America as it was.
Collection of TV commercials significant to the history and development of TV as an advertising medium.
Activities at the newly opened Beany's drive-through fast food restaurant, Long Beach, California, 1952 or 1953.
Frightening civil defense procedure film aimed at Cold War-era elementary school students.
Collection of TV commercials significant to the history and development of TV as an advertising medium.
How scientific agriculture changes the life and taste of the chicken.
Cartoon showing how sound motion pictures work, produced by a company that was an innovator in the field. Story by W.E. Erpi (pseudonym for Western Electric, Electrical Research Products Inc.). Dir...
The comfort and delight of transatlantic air travel at the beginning of the jet age.
A University of Oklahoma Production. Produced for the Oklahoma State Department of Health in cooperation with the State of Oklahoma Department of Mental Health. Distributed by International Film Bu...
Animated character "Tommy Telephone" produces a telephone by assembling 433 separate parts.
Introducing stereophonic phonograph records.
Travelogues set landscapes in motion, and Freedom Highway exploits the roadside panorama as an excuse to celebrate American mythologies. Hanging in the sky as if they were ghosts, patriots, warrior...
Collection of TV commercials significant to the history and development of TV as an advertising medium.
Early technology to enable the channel-surfer.
Astonishing sitcom-style sponsored film encouraging increased consumption of electricity by an ever-increasing number of appliances. The plot pits a starry-eyed teenage girl against a geek whose ma...
Collection of TV commercials significant to the history and development of TV as an advertising medium.
Traces the course of alcohol through the body; shows the effects of alcohol on the brain; dramatizes the case of a problem drinker, including treatment.
Government-sponsored film about the building of the Boulder dam.
Strange, highly generalized portrait of the American woman consumer.
Two teenagers, wishing to marry early, visit their minister for advice and receive counseling, some of it quite pragmatic, the rest a little strange.
0574 PA8278 Swingin' Six
Importance of nutrition in wartime.
Impressionistic picture of the Third Avenue Elevated Railway in Manhattan, New York City, before it was demolished.
Jim, an emotionally immature teen, learns to evaluate his personality and to better work out his problems.
New Deal-era promo for the NRA (National Recovery Administration).
0707 PA8113 Berkeley Fire 1923
Phil (Dick York), new in his high school, follows his father's suggestion and observes the most popular students to determine what makes them popular. By offering to help others he becomes popular ...
Warns housewives about the effects of cleaning clothes with Gasoline.
Essentially a summary of work analysis films which were taken by Frank B. Gilbreth between 1910 and 1924 showing a number of industrial operations from which the motion study technique was developed.
Describes some of the biological effects of high energy radiations on plants and animal cells. Explains how typical experiments are conducted and demonstrates some of the protective measures requir...
Dinah Shore promotes the new Chevrolets and sings "See the U.S.A. in your new Chevrolet."