The Time Machine

City, The

Contents. A plea for community planning, which contrasts the awesome conditions of human living in a modern industrial city with (1) the serenity of life in an eighteenth-century New England villag...

Why Study Science?

Family discusses how the study of science can help son and daughter make intelligent decisions on problems they will confront in the world.

Boy in Court

Juvenile court labors to provide a humane alternative for rehabilitating at-risk youth offenders.

Twenty-Four Hours of Progress (Part I)

How the oil industry is central to the American economy.

Seabiscuit

About famous racehorse Seabiscuit

Divide and Conquer (Part III)

Shows the German invasion of Denmark, Norway, Holland, Belgium and France, including the evacuation of the British forces at Dunkirk. From the "Why We Fight" series.

Master Hands (Part II)

Classic "capitalist realist" drama showing the manufacture of Chevrolets from foundry to finished vehicles. Though ostensibly a tribute to the "master hands" of the assembly line workers, it seems ...

Modes of the Moment

Early "footery fashions" film sponsored by the Walk-Over Company.

Chevrolet Leader News (Vol. 3, No. 2)

Promotional newsreel containing a variety of Chevrolet-centric stories.

Divide and Conquer (Part IV)

Shows the German invasion of Denmark, Norway, Holland, Belgium and France, including the evacuation of the British forces at Dunkirk. From the "Why We Fight" series.

Visit to Santa, A

One of the cheapest Santa films ever produced. Shot in Pittsburgh, with blurry home movie footage of Santa parades (on one float he sticks out of a giant chimney, on another he stands in the cockpi...

[News Magazine of the Screen, December 1950] (Part I)

Newsreel stories reformatted for educational presentation, including the assassination attempt on President Harry S. Truman.

[Lincoln Highway Dedication]

Dedication of the western terminus of the Lincoln Highway (old U.S. 30), the legendary transcontinental route, in Lincoln Park, San Francisco.

Master Hands (Part III)

Classic "capitalist realist" drama showing the manufacture of Chevrolets from foundry to finished vehicles. Though ostensibly a tribute to the "master hands" of the assembly line workers, it seems ...

Miracles From Agriculture

Presents today's supermarkets as the showplaces of agriculture; discusses methods of improvement in the growing, handling, processing, and shipping of food products.

World's Fair Night Aerials

American Maker

Relates how Americans build, from youth throughout life, by using their ingenuity not only in technological advancement but in everyday efforts by everyone.

Tide XK Commercial

[Television Commercials: Folger's Coffee]

FOLGER'S COFFEE: 40 minutes of old Folger's commercials. Most of the Folger's ads involve a similar theme: Using white young suburban newlywed characters, Folger's explores different personality ty...

America Goes Over (Part IV)

Government-produced historical record of major World War I battles.

[Home Movies: Medicus collection: New York World's Fair, 1939-40] (Reel 3)

05:00:45:21 - 06:02:24:00 color silent 1939-40 World's Fairs: New York, 1939-40; Amateur films. Detailed documentation of the "World of Tomorrow" in beautiful Kodachrome. Foreign Section and Transp...

Work Pays America (Part II)

How the WPA's program of public works benefits both unemployed workers and American society.

Freedom and Power (Part II)

This opulently produced film defines freedom as the abundance of electric power, and reviews U.S. history from an electrocentric viewpoint. With animation.

Lost Landscapes of Detroit 2 (2011)

Compilation of historical footage showing life, labor and landscape in Detroit, Michigan (1919-1970s). First shown at Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD) on November 3, 2011.

Let Us Break Bread Together

A pictorial documentation which shows how integration and brotherhood are being promoted in a school district in New York City. PA-4146 Let Us Break Bread Together 00:00:24:29 - 00:26:24:00 Color S...

Date With Your Family, A

A Date With Your Family, a true suburban horror story, outdoes all other social guidance films by advising kids to do whatever is necessary — even lie — to achieve harmonious family relations. ...

[Home Movies: Medicus collection: New York World's Fair, 1939-40] (Reel 2)

4:00:47:29 - 04:02:39:24 color silent 1939-40 Can marked: "Electrical, Industrial, Food and State Buildings; night scenes" Electrical section, Industrial & Food Buildings intro. World's Fair flag r...

Master Hands

From producer's synopsis: "A beautiful dramatization of how the master hands of Chevrolet craftsmen form the patterns, tools and dies, and control the huge machine that fashions the modern car." 19...

Just a Spark

Chevrolet automobiles fight forest fires.

Science in Action: Drilling for Oil (Part I)

Kinescope of Fifties science TV program featuring discussions and demonstrations. In this episode, host Earl Herald interviews Howard G. Vesper, VP of Standard Oil Company of California, about the ...