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Campaign film asking the public not to misuse or throw away the glass bottles left by their milkman, but to rinse them and put them back out for collection. Of the 320,000,000 in circulation a week, a costly 6,400,000 go missing.
Indian documentary
Habit Patterns - Breaking bad teen habits. How to wash, care for yourself, prepare & dress for the day. Be nice, be social and organised. 1950s teen social skills. Take a good look at yourself. Learn to listen!
This B&W film is set in the early 1950s. It is about a father who fears his son is involved with an untrustworthy women. His fears are confirmed when he brings in a private investigator. It ends with a twist.
Creator(s): Department of Defense. Department of the Air Force. (09/26/1947 - ) (Most Recent) Series : Armed Forces Information Films, compiled 1950 - 1977 Record Group 111: Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer, 1860 - 1985 Scope & Content: This film tells the story of an airman, in town on furlough, who discovers an entire town has been taken over by Communists. He later found out the experience had been staged by the citizenry to show what could happen in such an event.
HANDWRITTEN evokes ... a combination of visual imagery and language for which the term filmpoem seems at last fully justified. Boultenhouse's film revolves around the slamming of a fist on a glass tabletop.
1959 Jim Davis short
1950 Jim Davis short
1957 short film by Jim Davis.
Part of BFI collection "On Yer Bike."
Part of BFI collection "Portrait of a People."
Part of BFI collection "They Stand Ready."
Part of BFI collection "They Stand Ready."
This high-school educational film describes the benefits and opportunities available to young women who go to college and major in home economics. The film follows Kay, Helen, Louise, and Jean throughout their college years, as they take a variety of interesting and useful classes and eventually accept job offers in their chosen specialties. Nevertheless, the traditional middle-class ideals of marriage and stay-at-home motherhood are reinforced.
The history of the United States Air Force and the role of airplanes in WWI.
A rarely-seen documentary report on the United Nations's preservation of South Korea.
This film explains the methods and techniques used by the communists to seize power in a country.
Dramatization of the experience of a young married couple whose quarrels undermine their happiness and prevent the development of adult love based on mutual understanding.
Film from Nanabhai Bhatt
Bollywood 1955
Bollywood 1958.
A Ukrainian couple become refugees during and after World War Two, and they end up as Displaced Persons (DPs) in a camp in Germany, before they are eventually accepted for resettlement in Australia.
Whether at the stage of conceptualization or "editing", the blending and multiple impression of the images were done in-camera. In this sense, I think I have found ways to strengthen the evolution of the camera as a creative instrument. The whole film is one scene without any dark moments. In AUTUMN SPECTRUM, movement is the dominant element, while nostalgia is the real theme of the film.
A color cocktail by Norman McLaren and Evelyn Lambart, translating into moving patterns of color and light the moods of music written for a jazz ensemble by Eldon Rathburn. Inscribed and colored directly on film.
The 25th International 500-Mile Sweepstakes was held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Monday, May 31, 1937. With temperatures topping out at 92 °F (33 °C), it is one of the hottest days on record for the Indy 500. To uproarious applause, Shaw, a 34-year-old Indianapolis resident, surged ahead in what remained the closest finish "500" until 1982: 2.16 seconds. Shaw finished the race with an average speed of 113.58 mph, and Hepburn was just behind him with an average speed of 113.565 mph.
I scratched an old film, leaving some parts, then I added ink and paint.
Henry, a businessman, needs to learn time management skills. An unlikely series of events helps get him on track.
Documentary short teaching how to shift and steer.
This 1953 film is dedicated to the U.S. Army 27th Infantry Division with a look at its history and highlighting its World War II battle record at Makin, Eniwetok, Saipan, and Okinawa.
A selection of cineradiography films from a physiological study which show characteristic reflex activity in response to 'tactile' stimulation using a probe from six human foetuses.
An insightful look at France in the 1950s.
Andy the orangutan from the Bronx Zoo is learning his ABC's from his zoo-keeper friend. Each letter is taught by associating the name of an animal from the zoo with each letter of the alphabet.
By encouraging children to ask questions, we help them understand the world.
This United States Air Force film describes and demonstrates an experimental method for enabling a heavy bomber to tow its own fighter-escort aircraft to the target and back. Special wing-tip connectors allow a B-29 Superfortress piston-engined bomber, with minimal extra fuel usage, to tow two F-84 jet fighter aircraft.
A look at the Chevrolet cars.
While Ralph is out on a last-minute errand for potato salad, the Kramden apartment is visited by several of Gleason's characters. Featuring Frances Langford and Eddien
Demonstrates methods of securing cooperation necessary for group action. Details the objectives of cooperation. Shows typical situations requiring cooperation within a group dynamic, including the organization of a high school film projecting club and a community that needed its road paved. Presents basic techniques for achieving the assistance of others, including appealing to individuals' interests, offering a service in return, convincing people that they really want to help and demonstrating the benefit of working together towards a common goal. Explains how desired ends can be reached more easily with the cooperation of others.
Shows how a fifth grade teacher systematically studies the differences in background, abilities and needs of the children in her room. In this process she uses the following techniques--observation, accumulative records, behavior journals, discussion with other teachers, parent interviews and staff conferences.
Dorothy Montgomery uses a Leybold tube to measure the curvature of the path of the electrons in a magnetic field and thus determine the mass of the electron.
Tells the story of a peasant who receives three wishes for aiding two gnomes, but wastes them due to his own greed and his wife's spitefulness.
Outlines the problems and progress of the first generation (ISSEI) and second generation (NISEI) Japanese in the United States.
An RKO-Pathe Sportscope focusing on sports played by Basques living along the Spain-France border in the western Pyrenees and the Bay of Biscay coast. Pelota, jai alai, wood chopping, and rowing as well as traditional dances are featured.
A hand animated film that is a precursor for Belson’s later work
Jim Davis short shown at Art in Cinema, spring 1950.
Jim Davis short shown at Art in Cinema, spring 1950.
A Toymaker uses puppets to teach unity.
Mona's Candle Light was discovered among reels of film that Geoff Alexander, of the Bay Area-based Academic Film Archive of North America, bought at a flea market in an unmarked box. There are no credits, so it is impossible to determine who shot it and for what purpose. The film is 1950s footage, probably amateur, of a well know lesbian club (which had opened in the 1930s), Mona's Candle Light, and it is an invaluable document of that underground scene. (archive.org)
Jack Smith descends a fire escape in a makeshift "Arabian" costume and improvises increasingly frenetic choreography.
An didactic, catholic film made for a Congolese audience by Belgian missionary and filmmaker André Cornil.
A film on the methods used by the communists to indoctrinate and gain converts.
A Scots boy describes in a letter his home, his school, local industries and Burn's cottage and Prestwick Airport.
A young man saves the daughter of a zamindar when she is kidnapped and then they both fall in love with each other.
Jim MacAndrew's interview with director René Clair was televised live in November 1959. With the cooperation of the New York State Education Department, the program aired on only a small number of stations. A 16mm kinescope copy was made directly from the broadcast feed.