![[movies]](http://archive.org/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | [Oakland "Sir Knights" Parade and City Scenes, 1949]
"Sir Knights" parade, Columbus Day 1949; skiing and flowers; kids' amusement park or fantasy village sponsored by Southern Pacific Railroad
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| [Oakland Oaks Baseball Season Opens] - Unknown
Baseball season opens in Oakland, California: April 2, 1918; auto parade through downtown streets and pregame warmup.
Keywords: San Francisco Bay Area: Baseball; San Francisco Bay Area: Oakland; Sports: Baseball
Downloads: 7,585
Average rating:  (3 reviews) |  |
| [Oakland Womens Rowing Club] - Universal-International Newsreel
Oakland, Calif.: Women's rowing club on Lake Merritt. Newsreel story.
Keywords: Newsreels; Sports: Rowing; Sports: Women
Downloads: 2,581
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| [Oakland, California Real Estate Promotional Film] - Havens (Wickham)
Real estate promotional film on Oakland, California and her sister cities made by Wickham Havens, a local developer.
Keywords: San Francisco Bay Area: Oakland
Downloads: 5,292
Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
| [Odds and Ends] - Hardcastle Films
05:32:17:00-05:34:40:00 Nixon w/ Russion (?) B&W, Sd
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| [Odds and Ends] - Hardcastle Films
05:32:17:00-05:34:40:00 Nixon w/ Russion (?) B&W, Sd 05:34:53:00-05:40:39:00 Pevely Dairy advertising footage, B&W, Si
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| [Opium Destruction, San Francisco 1914] - Unknown
Government agents burn confiscated opium near unfinished San Francisco City Hall, and destroy other confiscated Chinese drugs.
Keywords: Substance abuse: Drugs; San Francisco: History
Downloads: 9,143
Average rating:  (6 reviews) |  |
| [Orphaned Korean Boy Arrives in San Francisco] - Universal-International Newsreel
5-year-old, adopted by former serviceman Bill Pond, arrives on the liner President Cleveland in San Francisco. Newsreel story.
Keywords: Newsreels; Korean War; Children
Downloads: 3,222
Average rating:  (3 reviews) |  |
| O'Mara's Chain Miracle
A short-tempered policeman, played by Victor McLaghlan, acts nice to a new Chevy owner and starts a kindness chain reaction in small town.
Keywords: need keyword
Downloads: 3,479
Average rating: (7 reviews) |  |
| Obligations - Simmel-Meservey
Members of two families illustrate correct and incorrect manner of taking care of their obligations to one another.
Keywords: Social guidance: Etiquette; Social guidance; Kinship
Downloads: 3,559
Average rating: (5 reviews) |  |
| Odds and Ends (Hardcastle) (Part I)
0636 PA8485 Odds and Ends (Hardcastle)
Keywords: Motion Pictures: Sponsored; Economics; Materials: Plastics
Downloads: 1,777
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| Odds and Ends (Hardcastle) (Part II)
0636 PA8485 Odds and Ends (Hardcastle)
Keywords: Motion Pictures: Sponsored; Economics; Materials: Plastics
Downloads: 1,007
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| Of Many Voices - Sutherland (John) Productions
Reveals the experiences of three Bell Telephone employees who are used to symbolize thousands of men and women across the country who work for telephone companies. Includes the career of a man who began work as a lineman's helper at the turn of the century, and an operator who joined the company in recent years.
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| Office Courtesy: Meeting the Public - Encyclopaedia Britannica Films
Assisted by an instructive dream, a secretary learns how to be more personable and thus render her job more enjoyable.
Keywords: Social guidance; Occupations: Clerical; Gender roles
Downloads: 7,905
Average rating:  (5 reviews) |  |
| Office Etiquette - Encyclopaedia Britannica Films
Do's and don'ts film portraying ways in which office etiquette contributes to success in office relationships. Follows a young woman who is seeking her first secretarial job and shows examples of good (and hilariously bad) on-the-job behavior.
Keywords: Social guidance; Social guidance: Etiquette; Occupations: Clerical
Downloads: 32,878
Average rating: (7 reviews) |  |
| Official Motion Pictures of the New York World's Fair 1939
Downloads: 3,149
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| Offshore Drilling - Standard Oil Company of California
Shows offshore oil drilling off the coast of California.
Downloads: 178
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| Oil for Aladdin's Lamp (revised version) - Unknown
The romance of the petroleum industry, showing how dependent our society is on oil and petrochemical products. Remake and update of the original (1933) version.
Keywords: Oil industry; Chemistry; Energy
Downloads: 4,440
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| Oil Today - Power Tomorrow
The story of how oil is brought to the earth's surface and turned into power. Emphasizes the men who work in the oil industry and the significance of oil as a source of power and heat in today's modern world.
Keywords: need keyword
Downloads: 4,957
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| Oil: Paths of Progress - Richie (Robert Yarnall) Productions, Inc.
19:28:10:05 Two Middle Eastern farmers standing on pile of hay, one sifts hay. 19:28:17:19 Camera follows person riding on camel through desert, oil well enters frame in background, person on camel passes a 1950s airplane and waves to the pilot who waves back. 19:29:56:07 CU disembodied shucks an oyster for the camera. 19:30:06:10 CU stenciled sign reads “P. No. 1 Pesa A Perforarse 24 de Nov. de 1913…6 de Julio de 1918” pan down from sign to man holding camera...
Downloads: 128
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| Old and New England
Fairly static, mostly scenic shots showing landscape similarities between old England and New England. Focuses heavily on landscapes having to do with water (rivers, lakes, harbors, etc.)
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| Old Chinese Proverb: One Picture Is Worth Ten Thousand Words, An - Fairbanks (Jerry) Productions
A tour through the Jerry Fairbanks studios in Hollywood, showing the production of animation, TV films, industrial and advertising films.
Keywords: Motion pictures: Production; Motion pictures: Sponsored; Advertising: Motion pictures
Downloads: 13,934
Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
| Old Family Album Goes Modern, The
A promotional film for the Marquee's home movie service. As an example we see the development of a baby boy, from his newborn stage to around eighteen months of age.
Keywords: need keyword
Downloads: 2,159
Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
| Old MacDonald - Galbreath Pictures Inc
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| Old Virginia Preserves Commercial
Old Virginia Preserves Commercial
Keywords: need keyword
Downloads: 6,058
Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
| Olds Minute Movies [Futuramic 1948] - Handy (Jam) Organization
Theater advertisements for the first all-new automobile to be placed on the market after World War II, the Oldsmobile Futuramic.
Keywords: Advertising: Screen ads; Automobiles: Advertising; Design
Downloads: 14,372
Average rating: (7 reviews) |  |
| Oldsmobile Commercial
Downloads: 11,974
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| Oldsmobile Presents Motoring's Magic Carpet Hydra-Matic B-44 (1942 Oldsmobile Playlets) - Unknown
Theatrical screen ad for one of the last pre-World War II automobiles.
Keywords: Automobiles: Advertising; World War II: Industrial production; World War II: Prewar preparedness
Downloads: 4,487
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| Oldsmobile Presents the "Custom 8 Cruiser" B-44 (1942 Oldsmobile Playlets) - Unknown
Theatrical screen ad for one of the last pre-World War II automobiles.
Keywords: Automobiles: Advertising; World War II: Industrial production; World War II: Prewar preparedness
Downloads: 3,000
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| Oldsmobile Presents the "Seventy" B-44 (1942 Oldsmobile Playlets) - Unknown
Theatrical screen ad for one of the last pre-World War II automobiles.
Keywords: Automobiles: Advertising; World War II: Industrial production; World War II: Prewar preparedness
Downloads: 22,284
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| Oldsmobile Presents the "Sixty" B-44 (1942 Oldsmobile Playlets) - Unknown
Theatrical screen ad for one of the last pre-World War II automobiles.
Keywords: Automobiles: Advertising; World War II: Industrial production; World War II: Prewar preparedness
Downloads: 3,140
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| Oldsmobile Presents the B-44 (1942 Oldsmobile Playlets) - Unknown
Theatrical screen ad for one of the last pre-World War II automobiles.
Keywords: Automobiles: Advertising; World War II: Industrial production; World War II: Prewar preparedness
Downloads: 2,753
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| On Guard! The Story of SAGE - IBM Corporation, Military Products Division
Innovations in computer technology as weapons in the Cold War.
Keywords: Cold War; Electronics; Computers: History
Downloads: 36,863
Average rating: (13 reviews) |  |
| On the Air - Handy (Jam) Organization
How radio broadcasting works.
Keywords: Media: Radio
Downloads: 16,591
Average rating: (5 reviews) |  |
| On the Firing Line - Courier Productions, Inc.
Efforts being made by the National Tuberculosis Association in the war against tuberculosis, with many interesting scenes from the 1930s. Posing interesting and still relevant statistics linking poverty to the disease as well as surprising breakdowns on the racial demographics of tuberculosis victims, the film also includes fascinating footage of early sanitoria (treatment centers) and mobile health clinics.
Keywords: Health and hygiene; Medicine: Tuberculosis; Medicine: Public health
Downloads: 5,168
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| On the Run - Davis (Sid) Productions
About well-behaved teenagers who compete in the Mobilgas Economy Run. Excellent teens dancing in San Francisco malt shop. This film, narrated by a teen-age girl, is an account of how she got her high school involved in the "Safety Economy Run" of the California AAA (supervised by Ray Burton in San Francisco). Because of one bully who skids the tires of his hot rod outside the school the neighbors have been complaining, the school had threatened to close the student parking lot, and her father wa...
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| On the Run (Part I) - Davis (Sid) Productions
Well-behaved San Francisco teenagers compete in the Mobilgas "Safety Economy Run," driving their cars around the Bay Area under the supervision of experienced racing drivers. Go to Part II
Keywords: Car culture: Youth; Hot rods; San Francisco: Scenics: Historical
Downloads: 6,841
Average rating: (6 reviews) |  |
| On the Run (Part II) - Davis (Sid) Productions
Well-behaved San Francisco teenagers compete in the Mobilgas "Safety Economy Run," driving their cars around the Bay Area under the supervision of experienced racing drivers. Go to Part I
Keywords: Car culture: Youth; Hot rods; San Francisco: Scenics: Historical
Downloads: 3,160
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| Once and Forever - Handy (Jam) Organization
On the importance of specifying long-life cast-iron soil pipes when you build your new home.
Keywords: Infrastructure: Construction; Houses and homes; Gender roles
Downloads: 2,724
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| Once Upon a Honeymoon - Fairbanks (Jerry) Productions
Delightful musical made to promote color telephones as a decorator accessory in the home.
Keywords: Communication: Telephone; Consumerism; Houses and homes
Downloads: 38,940
Average rating: (26 reviews) |  |
| One Bad Knight
0709 PA8686 One Bad Knight
Downloads: 4,961
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| One Got Fat: Bicycle Safety - Interlude Films
A group of children, all wearing ape masks, rides their bicycles to the park for a picnic. Along the way, all but one are eliminated for violating basic bike safety rules. This strange film was narrated by Edward Everett Horton. Script and Direction: Dale Jennings. Photography: Max Hutto. Art Direction: Ralph Hulett. With Dick Hutto, Janice Powell, Lucie Hagens, Ralph Hulett, Clyde L. Johnson, Dave Hembree, Colleen Hutto, Charles Hagens, Kevin Lindsay, Dan Whitehead, Don Moody, Diane Chambers, S...
Keywords: Bicycles; Safety: Bicycle; Animals: Apes
Downloads: 93,190
Average rating: (41 reviews) |  |
| One Thousand Hours - Handy (Jam) Organization
Producer's synopsis: "Group of high school boys who have a workshop and laboratory of their own learn, from a transport pilot who befriends them, that studies their teachers want them to learn are important, too; an aviator or any man in the modern world needs to know geometry, physics, geography, and all the other school subjects." This film was made to prevent teenagers from succumbing to cynicism during the Depression, when few job prospects were available...
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| One World or None
Animated.
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| Open Door: The Story of Foreman Jim Baxter and His Family, The - Handy (Jam) Organization
08:23:38 CU hand turns and opens door. The story of foreman Jim Baxter, his family, and his job. 08:24:20 CU outside view window of clapboard house with curtains and louver shutters. 08:24:31 Man walking along sidewalk, suit jacket over shoulder, passes boys on roller skates, catches baseball from little boy. 08:24:46 Little boy in baseball cap looks up with sad wistful expression. 08:24:50 Little girl stops practicing the piano when father comes home from work...
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| Open Door: The Story of Foreman Jim Baxter and His Family, The (Part I) - Handy (Jam) Organization
A General Motors foreman learns not just to be a better manager, but where his place is in the system of production.
Keywords: Management
Downloads: 2,224
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| Open Door: The Story of Foreman Jim Baxter and His Family, The (Part II) - Handy (Jam) Organization
A General Motors foreman learns not just to be a better manager, but where his place is in the system of production.
Keywords: Management
Downloads: 2,133
Average rating:  (1 review) |  |
| Open Road A - Bethlehem Steel Company
Educational film about how steel is used to make highways, including problems that occur with time and use.
Keywords: Infrastructure: Roads and Highways; Civil Engineering; City Planning; Metals: Steel: Steel Industry
Downloads: 2,778
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| Open Road B - Bethlehem Steel Company
Educational film about how steel is used to make highways, including problems that occur with time and use.
Keywords: Infrastructure: Roads and Highways; Civil Engineering; City Planning; Metals: Steel: Steel Industry
Downloads: 1,541
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| Open Road, The - Telefilm Industries, Inc.
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