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The Time Machine
America as it was.
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
We Drivers (1935 edition)
Early driving safety film showing good and bad sides of a driver's mind.
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 ...
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.
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.
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.
Why Not Live?
Dramatic and shocking safety film set in the dangerous landscape and roadscape of 1930s America.
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...
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...
Steel: A Symphony of Industry
Dramatic presentation of steel production.
Look to Lockheed for Leadership (Part I)
Innovations in aviation history and technology. Producer and director: Shirley Burden. Photography: Floyd Crosby, Al Wetzel.
Tomorrow's Drivers
Socialization through driver education begins at a tender age in Phoenix.
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...
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...
Wastage of Human Resources
How crippling disease, avoidable accidents, crime, war, old age, alcoholism and poor living conditions waste human lives and their potential. This film grew out of the effort to build a better worl...
Meet King Joe
Cold War cartoon aimed at American workers with the objective of convincing them of their good fortune.
Conquering Roads
Highway engineering and development in the pre-Interstate era.
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...
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 ...
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.
Palmour Street
Everyday aspects of mental health in an African American community in Gainesville, Georgia.
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.
[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.
From Dawn to Sunset (Part I)
This classic example of "capitalist realism" depicts a day in the life of Chevrolet workers in the U.S., while attempting to convince them that their own fortunes were inextricably linked to the fo...