, No. 3) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Promotional newsreels featuring a variety of Chevrolet-centric stories, including: heavy-duty trucks used in construction; St. Augustine, Florida, site of the oldest houses in America; old horseless carriage advertisements; a homemade streamlined house trailer in Guadalupe, California; auto interiors designed by new York jewelers; an Army convoy at Fort Sill, Oklahoma; and a Chihuahua dog standing in for a radiator ornament on a moving car in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Keywords: Car culture: Newsreels; Automobiles: Advertising; Animals: Dogs
Downloads: 4,368
Average rating: (2 reviews) |
