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This 1959 Encyclopedia Britannica Film explores the lives and actions of Vikings, also called Norsemen or Northmen. While perhaps slightly romanticized, the film attempts to depict the Vikings’ travels and impact on history, by showing their traditions, explorations, their raiding and pillaging of their neighbors, and their eventual conversion to Christianity. The film also portrays the daily life of Vikings, including people plowing fields, harvesting hay, grinding grain, and men making tools and doing metalwork. This is followed by a map and animation of the furthest Viking explorations including to North America and through Russia to Constantinople. The film concludes with the departure of a Viking longship.

Monkey Tale is a 1954 educational film produced by the New Zealand National Film Unit and distributed by Encyclopaedia Britannica Educational Corporation. The 11-minute black-and-white film follows Charlie, a mischievous chimpanzee, as he learns an important lesson about bicycle safety. On his way to school, Charlie repeatedly ignores traffic rules—riding on the sidewalk, failing to signal, disobeying pedestrian crossings, and even giving his chimpanzee girlfriend a ride. After a conversation with a policeman, Charlie understands the importance of following safety regulations. On his next trip, he becomes a model cyclist, demonstrating responsible riding behavior. The film uses humor and engaging storytelling to teach young viewers about road safety.

Holidaying in Eastbourne, the Sanderstead Youth Fellowship take in an organised walk over the South Downs from Beachy Head to Cuckmere Haven.

This short film provides four feature stories about Canada and its people, including the monetary value of the human body's chemicals, Magnetic Hill in New Brunswick, radio broadcaster Foster Hewitt, and dinosaur fossils found in Alberta.

The Christmas visit of Mr. Pickwick and his friends to Dingley Dell Farm—with dancing, games and a substantial supper—is dramatized in this enchanting film.

Using artefacts, cave paintings and skeletal remains this film describes the life, appearance, habitat and achievements of prehistoric man including the Old and New Stone Ages.

This short film shows the virtues of having an airport in a small town community.

Highlights from the All-Ireland Football Championship Final 1954.

This film from 1954 instructs the viewer on cutting steel and iron plates. A teacher and a student demonstrate the process of preparing the plates, adjusting the pressure of the tanks of oxygen and acetylene used in the blowpipe cutting tool, meeting safety standards, and how to properly cut different shapes in the metal. The film is produced by Linde Air Products Company, as a Division of Union Carbide and Carbon Corporation (UCC).

A short showing the process of integrating the New York City school system.

This black and white and color 1954 Encyclopedia Britannica film outlines the production process of creating educational films in a celebration of the company’s 25th anniversary.

Travelogue film about the Zulu and Venda tribes from Transvaal Province concluding with a Zulu beauty pageant.

presents facts that reveal the inaccuracy of mythical fancies concerning the effects of alcoholic beverages. The film technique used is designed for audience participation.

A circus clown turns out to be a quite a ladies' man in this charming short story from the master of stag films, Cecil B. De Mézig. This is most likely the first stag film made in color, or more precisely in pornocolor as it is introduced at its very start. This was long before color became the norm in stag films in the late 60s.

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A group of motorcycle guys play strip poker that somehow results in them all wrestling.

The story of a young spider who can't spin webs.

A potentially lost film by Hy Hirsh.

“The first motion picture which has not a trace of any attempt to lend literary meaning to its material.” --Kinesis, Inc.

American industrial film showing the process of creating beer.

While visiting the laboratory where his brother works, Ed discovers that his brother is working on bacteria. Ed begins to wonder about bacteria--what exactly is it and can it be harmful or beneficial to humans and how exactly do they feed and reproduce.

BAMPFA presents a selection of digital copies of hand-painted glass transparencies she made while teaching at California College of Arts and Crafts. Curator Terry Cannon described them as “akin to viewing a shimmering stained-glass window.” As they were difficult to present in public venues, Arledge also documented them in several of her films, including Interior Garden II.

In this video, we step back in time to 1953 as we follow the journey of a ship as it enters the port of Antwerp.

A Fanø woman shows the process of putting on the traditional headwear

Short film by Hank Schloss

Short documentary attempting to trace the journey of Apostle Barnabas, from his arrival in Salamis to the monastery of the same name in Engomi, Famagusta, and his tomb. The three monks of the Monastery, Stefanos, Chariton, and Barnabas, guide Lea Lanitis, sister of the founder of RIK, Georgios Lanitis. Originally narrated by Georgios Lanitis, the documentary was initially audio-based but over time was lost.

Robin Hood 8mm film

Explains the card cataloguing and the Dewey Decimal systems in use in a library and shows how detailed understanding of library organization assists in better studying and better use of time.

This film is based on a film produced by Atwater Kent Foundation for the National Park Service, Department of the Interior with photography by Ted Phillips, A.S.C, and covers the historical formation of Yosemite National Park from swampy lowland to high mountain peaks and deep river canyons.

A film of safely in the army.

April Stevens performs "Lover Man".

A Native American drama set in the 1950's about a Navajo boy's conversion from following the ways of the medicine man to following Jesus Christ.

An ultra-low-budget burlesque short filmed in 3-D.

At home & school, kids learn about the 7 basic food groups. "Sister & brother learn about food sources, the 7 basic foods & proper eating habits."

Documentary on the process of iron.

Farms are 'islands' of rat life, providing abundant food and harborage (shelter). But rats cost the farmer money and spread disease. This U.S. government training film demonstrates practical methods of rat control around farm buildings, animal feeding sites, and the homestead. The key is to cut off access to all food sources and places to hide. Methods for securing grain storage areas such as corn cribs include raising the floor off the ground, placing chew-proof metal flashing on wood edges, and adding rat-proof covers or lids.

Demonstrates the making of jam and jelly by the shortboil (pectin) and long-boil methods. Includes sequences on the use of fresh, frozen, canned and dried fruits and on bottled and canned juices.

Aquatic adventurers meet some sea creatures.

This film provides footage of University of California medical tests with LSD.

"Two treatments of the dancer-choreographer: one danced by a group on a rooftop; one using multiple exposures in an expressionist style." R.P. Believed to have been shot in 1959.

A family picnic is the setting for this entertaining lecture on automotive engineering and vehicle dynamics.

Welcome to the ultimate experience in discovering real food. Welcome to an innovative new series presented by the celebrated international chef Sonja Lee. One or two basic ingredients are investigated in each program, one new country each time.

An insightful look at Denmark in the 1950s.

At one time New York City had many "Els", or elevated trains. By 1950, however, there were few left. This short showcases one of the few remaining ones, the Third Avenue El, which ran from the Bronx to Brooklyn.

British documentary on training to become a pilot.

Promotional film for the International Harvester Model 64 thresher.

Animated dish washing liquid commercial from Denmark.

Country themed Soundie featuring Connie Haines.

The 14th Dalai Lama during his final Geshe (Doctor of Divinity) examinations in Lhasa, Tibet which took place from the summer of 1958 to February 1959.

See what's new in décor, styles, colors, and gadgets in the Good Housekeeping model home of 1959. Your tour guide will explain and highlight the latest in pleasant living.

Saint-Junien, opening day of the hunt, an enthusiastic but clumsy hunter sets off to hunt down game...

US Navy training film. An animated look at regulations through the ages.

An educational video showing the features of a full service gas station.

Shows causes of accidents and how to avoid them. Discusses safe methods for left turns, how to handle a car when a high speed blowout occurs or right wheels drop off into shoulders and other driving techniques.

A Walt Disney cartoon anthology

A Walt Disney cartoon anthology

British Pathé news reel showcasing Christmas around the world in 1950

“Simply cannot be crossed in one continuous walk, said Swiss mathematician Euler in his famed theorem. . . and this charming, irreverent film proves why.”

The city of San Francisco shot in stunning Cinemascope by amateur filmmaker and inventor Tullio Pellegrini.

Projector, reflector units, electrical and lighting elements, and a projection screen