![[movies]](http://archive.org/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | [Largest Radio Transmitter Is Dedicated] - Universal-International Newsreel
U.S. Navy opens 1 megawatt transmitter in Cascade Mountains of Washington, known as 'Radio Jim Creek.' Newsreel story.
Keywords: Newsreels; Communication: Radio; Military: U.S. Navy
Downloads: 5,113
Average rating:  (6 reviews) |  |
| [Lincoln Highway Dedication] - Unknown
Dedication of the western terminus of the Lincoln Highway (old U.S. 30), the legendary transcontinental route, in Lincoln Park, San Francisco.
Keywords: San Francisco: Infrastructure; Infrastructure: Roads and highways; Celebrations
Downloads: 15,772
Average rating:  (1 review) |  |
| [Lindbergh's Flight and Return] - Fox News / Kinograms
Aviator Charles A. Lindbergh takes off from New York on his solo transatlantic flight between America and Europe and arrives in Paris; newsreels conclude with his return to the U.S.
Keywords: Aviation: History; Lindbergh, Charles Augustus
Downloads: 8,214
Average rating:  (2 reviews) |  |
| La Paz - Bryan (Julien)
Tour of old and new in Bolivian capital.
Keywords: Bolivia
Downloads: 3,563
Average rating:  (3 reviews) |  |
| Labatts Beer Commercial
Downloads: 17,438
Average rating:  (7 reviews) |  |
| Labor and Childbirth - Medical Arts Productions (San Francisco, Calif.)
Diagrammatic explanation from the Baby Boom era.
Keywords: Medicine: Obstetrics
Downloads: 31,870
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| Labor of Thy Hands
Produced for American audiences. Describes how Israel is a democracy just like the United States.
Keywords: need keyword
Downloads: 1,671
Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
| Labor of Thy Hands
0631 PA8721 Labor of Thy Hands
Downloads: 899
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| Laboratory Diagnosis of Rabies, The
Downloads: 2,955
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| Lady and the Stock Exchange, The - Paramount Pictures
Begins with B&W prologue about new female staff at Stock Exchange. In style of dramatic sitcom, about a woman who investigates the stock market and tries to convince her husband to invest. Some good stock shots to be logged.
Downloads: 66 |  |
| Lady Lifeguards
Keywords: need meta
Downloads: 5,048
Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
| Land For Pioneers
Downloads: 71
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| Land Is Rich, The
On the struggle of California agricultural workers to gain union recognition through the United Farm Workers.
Downloads: 74
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| Land of Montezuma, The
Downloads: 549
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| Language of a Drawing - Pathescope Productions
Downloads: 53 |  |
| Language They Speak, The - Weissman (Norman) Production
Sign Language & Braille
Downloads: 55 |  |
| Larynx and the Voice
Downloads: 4,021
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| Last Clear Chance, The - Wondsel, Carlisle & Dunphy, Inc.
This engaging Kodachrome drama (formatted for television broadcast) from the Union Pacific ostensibly deals with safety at railroad grade crossings, but it's also about much more: youth's feeling of invulnerability; the highway patrolman as an authority figure; the look of the rural and urban West in the late 1950s; the urge to speed through a sparsely populated agricultural landscape; and the train's role as farmer's servant and potential killer...
Downloads: 329
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| Last Date - Lewis D. Collins
Tells the story of Jeanne, a popular pretty girl until speed and an accident ruin her life. Directed by Lewis D. Collins. Story by Bruce Henry. With Richard (Dick) York (Nick); Joan Taylor (Jeanne Dawson); and Robert Stern (Larry Gray). Winner of the annual award of the National Committee on Films for Safety as 1949's best non-theatrical picture.
Keywords: need keyword
Downloads: 6,571
Average rating: (6 reviews) |  |
| Last Word In Automatic Dishwashing
Keywords: need keyword
Downloads: 13,528
Average rating: (6 reviews) |  |
| Law and Social Controls - Coronet Instructional Films
Uses the story of teens trying to extend the hours of their "Teen Canteen" as a vehicle for explaining customs, moral codes, and laws.
Keywords: Social guidance; Law; Teenagers
Downloads: 6,350
Average rating: (8 reviews) |  |
| Learning to Set Type - Whitten-Appleton, Inc.
Demonstrates basic principles of manual typesetting.
Keywords: Communication: Typesetting
Downloads: 8,551
Average rating: (5 reviews) |  |
| Leave It to Roll-Oh - Handy (Jam) Organization
Tongue-in-cheek film showing a domestic robot freeing housewives of their chores (and intimating that their work is hardly necessary); actually a promo showing how relays and switches function in the modern automobile. Shown at the New York World's Fair in 1940.
Keywords: Robotics; Gender roles; Futurism
Downloads: 29,164
Average rating: (15 reviews) |  |
| Let There Be Light
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| Let Us Break Bread Together (Part I) - Film Production Unit, Bureau of AV Instruction
How a New York City school district promoted racial integration and intergroup tolerance.
Keywords: Diversity; New York City; Society: Education
Downloads: 3,933
Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
| Let Us Break Bread Together (Part II) - Film Production Unit, Bureau of AV Instruction
How a New York City school district promoted racial integration and intergroup tolerance.
Keywords: Diversity; New York City; Society: Education
Downloads: 2,768
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| Let Yourself Go - Handy (Jam) Organization
How architecture, furniture and transportation have been designed to help Americans relax.
Keywords: Psychology; Design; Stress
Downloads: 7,687
Average rating: (6 reviews) |  |
| Let's Be Good Citizens at School - Camerart Pictures
Shows the importance of being neat and careful and of helping in such ways as picking up another's coat and making a new child feel he belongs to the group.
Keywords: Social guidance; Social guidance: Etiquette; Citizenship
Downloads: 12,776
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| Let's Face It (Part 1)
begins with great rotating globe moving closer to camera and stopping on United States
Downloads: 65 |  |
| Let's Face It (Part 2) - Wilding Picture Productions, Inc.
Wilding Picture Productions, Inc.
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| Let's Give A Tea - Edward C. Simmel
Describes the proper procedures involved in giving a tea, such as making a guest list, describing the dress and arranging a tea table. Points out that rules of etiquette are practical. Director: Edward C. Simmel. Script: Joseph E. Johnston. Camera: Harry Burrell. Technical Advisor: Marion Moss Burbank.
Downloads: 2,593
Average rating: (8 reviews) |  |
| Let's Give a Tea
PA8557 Let's Give a Tea 16 Koda print; has break in middle
Downloads: 2,524
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| Let's Go Bowling (Part I) - Unknown
Culture and practice of bowling in 1950s America.
Keywords: Sports: Bowling; Recreation; Gender roles
Downloads: 11,235
Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
| Let's Go Bowling (Part II) - Unknown
Culture and practice of bowling in 1950s America.
Keywords: Sports: Bowling; Recreation; Gender roles
Downloads: 8,762
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| Let's Go To The Movies
An overall picture of the background, development and technical advances made by the motion picture industry through the years. Includes Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Al Jolson, John Barrymore and others.
Keywords: need keyword
Downloads: 11,073
Average rating: (5 reviews) |  |
| Let's Make A Map - Film Associates of California
Downloads: 60 |  |
| Let's Play Fair - Coronet Instructional Films
Sharing, taking turns and obeying rules are the basic elements of fair play.
Keywords: Social guidance; Social guidance: Etiquette
Downloads: 5,934
Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
| Let's Share With Others - Coronet Instructional Films
A kid-centered pitch for fair play and thoughtfulness.
Keywords: Social guidance
Downloads: 4,271
Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
| Let's Talk Turkey - Armour & Company
Tells of the 'JUNIOR' turkey which can be used yearround by the small and average-size family. Shows the Marie Gifford Kitchens where turkey dishes, such as roast turkey, casseroles and pinwheels are prepared.
Downloads: 2,208
Average rating: (5 reviews) |  |
| Letter From an Airline Pilot (Part I)
0740 PA9002 Letter From an Airline Pilot 16 B&W print
Keywords: Aviation: History; Aviation: Commercial; Occupations: Aviation
Downloads: 4,269
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| Letter From an Airline Pilot (Part II)
0740 PA9002 Letter From an Airline Pilot
Keywords: Aviation: History; Aviation: Commercial; Occupations: Aviation
Downloads: 2,835
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| Letter From Bataan, A - Paramount Pictures
A soldier pleads to the folks to home to conserve scarce wartime resources.
Keywords: World War II: Homefront
Downloads: 4,219
Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
| Let’s Get Associated With San Francisco
Survey of famous tourist sites in San Francisco in 1938. 01:00:37:10 Intertitle over sparkling water “A city of supreme and exotic beauty…” 01:02:01:14 Elevated shot overlooking downtown San Francisco and the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge 01:02:20:27 Sign: “San Francisco Airport New York - 15 Hours Los Angeles - 2 Hours” 01:02:39:07 VS 1940s San Francisco airport. Old United Airlines commercial passenger plane on runway and taxiing...
Downloads: 136 |  |
| Lewis and Clark - Emerson Film Corp.
Dramatization of the expedition made by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to explore the land from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Coast.
Keywords: U.S. History: Westward expansion
Downloads: 7,139
Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
| Liberty - Don Robert Catlin
An interesting salute to the Statue Of Liberty, and America in general.
Keywords: Statue Of Liberty; America: Landmarks
Downloads: 11,370
Average rating: (14 reviews) |  |
| Librarian, The - Holmes (Burton) Films, Inc.
Shows the work of different library personnel.
Keywords: Occupations: Librarians
Downloads: 45,701
Average rating: (10 reviews) |  |
| Life Begins - Erpi Classroom Films
Emphasizes the need for a better understanding of the laws governing the infant's mental and physical growth, so that a happier social order can be developed. Similarities, differences, and characteristic ways in which infants react to standardized test situations are shown, as are their everyday life and social reactions to the family group. Discusses the education and mental hygiene of infants and the obligation of science, home, and society to promote the infant's welfare...
Downloads: 177 |  |
| Life Cycle of the Mosquito - Yorke (Emerson) Studio
"An unusually informative film on the mosquito showing complete metamorphosis of the insect from the egg through the larva and the pupa stages to its emergence in adult form. New techniques in cinematography make possible faithful anatomical detail of the living mosquitoes." (National Board of Review) Good, disgusting XCUs of wiggling mosquito larvae and an interesting real-time shot of a mosquito growing fatter as it sucks blood...
Downloads: 603
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| Life Cycle of the Mosquito, The - Emerson Yorke Studios
Distributed by Young America Films, Presented by Emerson Yorke Studios in New York City, with cooperation and contributions from the US Public Health Service, New Jersey State Agricultural Experimentation Station at Rutgers University, and the Rockefeller Foundation International Health Division. 0653 PA8778 Life Cycle of the Mosquito, The
Keywords: Motion Pictures: Scientific; Motion Pictures: In Education; Science; Insects
Downloads: 5,800
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| Life in the Central Valley of California - Coronet Instructional Films
Shows the agriculture, trade and infrastructure of California's Central Valley, all made possible by irrigation.
Keywords: California: History and culture; California: Central Valley
Downloads: 4,919
Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
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