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THE FOLLOWING ITEMS ARE AVAILABLE IMMEDIATELY FROM THE FOOTAGE FARM COLLECTION

A Sampling of the EDUCATIONALS we have available in our Collection.

They are sold as a buyout, but on a per/minute basis. The price per minute (which has to be continuous) is identical to our Public Domain per/reel rates.

 



LN 505-001  01:01:08 - 01:13:31            1970 c            COL      SD        A Pretty Good Class For A Monday... [Part 1]
[Film made by UCLA for US Mental Health authorities comparing three typical American High School students - all male - and their different aptitudes and outlooks.] 
Classroom scenes - older teenagers [Majors?] being taught - V/O of teacher commenting on difficulties of his job.  CUs bored students, yawning.  Teacher asks for definition of democracy; male student Doug struggles to answer.
01:03:00  Cuts to Doug doing what he likes best - dirt bike racing.  Boy socialising with his friends in diner / cafe, blonde girl flirting.  Teacher - 'his outside life has so much more glamour to it'.  Doug at home w/ parents and with male friends fixing motorcycle.  Helping at parents' milk processing plant / shop.
01:07:58  VS preparations for dirt bike race; competitors at start line; revving bikes etc.  Mother comments that 'I just want him to do what he wants to do and be happy...maybe I'm being too lenient with him'.  Race in progress; cuts back to Doug in classroom - disinterested in school.
01:09:48  Second student introduced - Chas - classic American High School Geek - bad skin, thick glasses, more intelligent than other kids etc.  Answers teacher's questions with precocious confidence.  In lunch queue on his own and at lunchtime Math club; explains a mathematical theory to two friends by writing on blackboard - 'I'm going to take you through the first five chapters of the ? Grade book'.  Female teacher in horn-rimmed glasses - 'I wouldn't claim to be teaching Chas at all...what you do is you try to stay out of his way'.  VS Chas and friends on quiz team - smirking at answers of other team.  Male teacher recalls his unusual answer to a question on the signing of the Declaration of Independence; '...school gives him a lot of recognition.'  Good.
Education.  Parenting.  Nerds.  1960s / 1970s Fashions & Daily Life.

LN 505-001  01:13:32 - 01:26:06            1970 c            COL      SD        A Pretty Good Class For A Monday... [Part 2]
[Film made by UCLA for US Mental Health authorities comparing three typical American High School students - all male - and their different aptitudes and outlooks.] 
Geek' student Chas w/ friends at home playing historical strategy board game.  Chas riding to school on bicycle.  Parents comment on his unusual intelligence and their encouragement.  Family around dinner table having good-natured debate.  V/O people comment on his future - 'I hope he gets married...'.  Teacher asking other students if they understood what Chas was saying in class.
01:17:22  Third student, Mike, shown [all in same class] - watches others debate question of democracy, looks disinterested.  Boy at home watching television with father and dog; answers father's questions about school and upcoming election without enthusiasm.  Interview: 'I wouldn't mind being a marine biologist or police officer'.  Mike on telephone; at supermarket w/ mother.  Teacher recalls boy never correcting him when he was calling him by the wrong name for weeks.  Mike at part time job in car garage - chats with older man about saving for first car and asked if he's 'going steady with a girl yet'.  Vars comments made on what an average boy he is - 'dependable...never calls attention to himself...a nice boy...one of those people in class you can easily ignore' etc.
01:21:00  Mike in gym - lifts weights.  Interview with sports coach - same type of comments - fine boy but 'just an average athlete' - maybe won't make it through the year [and stay in team ?].  Mike w/ parents at home; 'I'm for the Establishment if that's what you want to call it'; brother reads paper at breakfast table w/ headline It's Nixon 49-1'.
01:22:43  Scout leader praises Mike for his guidance of other kids.  Mike in bedroom listening to music through large headphones.  Father: 'He's the All-American Boy'.  Mike in class answering question in favour of secrecy of Atomic Bomb manufacture - 'they might have rejected the idea of making the bomb and that's one of our major strengths, that keeps our country strong, that makes us number one'.
01:24:25  Teacher wraps up class w/ discussion of assignments; CUs bored students; students leave class.  Teacher clears up - 'well that was a pretty good class for a Monday, I guess'.  Good.
Education.  Parenting.  Nerds.  1960s / 1970s Fashions & Daily Life.  Teenagers.

 

LN 505-042  14:28:47 - 14:38:07      1949   B/W    SD        Care of the Skin
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films
Young boy Billy licking his skin - sister Virginia says 'that's no good' - CU kitten washing itself.  Virginia into bathroom & washing at sink - CUs soapy hands.  Animation magnifying glass held up to arm - tiny hairs  & holes on skin - cross-section layers of skin w/ sweat glands - oil seeping out to moisturise skin but dirt particles get stuck - VO re washing w/ soap.
14:31:28  Baby in walker - sister comes to play with it - CUs hands & fingernails.  Doctor examining chubby boy w/ exczema; CU boy's face w/ severe rash; CU athlete's foot; chapped hands.  CU Virginia washing hands in sink & scrubbing under nails - washes face, ears & neck w/ flannel - VO 'you won't ever find a high water mark on Virginia's neck!'  Brother comes in & says he wants to have a wash - Virginia finishes removing soap w/ washcloth - rinses washcloth & cleans basin.  Billy up to sink as Virginia dries herself - licks his soapy hand by accident & spits it out.
14:35:23  Another boy Fred in bathtub washing himself w/ soapy flannel - CU washing armpits & feet - scrubs back - VO 'Fred bathes once a day during the summer, and at least three times a week during the winter' - dries himself thoroughly & puts pyjamas on.  Narrator points out neatly folded towels & rinsed bathtub & sink.  Virginia into bed & lights out.  Billy awake in bed - starts licking his hand again w/ kitten superimposed - VO 'one day Billy you'll find out why people wash with soap'.
Public Health.  Personal Hygiene.  Bathing.  Kids.  Dialogue.  Oddities.  1940s.

 

LN 505-007  08:22:44 - 08:31:29            1948   B/W    SD        Everyday Courtesy
Mrs Anderson & her son Bill at school open evening - arrive at his class' exhibit on courtesy - vars posters on wall w/ student artwork - Be Courteous - Walk Softly'; Courteous - To Ladies'; Be Courteous, Don't Be A Pig'.  Large poster Bill designed w/ cartoons showing people saying Please', May I?', Thank You' etc.  VO 'Bill graciously shares credit with his classmates, it was a joint project he explains' - cuts to classmates posing while Bill draws cartoon sketches inc. girls having conversation interrupted by telephone call - poses about to answer the phone - 'Please excuse me'.  Bill's mother points out that these phrases can be used in other situations - Bill points out title of poster We Need Them All The Time'.  Bill shows his mother scrapbook w/ examples of invitations sent to parents to attend the exhibit, and letter of acceptance which 'shows all the same details, to be sure they are correct'; sample letter of regret; CUs cartoons depicting telephone etiquette.  Be A Good Listener' poster.
08:28:43  Bill introduces his teacher - 'Mother, may I present Miss Barton, our teacher'.  Bill explains how he was taught to make polite introductions - cuts to students practicing - presenting girl first etc.  Class poster Correct Introduction - Present: Young to Old -  Man to Woman - Show Respect'.  Bill's mother introduces his friend's parents to teacher and then to Bill; CUs incorrect handshaking technique - 'no one likes to have his hand crushed by a bear' - 'nor to clasp one like this, sometimes referred to as a dead fish''.  People leave exhibit - Bill & mother bidding farewell to teacher and host students.
Manners.  1940s.  Junior High School.

 

LN 505-071  22:01:04 - 22:11:36            1956   COL      SD        Flowers At Work (Second Edition)
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films      
Beautiful colour time-lapse photography of flowers opening - tulip bud - VO & titles explaining reproductive system - cross section of tulip.  Time-lapse pollination process in action.  Male' pine cones - pollen blown in wind - cross-pollination of female cones.  Lily, snapdragon.  Insect pollination:  bee into iris flower.  Animations of poor man's orchid & meadow flower.  Milkweed flowers opening - clear wing moth collecting nectar - bumble bee trapped by flower - CUs milkweed flower w/ trapped foot of bee pulling out pollen bodies - complexity of process shown w/ bent pin stuck in flower to re-create bee's foot.  Composite flowers - dandelion head opening - self-pollination.  Various varieties of flowers in sunshine - good shot of red rose opening.  Recap of importance of pollination process - corn & rye crops.
Nature / Wildlife.  Biology.  Plant Reproduction. 

LN 505-023  04:22:13 - 04:31:55            1950   B/W    SD        Fun That Builds Good Health
Coronet Instructional Films
Young boys playing touch ball - CU Hank Baxter star of the team, but brother Jimmy inexplicably not having fun - father watching his sons play & notices problem while narr. acts as football commentator 'There goes Hank!' etc. - father cheers.  Jimmy dejected, walks home w/ father, Hank livelier.  Family around dinner table - Jimmy looks tired & no appetite, sits in armchair - 'it's plain to see that Jimmy needs to have more fun'.  Hank goes to have some more fun making a model aeroplane as Jimmy slumps in chair - tries to get his brother to play checkers 'but Jimmy doesn't know how to play quiet games either' - so Hank sits down to read book, still having fun.  Father tries to show Jimmy how to handle a football & takes him outside - starts to enjoy playing ball.  Cut to Jimmy playing ball w/ friends & having so much fun he doesn't want to leave - VO says he's 'overdoing on active play' - can't do anything right.  Jimmy at home tucking into lunch, father notices he seems jumpy - can't relax after lunch, wants to keep playing football.  Father gives him another pep talk on importance of 'quiet play' to balance football.  Father, Jimmy & Hank play board game on stoop - suddenly smiling & relaxed [where is Mom? Washing dishes?].  Cut to examples of other kids, mostly male, having fun: boys school basketball game - girls skipping rope - boys playing ball - boy riding bike - boys playing badminton - boy reading books - boy looking at tree - boy playing dominos.  Jimmy helping father in garden & playing ball w/ friends, having found the right balance between active & quiet play.
1950s.  Leisure Time.  Parenting.  Childhood.  Sexism.  Gender Stereotyping.

 

LN 505-074  02:34:58 - 02:45:26            1940   B/W    SD        Gardening
Erpi Classroom Films
Young kids Betsy & Bill looking at gardening magazine in front of fire - 'look at these beans, we must plant some of them' [all voices post-dubbed].  Father home, kids show him seed catalogue - mother in 'supper's ready, we can discuss gardening at the table'.  Bill & Betsy in garden w/ father & plans for planting - kids prepare soil.  Kids into hardware store, buy seeds & fertilizer.  Planting seeds - mother shows Bill how to plant potato pieces.  Plants fully grown - sprayed w/ pesticide - picking carrots - pruning tomato plants, worms found which Bill stamps on.  Pumpkin plants.  August rain - Bill watching from inside & working on account book.  Corn harvested. 
02:44:29  Family having bizarre harvest / Halloween celebration around outdoor fireplace w/ effigy [?] hanging over it - carved jack o'lantern grown by kids - mother tells them 'all over the world people have feasting and good times when the crops have been gathered in' - cooked corn taken from fire to eat - Bill declares 'when you've raised corn like this it's worth celebrating!'
Farming / Agriculture.  Kitchen Gardens.  Self Sufficiency.  Oddities.  Tacky Dialogue.  Family Life.  1940s.

 

LN 505-022  03:11:31 - 03:19:49            1950s COL      SD        Goldilocks And The Three Bears
[Head & end titles missing.]  Narrated tour of cottage in woods belonging to bear family - different sized chairs & beds etc. - bears dressed as mother, father & baby bear - father reading paper, baby playing w/ toys & mother in kitchen - three bowls of porridge on table.  Bears go for walk in forest while porridge cools.  Girl dressed as Goldilocks into cottage w/ The Three Bears' sign over door - sits in all three chairs & breaks baby bears' chair - tastes porridge in bowls & finishes baby bear's porridge - goes to sleep in baby bear's bed.  Bears playing in woods - baby walks on hands - bears do somersaults.  Bears return home - VO 'someone has been sitting in my chair' - 'someone has been eating my porridge and it's all gone' etc. - baby bear finds Goldilocks in his bed - she runs away from cottage.  Little brunette girl in garden drawing pictures of bear's house.  [Ends abruptly.]
Fairytales.  Animals.  Gags.  Oddities.

 

LN 505-040  12:00:56 - 12:11:08            1951   B/W    SD        Good Eating Habits
Coronet Instructional Films
Family eating evening meal, but young Bill can't enjoy it like his parents & sister because he has stomach ache from not eating properly during the day.  Bill in room trying to play with train set - mother puts him to bed.  Flashback to Bill at breakfast late, gulps down orange juice, cereal, eggs & bacon then rushes off to school.  Bill into school lunch room, CU gobbling sandwich so he can go out to play.  Bill out of candy store after school having spent his lunch money on junk - adverts for Eskimo Pie & Coca-Cola - gulps down soda & stuffs all his candy into his mouth at once then eats some cookies.  Bill at supper picking at food & yawning.  Bill in bed, mother turns out light. 
12:06:18  Nightmare / dream sequence - Bill tossing & turning in bed looking scared as plates of half-eaten food, sweets, and a stomach appear superimposed in mid-air while narrator ticks him off for his bad eating habits.
12:06:47  Bill gets up in morning, stretches, puts on dressing gown then down to breakfast.  Bill, grinning broadly now, takes tiny sips of his orange juice & milk, & chops up bacon into tiny pieces - VO 'doesn't it taste extra good that way!'  Bill walking to school; in class, notices clock - 11:00 - still not hungry!  Looking increasingly demented, Bill sits down to enjoy his lunch 'slowly' then skips to the water fountain for a drink.  Mother gives him snack of crackers and milk after school, then he goes out for some 'hard play' - flying kite w/ friends.
12:10:15  Supper time again - Bill proudly asking for seconds.  Happily playing with train set.  Good.
Health.  Nutrition.  Diet.  Greed / Gluttony.  Illness.  Family Life.  Childhood.  Food.  1950s.     

LN 505-116  01:15:55 - 01:29:03            1953   B/W    SD        The Good Loser
Centron / Young America Films - Discussion Problems in Group Living series
Teenager Ray announced as new President of Senior Class - delivers polished acceptance speech - kids in audience admire public speaking skills.  Ray politely comiserates losing candidate - VO 'there goes what I call a good loser'.  Ray surrounded by kids congratulating him.  Cut to high school debate coach [also narrator] talking to camera re Ray's achievements in the 'Extemporaneous Speaking Contest' - thinks he's cocky but 'knew how to win'.
01:18:02  Debate coach asks Ray to help shy & polite Marilyn improve speaking skills.  Ray patronises Marilyn while Marilyn tells him she thinks he was 'just grand' at last speaking contests.  Montage Ray coaching Marilyn w/ VO 'most important, Ray was patient and understanding'.  Marilyn still humble.
01:20:10  Day of District Tournament - Marilyn nervous 'what if I start speaking and no sound comes out?' - reassured by Ray.  Ray delivers his speech - VO 'in the crisp, smooth manner that always brought an approving smile to the faces of the judges'.  Marilyn at speaker's podium - nervous at first but improves.
01:21:43  Judge announces winners - Ray given second place - look of disbelief as Marilyn gets first prize.  Ray sulking, storms off when Marilyn tries to be nice - VO 'when she saw the resentment in Ray's eyes, I'm sure she would rather have lost'.
01:23:09  Ray arrives home, tries to tell father he came second - parents think it's amusing he lost to girl he was coaching & tease him - Ray storms off again - mother worries about his reaction to losing.
01:24:46  Schoolkids praising Marilyn in classroom - Ray arrives, glares at Marilyn - gets teased by others - 'you just can't trust these women' - Ray storms off again 'why don't you all shut up' - kids discuss him being a bad loser.  Marilyn tries to make amends again & Ray shouts at her - 'played me for a sucker all along'.  Debate coach persuades Ray to stay on team - 'you can win a lot of respect and inner strength by becoming a good loser'.
01:28:37  Optical sequence w/ Ray's head surrounded by heads of those who teased him - VO asks 'how would you have reacted if you had been Ray?' - MCU Ray w/ question mark superimposed over face.
Bad acting & strange Southern accents.
Social Skills.  Etiquette.  Manners.  Confidence.  Gender Roles.  Sexism.  Tacky Dialogue.

 

LN 505-075  03:19:56 - 03:33:35            1950s - 1960s ?      COL      SD        A Guided Tour of Ross Allen's Reptile Institute
Guided Tour Productions, Inc.
Promotional film for tourist attractions at Silver Springs, Florida.  Ross Allen, 'famous star of wildlife adventure movies', in small boat along Silver River w/ son Tom - spots an 8ft alligator, dives in & wrestles it - good underwater shots of Allen fighting w/ alligator.  Allen puts alligator in enclosure at his Reptile Institute.  Visitors touring preserved Seminole Indian village in grounds of Institute - astonishing shots of visitors watching Indians from behind fences - VO 'they enjoy posing for visitors' cameras' - Indian children playing, women grinding corn meal.  Seminole Indian man demonstrates how to overpower alligator.  Ross Allen poses w/ Seminole Indian mother & her newborn baby.
03:24:02  Reptile demonstrator puts boa constrictor around teenage girl from audience - forces smile for camera.  Young boy being shown vars small snakes for sale as sister watches w/ disapproving expression.  Pink flamingos in pond. 
03:25:24  Ross Allen & son Tom in boat on display pool - unleash 20ft anaconda which Ross wrestles - underwater photography - VO 'one of the most thrilling episodes of his adventurous life' - Tom takes over & constrictor wraps around him - helped by father - subdued anaconda returned to display enclosure.  Rattle snake lecture / demonstration - Allen in enclosure w/ many snakes which he provokes into trying to bite him.    Handler demonstrates venom extraction.
03:30:25  Visitors on Jungle Cruise' down Silver River - colony of wild monkeys - fish seen from glass-bottomed boats.  Herd of tame deer at park.  Visitor poses outside Carriage Cavalcade' automobile exhibit.  Prince of Peace Memorial' depicting life of Christ in scuplture.
03:32:38  Bathing beauties perform synchronised swimming routine.  Pool filled w/ baby alligators. 
Tourism.  Theme Parks.  Zoos.  Nature.  Animals.  Crocodiles.  Oddities.  Racism.  1950s / 1960s.

 

LN 505-117  03:48:24 - 04:01:21            1950   B/W    SD        How Do You Know It's Love?
Coronet Instructional Films
Teenage girl Nora in bedroom at dressing table - gets up to smell flower corsage - soppy music.  Flashback to prom night [?] that evening w/ boyfriend Jack proclaiming love for her - 'You're the only girl I've dated...in two months' - Nora says she'll have to think about it.  Mother comes into bedroom - tells Nora 'most people fall in love several times in their life' - kisses her goodnight. 
03:50:35  Jack in shared bedroom telling older brother Bob about his feelings for Nora - brother gives him lecture: '...and you were really in love with Betty and Mary and Alice and I don't know who else...' - '...you young punks go to the movies a couple of times, do a lilttle necking and you think you're in love' - suggests Jack & Nora go on double date with him and his girlfriend.
03:52:10  Nora on telephone to Jack re double date.  Mother sits her down & goes through photo album to explain how 'your capacity for love grows and develops' - CU stills of Nora as a baby being fed, neighbouring kid w/ beloved teddy bear, Nora washing dishes, Nora's friends, captain of football team who she had a crush on, couple kissing in car at camp.  'Mature love is more settled...it's tender, unselfish, co-operative' - mother tells her to ask herself some questions - Nora decides to watch Bob & Jean to see if they have a 'mature love'.
03:57:03  Neon restaurant signs; couples seated in Chinese restaurant.  Nora watches w/ increasingly worried expression as Bob & Jean discuss their concert series season ticket, agree that the watercress salad 'sounds like fun', and generally behave like a smug perfect couple'.  Meanwhile she wonders if she feels at ease w/ Jack or proud of him - he asks her 'have you heard the new recording of the Brahms violin concerto?' - 'I guess I never learned to appreciate classical music' - awkward silence - Jack orders lamb & won't try Chinese food with her - 'that's alright if you like that stuff'.  Jean asks Nora if she likes kids - Nora changes subject - 'here's the waiter with our soup'.
04:00:19  Jack walks Nora to her door, both agree they're not ready for 'mature love' but can still have fun so arrange to go rollerskating.  Good.
Romance.  Young Love.  Teenagers.  1950s Fashions.  Funny Dialogue.  Parental Advice.  Maturity.

 

LN 505-020  01:34:06 - 01:43:55            1948   B/W    SD        How To Be Well Groomed
Coronet Instructional Films [main title missing]
Teenage brother & sister Don & Sue getting ready for dates at weekend - VO by slightly fascist man and woman re grooming habits - Health, Posture, Cleanliness, Neatness 'plus a daily routine of little finishing touches'.  Sue ironing clothes - agrees to fix loose button on Don's jersey if he'll shine her shoes.  Sue at dressing table carrying out nightly routine after bath wearing headscarf - painting nails - 'Sue avoids red nail polish as it draws attention to her stubby hands' - gets into bed 'and now for at least eight hours of sleep' - zoom in on bedside clock 10.45pm; cut to clock at 7.00am w/ alarm ringing, Sue out of bed.  Don's alarm ringing - gets out of bed & tells sister to leave him some hot water for a shave - goes to closet to choose outfit - 'let's hope he'll pay a little attention to patterns and colours' - chooses shirt, slacks and tie.  Don scrapes dirt from under fingernails & goes for shower.
01:39:05  Sue in bedroom selecting outfit for school: chooses between two blouses - 'fellows like to see girls dress up, but in general only for a special occasion'.  Sue fixes hair - 'just be sure that your hairdo suits you and is neatly in place'.
01:40:25  Family around breakfast table - 'mother too keeps a good appearance, even around the house for that keeps up her spirits'.  Sue back to dressing table for 'finishing touches' - applies make-up - 'be careful when it comes to lipstick' - checks herself in full-length mirror - 'make sure your hemline's even, don't let your slip show'.  Don comes in & checks himself, adjusts trousers & posture at Sue's behest.  CUs Don & Sue in front of mirrors washing hands, brushing hair etc. - Don adjusts quiff.
01:43:05  Cuts back to Sue & Don ready for their dates - Sue checks dress in front of mirror as VO offers final advice - '...a well-planned outfit of clothes, well cared-for hands and nails, light touches of make-up, a becoming hairdo'; Don comes in wearing suit -  'say, do you look smooth!' - 'thank you sir, you look mighty elegant yourself!' - Don & Sue out of room.  Good.
1940s Americana - Family Life - Dress & Hair Fashions.  Kitsch.

 

LN 505-119  08:15:50 - 08:30:50            1970s COL      SD        Is A Sales Career For You?
Ralph Lopatin Prods. for Counselor Films / sponsored by US Defense Dept.
Features very funny 1970s dress & hair fashions, cheesy music & editing.
Musical opening sequence showing vars Black & White young people working part time jobs in cafes, hot dog stall etc. - intercut w/ man playing guitar - very cheesy song 'What will you do when the time comes and you have to earn your pay?' etc.  Optical split-screen montage of students graduating, vars industries, students in class. 
08:17:09  Useful generic shots cans of film & film on winder.  CU title on film reel w/ many flash cuts to scenes of people in sales jobs.  Titles.  Black man selling camera in shop - zoom in as he takes photo & cut to vars B/W stills of young family - VO re role of salespeople in providing first house, babies shoes, furniture etc.  Zoom back out to man in camera store.  Brief shots men in sales jobs for vars industries.
08:18:44  Salesman out of car, puts on jacket & greets housewife in front garden - shows his card - INT salesman demonstrating vacuum cleaner - VO re character traits required for sales over shots of boisterous kids interrupting demonstration.  Split screen montage sales jobs in retail, advertising, insurance, real estate, office equipment etc.  Drug company representative.  Electrical store.  Rolls Royce salesman w/ customer. 
08:20:38  Scenes showing early sales experience - boy selling candy - man selling ice cream to kids from van.  Split-screen montage shows different ideas of success.  Further montage w/ many brief shots of salespeople at work in vars industries plus stores, factories, cities - further training - VO re qualifications.
08:23:45  Opportunities for high school graduates:  Tracking shot through shopping mall past vars stores.  Insurance, auto parts, gardening salesmen.  VO 'depending what turns you on, you might want to sell hotel and restaurant equipment...'  Black woman in night school class.  Real estate agent.  Another split-screen montage showing people working way up in chosen sales careers.
08:26:34  Funny map of world showing random locations where salespeople operate.  Selling American products in Japan.  Small local hardware store for the 'homebodies'.  Older woman showing potential buyers round trailer park.  Aerials over town. 
08:27:14  Salespeople on vacation - fishing - sunbathing on beach - yachting - VO 'most salespeople have a comfortable lifestyle'.  CU sign on school noticeboard Post High School Guidance - Black girl w/ large afro talking to guidance counsellor, visiting Pennsylvania State Employment Service & discussing choices w/ parents.  Counsellor gives leaflets.  Further education scenes - Business Administration courses etc.
08:29:17  Animation of consumer products flying though space towards camera.  Saleswoman w/ enormous hairdo in guitar shop.  End title featuring same cheesy song as opening.
Careers.  Employment.  Teenagers.  African Americans.  Racial Equality.  Tacky / Kitsch.  Consumerism.

 

LN 505-084  14:11:50 - 14:22:29            1940   B/W    SD        Journalism
Vocational Guidance Films / Burton Holmes - Your Life Work' series
Optical letters of alphabet superimposed over piles of newspapers - good generic shots regional & national US newspapers & magazines.  CU printing press - VO 'first however words must be written' - CU typewriter - newspaper office, male proof readers wearing visors etc. - male reporter sent out by male editor [MOS].
14:13:13  Building on fire at night - firefighters - VO re reporter's job.  INT office - journalist looks at his article Three Hurt In $1,000,000 Hospital Fire' - map of district showing reporters' 'beats'.  Reporter at hospital.  Reporter & cameraman greet celebrity getting off train.  Reporter interviewing couple on street, makes notes & tips hat in thanks.  Young reporter takes notes from daily police record at police station - phone in information - rewrite man types story.  Male copy editor. 
14:15:21  Newspaper production scenes - linotype operator - makeup editor checks layout.  Telegraph news office - Press Association bulletin comes in - map of world showing telegraph newtwork - CU teletype machine. 
14:16:24  Sports reporters at baseball game.  CU Finance & Business page - finance correspondent analysing sheets of information. 
14:16:54  Society Notes page - couples dancing at formal ball - female society reporter at typewriter, receives telephone call - VO 'women find it difficult to compete with men in general reporting jobs, so girls who want to be successful in journalism should prepare for work in the special womens' departments' - CU For and About Women' page - VO continues '...home decoration, childcare, gardening and household hints are found in the homemaking section, a department handled by women...also included are cookery, meal planning suggestions, menus and attractive ways of arranging the table. Work in fashion, beauty care and merchandise reporting affords further opportunities, almost exclusively for women.'  Sexist narration over corresponding shots of cookery, table settings, woman journalist examining pictures of evening dresses etc.
14:17:45  Music-Drama-Art page.  EXT theatre - INT curtain up.  CU Editorial Page - male editorial writer at desk typing.  Male political reporter interviewing politician.  Vars Sunday magazines inc. McCall's - VO re job of features writer.
14:19:07  CU As I See It' column - male columnist at typewriter - syndicate receives column & sends to vars publications - 'matrix' placed into casting box so syndicated column ready to be added to newspaper's own press.  Editor in smaller country newspaper - carrying out many different taks inc. actual printing.  Publisher of city paper at desk. 
14:21:32  Optical montage - blizzard scenes w/ headline Blizzard Perils Safety' - forests fire w/ headline Forest Fire Raging, Threatens Wide Area'.  High school newspaper office & headlines.
Careers.  Sexism - 1940s.  Workplace Sex Discrimination.
 

LN 505-098  12:28:47 - 12:38:33            1940s ?          B/W    SD        Let's Have Fewer Colds
[Main & end titles missing.]  Kids into classroom after snowball fight - teacher notices many empty places due to colds.  Zoom in on Billy; cut to cross section of Bill's head showing nose, mouth & throat - animation of healthy mucous membrane.  Billy's friend Dick at home in bed - blows nose - mother in to read temperature.  Cross-section of Dick's head showing overactive mucous membrane fighting cold germs - animation of drops of mucous from sneeze spreading across classroom.
12:32:40  Back to classroom - VO says we should all stay at home if we have a cold - girl sneezes into handkerchief, teacher immediately sends her to school nurse.  Class learning how to Stay Away From Colds' - chubby girl addresses classmates next to poster.  Cut to shots of boys wrestling in snow [VO 'if you wrestle with a boy who has a cold, you could get cold germs very easily'] - girl refuses when offered bite of friend's apple - boy sneezes & girl refuses to touch his workbook.
12:34:28  Boy talks to class about how to Avoid Chilling' [MOS] - animation of mucus membrane dried out by chill - boy takes off sweater in class - boy home from school, VO re dangers of wet clothing - boy outside for snowball fight - goes back inside for dinner & takes off wet clothes.
12:36:45  Billy's next to his poster Practice Good Health Habits'.  Kids playing in snow - exercise.  Proper foods - Billy in kitchen watches mother basting meat in oven - fruit juice & salad laid out on counter.  Billy into bed for good night's sleep.  Film summarises ways of preventing colds & what to do if you have one.
Public Health.  Disease.  Illness.  Medical Diagrams.  Advice.  Housewives.  1940s Americana.

 

LN 505-088  19:19:16 - 19:27:35            1954   B/W    SD        Man And His Culture  [Part 1 of 2]
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films
Opening titles If explorers from Outer Space were to approach the Earth to study the ways in which its people live together, how might they report their findings?'
Animation of Earth floating in space - narrated by alien' explorer - 'the intelligent creatures on this planet call themselves Human Beings'' - vars scenes compare behaviour of Western civilisation [i.e. US] with the rest of the world.  Tribal villages in jungle wearing few clothes - hotel doorman? boiling under heavy uniform.  Chinese girl eating w/ chopsticks - upper class woman eating w/ fork - kids at funfair eating w/ hands [VO 'five tentacle-like extensions'].  Tribesmen building mud hut - huge construction site.  Inuit [?] family in hut.  Indian women dressing in wedding saris - bridegroom in procession on donkey - VO re culture.  US teenagers into high school.  Temple by the Ganges ?  European kids w/ mother outside cottage  Fishing scenes.
19:23:16  VO re language - montage women asking 'How much is this?' in vars languages - 'Quanto costa questo?' etc.   Western men gesturing around table.  Montage treasured items of different cultures.  US street scenes - VO re cultural mores - man walking to his car - 'although the streets of this country are lined with four-wheeled vehicles all looking very much alike, the individual will ignore every vehicle but one, which he calls his own''.  Men in dinner jackets w/ bow ties, one looks uncomfortable because he's wearing a normal suit & tie - alien narrator points out 'great agony and mental distress' caused by Human cultural habits.
19:25:11  Many wives of tribal chief in African village - contrasted w/ accepted monogamy in American marriage - husband greets wife who finds suspicious hair on his suit, he looks worried - VO 'should a male have on his clothing so much as a strand of hair from a female not his wife, a serious crisis may result'.
19:25:33  Pan across US beach - man in high-waisted swimming trunks throwing beach ball - cut to same man on street wearing suit jacket w/o trousers - shots of appalled townspeople - 'violating' social mores.  Mother feeding baby in high chair - little girl copying mother by feeding doll, little brother starts fight & mother tells them they 'must always share things'.  High school class being taught about key figure in their culture.
Cultural Studies.  Anthropology.  Sociology.  Social Etiquette.  Racism.  Globalisation.  Science Fiction.
Funny Dialogue.

 

LN 505-088  19:27:36 - 19:33:55            1954   B/W    SD        Man And His Culture  [Part 2 of 2]
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films
Woman leaving work, greeted by husband - VO says it is possible for her to violate 'the culture trait that considers the woman's place is in the home' - but not possible to have children out of wedlock - couple arrive home greeted by kids - that trait 'too strong for her to attempt to violate'.
19:28:04  Contrasts US democractic discussion w/ Nazi type officers reading voter's ballot paper.  VO re changes in culture traits / diffusion - 'primitive' cultures adopting traits of 'advanced' ones & vice versa - examples inc. White man wearing Indian moccassins & Indian man using 'White man's vehicles'.  CUs technology / industry.  Car drives through huge car lot - 'engine is driven by fire' - montage illustrating car culture' of US.
19:31:00  Old woman tells off her granddaughter for wearing skimpy tennis shorts - 'when I was a girl we wouldn't have been caught dead with no more clothes on than that. My stars! What are our young people coming to these days?!' - VO points out that granddaughter's male companion still makes sure he walks on the street side of her even though muddy roads no longer a problem.  Military policemen saluting - originates from knights raising visors of helmets.  More dialogue scenes illustrating resistance to change due to 'vested interests' - factory worker 'if they install those machines it'll put half of us out of work within a year' etc.
19:32:27  Family in garden on sunny day - men mowing lawn.  Tribal scenes & map of Africa dotted w/ 'tiny culture groups'.  Map of Europe - VO 'The continent called Europe is largely covered by a huge civilised culture which is spread over many parts of the Earth...' - alien narrator sums up '...knowing the culture of any group charts the way to a fuller understanding of the people themselves'.
Cultural Studies.  Anthropology.  Sociology.  Social Etiquette.  Racism.  Globalisation.  Science Fiction.
Funny Dialogue.

 

LN 505-067  18:11:26 - 18:22:45            1959   B/W    SD        Manners In School
Young America Films / Centron for McGraw-Hill Book Co.
INT junior high school classroom - teacher reminds grumpy pupil Larry it's his turn to clean chalkboard at recess - Larry very rude & pulls a face in protest - 'honest you better get somebody else, some girl' - class dismissed.  Larry draws a stick figure on chalkboard which comes alive - 'Hi Larry, my name is Chalky!' - animated stick figure tells him he's there to give advice about his manners - Larry crossly tries to wipe him off board - Chalky' hides at top - 'my heavens, you are a bad-mannered young man, aren't you' / 'I dare you to come down here and say that'.  Chalky gives examples of Larry being rude to people - interrupting baseball game - being late for class.  'What do you want me to do, curtsey when I come to school?'  Cutaway to Larry in class not paying attention to teacher & throwing paper aeroplane - making fun of girl's picture & upsetting her - showing disrespect to teacher by answering with 'yeah?'  Larry starts to see the problem.  Chalky makes animated list of rules for manners in school - lets Larry erase him once they are finished w/ list.  Teacher back after recess, praises Larry for doing good job cleaning chalk board - Larry thanks her politely [but looks slightly demonic as she turns away].
Behaviour.  Social Skills.  1950s

 

LN 505-042  14:20:17 - 14:28:34            1937   B/W    SD        The Nervous System
Erpi Classroom Films [main title missing]
Brief shot open-top car down road seen from behind.  Examples of nervous systems in nature - leaf closes when exposed to heat - frog jumps to avoid human foot - cat pounces on mouse as it emerges from hold in wall.  PoV shot behind car driver as he drives through busy city traffic - CUs traffic lights & car gears changed.
14:20:58  Shot of driver in car freezes & animation of brain & spine spine superimposed.   Diagram showing nervous systems of Man, cat & frog - cut to picture of neanderthal-looking man if brain was as small as a frog.  Parts of nervous system labelled.  Damaged spine; man walking awkwardly.  Diagram cells in central nervous system & links to muscle.  Nerve cells seen through microscope. 
14:23:14  Bizarre sequence w/ medical procedure - sensory & motor nerve fibres of a cat being snipped - reactions of bandaged cat shown after different nerves cut.  CU nerve & muscle sample in petri dish - muscle contracts when nerve touched w/ electric charge.  Animation of electrical signals moving along nerves; cutaways to racing car speeding through desert & pistol firing.  Fuse burning.  Animation of nerve impulse.  Cat's paw rubbed w/ something & noise of nerve impulses recorded on oscilloscope.  Hand pulling weight attached to dial & sound of muscle reaction heard. 
14:26:39  Cat w/ bizarre apparatus fixed to its head to record brain activity when ticking watch held up as stimuli & without.  Man w/ eyes closed & headband recording brain beat.  Animation showing paths of nerve impulses.
14:27:30  Frog hops when touched w/ electric charge.  Remains of dead frog hanging on hook? - top half skinned? - legs still move when touched.  Man sitting on sofa gets up; cuts to animation of legs as foot steps on sharp object.  Old men playing chess.
End title Passed by The Committee on Medical Motion Pictures of the American College of Surgeons'.
Science - Biology.  Experiments.  Animal Testing.  Animal Cruelty.  Vivisection.  Oddities.  1930s.
 
LN 505-048  18:31:19 - 18:42:53            1953   B/W    SD        Office Courtesy: Meeting the Public
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films
Secretary / receptionist Ruth in office at typewriter - musical sequence w/ CUs greeting male visitors & talking over telephone w/ big smile - VO 'it can be pleasant, like this...or it can be like this' - another secretary Barbara looking stressed, glaring at people, CUs men looking cross, banging hand on table.
18:32:31  Barbara arrives home from work dejected - tells roommate Ruth she's decided to quit her job because clients coming into the office are so rude - happy Ruth thinks meeting new people is fun - narrator chides Barbara for her 'cold and uncooperative, sometimes even antagonistic' attitude.  Ruth remains chirpy as she cooks dinner, but Barbara has made up her mind - 'simply not going to stand for it any longer'.  Ruth tells her to sit down & rest 'you need some hot food in you' - Barbara flicks through magazine w/ VO thinking about what Ruth has said re clients' attitude being a reflection of herself - 'it isn't MY attitude that's wrong'.
18:35:27  Dream sequence as she falls asleep - Barbara & Ruth in busy waiting room before job interview watching behaviour of stroppy receptionist - important customer arrives for appointment but rejected because of his 'shabby' dress ['I doubt if he'll be able to see YOU at all'] - ignoring telephone ringing then answering rudely - rude to another important client wanting to see the boss ['I said he ISN'T IN'].  Barbara approaches receptionist to ask if boss really isn't in, and gasps as she realises it's her - split-screen effect w/ two Barbaras.
18:38:20  Barbara wakes up from 'nightmare' - tells Ruth she's resolved to be nicer [i.e. more submissive].  Vars scenes of Barbara at work grinning at clients & making sure she remembers their name & business - introduces client to boss Mr Thompson & interrupts meeting discreetly by passing him a note.  VO points out some mistakes - Barbara has to swallow gum when boss comes out of office & stop herself arguing w/ visitor.  Learns to fend off 'the visitor who asks too many questions' & get rid of nuisances wanting appointments.   Answers telephone promptly & filling out message note.  Realises 'the importance of neat, simple clothing in the office'.  Montage Barbara smiling at visitors and people smiling back because 'courtesy begets courtesy'.
Manners.  Etiquette.  Social Skills.  Employment.  Psychology.  Funny Dialogue.  1950s Americana.
Anti- Feminism.  Sexism.  Gender Roles.  Workers.  Good.

 

LN 505-097  11:17:25 - 11:27:34            1950s             B/W    SD        Planning For Success
Coronet Instructional Films
Kids gathered round notice board in school corridor - older woman teacher asks teenager Bill why he's not trying out for track team this year - Bill makes excuses & hurries away.  Class finishes - teacher asks Bill to stay behind - she ignores him for a while then asks him to sit down next to her - 'you tried out for high jump last year didn't you? Well?' - Bill sullen, tries to leave then starts talking about his brother...
11:19:38  Flashback to Bill training w/ his brother - can't match his high jump skills - on bench at track meet looking glum - cuts back to classrooom.  Teacher tells Bill 'I might be able to show you something' - Bill suddenly perks up.
11:20:48  EXT younger kids playing football in park outside school - teacher has cryptic conversation w/ Bill re one of the young kids - 'I was just thinking what a poor player that boy was' - Bill thinks he is playing OK 'he's only a kid' - teacher suggests Bill could learn from him - 'you mean we shouldn't judge him by the same standards that we use for the others?...You think it over' - Bill realises that young boy has carried on playing his best despite earlier error.
11:22:11  Bill resumes high jump practice [shirtless & very muscular, looks about 25!] - fails to make first jump but lowers pole & makes it easily.  INT classroom - Bill tells teacher how much fun he's having now - she offers him more homespun wisdom - 'when you think you're failing, you go right on failing...lots of people actually make themselves ill by planning for failure'.  Bill 'you might say I'm planning for success'.  Teacher draws diagram comparing expectation' & fulfillment' - 'set your present goals within your ability to fulfil'.
11:26:17  Cut to examples of other teens & high expectations w/ VO by teacher - boy giving up in class 'because he can't be perfect' - boy has argument with his 'best girl' then 'feels he's a social failure' - girl refusing date offer then crying next to telephone 'because the one she wanted to call her, didn't'.  Back to classroom - 'Think how much happier they would be, and how much more succesful, if they would plan for success!'  Bill resolves to try out for track team - 'You just watch me succeed!' - 'That's what I plan to do, Bill!'  Good.
Positive Mental Attitude.  Determination.  High School Sports - Athletics.  Tacky Dialogue.

 

LN 505-061  09:29:41 - 09:40:46            1950   B/W    SD        Power of Plants
John Kieran's Kaleidoscope #49  [Dist. Almanac Films]
Reminiscent of British Secrets of Nature' series.  John Kieran talking to neighbour Paul in his library about lily of the valley flowers - leads in to demonstration of power in plants:  Time-lapse photography of sunflower blossoming; sunflowers moving in wind; sunflower stalk cut in half - CUs cross-section of stalk showing strong fibres.  Field of grain in wind.  Tall tree in wind - power within wood to withstand pressure.  Experiment in studio w/ weights attached to thin plant fibre - several pounds before it breaks.   Time-lapse of tendrils from tree wrapping round another branch - similar look to stop-motion animation.  Melon vine holding heavy fruit.  Time-lapse seeds germinating & pushing through soil. 
09:34:22  Astonishing time-lapse shots of seedlings pushing through soil of large pot & lifting weighted sheet of glass placed over it - glass pushed off, seedlings grow full size.  Lily of the valley plant which poked through six layers of dead leaves - studio experiment w/ five layers of tin foil wrapped over pots of lily of the valley seedlings - filmed every hour for sixty days & shown in 1-minute time-lapse - shoots poking through foil & getting taller - VO 'looks like asparagus, we could use some hollandaise sauce' - flowering.  Leaf enclosed in glass to show condensation from water given off.  CUs growing plant in studio test tube, roots in dish of water & mercury which shows how plant draws water - plant's lifting power shown w/ help of mercury & U-tube. 
09:38:22  Time-lapse of sprouting peas smashing their way out of heavy glass jars.  Time-lapse of parasitic process as plant tendrils wrap around other plants.
09:40:05  Kieran sums up - '...that's the wonderful thing about my Kaleidoscope, Paul, you never know where we'll turn up next'.
Nature.  Gardening / Horticulture.  Camera Tricks.  Oddities.

 

LN 505-065  14:15:45 - 14:30:42            1950s ?          B/W    SD        Puss in Boots
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films - Puppets & Animation by The Diehl Brothers, Germany
Fairy tale told w/ lifelike stop-motion animation.  Miller's youngest son left w/ nothing when father dies - white cat requests pair of boots so he can go & make fortune - cobbler makes boots, Puss stands up in them.  Puss starts journey on his hind legs - sets trap & catches partridges - takes partridges to King's palace as gift & gets bag of gold.  Cat takes gold home to master & removes boots.  Puss hatches plan to get Miller's son engaged to King's daughter ... Puss into Ogre's castle, ogre turns himself into elephant, lion & mouse which Puss eats - pretends castle belongs to his master... etc.  Good.
Childrens Stories / Folk Tales - Europe.  Oddities.  Surreal.  Fantasy.  Animals.

 

LN 505-117  03:29:48 - 03:38:55            1940s B/W    SD        Radio Broadcasting Today  [Part 1 of 2]
March of Time Forum Edition
CU clock strikes 9.00 - On The Air' sign lights up - controllers in radio booth - Titles.  CU telephone ringing, chubby man out of shower holding towel round waist, caller asks 'This is a nationwide survey, were you listening to your radio just now?' - 'No I am not!'  Woman on bed listening to radio - receives same call - 'why yes I'm listening to the Radio Theatre'.  Montage people listening to radio - teenagers on beach, men in hardware store, mother w/ child - VO 'Americans stand most in fear of a moment's silence' - radio 'a sure and ever present escape from their own lives...'  CU sign CE Hooper, Inc. Broadcast Audience Measurement' - office scenes - Hooperatings' Network Program brochures - CUs monitoring equipment.
03:32:01  Jack Benny consults audience figures for his Sunday show.  Recording of Fibber McGee & Molly Show [?] - sound effects man - NBC microphones visible.  Bob Hope into open-top car surrounded by fans - girls hold out autograph books - plays gag & drives away. 
03:33:13  Ventriloquist Edgar Bergin w/ puppets Charlie McCarthy & Mortimer Snerd - performs sketch for writer/producer - 'we might tighten it up a little'.  CU door American Broadcasting Corporation Newsroom'.  INT Walter Winchell in meeting.  Fred Allen performing radio sketch show.  EXT shots vars national & regional radio stations.  Newspaper stories re money from sponsorship deals.  Dialogue scene w/ two writers trying to tailor sketch to avoid alienating sponsor & network.
03:35:56  Dialogue scene - writers & network head meet w/ sponsor Consolidated Sardines - asks to hear radio jingle sung by three women - 'Consolidated Sardines, America's delight!'; sponsor goes through script - VO re power held by sponsors to pick broadcast times, remove material etc.  Listeners look at new radio sets in electrical stores.  Federal Communications Commission - CU plaque - INT office w/ map of US wavelengths.  License renewal hearing - VO almost no applications turned down even though 'flagrant transgressions against good taste and programme balance continued unchecked'.  FCC report Public Service Responsibility of Broadcast Licensees'.
03:38:07  Record on turntable - zoom out to show DJ in booth - VO criticising commercialisation of music programmes - DJ at mic after song finished 'Now let me tell you about McTavish's Skinless Wieners - mmmmm! - so long, so pink, so flavour rich...'
Broadcasting.  Advertising - Commercials.  Jokes.  Gags.  Hollywood Stars.  Entertainment.

 

LN 505-117  03:38:56 - 03:48:21            1940s B/W    SD        Radio Broadcasting Today  [Part 2 of 2]
March of Time Forum Edition
Sign on door Lee de Forest Laboratories.  INT Dr Lee de Forest w/ secretary dictates letter to National Association of Broadcasters, NYC - 'Gentleman, what have you done to my child, the radio broadcast? He was conceived as a potent instrumentality for culture, fine music, the uplifting of America's mass intelligence. You have debased this child, dressed him in rags of ragtime, tatters of jive and boogie-woogie'.  Broadcasting station - news broadcast - commentators at American football game.
03:40:12  Recording of national debate programme - America's Town Meeting of the Air' - guests at microphone on theatre stage debating Nazi Germany in front of live audience - discussion opened by town cryer' - guest 'I've been living under the Nazis so long I'm a little more allergic to them than you are' - audience question.
03:41:36  Norman Corwen at desk - VO re experimental radio programmes - CU documentary scripts Hiroshima' - Slums' - Schoolteacher 1947'.  Library of Congress - INT broadcast of Lincoln scholars opening historic papers.  Symphony orchestra broadcast conducted by Toscanini.  New York Herald Tribune critic John Crosby at desk - switches radio from orchestra to melodramatic play then off - dictates article to secretary '...trouble is the bad programmes outnumber the good ones about twenty to one...the broadcasters don't own their own souls...'
03:44:42  Audience participation show being recorded - female contestant doesn't know who the father of America was & host has to mime clue when she doesn't know capital of US - still wins $50.  CU sign 'The Better Half Tonight 8:30 to 9:00'; studio game show - male contestant makes farm animal noises while wife tries to hit him on the head - win radio & washing machine.  Pan down radio schedule showing many soap operas. 
04:36:51  Housewives listening to soap opera; actors in studio read melodramatic dialogue re love triangle - 'You should know Mrs Black that love matters more than anything else...' - 'You...vampire!' - sound effects man simulates footsteps as man leaves - 'You dare to talk to me like that, you love thief!'.  Organ music - announcer urges listeners to tune in 'same time, same station' - another takes mic - 'Time...marches on'.
Broadcasting.  Advertising - Commercials.  Jokes.  Gags.  Snobbery.  Popular Culture.  Lowbrow.  Entertainment.

 

LN 505-082  12:47:37 - 12:57:50            1959   COL      SD        Safety Adventures Out of Doors
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films
Kids run out of school at start of summer vacation - get bicycles for ride home.  1950s station wagon across bridge to house by lake - Kids Sandy & Jimmy w/ friends Mary & Frank run out of car to lake - Sandy stops Frank jumping in, points to very obvious rocks 'below' surface of water - zoom in on rock w/ slogan superimposed Make sure the water's deep - Always look before your leap!'.  Kids swimming in lake - VO by Sandy 'one thing we had to explain to Mary and Frank is that we always swim in pairs' - Jimmy won't let Frank swim in deep water.  Girls tell boys to come inside so they don't get sunburn [MOS] - slogan on sand Some never learn That Sun can burn!'
12:50:48  Kids go on boat trip to island - Mary & Frank still being shown how to do everything like stepping into the boat - VO 'we always make sure that everything is in good shape before we go out in the boat' - check oars.  Jimmy rocks the boat - VO Sandy 'I thought he knew better than that' - camera knocked into water.  Picnic on island - kids get a scare when boat seems to be floating away - lucky that goody-goody Sandy has tied it securely - VO 'that's the good thing about playing safe all the time - it gets to be a habit'. 
12:53:16  Bill on camping trip w/ father during vacation - pitching tent - Bill collects drinking water from stream - zoom in on water boiling over fire w/ slogan It May Look Clean And Pure / But Boil Your Water To Be Sure'.  Bill spots poison ivy in woods.  Campfire - Bill & father eating - put out fire carefully & go to bed.
12:55:25  Larry & Mike at playground during vacation - 'Playground Supervisor' Mr Bolton asks them for help looking after smaller kids - Larry springs into action making them form an orderly queue for the slide - VO 'It was fun, helping other kids have fun, the safe way' - Larry gets armband Safety Patrol Lieutenant'.  Sandy, Bill & Larry on street walking to school after vacation - narrator summarises their safety habits w/ flashback shots.
Paranoia.  1950s Americana.  Childhood.  Nerds / Geeks.  School Holidays.  Risk / Danger.

 

LN 505-076  05:11:59 - 05:22:14            1951   B/W    SD        Social Courtesy
Coronet Instructional Films
Presents information on specific social graces & shows how to make them a natural part of daily activities. Sour-puss Bill is invited to a "hard times" party w/ girlfriend Carol - opens w/ hims talking into bedroom mirror 'I don't have any fun at parties, kids just aren't friendly' - believes social courtesy is "old fashioned" - interactive narrator cuts in, suggests it's Bill's fault.  Bill takes the narrator in stride, as he does being teleported through space and backward in time (repeatedly) - first to Carol's house. 
05:13:50  Bill rude to Carol - 'don't take all night'.  "Let's take a picture of this situation," the narrator says as strobe flashes from behind camera & scene transformed into a photo on a wall in the next scene, "you discourage others when they want to be friendly...you'd better back up and start all over again. Maybe you'd better try to be more FRIENDLY this time." 
05:15:20  Surreal party scenes - signs on wall inc. Hobo Jungle' & Bum's Rest' (over the couch) - Bill rude in various ways, scenes repeated as before w/ better behaviour.  Narrator scolds, "You're supposed to rise when an adult speaks to you; everybody knows that" - "Come on, Bill. Sit up! That's a chair, not a bed" etc.
05:18:39  Bill beckons the invisible narrator closer so he can discuss things in private, camera dollies in while other teens at party remain oblivious.  Teens then sing 'She'll be Comin' Round the Mountain' whilst square dancing - Bill joins in. 
05:19:55  Carol, suddenly aware that Bill is having a solo conversation, asks "Are you talking to yourself?"  Bill knocks over girl's plate of food & gets her some more.  "Learn from watching others," narrator concludes, "You can even get a book on courtesy from the library. Be friendly. Thoughtful. YOU'LL get along!"  It works; the mum chaperone whispers "Isn't that the boy who used to be so rude?" & Bill is accorded the ultimate symbol of Fifties' conformist success; he's invited to another party.  "Those changes made a big difference, didn't they!" he exclaims in wonder, "Social courtesy DOES pay! Thanks!!!"
1950s.  Teenagers.  Parties.  Social Skills / Manners / Etiquette.  Oddities / Bizarre.

LN 505-095  06:00:56 - 06:10:24            1950s B/W    SD        Special Days In February
Coronet Instructional Films
Young boy runs through snow into school - in classroom before other kids, helps teacher update calendar on blackboard to February.  Kids having snowball fight & playing on ice - down slide on sled - making snowman.  Shots of warm & wet weather in other parts of US during February.  Calendar on blackboard - zoom in on 28th day - VO re leap years & Presidential birthdays - picture of Abraham Lincoln superimposed over 12th - Valentines Day on 14th - George Washington over 22nd. 
06:04:26  Boy dressed as young George Washington watching surveyor / trapper [?] at work - VO explaining how he couldn't always go to school & learned by talking to others - portrait of adult Washington & Revolutionary War.  Capitol, Washington DC - Washington Monument.
06:06:13  Scenes from Abraham Lincoln's early life re-enacted - talking to villagers - adult portraits - Lincoln Memorial.
06:07:38  Stall loaded w/ Valentine's Day cards & gifts - CUs tacky 3-D cards.  Cute shots of buck-toothed little girl giving parents home-made Valentine cards.  Girl runs to letterbox to post cards.  Boy rings doorbell, gives girl a Valentine's Card. 
06:09:05  Kids in class - decorating walls w/ pictures of Washington & Lincoln - boys making cabin - girls making Valentine's cards in heart shapes.
US History.  Nuclear Family.  Elementary School.  1950s Americana.

 

LN 505-073  01:45:32 - 01:56:52            1960s COL      SD        Survival For Sportsmen
US Air Force / American Red Cross
Swimming pool at Norton Air Force Base: Edmund Mungen, Red Cross Director of Water Safety, introduces demonstration of how to survive in deep water when fully clothed.  Young lifeguard Pam Goode dives in & shows right & wrong positions for floating in water as Mungen explains from poolside - relaxation & breath control - 'survival floating'.  Middle aged Red-Cross member Ralf Flanagan onto poolside - weighed in his trunks then puts on full hunting gear inc. boots & jacket - simulates falling out of boat while laying duck decoys in pool - shows how to float & swim correctly despite heavy clothing.  Ralf out of pool & weighed again - heavier.
Health & Safety.  Survival Skills.  Military Training Films - USAF.  Drowning.

 

LN 505-045  17:50:42 - 18:01:01            1953   COL      SD        Ugly Duckling
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films
Good CU two young kids inc. girl w/ ringlets & hair ribbon, play on carpet & discuss when father will be home, what present he's bringing them - 'I hope it's a puppy!'.  Father arrives home with a duckling in a cardboard box - mother comes in to greet him - more funny dialogue -  CU duckling w/ reaction shot of little girl - 'I don't think it's ugly I think it's beautiful!' - mother tells them story of the Ugly Duckling once they promise to wash the dishes after dinner. 
17:52:30  Cut to scenes of 'Momma Duck' & ducklings in outdoor setting as kids' mother continues story in VO - Momma Duck worried about large unhatched egg - others hatched already - Ugly Duckling hatches & looks almost fully grown - baby ducklings swim away from him on the pond because he's 'too large, white and ugly' - cutways to kids listening to story on sofa.  Vars shots ugly duckling on pond all alone, other birds ignoring him - goes in search of friends in woods.  Farmer rescues ugly duckling from hole - takes him into farmhouse - duckling warms itself by stove but driven out by farmer's cat & hen.  Winter scenes - ugly duckling shelters in granary & grows into beautful swan - goes outside when spring comes - meets other swans on pond & sees his own reflection - 'lived happily ever after'.
Fairy Tales.  Talking Animals.  Children's Stories.  Nuclear Family.  Housewives.  1950s Americana.

 

LN 505-121  10:11:10 - 10:20:11            1940s ?          COL      SD        We Go To School
Coronet Instructional Films  [Lovely colour]
Pan across Elementary school classroom - little boy George feeding chipmunks in cage - other kids cleaning blackboard.  Teacher talking to new boy Jimmy, VO says his family has just moved to town - Jimmy wearing amazing outfit inc. miniature plus-fours & golf socks!  George shows Jimmy around classroom inc. supply cupboard - VO re keeping everything in its place.  Little girl rings bell & kids sit down at small tables for lessons - clock 9am - Jimmy gets to sit with Tony, Vivian & Gretchen.  Bags of counters handed out for math, Jimmy opens his but realises nobody else has so quickly puts counters back in bag - Tony smiles at him.
10:15:46  Kids get classroom ready for film screening - Jimmy helps Tony uncover projector - lights off - kids watch film about counting & answer narrator's questions - CU Jimmy counting number of chickens in coop on screen.
10:17:18  Kids into playground at recess - Jimmy looks around at other kids in winter coats playing on slide, ball game & 'teeter-totters' [see-saws] - joins in game of marbles & lends Tony some of his because he's been so nice to him [Tony wearing leather cap w/ flying goggles!].  Montage summarising how to behave at school, take turns & make friends.  Good.
Cute Kids.  1940s Fashions.  Kitsch.  Educational Film Shows.

LN 505-049  20:01:00 - 20:11:20            1936 c            B/W    SD        Wheels Across Africa  [Part 1 of 3]
Prod. Armand Denis for Wilding Pictures / Dodge  [NB main titles & opening shots missing]
[Expedition film following adventurers Leila Roosevelt & Armand Denis 4,700 miles through Africa - sponsored by Chrysler-Dodge to demonstrate capabilities of their off-road vehicles.]
Group prepares for departure in Paris - 4x4 Dodge trucks painted w/ sign 2nd Leila Roosevelt Expedition - Armand Denis Belgian Congo Expedition' - newsmen & photographers present.  Convoy down Place de la Concorde.  Algeciras, Spain - vehicles loaded onto cargo ship at docks for crossing Straits of Gibraltar.  Map of North Africa.  Trucks off boat in Spanish Morocco at Ceuta.  LS sacred city of Moulay Idriss [ Fez ]; shots of Mohammidan festival under way - wealthy Arabs on horseback - race horses & fire rifles - street entertainers inc. fire eater & man laying on & eating broken glass - snake charmer w/ cobra & drummers - cobra touches charmer's nose.
20:03:30  Map of North Africa showing route through Atlas Mountains & Sahara.  Car along snowy woodland road - VO re icy conditions - digging car out of snow as trader passes on horseback wrapped up against cold.  PoV down mountain road.  High pan across desert town - convoy along ridge above valley - shots showing variety of landscape on Sahara Desert fringes.  Camel train across Saharan sand dunes; garrison of French Colonial troops gallop on horseback across desert & into citadel.  Expedition convoy crosses desert - trucks dug out of sand - camel caravan passes.
20:09:10  Expedition party on balcony in colonial hats - pan down to Africans loading truck w/ gasoline for second leg of journey - Denis [or Cinematographer Leroy G. Phelps ?] filming w/ 16mm camera - convoy leaves town - locals on horseback race trucks & overtake - good shots past West African village architecture.
Travelogues.  Early Travel / Tourism.  Adventurers.  Colonialism.  Foreign Legion.  1930s.

LN 505-049  20:11:21 - 20:21:28            1936 c            B/W    SD        Wheels Across Africa  [Part 2 of 3]
Expedition heads into desert - trucks leave trail of dust.  Camel caravans & nomadic traders from North & South along banks of Niger River - CUs vars tribes doing business.  Local chieftain reviews warriors on horseback - robes & headdresses influenced by Crusades.  Map of Western Africa from Sahara past Lake Chad to French Congo - trucks cross Bamu River on pontoon-style native ferries - good shot Blacks rowing pontoon canoes bearing wooden platform w/ truck & explorer in Colonial hat. 
20:13:35  High angle convoy through jungle approaching Equator - cross rickety bridge over ravine.  Tribal village in forest - women shell beans, men make traps for frogs - fisherman on canoe - frogs & tadpoles hung up to dry - tribeswoman shaving pattern into tribesman's hair, baby suckling at her breast.  Tribeswomen & children w/ tattoos carved into skin - tribesman w/ teeth carved into points.  Village celebration - tribal dancing & costumes.
20:17:03  PoVs down rural track during big game hunt.  Convoy passes Dongu River - honk horns to disturb sleeping hippos.  Dugout canoe fitted w/ outboard motor down river w/ natives & adventurers in usual Colonial hats - crocodiles into river - Armand Denis or cinematographer Leroy G. Phelps filming from boat - look for crossing place.  Elephants pull trucks across river.  Truck through long grass - come across bull elephant.   
Travelogues.  Early Travel / Tourism.  Safari.  Wildlife.  Adventurers.  Big Game Hunting.  Colonialism.  1930s.

LN 505-049 20:21:29 - 20:31:41            1936 c            B/W    SD        Wheels Across Africa  [Part 3 of 3]
Team of Blacks hoist wooden boards & supplies up to treetop for construction of observation platform.  Panorama shots across savannah w/ vars animals roaming - herds of topi - elephants - hippo - buffalo - antelope - warthog - baboons in tree - leopard - baboons pour from tree & other animals start to run away - leopard wanders off w/ carcass - vultures swoop down onto remains.
20:24:41  Cheetahs around expedition trucks, one on roof.  Map of East Africa - expedition into British East Uganda & Kenya.  Convoy stuck in mud then free - VO 'nothing stops our dependable Dodge equipment' - car through clouds of locusts - Armand Denis [?] on foot among locust swarm.  Kenya - wildebeast herd running in circles.  Giraffes - good shots inc. Denis & Leila Roosevelt approaching.  Zebras.  Travelling shots from car - topi herd running in front - ground blackened from brush fires - impala run & jump alongside.  Rhino family.
20:30:15  Leroy Phelps filming from camera mounted on car roof, Roosevelt at his side - drive past & towards lion colony.  Good CU Leroy & Leila on car roof - spins camera round to catch lion as it runs away.
20:30:55  Lioness shot dead as she runs away - car pulls up beside body, prods w/ rifle - loaded onto truck 'to take her back to camp and skin her'.  [Ends abruptly - last two reels missing.]
Travelogues.  Early Travel / Tourism.  Safari.  Wildlife.  Adventurers.  Big Game Hunting.  Colonialism.  1930s.

LN 505-103  23:05:28 - 23:21:45            1955   B/W    SD        Why Vandalism?
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films
Window smashed in derelict warehouse - portentous voice-over & music - 'this is vandalism...may be the symptom of a sickness...'  Young man Jeff in street, pets passing dog, VO re lack of love & attention making him 'feel as if the world is against him'.  Jeff arrives home - dirty dishes & mess.  CU Jeff walking the streets brooding.  Jeff in biology class cuddling rabbit as he puts it back in cage - other kids laugh at him.  Jeff on street, bites into rotten apple & stamps on it angrily.
23:09:33  Jeff's soon-to-be-delinquent friends introduced - Don nagged by mother to button up coat - 'nagged and prodded until he hates them and himself'; poor Ed leaving house to sound of parents arguing.  Jeff, Ed & Don meet up on street corner at night - all share 'constant lack of affection' hence 'danger of vandalism'.  INT diner / malt shop - boys eating ice cream, bored - dialogue scene inc. pan down to show Jeff ripping stuffing out of booth seat - Don vandalises spoon.  Boys walk home past vars places of healthy' nighttime activity - community centre w/ Boys' Club - after-school club members leaving school - family outside church - preachy narration re 'moral values'.
23:14:46  Boys see sign for free movies at Community Center - decide not to go - social worker past & asks them if they're coming inside.  Look across to dark school building - 'looks more like a prison' - notice open window & climb inside - VO 'even so small a thing as an unlocked window may trigger an act of vandalism'.  INT boys creep around dark corridors - Don picks lock to science lab - Jeff shows others the white rabbit & cuddles it - find test papers & rip them up - escalates into vandalism of whole classroom - shelves of equipment pushed over - CUs boys realise what they've done but fire starts from smashed chemicals - others run off but Jeff stays behind to rescue 'his' rabbit.  Janitor arrives, turns on light, puts out fire.
23:20:11  Jeff, Ed & Don in court - judge tells parents they must share responsibility - 'you have hurt them as surely as though you had denied them food...' - mothers crying in BG.  Boys taken away after sentencing.
Ethics.  Child Psychology.  Juvenile Delinquents.  1950s Teenagers.  Social Problems.  Crime.

 

LN 505-064  13:30:42 - 13:43:09            1950   B/W    SD        Why We Respect The Law
Coronet Instructional Films [missing main title]
Teenage boy Kent in lawyer's office - confesses that he stole lumber from construction site - 'they've got plenty more'.  Launching into an elaborate moralising lecture, the lawyer takes his shoes as an example - 'you have plenty more shoes' - tells him law is cornerstone of democracy - 'are laws made to protect you and regulate me?'  Lawyer asks what it would be like without law - shots of policeman & judge vanishing - Kent at home w/ family, armed gang breaks in & robs them at gunpoint - 'gosh, that's like something out of a Western movie' - lawyer says that's what it was like until vigilante groups led to first police forces [??].  Discussion of law & its purpose going back to Bible, Socrates etc. - 'we should respect the law because it represents the accumulated experience of men through the ages' - more laboured examples then cut to:
13:36:54  Young man in court being cross-examined.  Bizarre flashback [no faces seen] shows him stealing money from his mother at young age; his mother breaking the speed limit then slowing down when she sees a motorcycle cop; cheating on school test; showing friends a stolen watch over card table; and finally getting arrested while trying to hold up a store at gunpoint.  Lawyer in VO 'you see how disrespect of law can become a habit?'  Man in court - jury - in prison cell - realises that his problem started with 'two pennies, stolen from a card tray'.
13:39:53  Lawyer concludes his lecture on respecting the law with more dubious pearls of wisdom like "peace and happiness are impossible unless our individual possessions are secure" - materialism.  Kent realises his error.  Kent at home w/ his friends, tells them lawyer suggested they pay for lumber & that contractor won't press charges; after one protests slightly they agree, Kent calls lawyer who has arranged for them to work off what they owe at the construction site, cue chorus of 'gee that's swell!'; lawyer asks Kent to tell his friends they will all be better off 'by knowing the law, by obeying the law, by helping with law enforcement and by encouraging others...'
1950s.  Morals.  Capitalism.  Crime - Theft.  US Judiciary.  Trials.  Hillbillies.  Robbers / Burglars.

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