The Time Machine
America as it was.
8m
Alcohol Trigger Films for Junior High: The Party, The Mother, The Bride
Three short dramatic, open-ended situations designed to provoke discussion in alcohol education programs. Includes "The Party," in which a new boy wants to make friends and offers his house for a p...
19m
Wheels of Progress
Operations of the Rock Island Lines. Includes shots of high-speed "Rocket" freight trains; the operation of classification yards; and scenes of agricultural and industrial areas served by the railr...
11m
Day Called X, A (Part I)
Dramatized atomic evacuation of Portland, Oregon.
9m
Coach for Cinderella, A
Imaginative cartoon that breaks down the parts and features of a Chevrolet automobile into units that can be understood in terms of plant and animal life: caterpillars roll into circles and become ...
24m
Behind Your Radio Dial: The Story of NBC
Behind the scenes tour of NBC's radio and television broadcasting facilities at Rockefeller Center, New York City.
13m
Postwar Germany: 28 Months After V-E Day (Part I)
Investigation of German industrial production capabilities after the devastation of World War II. With striking images of destroyed German cities and factories. Amateur film made by George T. Fonda...
12m
Children Must Learn, The
Educating the children of Appalachia. Director: Willard Van Dyke. Script: Spencer Pollard. Photography: Bob Churchill. Narration: Myron McCormick. Editor: Irving Lerner. Music: Fred Stewart.
10m
We Drivers (1935 edition)
Early driving safety film showing good and bad sides of a driver's mind.
10m
This Is Prelinger Archives
Official Prelinger Archives corporate video, describing its contents and mission. With excerpts of many films in the collection and rare scenes shot inside the New York vaults.
10m
Why Not Live?
Dramatic and shocking safety film set in the dangerous landscape and roadscape of 1930s America.
15m
I Want to Be a Secretary
Follows a young woman through her clerical training and job search. Shows pre-World War II offices and office workers, primarily women. One of Coronet's earliest educational films.
19m
Boy with a Knife
Jerry, an "at-risk" young man, uses his knife as an "equalizer" to solve his frustrations stemming from his unhappy home, which is dominated by his stepmother. A group worker reaches Jerry and help...
7m
Traveltime: Freedomland
The film showcases Freedomland, an entertainment park in the Bronx, New York, that recreates 200 years of American history. It features attractions that depict significant events and modes of trave...
17m
Steel: A Symphony of Industry
Dramatic presentation of steel production.
17m
Typesetting: Linotype (Part I)
How mechanical typesetting works. The film explores the intricate workings of mechanical typesetting machines, particularly the linotype and intertype machines, which revolutionized printing in the...
13m
American Harvest (Part I)
This institutional film was designed to promote Chevrolet's corporate citizenship rather than any specific model of automobile. While it forcefully demonstrates how central automobile manufacturing...
9m
Meet King Joe
Cold War cartoon aimed at American workers with the objective of convincing them of their good fortune.
5m
RCA 16mm Sound Projector, The
Invisible white-gloved hands demonstrate the operation of the RCA 16mm sound projector. The film showcases the RCA 16mm sound projector, highlighting its powerful features and ease of use. It empha...
8m
Conquering Roads
Highway engineering and development in the pre-Interstate era.
15m
Look to Lockheed for Leadership (Part I)
Innovations in aviation history and technology. Producer and director: Shirley Burden. Photography: Floyd Crosby, Al Wetzel.
22m
We Learn About the Telephone I
A young man sketches a generic human (ÂMr. ManÂ) who takes us back through history to show us how humans developed a need to communicate and the devices to do so. Then shows us how telephones ena...
10m
Tomorrow's Drivers
Socialization through driver education begins at a tender age in Phoenix.
21m
Subject: Narcotics
Produced for police orientation and training, this film presents drug addiction not simply as a crime but as a deepseated social problem. With dramatized sequences of addicts in shooting galleries ...
14m
Story of Television, The
PLEASE NOTE: A more complete version with the full color sequence at the end is here. RCA's corporate history of pre-1956 developments in television.
19m
Visit to Wurlitzer, A (Part I)
Tour of the Wurlitzer factory located at North Tonawanda, N.Y., showing the manufacture of "coin-operated phonographs." A color sequence introducing the factory and its surroundings is followed by ...
15m
Who's Boss?
Husband and wife struggle to attain a balance of power in their marriage. This neorealist social guidance film was directed by Alexander Hammid.
8m
Something for Nothing
Cartoonist Rube Goldberg creates a little animation to explain how fuel is converted to power in the modern automobile engine.
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10m
[Amateur film: Golden Gate International Exposition]
Amateur pictures, including aerials and color shot from ground level, of the San Francisco World's Fair on Treasure Island.
10m
Telephone and Telegraph
Telecommunications workers in the analog era.
22m
Palmour Street
Everyday aspects of mental health in an African American community in Gainesville, Georgia.