The Time Machine

Red Chinese Battle Plan

Cold War-era anti-Chinese propaganda film featuring footage of revolutionary activities and combat, 1921-64.

What Makes A Good Party?

Shows teenagers how to plan and attend a party, suggesting games to play and songs to sing ("Jimmy Crack Corn").

[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....

This Is Hormel

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

Supervising Women Workers

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

Big Trains Rolling

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

Truth About Taxes, The

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

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.

Report on Puerto Rico, U.S.A.

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

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 ...

Far Sound, The

White Magic

The physics, science and applications of light.

Man-Made Miracles

Technicolor for Industrial Films

Film promoting use of Technicolor process to industrial film producers.

Marriage Is a Partnership

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

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.

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.

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...

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.

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.

How You See It

How persistence of vision makes motion pictures 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...

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...

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...

Heart and Circulation

Classic educational film on the workings of the circulatory system.

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...

Day Called X, A (Part I)

Dramatized atomic evacuation of Portland, Oregon.

Back of the Mike

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