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A high school girl learns that grooming and cleanliness, friendliness, and an interest in other people are essential in helping her to achieve populaity with the boys.

The talking magpies, Heckel and Jeckle, crash a movie studio driving a papier-mache limousine, and have no problem eluding the studio watchdog by disguising themselves, at various times, as knights-in-armor, Romeo and Juliet and, then, a couple of penguins. After many defeats, the vigilant-but-dumb bulldog finally kicks them of the lot.

How Monsanto will protect you during old age, accidents, death and so on.

A short documentary film, set to Antonio Vivaldi's The Four Seasons, depicting the cycle of the seasons throughout a year on the grounds of his parents' farm on the shore of Lake Simcoe.

A documentary film about the Dutch colonies in Latin America, Netherlands Antilles - St Maarten, Saba, St Eustatius, Aruba, Curacao, Bonaire, Dutch Guiana, Suriname.

This very short stereoscopic film by Evelyn Lambart uses drawings to suggest movement across Canada’s ever-changing countryside.

Popeye's been feeding a turkey in his backyard; it's Thanksgiving day, and his (3) nephews are all set to turn the turkey into the main course. But Popeye can't bring himself to do the deed, so he tells them a story about the time he was a pilgrim and a turkey saved his life. Popeye is hunting the turkey, which keeps outsmarting him; he finally corners the bird, which gives him a sob story about being too scrawny to eat. Popeye gives him some spinach, but before the bird can eat it, Popeye is captured by Indians. They tie him to a stake. The turkey, watching, remembers the spinach, which turns the turkey into an eagle. He swoops down, carries off the first batch of Indians and throws them into a mountain; he turns another batch into a totem pole. Popeye finishes his story and sees the boys missing; dinner time! They prepare to serve the turkey his big plate of spinach.

Colorful Kodachrome cubes and lines are synchronized to a jaunty tune. This film, found in the collection of Chicago-based filmmaker Margaret Conneely, was made by amateur filmmaker Denver Sutton of San Francisco, and was distributed by the Northern California Council of Amateur Movie Clubs.

Australian railway film from 1953, showcasing the beauty of train travel.

This RKO Pathe Screenliner film presents a parody of bodybuilder Charles Atlas. Atlas was an Italian American man best remembered as the developer of a specific bodybuilding method and associated exercise programs. Featuring comedy actor Arnold Stang, the film portrays a young man who joins a gym to gain muscles, defeat a bully, and get women.

This film is one of a series on Plant Supervisors' Problems. Based on material furnished by the Education and Training Department of the Aluminum Company of America.

Act I pas de trois from Swan Lake.

Part-live-action, part-animation short about the importance of industrial research in a capitalist society, with a focus on the development of nylon fiber.

Schoolchildren learn about safety.

The story of Dinky Duck and the scared Scarecrow.

1958, 3 min, b&w, sound, 35mm, Argentina

Behold the Man is the film of the Westminster Passion play produced each Easter by Catholic youth organizations with an amateur and anonymous cast. For the first time in Great Britain the censor has permitted the portrayal of Jesus on the screen, to be seen but not heard, the entire film being mimed to narrative.

(1959) Color, Sound, 25 min.

Little Willie's large imagination turns his family-home in the suburbs into the old Wild WEst when he puts on his cowboy suit, guns, holsters and hat, and goes out to play with his friend Archie.(No, this is not Archie Andrews.) The two boys have some desperate adventures, until Willie's mom calls him in to take his afternoon nap.

In this retelling of the Brothers Grimm folk tale, Hansel and Gretel- here portrayed as two mice kids- get themselves lost in the woods ("Beware Witch Country," a sign warns). There, they see a house made of gingerbread, candies and cakes. They break off pieces of the house and begin to eat it. Then they meet the house's owner, an evil old witch who is riding a vacuum cleaner. She captures the two kids and prepares to cook them. The witch sends her bad cats after Mighty Mouse when he flies to the rescue. He takes care of them and then takes on the witch as she transforms into a giant buzzard! Mighty Mouse knocks the witch into her own evil cauldron, kicking her in the behind! The evil sorceress comes out shrunken to one-fourth her size, and our hero returns Hansel and Gretel to their parents. Mighty Mouse gives Hansel and Gretel's father a magic axe which cuts down all of his trees. The magic device helps to end the family's financial woes

Promotes Sinclair Power-X Gasoline, a high octane fuel developed in the 1950s.

Highlights from the All-Ireland Hurling Championship Final 1954.

A documentary about mining.

... pure color forms undulating across the screen.

A high school student is confronted with conflicting loyalties: to a friend who committed a crime, or to their high school, against whom the crime was committed?

Provides a basis for appreciating the style and beauty of Leonardo da Vinci's art by examining his famous works. His versatility as an artist, mathematician, anatomist and architect is also pictured.

Abstract film by Jim Davis.

Educational film instructing kids how to be good citizens while playing.

A educational of how to handle fire, focusing on teaching the kids.

A short documentary about the town of Stockport

A propagandistic film about the positive impact the United Fruit Company had on Guatemalan society.

One of a set of audio-visual aids designed by General Motors for driver education classes.

A Walt Disney cartoon anthology

Short documentary about a hostel in 1950s Bayswater that houses African and Asian students.

Knowing your way around your hometown.

The Reverend Rodger Perkins, a Presbyterian missionary to Brazil, portrays himself in this true story of a young missionary flyer who travels between remote villages in an impassioned campaign to use “wings to speed the Word of God.” Narrated by Alexander Scourby.

Rowing on the estuary, driving onto the beach for a quick dash into the waves and making friends with the local felines - this wonderful record of a family seaside holiday in Borth-y-Gest, near Porthmadog on the edge of Snowdonia, has it all. Shot by prolific amateur filmmaker Harold Street, the abrupt ending and the placement of an end title card in the middle suggests this isn't his finished version - but the film nonetheless shows off a cinematic eye for framing and a sophisticated sense of narrative.

Part of BFI collection "Your Children and You." A simple film stating the need for more foster parents. Gives glimpses of the tragedy which comes to some children, how they are helped by the Boarding-Out Officer and placed in a "short-stay" Home until foster parents can be found.

Children's' serial in 10 episodes. The adventures of three London children with a gang of crooks.

Walter Cronkite's pronouncement "You are there" -- a witness to history's great moments -- greeted viewers of this popular TV series that ran from 1953-1957. Hosted by journalists such as Mike Wallace and Charles Collingwood, the show investigated major historical events as though they were breaking news. This episode covers early aeronautic history, including the Wright Brothers' first flight in Kitty Hawk, N.C., and the Graf Spee's final hours.

A profile of physically handicapped adults in various productive jobs at the Hughes Aircraft Company in California.

Because of a cruel ringmaster, Jolly the Clown and Ellsworth Elephant are both fired from the circus. Jolly tries to help the pink pygmy elephant's act so that he can keep his job.

Designed for civil defense rescue, this film demonstrates five stages of rescue in removing trapped or injured persons from a building damaged by bomb blast. It describes the functions of different members of a rescue party: local warden, damage-control officer, rescue leader, deputy and crew. We see how a systematic search is organized to locate and extricate casualties from fallen debris. Emphasis is placed on accurate recording and checking of information so that no trapped persons are overlooked. Includes footage of city buildings collapsing under aerial bombing.

A short piece of film recording general views of Edinburgh's Royal Mile in the 1950s.

The first in a series of films for the Rural Cinema Scheme in the Orkneys, it records the return to the island of Wyre of Neil Flaws, a farmer, and his family at a time when the drift from the northern isles of the Orkneys was of concern to some Orcadians.

A concerned narrator instructs Penelope in the science of fire: "Matches are a demon!"

A cartoon about the history of ice cream.

In the summer of 1952, King Frederik IX and Queen Ingrid who traveled to Greenland. While Christian X and Queen Alexandrine had traveled 31 years earlier on the DFDS ship Iceland, Frederik and Ingrid arrived aboard the Royal Ship Dannebrog. This visit was quite extraordinary for several reasons and established the close relationship between the Royal Household and Greenland.

This film presents a version of Edgar A. Poe’s “The Raven” complemented by the engravings of Gustave Dore. The intense and emotional black and white engravings that Dore executed to illustrate this poem are washed over with red, blue and green. The colours fade and dissolve with the art work to increase the mystery and fantasy which Poe created with his words.

This film was a progress report of the American propaganda campaign the Crusade for Freedom.

Cliche-ridden rural/urban improbable romance concocted to promote Ford tractors.

Tour of the French Riviera.

This film explores various tourist destinations along the famous "Rocky Mountain Rocket" line. The streamlined “Rocket” trains (numbers 7 and 8) ran from Chicago, Illinois to Denver and Colorado Springs, Colorado from 1939 to 1966. The journey was scheduled as 19.5 hours. Rock Island used an EMC E6 and EMC AB6 diesel to haul the train.

This documentary short shows two unnamed mountain climbers scaling Grossglockner, the tallest mountain in the Austrian Alps.

Short film by Claire Falkenstein.

Because of the film's choices of text and illustration were made so well – and because the natural anatomy of memory is so like that of cinema montage– the movie's effectiveness is very great, and it stands as a worthy initial exploration of the medium in which Mr. Boultenhouse has wrought so well. –Wallce Thurston, Kulchur #16