The Time Machine

This Is Hormel

Perhaps one of the most disturbing films in the Prelinger collection. Do you really want to see your meat being prepared?

Duck and Cover

This film, a combination of animated cartoon and live action, shows young children what to do in case of an atomic attack. The film opens with "Bert the Turtle" wobbling down the street and singing...

Big Trains Rolling

Railroads and how they keep the U.S. economy rolling.

Supervising Women Workers

Management addresses the special problems of women workers with concern and a heavy dose of sexism.

Truth About Taxes, The

Republican party campaign film on behalf of Wendell Willkie for U.S. president in the 1940 elections.

[Home Movies: Medicus collection: New York World's Fair, 1939-40] (Reel 6)

03:00:52:29 - 03:56:47:22 World's Fairs: New York, 1939-40; Home movies- amateur films. Can marked: "Amusement #1" Excellent color footage of pavilions, performances, amusement rides in Kodachrome....

Report on Puerto Rico, U.S.A.

Promotes the social and economic benefits of commonwealth status for Puerto Rico.

City, The (Part II)

The Regional Planning Association of America's plea for community chaotic cities and urban sprawl. Directors: Ralph Steiner and Willard Van Dyke. Script: Henwar Rodakiewicz, from an outline by Pare...

How Do You Know It's Love?

Gives students a basis for thinking clearly about real love and shows that mere conviction of love is not enough to insure lasting happiness. A drama.

Nature of Sound, The

Boy uses his radio equipment to demonstrate how sound is produced and transmitted.

Master Hands (Part I)

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 ...

Man-Made Miracles

White Magic

The physics, science and applications of light.

Marriage Is a Partnership

Flashback on the problems, adjustments and transformations occurring in the first year of a couple's married life.

This Is My Railroad (Part I)

Operations of the Southern Pacific Railroad, with many images of the territory that it serves. With excellent footage of snow management and removal operations in the Sierra Nevada mountains.

Technicolor for Industrial Films

Film promoting use of Technicolor process to industrial film producers.

Age 13 (Part I)

The inner life of an "at-risk" teenager, told in an idiosyncratic and often surreal manner. A key film by Sid Davis, who is beginning to emerge as one of the great unsung talents of educational fil...

Far Sound, The

How You See It

How persistence of vision makes motion pictures possible.

Act Your Age

High school boy who has scratched his desk is lectured by principal on acting his age. Teen girls and boys turn into 5-year-olds, illustrating infantile reactions. The principal delivers a pep talk...

Nation at Your Fingertips, The

How direct long distance dialing made the U.S. a smaller place, and how instantaneous direct communication between Americans without operator assistance became possible.

Down the Gasoline Trail

Cartoon showing what happens to a drop of gasoline from the time it flows into the gas tank to when it is exploded in the engine cylinder. This "fantastic voyage" through a glisteningly clean Chevr...

White Wonder

Salt, its extraction and uses in national defense, industry, agriculture, and the home. A feast of late-1950s imagery of everyday life, culture and industry.

Body Care and Grooming

Exhaustive (and sexist) explanation of personal care and daily habits of cleanliness, demonstrating how to keep the skin, hair, nails, and teeth clean and healthy. Partially filmed at Cornell Unive...

Conquer by the Clock

Encourages American workers to make the best possible use of their time in a war where industrial production and combat are synchronized on an international level.

A is for Atom

Presents in lay terms what an atom is, how energy is released from certain kinds of atoms, the peace-time uses of atomic energy and the by-products of nuclear fission. From The Field Guide to Spons...

Heart and Circulation

Classic educational film on the workings of the circulatory system.

Back of the Mike

Insider's view of the 1930s radio studio showing the production of dramatic sound effects.

Angry Boy (Part I)

Alexander Hammid's sensitive narrative of how a pre-adolescent boy is helped by a psychiatrist to come to terms with his feelings.

Combat Fatigue: Insomnia

Dick York plays a Navy recruit who must learn to tackle his insomnia.