![[movies]](http://archive.org/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | About Bananas - Castle Films
Complete presentation of the banana industry from the clearing of the jungle and the planting to the shipment of the fruit to the American markets.
Keywords: Agriculture: Bananas; Central America
Downloads: 26,588,367
Average rating:  (9 reviews) |  |
| Doctor in Industry (Part I) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Epic history of industrial medicine in the first half of the 20th century, showing how manufacturers and the medical profession came to terms with one another and culminating in GM's rehabilitation program for returned World War II veterans. Directed by Haford Kerbawy.
Keywords: Medicine: Industrial medicine; Medicine: Occupational health; World War II: Postwar issues
Downloads: 11,523,256
Average rating:  (1 review) |  |
| Health: Your Posture - Centron Corporation
Young girl's mirror image teaches her fundamentals of good posture.
Keywords: Health and hygiene
Downloads: 9,084,178
Average rating:  (5 reviews) |  |
| Breath-Takers, 2
Downloads: 3,501,572
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| Care of the Skin - Encyclopaedia Britannica Films
Structure of the skin; good cleanliness habits; the proper way to wash; the correct use of soap.
Keywords: Health and hygiene; Medicine: Dermatology
Downloads: 2,750,563
Average rating: (5 reviews) |  |
| Park Conscious - U.S. Dept. of Agriculture
Elegy to recreation and relaxation in state and national parks.
Keywords: Recreation; Parks; Nature
Downloads: 2,476,699
Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
| Joan Avoids a Cold - Coronet Instructional Films
How young children must behave to avoid transmitting germs to one another.
Keywords: Health and hygiene
Downloads: 2,460,761
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| From the Ground Up - Unknown
Promotional film for "Nutrilite," a 1950s-vintage food supplement.
Keywords: Agriculture: Food industry: Supplements; Nutrition
Downloads: 2,387,158
Average rating:  (4 reviews) |  |
| 122 Eyes - Hardcastle Films
Hard times in 1950s St. Louis and the social services that aimed to alleviate them.
Keywords: Social issues: 1950s; Social services
Downloads: 2,033,927
Average rating:  (3 reviews) |  |
| Duck and Cover - Archer Productions, Inc.
Selected for the 2004 National Film Registry of "culturally, historically and aesthetically significant" motion pictures. Famous Civil Defense film for children in which Bert the Turtle shows what to do in case of atomic attack.
Keywords: Atomic-nuclear: Civil defense; Animation
Downloads: 551,821
Average rating: (73 reviews) |  |
| Sleep for Health - Encyclopaedia Britannica Films
Told from the viewpoint of a child, this film emphasizes that children should train themselves in good sleeping habits. In typical "Goofus and Gallant" style, it shows the advantages a well-rested kid has over his poor-sleeping classmate. Dreams are presented as a normal part of sleeping, and there is a funny dream sequence.
Keywords: Health and hygiene; Dreams; Sleep
Downloads: 493,748
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| San Francisco (1955 Cinemascope film) - Tullio Pellegrini
Cinemascope homage to the city of San Francisco made by amateur filmmaker and inventor Tullio Pellegrini.
Keywords: san francisco; amateur film; widescreen; Cinemascope, pasta1
Downloads: 393,483
Average rating: (7 reviews) |  |
| Exercise and Health - Coronet Instructional Films
How exercise will make you healthy and popular.
Keywords: Health and hygiene; Exercise
Downloads: 374,548
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| Golden Years, The - Handy (Jam) Organization
Bowling made respectable and appealing to middle-class Americans through modernization and "Populuxe" design.
Keywords: Recreation; Sports: Bowling; Families
Downloads: 330,702
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| Perversion for Profit (Part I) - Unknown
Anti-pornography film produced by financier Charles Keating, linking pornography to the Communist conspiracy and the decline of Western civilization.
Keywords: Culture wars; Sexualities; Pornography
Downloads: 287,897
Average rating: (77 reviews) |  |
| Experiments in the Revival of Organisms - Techfilm Studio, Moscow
This disturbing film records the successful experiments in the resuscitation of life to dead animals (dogs), as conducted by Dr. S.S. Bryukhonenko at the Institute of Experimental Physiology and Therapy, Voronezh, U.S.S.R. Director: D.I. Yashin. Camera: E.V. Kashina. Narrator: Professor Walter B. Cannon. Introduced by Professor J.B.S. Haldane.
Keywords: Animals: Dogs; Medicine: Veterinary: Experiments; Life extension
Downloads: 284,696
Average rating: (59 reviews) |  |
| As Boys Grow - Medical Arts Productions
Sex education film aimed at teenage boys, with the coach as authority figure and teacher.
Keywords: Sex education; Children; Gender roles
Downloads: 283,092
Average rating: (21 reviews) |  |
| Ride for Cinderella, A - Handy (Jam) Organization
Cinderella relies on a Chevrolet to carry her home by midnight through obstacles and storms.
Keywords: Animation: Advertising; Folk tales; Automobiles: Advertising
Downloads: 258,715
Average rating: (9 reviews) |  |
| My Japan - U.S. Treasury Department
Complex and disturbing anti-Japanese propaganda film produced to spur the sale of U.S. war bonds. CONTENT ADVISORY: Explicit racism and extreme violence.
Keywords: World War II: Japan; Propaganda; World War II: Homefront
Downloads: 242,478
Average rating: (93 reviews) |  |
| Are You Popular? - Coronet Instructional Films
One of the best examples of post-World War II social guidance films, with examples of "good" and "bad" girls, proper and improper dating etiquette, courtesy to parents, and an analysis of what makes some people popular and others not. A scream and a sobering document of postwar conformity. Director: Ted Peshak. Cinematography: Bill Rockar. Writers: Robert Chapin and Patricia Kealy. Editor: George Wilbern...
Keywords: Social guidance; Teenagers; Gender roles
Downloads: 225,557
Average rating: (48 reviews) |  |
| Blonde Stag Film
Keywords: need keyword; Stag
Downloads: 217,383
Average rating:  (25 reviews) |  |
| Boys Beware - Sid Davis
Anti-homosexual film targeted at teenage boys, urging them to avoid encounters with potential molesters.
Keywords: Homosexualities; Crime and criminals (Molestation); Los Angeles
Downloads: 207,177
Average rating: (111 reviews) |  |
| Classic Television Commercials (Part I) - Various
Collection of TV commercials significant to the history and development of TV as an advertising medium.
Keywords: Advertising: Television commercials; Consumerism; Advertising: History
Downloads: 185,885
Average rating: (13 reviews) |  |
| Hindenburg Explodes
Footage from Castle and Pathé coverage of the Hindenburg disaster at Lakehurst. Also shots of the big ships over New York.
Keywords: need keyword
Downloads: 176,599
Average rating: (7 reviews) |  |
| [Amateur film: New Orleans Carnival Week, February 22, 1941] - Unknowm
Mardi Gras: Parade of Nor.
Keywords: New Orleans; Mardi Gras; Celebrations
Downloads: 174,333
Average rating: (7 reviews) |  |
| Brunette
Keywords: Vintage Erotica
Downloads: 164,500
Average rating: (10 reviews) |  |
| Peeping Toms Paradise
from tape 0517 PA8151 Burlesque (including Sheree) 016.10, PA6908
Keywords: need meta
Downloads: 162,751
Average rating: (20 reviews) |  |
| Day of Thanksgiving, A - Centron Corporation
An American family unable to afford a Thanksgiving turkey reviews the things for which they feel thankful. This patriotic film is unusual in that it does not link freedom and happiness with the pursuit of wealth. Produced with nonprofessional actors in Lawrence, Kansas. Written by Margaret Carlile (Trudy) Travis.
Keywords: Patriotism; Holidays: Thanksgiving; Families: 1950s
Downloads: 146,277
Average rating: (9 reviews) |  |
| Co-Ed Secrets Stag Film
Keywords: need keyword; Stag
Downloads: 143,163
Average rating: (23 reviews) |  |
| Atom Bomb [Joe Bonica's Movie of the Month] - Bonica (Joe)
Early atomic weapons testing.
Keywords: Atomic-nuclear: Weapons; Cold War
Downloads: 143,091
Average rating: (30 reviews) |  |
| Lucky Strike Cigarette Commercial: Square Dance - Handy (Jam) Organization
Lucky Strike cigarette commercial with stop-motion animation of square-dancing cigarettes.
Keywords: Advertising: Television commercials; Substance abuse: Tobacco; Animation: Stop-motion
Downloads: 139,402
Average rating: (23 reviews) |  |
| Destination Earth - Sutherland (John) Productions
In this corporate-sponsored cartoon, Martian dissidents learn that oil and competition are the two things that make America great.
Keywords: Economics; Oil industry; Advertising: Animation
Downloads: 134,531
Average rating: (23 reviews) |  |
| [Countdown Leader: Technicolor Corporation]
Countdown leader.
Keywords: Motion pictures: Projection
Downloads: 134,071
Average rating: (13 reviews) |  |
| Breakfast Pals - Cartoon Films, Limited
Snap, Crackle and Pop take on Soggy, Mushy and Toughy.
Keywords: Advertising: Screen ads; Animation: Advertising; Agriculture: Food industry: Cereals
Downloads: 127,316
Average rating: (10 reviews) |  |
| A is for Atom - Sutherland (John) Productions
Animated classic presenting what an atom is, how energy is released from certain kinds of atoms, the peacetime uses of atomic energy and the byproducts of nuclear fission.
Keywords: Atomic-nuclear: Energy; Physics; Animation
Downloads: 127,299
Average rating: (24 reviews) |  |
| Dating: Do's and Don'ts - Coronet Instructional Films
Classic instructional film for teen daters, presented here in the rare (but incomplete) Kodachrome version.
Keywords: Social guidance; Social guidance: Dating; Gender roles
Downloads: 125,832
Average rating: (22 reviews) |  |
| Miracle on the Delaware - WPTZ Motion Picture Unit
Mid-Fifties slices of life and landscape in Philadelphia and surrounding towns. With excellent color footage of downtown scenes, neighborhoods, the Mummers Parade, Levittown, factories in Camden, New Jersey, and many other subjects that can no longer be seen. Producer and Director: Cal Jones. Cinematographer: Ralph Lopatin. Writer and Narrator: Dick McCutchen.
Keywords: Philadelphia, Pa; Cities: U.S., Northeast; Levittown, Pa
Downloads: 125,393
Average rating: (17 reviews) |  |
| Cherry Knight
Keywords: Vintage Erotica; Erotic Dance
Downloads: 124,137
Average rating: (8 reviews) |  |
| Perversion for Profit (Part II) - Unknown
Anti-pornography film produced by financier Charles Keating, linking pornography to the Communist conspiracy and the decline of Western civilization.
Keywords: Culture wars; Sexualities; Pornography
Downloads: 123,008
Average rating: (43 reviews) |  |
| Good Eating Habits - Coronet Instructional Films
Drama focusing on gluttony and "hidden hunger," where well-nourished people eat poorly and malnourish themselves.
Keywords: Nutrition; Food; Social guidance
Downloads: 122,053
Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
| Television Commercials (1950s-1960s) - Various
Examples of broadcast advertising from the 1950s and 1960s.
Keywords: Advertising: Television commercials; Consumerism
Downloads: 115,138
Average rating: (30 reviews) |  |
| San Francisco Earthquake footage
Keywords: Earthquakes: San Francisco, 1906; San Francisco: Disasters; Amateur Film
Downloads: 110,346
Average rating: (5 reviews) |  |
| Make Mine Freedom - Sutherland (John) Productions
This Cold War-era cartoon uses humor to tout the dangers of Communism and the benefits of capitalism.
Keywords: Cold War; Animation: Advertising; Capitalism
Downloads: 107,214
Average rating: (33 reviews) |  |
| Afro Mood Burlesque
A burlesque short starring Amalia Aguilar. Part of "Joe Bonica presents the Movie of the Month" nudie film series.
Keywords: Burlesque
Downloads: 106,184
Average rating: (11 reviews) |  |
| Belo Horizonte - U.S. Office of Inter-Amer Affairs
Development of Brazil's planned city.
Keywords: Regional: Brazil
Downloads: 105,292
Average rating: (5 reviews) |  |
| Hot Number
Keywords: Vintage Erotica
Downloads: 101,206
Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
| Good Table Manners - Coronet Instructional Films
A bad-mannered 14-year-old meets himself as a young man of 21, and learns the fundamentals of good table manners.
Keywords: Social guidance: Etiquette; Children
Downloads: 96,890
Average rating: (8 reviews) |  |
| A-Bomb Blast Effects
Footage from an atomic bomb test - perhaps Operation Tumbler-Snapper?
Keywords: need keyword
Downloads: 96,148
Average rating: (13 reviews) |  |
| Indian Love Burlesque
Keywords: need meta
Downloads: 95,242
Average rating: (8 reviews) |  |
| Care of the Hair and Nails - Encyclopaedia Britannica Films
A fairy tale character uses magic to help youngsters learn good health habits.
Keywords: Health and hygiene
Downloads: 95,221
Average rating: (6 reviews) |  |
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