America as it was.
Emphasizes the danger of attacks on children, dramatizing typical approaches. Shows what can be done to reduce the problem by making children aware of it and ready to take precautions when accosted...
Collection of TV commercials significant to the history and development of TV as an advertising medium.
PA9049 Communications Primer, A 16 Eastmancolor print
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.
Activities at the newly opened Beany's drive-through fast food restaurant, Long Beach, California, 1952 or 1953.
How scientific agriculture changes the life and taste of the chicken.
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...
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...
Collection of TV commercials significant to the history and development of TV as an advertising medium.
Animated character "Tommy Telephone" produces a telephone by assembling 433 separate parts.
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...
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...
Early technology to enable the channel-surfer.
Strange, highly generalized portrait of the American woman consumer.
0574 PA8278 Swingin' Six
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.
Collection of TV commercials significant to the history and development of TV as an advertising medium.
Two teenagers, wishing to marry early, visit their minister for advice and receive counseling, some of it quite pragmatic, the rest a little strange.
Government-sponsored film about the building of the Boulder dam.
Impressionistic picture of the Third Avenue Elevated Railway in Manhattan, New York City, before it was demolished.
Importance of nutrition in wartime.
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 ...
Jim, an emotionally immature teen, learns to evaluate his personality and to better work out his problems.
Warns housewives about the effects of cleaning clothes with Gasoline.
New Deal-era promo for the NRA (National Recovery Administration).
0739 PA9033 Time Pulls the Trigger
0707 PA8113 Berkeley Fire 1923