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A police officer explains the basics of being a school crossing guard.

An insecure young teen boy who has just reached dating age learns how to plan and enjoy a date (with a girl at least one foot taller than him). With Studs Terkel (Swimming Coach).

Cold War-era treatise on globalization.

Little Jimmy has a lemonade stand, and wants to run it all by himself. Soon he finds out, however, that his other activities are beginning to cut into the time he can spend at the lemonade stand, and that he will need help in running it.

Jane is a happy teenage girl who is totally (and somewhat disturbingly) devoted to her family. She takes care of their needs before her own, and is overjoyed to do so. Her thoughtfulness is rewarded when she is presented with a new dress.

Social guidance film showing how necessary self-reliance is to all successful endeavors and happiness.

Bob, the star of the high school basketball team, is accused of stealing money out from his teammate Ben's locker. Things look bleak for Bob, until a surprise twist puts a different spin on things.

In Yokohama, novices wake up early in the Soto zen sect Sojiji temple for their zazen and other practices. A film by Michael Rogge, Dutch photographer, videographer and amateur filmmaker, best known for his depictions of post-WW2 life in the Far East.

Film by Robert Vickrey.

Experimental film by Elwood Decker. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.

Experimental film by Curtis Opliger. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.

Short film by Robert Bruce Rogers.

A jingoistic American short for American children, voiceover narration by an American narrator blustering over miscellaneous bits of American stock footage.

Director: Syd Sharples Writers: Paul Le Saux, Cecilia O'Cocks Stars: Max Brimmell, Victor Platt

It's Peter's birthday and Mum wakes him with cards and presents. After breakfast he goes off to school, with his toy locomotive, but fails to return at 4 o'clock. While she searches around the neighbourhood, Dad arrives home to an empty house. We see Peter in the grip of a sinister man and struggling to get away. His parents keep searching and finally call the police but it doesn't look good. Suddenly, we see Mum wake up and dash into Peter's room. He's quite safe. It was all a dream!

After Perséphone, his first film which he describes as “an experimental, mythological poem” and shoots under the pseudonym Luc Zangrie, he makes a portrait of playwright Michel de Ghelderode together with his friend Jean Raine. It introduces us to the world of a creator obsessed with and fascinated by death. If biographic references are present, they are only there in order to place the writer in the right setting: nostalgia for Bruges and Flanders, solitary wanders through a backward-looking, legendary Brussels. Ghelderode’s gravelly voice is the leitmotiv of the film, which focuses on rehearsals of his plays at the Théâtre de Poche and with the puppets of the Théâtre Royal de Toone. We accompany him into his study, a place of dreams and fantasy, full of baroque objects that define his world.

1950 Jim Davis short

Flash back to the 1950s with this collection of classic "Howdy Doody" episodes: "The Bird Club" (Feb. 1, 1958), "10th Anniversary" (Dec. 28, 1957), "Shrinking Machine" (Feb. 8, 1958) and "Tammy Returns" (March 8, 1958). Join Howdy and the gang -- including Buffalo Bob, Clarabell, Mr. Bluster and Professor Whipporill -- on a roundup of action-packed adventures that always yield valuable life lessons.

The warm, human story of famous Bronx radio & TV family the Goldbergs, and their everyday problems.

Audrey and her dog Pal try to spend a peaceful day fishing, while avoiding the mean old truant officer.

Breer's earliest experiments in animation are wonderfully dense yet lyrical abstractions based on Breer's own geometric paintings. - Harvard Film Archive

Camille is a drag parody of the 1936 Garbo classic, filmed on Fire Island with an all-male cast of local residents and friends.

A beauty pageant for Miss California held in Santa Cruz, California

A sermon recorded Thursday, June 24, 1954, at the Constitution Hall in Washington DC, U.S.A., where Brother William Marrion Branham delivered a message entitled "The Deep Calleth To The Deep". Branham (1909 - 1965) was an American Christian minister and faith healer who initiated the post-World War II healing revival, and claimed to be a prophet with the anointing of Elijah, who had come to prelude Christ's second coming; some of his followers have been labeled a "doomsday cult".

Documentary on the Pan Am Flight 6 ocean landing and the rescue by the Coast Guard.

A short spoof of Revenge of the Creature (1955). The film was made by the crew of Revenge of the Creature in 1955 and was shown only at the wrap party before disappearing from public view. Long thought lost — or even a myth — the film was found by historian Tom Weaver in 2013, and is currently only available for viewing once a year at Wakulla Springs in North Florida, where the original Creature of the Black Lagoon was filmed.

Were you ever pinched…by a four-legged cop? See these very special sleuths famous in the annals of Royal Canadian Mounted Police crime-busting, on their annual refresher course. An action-packed glimpse of the spectacular Police Service Dogs…their background, their training and an example of how they get their man.

A writer's fiction becomes terrifying reality, sucking him into his own novel being played out. Ray Ericson writes of a lovely woman who leaves her steady boyfriend for a man out to kill her. Suddenly he realizes life is imitating art: he is in the killer role! How can the novelist prevent destroying the woman he's come to love?

The New England Variety Club and the Boston Red Sox present this in-theater appeal for contributions to Boston's Jimmy Fund, for child cancer treatment and research. Debbie Reynolds addresses the audience as a mother whose daily prayer is for the health and happiness of her two children. Yet cancer claims the lives of thousands of children annually. Health professionals treat children in 532 beds in Boston while researchers look for a cure -- all funded by contributions to the Jimmy Fund. We see the children and the researchers. "Help speed THE END of cancer in children," reads a closing title card.

A look at the country we know now as Taiwan.

Uses everyday activities of children in order to explain traffic rules and their individual application. Shows how traffic rules arc put into practice.

Highlights from the All-Ireland Hurling Championship Final 1954.

The impact on people's lives of various types of tragic accidents is explored, most resulting in new accident prevention initiatives.

This short will help you understand the relationship between capital goods and consumption goods.

Eye to Eye, by Tullio Pellegrini, is an instructive and hilarious romp through the insect world, as seen via extension tubes and as scenarized with a sharply satiric sense of humor. Mr. Pellegrini has managed to poke just the right amount of fun at both insects and insect hunters (particularly movie makers) to tickle the most crusty rib in the audience. Among the more madcap moments are a parody of Dragnet, in which a spider lures his hapless victims to their deaths, and a sequence of "Bug-o-Phony" sound, in which (audio-wise) caterpillars make like locomotives and ladybugs like taxicabs.

A documentary about a program of adult education in Tasmania.

A documentary about mining.

This film "The Fantastic 500" presents the 1954 Indianapolis 500. The Indy 500 is held annually at Indianapolis Motor Speedway over Memorial Day weekend.

Children are taught the benefits of safe practices, such as looking both ways before crossing the street, and the different distances it takes bicycles and cars to stop.

Arizona Anasazi cliff dwellings.

Tips on understanding hospital admissions, even when they might make it difficult.

An industrial short.

Chevrolets aren't just on the roads with you--they're out on the racetrack as well. A look at racing Chevies and the mechanics who keep them in top shape.

A German Film Award winning colour documentary about life in Düsseldorf.

As society increasingly modernizes, jack-of-all-trades jobs are falling by the wayside for newer, more specialized careers. Here's how to stay ahead of the curve.

Produced by the University of Southern California Department of Cinema.

... pure color forms undulating across the screen.

Short by Madeline Tourtelot (1955)

The intricate and complex creations spiders make, American educational film style.

American Industrial Film giving an overview of how a jet propulsion engine works.

BBC2 Trade Test Film. Drama. Christian Badrutt was once a mountain guide in the Engedine; but progress - in this case the Diavolezza cable railway - robbed him of the job he loved by opening up the mountains to tourists. For only a few, the truly devoted mountaineers, now climb the Diavolezza from choice. So Badrutt becomes a conductor on the cable railway: a climber's compromise between the mountains he loves and the times he lives in.

Susan and Jack visiting their aunt and uncle's farm while the narrator explains how they can learn to be good citizens while visting.

A film by Robert Vickrey.

A BAFTA Special award nominated documentary presenting some of the demonstrations in use at Princeton University for research into perception. Shows distorted rooms, rotating trapezoids and size-likeness demonstrations.