The Time Machine
America as it was.
Home Movie: PA100018: Beany's Drive-In, Long Beach, Calif., ca. 1952
Activities at the newly opened Beany's drive-through fast food restaurant, Long Beach, California, 1952 or 1953.
9m
Classic Television Commercials (Part III)
Collection of TV commercials significant to the history and development of TV as an advertising medium.
10m
Atomic Alert (Elementary version)
Frightening civil defense procedure film aimed at Cold War-era elementary school students.
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Is Your Daughter Safe? [erotica]
This early nudie-film, showing two naked women lolling around a rocky landscape, is more quaint than erotic. It's not clear what the original purpose was - it appears to be an excerpt from a longer...
17m
Chicken of Tomorrow, The
How scientific agriculture changes the life and taste of the chicken.
9m
Classic Television Commercials (Part V)
Collection of TV commercials significant to the history and development of TV as an advertising medium.
10m
Finding his voice : an animated cartoon synchronized to voice & sound
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...
12m
6 1/2 Magic Hours
The comfort and delight of transatlantic air travel at the beginning of the jet age.
19m
Mental Hospital
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...
7m
Living Stereo
Introducing stereophonic phonograph records.
10m
Just Imagine
Animated character "Tommy Telephone" produces a telephone by assembling 433 separate parts.
Freedom Highway
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...
10m
Classic Television Commercials (Part VIII)
Collection of TV commercials significant to the history and development of TV as an advertising medium.
11m
Classic Television Commercials (Part II)
Collection of TV commercials significant to the history and development of TV as an advertising medium.
Boulder Dam
Government-sponsored film about the building of the Boulder dam.
12m
Alcohol and the Human Body
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.
5m
Television Remote Control (Tuner)
Early technology to enable the channel-surfer.
15m
Are You Ready for Marriage?
Two teenagers, wishing to marry early, visit their minister for advice and receive counseling, some of it quite pragmatic, the rest a little strange.
14m
Young Man's Fancy (Part I)
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...
3m
Consuming Women (Women as Consumers)
Strange, highly generalized portrait of the American woman consumer.
9m
Food for Fighters
Importance of nutrition in wartime.
10m
Third Avenue El
Impressionistic picture of the Third Avenue Elevated Railway in Manhattan, New York City, before it was demolished.
12m
Act Your Age
Jim, an emotionally immature teen, learns to evaluate his personality and to better work out his problems.
2m
Berkeley Fire 1923
0707 PA8113 Berkeley Fire 1923
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2m
[National Recovery Administration (NRA) Promo]
New Deal-era promo for the NRA (National Recovery Administration).
14m
Swingin' Six
0574 PA8278 Swingin' Six
12m
Shy Guy
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 ...
More Dangerous Than Dynamite
Warns housewives about the effects of cleaning clothes with Gasoline.
Original Films Of Frank B Gilbreth (Part I)
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.
11m
Atom and Biological Science, The
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...