America as it was.
NO MORE ROAD TRIPS? (Rick Prelinger, 2013, 79 min.), a dream ride through 20th-century America made entirely from home movies, asks whether we've come to the end of the open road. Have we reached "...
Bobby and Kevin are out for a fun-filled Saturday morning of rowing on the lake, but they leave the life jackets on the dock. Bobby falls in, and when Kevin jumps in ot help, both are in trouble. I...
The Three Suns in radio studio. 00:18:50:03 - 00:21:10:12 B/W Sound 1940s Trio (organ, accordion, electric guitar) perform "Beyond the Blue Horizon" in recording studio (happy, light song) as engin...
"This film is an authentic record of real people, living their usual lives. It documents one of several experiments carried on by various state universities -- experiments sponsored by the Alfred P...
Gould can 1095. HOW TO USE THE DIAL PHONE. Instructional film on use of the dial telephone, produced for showing in the Fresno, California market.
High-quality, color film, in very good condition with a multitude of leisure-related stock shots (many with good sequences). On teaching people how to set up farm-based recreation (including camps,...
Interviews w/ airline workers
This Charming Couple, one of a series of five films on courtship and marriage designed to be used with Henry Bowman's textbook Marriage for Moderns, was part of the massive postwar response to fami...
Shows how to plan a party. Illustrates the skills which enable the guests to have fun together. Skeletal Entry
Soundie : Minnie The Moocher (Cab Calloway)
Tells the story of Andrew, a 13-year-old whose mother dies and leaves him with an indifferent step-father. Andrew, receiving only hostility from his classmates and step-father, begins to steal. An ...
CASE HISTORY TEENAGE GIRL'S INTRODUCTION TO USE OF NARCOTICS & PERSONAL & SOCIAL PROBLEMS THAT RESULT. BEGINNING W/OCCASIONAL MARIJUANA CIGARETTE, SHE EXPERIMENTS W/HEROIN & ACQUIRES CRIMINAL RECOR...
Some good shots to be logged.Title: "Tupperabia 1961..."Documents Tupperware's annual sales convention: Arabian Nights Jubilee. Bess Meyerson speaks. closeups of various state license plates, all 1...
Stresses the importance of secrecy on the part of military personnel and workers engaged in defense activities, and shows the results of careless talk. Ship explosion, sabotage, and disastrous even...
Shows how communities can prevent the spread of disease by providing safe water and milk supplies, sewage disposal facilities and anti-fly measures. Shows how individuals can protect themselves by ...
FISHERMAN GOES OVERBOARD, WRESTLES DEEP-SEA GIANT. Two fishermen on fishing boat spot their prey and clean their harpoon. Man dives in and wrestles with huge turtle; lands it, hoists it on top of 1...
About adolescence, with dramatizations of troubles teens face.
A "tribute to the American stylist," American Look shows families at leisure, children dressed in cowboy and cowgirl outfits watching television, a father shooting home movies of his picnicking fam...
Gould can 1095. HOW TO USE THE DIAL PHONE. Instructional film on use of the dial telephone, produced for showing in the Fresno, California market.
Tour through the operations of the Hormel Company. Includes all parts of the meatpacking and processing EXCEPT slaughtering. Shows beef, pigs, pork, bacon, sausage, hotdogs, frankfurters, portion c...
"This film is an authentic record of real people, living their usual lives. It documents one of several experiments carried on by various state universities -- experiments sponsored by the Alfred P...
Tacoma Span bridge collapse Skeletal Entry
"This film is an authentic record of real people, living their usual lives. It documents one of several experiments carried on by various state universities -- experiments sponsored by the Alfred P...
During the seventeen days of the newspaper delivery strike in New York, the public waited in two hour lines on the streets outside of newspaper plants in order to buy the paper. Although the news c...
[Educational Screen, Oct 1951] This film relates the experiences of a middle-class American family when they are stimulated to review the things for which they are thankful. Bill Johnson, a garage ...
Man and boy fishing, boy playing in snow, boy and older woman; color: woman in kitchen, boys in cowboy outfits, train year, birthday, child with toys`
Animated charts are used to show graphically the widespread ownership of America's basic wealth and the equitable distribution of the national income.