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Part of BFI collection "Portrait of a People."

1956 Oscar nominated cartoon. The idea here is simple: the main character has taken up jaywalkng as a hobby and it quickly becomes manic, almost obsessive, behavior.

The methods employed by a salesman of industrial lubricants in making a very difficult sale is illustrated. The film emphasizes the need to acquire the pertinent information about a perspective client before the sales interview and adjusting the sales plan to suit the ideas and personality of the customer.

Members of two families illustrate correct and incorrect manner of taking care of their obligations to one another.

The story of Captain John Smith.

Explains that the foundations of successful selling is a systematic method of locating prospective customers. The methods of three successful salesmen are illustrated; one keeps his eyes and ears open through personal observation, one uses an initial sale to get a prospect for the next, and the third uses friends to give him additional contacts.

Film about the exploitation and cultivation of the coastal savannas in Suriname for large-scale rice cultivation.

Early burlesque film with Syra and Caro.

This Civil Defense films shows the results of atomic testing on houses at Yucca Flats, NV. Although the purpose of the film was to inform viewers of what rooms of the house to avoid in case of atomic attack, the film's failure to mention the dangers of radioactive fallout caused the government to have it pulled from circulation in 1959 and declared obsolete.

The Hawaiian Islands, located 2,000 miles from the U.S. West Coast, primarily rely on agriculture for their economy, as they lack significant minerals and manufacturing. Sugar cane and pineapple are the two main crops. Sugar cane, first cultivated in Hawaii over a century ago, is harvested after 1.5 to 2 years of growth, with fires used to clear leaves before gathering. Pineapples are planted using a paper mulch technique, and the ripe fruit is quickly processed for canning. Shipping plays a crucial role in transporting these products to the mainland U.S. and bringing necessary goods to Hawaii, making it vital for the islands' prosperity.

Summary: Integrates visual action and music to show how clouds are formed and how they move. No narration is used. Uses accelerated action camera technique to analyze the patterns of cloud development, movement, and dispersion. Cloud motions are synchronized to music. Suitable for creative arts as well as science classes.

This film is designed to show student projectionists some of the steps to be taken in getting ready for good film projection. A classroom scene shows a high school boy beside the projector stand as he signals to his assistants to pull the window shade.

A moody teenager dreads taking Carol to a friend's party. Will learning the finer points of social courtesy help him have fun at the party and maybe get a second date? This film tries to help awkward teens overcome small interpersonal problems before they grow into social crises-alienation, vandalism, alcoholism, crime and a lonely life as a bachelor.

Short by Robert Vickrey.

A Hy Hirsh film. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with iotaCenter and National Film Preservation Foundation in 2000.

A film by Charles and Ray Eames

A short animated film about the 1943 detroit race riots and how rumors played a role in it. RUMOR Discussion film on prevention of rumors Drawn by the celebrated cartoonist, Robert Osborn, this highly original, animated film traces the development of an idle rumor into a city-wide riot, and poses the question What Defense Against Rumors? Pro- duced with the cooperation of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith. One of the Challenge films designed as discussion springboards.

This Traveltalks short visits cities and towns along the Thames River. It begins in London, with views of Cleopatra's Needle and the Tower Bridge. We then visit the Trout Inn at Oxford, a favorite gathering place for students at the university. After a short look at Eton, it's off to Henley-on-Thames and the world-famous regatta.

1959 Jim Davis short

Juvenile magazine. Hints on table tennis, St. John Ambulance cadets in camp, a doll collection etc.

Bollywood film starring Nisar Ahmad Ansari, Master Bhagwan and Cuckoo

Head of the sculpture dpeartment at USC when this film was made (by USC), Merrell Gage was a lifelong expert on Abraham Lincoln. This short was a lecture often given by Gage, using wet clay to depict the on-going changes to Abe's face over the years as Abe altered his hairstyle, grew a beard, and showed the effects of aging. Shown on TV many times, a fascinating look at one of history's important statesmen.

Omana, a school manager's daughter, marries Johny, a school teacher, against her father's wish. Fate turns cruel when Johny joins the army and gets killed.

A woman shows off her shoulders for the camera while wearing a selection of different low-cut tops in this strange silent short film, shot partially in black and white and partially in colour, for persons and reasons unknown. At points the model appears to be struck by the absurdity of the situation, and looks like she might have been tempted to laugh. Perhaps the work of an amateur film-maker, this film entered the BFI National Archive as part of a large donation predominantly comprised of late 1950s 16mm glamour films produced for the home movie market. One of the most enigmatic items in the deposit, nothing is known of who made it, or exactly for what purpose.

Gulf Oil calmly reminding us why their gasoline is better than anyone else’s gasoline. And it’s all because of their “balanced volatility” and “antiknock value.”

Droopy Classic Cartoon (Platinum Collection 1943-1958)

A view of Oslo Port in 1952.

A document of an early encounter between native New Guineans and Western anthropologists, the film was shot, edited, and used in lectures by Prof. Leopold Pospisil, Yale Anthropology professor and Curator in the Division of Anthropology at the Peabody Museum from 1956 until his retirement in 1993 . (Yale Film Archive

Aloha… and how! You’ve never seen a Burley-Q film like this one! This 1953 oddity was originally released as Oriental Vanities which does little to describe its one notable difference from all the other burlesque features: the first half of it was actually filmed on Waikiki Beach in Hawaii!

Popeye, Olive, and Swee'pea take their pig, Smedley, to the fair to enter it in the livestock show. While Popeye is distracted, Swee'pea crawls off following his balloon and narrowly avoids all sorts of peril (that Popeye, close behind, manages to get caught by).

Documentary with intertitles focusing on Skylark, a high altitude rocket built to carry some 150lb of upper atmosphere research instrumentation to altitudes of up to 100 miles.

A tourist video of the visit to Hawaii, promoted by United Airlines.

A dramatization which explains the essential purposes of money as a medium of exchange, analyzes factors which affect the value of the dollar, and shows the effects of rising prices on people with various types of income.

Mexican feature film

An adaptation of the Diego Fabbri play.

This short animated film explains the primary and secondary characteristics of sexual development during puberty of boys and girls. The problems associated with physical and glandular growth in both sexes are covered, as are the general problems of adolescence.

Short documentary about the processing of tobacco.

Part of BFI collection "They Stand Ready."

This black & white educational film is about the challenges we face in outer space.

Discusses the mental attitude of automobile drivers. Points out that a driving permit is a privilege which carries the responsibility for respecting the rights of others. Talking driver's license narrates this hymn to the beneficial effects of highways, cars, and driving.

Metaphor on the massacre with the help of diverted images and a very varied soundtrack. The soundtrack was added in 1962.

A look at the country we know now as Taiwan.

The landscape, people, villages and flowers found on the route to Venice through the Dolomites.

A film by Robert Vickrey.

Color UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. A drama of Indigenous Kichwa/Quechua campesino struggle against an oppressive colonial hacienda patron. A dramatization of the hacienda system in Peru, in which Spanish colonial patrons stole large land tracts and forced Indigenous people to work the land. When one man refuses to work the hacienda in exchange for meager coca leaves, he initiates an Indigenous Campesino rejection of the hacienda system.

A farce comedy about two prizewinning cotton pickers from the South on their first trip to New York.

This is the story of Mike Hanlon, a high school football player and a boy of pleasing personality. Mike wants friends but instead of trying to make friends with individuals, he concentrates on becoming friendly with a certain group of boys. However, each time he approaches them, he is re- buffed. He feels left out. His coach notices this and explains to him that cliques always exist and that there are several ways that those left out might react. Mike decides to make friends with individuals and is on his way to social maturity.

The film portrays alcoholism as a mental health problem and as an illness that can respond to treatment. Demonstrates that the causes of this illness are imbedded personality difficulties often relating back to the early formative years of the victim’s childhood. The film discusses different forms of alcoholism and the different treatment required for each type. The role of Alcoholics Anonymous is covered and a plea made for increased public facilities for the treatment of alcoholics.

Explains how television works, everything from the cameras to the tubes and signals.

Christianity as seen through the world's great artist accompanied by Schubert's Ave Maria. A Castle Films release.

The struggles of teenagers trying to gain more agency over their lives.

"Documentary on Mario de Andrade's house on Rua Lopes Chaves, São Paulo. Aspects of the façade and its interior, where the furniture, paintings, manuscripts and various decorative objects can be found" from his position as director of the Municipal Department of Culture and his administrative works from 1935 to 1937. In 1938, in Rio de Janeiro and his return to São Paulo, to his paintings and his piano. Your collection of sheet music and records. The living room at Lopes Chaves' house is decorated with objects from different cultural backgrounds in Brazil. Engravings by foreign artists and rare books. Your sculpted bust."

Two young girls take a commercial airline flight from Chicago to San Francisco in 1954 updated edition of An Airplane Trip.

Huff and Puff is a comic animated look at the serious problem of hyperventilation. Produced for the Royal Canadian Air Force to inform air crews about the dangers, and serious side effects, of hyperventilation in high altitudes. The film shows how to recover with appropriate respiration and emphasizes that this problem can occur in other situations, such as when a person is under stress.

Young woman learns grooming tips by watching her friend, Rosemary

A documentary short about Steamboat Springs, Colorado, where everyone brings skis with them in the winter and they host The Steamboat Winter Carnival.

The Deltra Rhytthm Boys sing while a skeleton is in the hallway