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A is for Atom | 1953
Animated classic presenting what an atom is, how energy is released from certain kinds of atoms, the peacetime uses of atomic energy and the byproducts of nuclear fission.
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All Out for Victory | 1943
Contributions of physically disabled workers to World War II industrial production.
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All’s Fair at the Fair | 1938
Made in 1938, one year before the 1939 World's Fair, this cartoon depicts the exhibits and future gadgets of the World's Fair through the eyes of two country folk Mirandy and Elmer.
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American Airport | 1954
Advocates increased airport construction, especially in rural America. Describes the centrality of general aviation to the U.S. economy. With many images of American townscapes, especially in rural areas; small-town airports; and businesspeople using small airplanes to expedite their activities.
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American Engineer | 1956
Tribute to the American engineer presented by Chevrolet. This short discusses the many different fields of engineering with special attention given to the automobile.
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American Look | 1958
A tribute to the American designer presented by Chevrolet. The fist half of this film is a collage of 1950's American design from appliances to architecture, the second half follows the design process of a new Chevrolet automobile from the early sketches to a full sized model and finally the finish product.
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American Thrift | 1962
Chevrolet presents this tribute to the American woman and her thrifty ways with money. The film also salutes the individuality of the Amerian citizen and the variety of choices we have in the marketplace.
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Back of the Mike | 1938
Back of the Mike give us an Insider's view of the 1930s radio studio showing the production of dramatic sound effects. Some of this footage was used by Ken Burns in his documentary "Empire of the Air".
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Behind Your Radio Dial: The Story of NBC | 1948
Behind the scenes tour of NBC's radio and television broadcasting facilities at Rockefeller Center, New York City.
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Birth of the B-29 | 1945
Birth of the B-29 was a 1945 propaganda film commissioned by the US War Department. As the name implies, it concerned the production of the B-29 Superfortress bomber and its use in the aerial bombing of Japan in World War II.
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Cap’n Cub | 1945
Surreal little cartoon about Cap'n Cub, a cute little bear cub who rallies his fellow woodland creatures into building more planes for the war effort.
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Chevrolet Internal Sales Musical | 1954
Weird musical number from 1954 Chevrolet Sales Convention. This film was also used as background video playing on TVs in numerous TV shows for over two decades. I know it's probably not something anybody would really want to watch, but it's so unusual I can't help myself., and it's my iPad app I can do whatever I want.
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Conquer by the Clock | 1943
Encourages American workers to make the best possible use of their time in a war where industrial production and combat are synchronized on an international level.
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Design for Dreaming | 1956
Design for Dreaming is a musical sponsored film about a woman (played by dancer and choreographer Tad Tadlock; real name "Thelma Tadlock") who dreams about a masked man (dancer and choreographer Marc Breaux) taking her to the 1956 General Motors Motorama at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel and Frigidaire's "Kitchen of the Future." The entirety of the dialogue is sung, though the actors do not move their lips to their characters' prerecorded voices.
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Don’t Be a Sucker | 1943
Financed and produced by the United States War Department, and shot at the Warners studio, although it was distributed through all of the major studios' film exchanges and also by National Screen Services free to the theatre exhibitors: A young, healthy American Free Mason is taken in by the message of a soap-box orator who asserts that all good jobs in the United States are being taken by the so-called minorities, domestic and foreign. He falls into a conversation with a refugee professor who tells him of the pattern of events that brought Hitler to power in Germany and how Germany's anti-democratic groups split the country into helpless minorities, each hating the other. The professor concludes by pointing out that America is composed of many minorities, but all are united as Americans. (Reissued in 1946 following the end of World War II.
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Duck and Cover | 1952
Duck and Cover is a suggested method of personal protection against the effects of a nuclear explosion, which the United States government taught to generations of United States school children from the early 1950s until the end of the Cold War in the late 1980s.
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Enchanted Square | 1947
In this Paramount Noveltoon (production number P6-3) Police Officer Flanagan gives a little blind girl, Billie, a Raggety-Ann doll, and she is told she can see it if she uses her imagination; she does so and the slum neighborhood is transformed into an enchanted fairyland, alive with beautiful colors and music.
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Freedom and Power | 1952
Produced by General Electric this opulently produced film defines freedom as the abundance of electric power, and reviews U.S. history from an electrocentric viewpoint. With animation some really good mid-centry illustrations.
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Freedom Highway | 1956
Take a ride from San Francisco to Washington D.C. on a Greyhound bus tour in, "Freedom Highway," where American history lessons are intermingled with stops at American historical sites. Sponsored by Greyhound Lines Company this film promotes everything American and tell us, "the important thing is to recognize a treasure when you find one."
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Going Places | 1945
Animated short that tells the story of how progress is achieved through hard work, research, competition, and fair trade.
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Henry Browne, Farmer | 1942
Daily life of a patriotic African American farmer in Georgia during World War II.
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Holiday for Bill | 1941
Bill, a TV talent scout, is stuck on a bucolic farm road with a flat tire. A girl driving a tractor offers him a ride to her parents farm. At dinner Bill is told of a musical act he can show his boss so he doesn't loose his job, and in the meantime he can help out around the farm. Essentially this is a half-hour long Ford ad showcasing its tractors and tractor accessories.
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House in the Middle | 1954
Illustrates the importance of good housekeeping and heat reflectant value of white paint. Photographed during the atomic blast at the Nevada proving grounds.
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It Can’t Last | 1944
A short ranger bomber is shot down of the ocean and one of it's crewmen dreams of his small town home in Connecticut from his life raft.
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It’s Everybody’s War | 1945
WWII Era short narrated by Henry Fonda that tells the story of a small town and how their lives changed after the bombing of Pearl Harbor and America's entry into the Second World War.
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Leave it to Roll-Oh | 1940
1940 promo film produced by Jam Handy for Chevrolet, Leave it to Roll-Oh uses a large robot to demonstrate how housework drudgery can be simplified.
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Let There Be Light | 1946
The final entry in a trilogy of films produced for the U.S. government by John Huston. This documentary film follows 75 U.S. soldiers who have sustained debilitating emotional trauma.
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Let’s Slap Hitler Around | 2015
Music video made from the WWII movie The Last Three with Offenbach's Orphee Aux Enfers : Overture
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Letter from Bataan | 1944
Short melodrama about a letter from a soldier who was killed in action at Bataan. As the letter is read aloud by the soldiers mother on the front porch to the rest of family, the ghost of the dead soldier elaborates on pieces of the letter as they are read, and the sacrifices that need to made to provide essential materials and food for soldiers overseas.
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Lighter Than Air | 1937
1937 Silent Film compilation of rare footage of earlier zeppelin and blimp flights.
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Looking Ahead Through Rohm & Haas Plexiglas | 1947
Plastics industry makes the transition from military applications to peacetime futuristic designs.
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Make Mine Freedom | 1948
This Cold War-era cartoon uses humor to tout the dangers of Communism and the benefits of capitalism.
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Malice in the Palace | 1949
Set in a desert land where the stooges run a restaurant, the boys set out to recover the stolen Rootin Tootin diamond after they learn from the thieves that the Emir of Shmo has absconded with the contraband jewel. They journey to the stronghold of Shmo where they disguise as Santa Clauses and scare the ruler into giving them the diamond.
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Man on the Land | 1951
Animated story of man's conquest of the soil through the ages with a background of narration and ballads. The story starts with the prehistoric era and ends in the present, showing how oil-powered machines have banished the threat of famine.
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Masters of the Golden Age – Jack Cole | 2014
The first episode of the Dieselpunk Industries series about the masters of the golden age of comics.
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Meet King Joe | 1949
Produced by the Extension Department of Harding College and John Sutherland this less than politically correct animated short shows us the life of a common working man in America, and how he is able achieve financial success for himself thanks to investment, competition, research, and technology.
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Memphis Belle | 1944
The Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress is a 1944 documentary film which ostensibly provides an account of the final mission of the crew of the Memphis Belle, a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress. In May 1943 it became the first U.S. Army Air Forces heavy bomber to complete 25 missions over Europe and return to the United States. The dramatic 16 mm color film of actual battles was made by cinematographer First Lieutenant Harold J. Tannenbaum. The film was directed by Major William Wyler, narrated by Eugene Kern, and had scenes at its Bassingbourn base photographed by Hollywood cinematographer Captain William H. Clothier. It was made under the auspices of the First Motion Picture Unit, a branch of the United States Army Air Forces. The film actually depicted the next to last mission of the crew on May 15, 1943, and was made as a morale-building inspiration for the Home Front by showing the everyday courage of the men who manned these bombers.
Cast: Captain Robert K. Morgan (pilot), Captain James A. Verinis (co-pilot), Captain Vincent B. Evans (bombardier), Captain Charles B. Leighton (navigator), Technical Sergeant Robert J. Hanson (radio operator), Technical Sergeant Harold P. Loch (engineer and top turret gunner), Staff Sergeant Casimer A. Nastal (waist gunner), Staff Sergeant Clarence E. Winchell (waist gunner), Staff Sergeant Cecil H. Scott (ball turret gunner), Staff Sergeant John P. Quinlan (tail gunner)Play Movie -
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Mission Accomplished | 1942
Produced by the U.S. Office of War Information, Bureau of Motion Picture Mission Accomplished: The Story of the Flying Fortress chronicles one of the early (autumn 1942) bombing runs of B-17s over Europe.
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Mr. and Mrs. America | 1945
Mr. and Mrs. America is a plea to the American people to purchase war bonds in the closing moths of WWII. The film features FDR, Phillip Murray head of CIO, and a cross section of the American people who describe what they're going to do with their bonds when the war is over. Narrated by Eddie Albert.
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Mr. Hook | 1942
When Tokyo Rose begins spewing her anti-American propaganda over the airwaves, Seaman Hook is inspired to fight back, using War Bonds as literal weapons against her.
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One Week | 1920
Buster and Sybil exit a chapel as newlyweds. Among the gifts is a portable house you easily put together in one week. It doesn't help that Buster's rival for Sybil switches the numbers on the crates containing the house parts.
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Our Mr. Sun | 1956
Our Mr. Sun is a one-hour American 1956 television film in Technicolor written, produced, and directed by Frank Capra. It is a documentary that explains how the Sun works and how it also plays a huge part in human life. It was first televised by CBS in 1956.
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Pantry Panic | 1941
Woody fails to go South for the winter, leaving him vulnerable to a starving cat. But the cat is just as vulnerable to a starving Woody.
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Private Eye Popeye | 1954
Private Eye Popeye gets a call from Olive Oyl to guard a precious gem. But no sooner does he get the gem than the butler takes it (and Olive). The rest of the cartoon is spent chasing the crook to Paris, the Swiss Alps, and North Africa; Popeye always gets there first, but fails to make the arrest until he lucks into some spinach, of course.
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Private Snafu – Censored! | 1944
Private Snafu tries to sneak an uncensored letter to his girlfriend.
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Private Snafu – Going Home | 1944
Private Snafu comes home on leaves and starts blabbing top secret information to anybody who will listen
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Private Snafu – Gripes | 1943
Private Snafu learns the hard way about the need for military discipline and procedures to maintain an effective army.
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Private Snafu – Infantry Blues | 1943
Pvt. Snafu complains about being assigned to the infantry only to learn that other branches have their own problems.
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Private Snafu – Spies | 1943
Private Snafu has a secret: his ship leaves for Africa at 4:30. He's determined to keep it, but bit by bit it slips out, and eventually, the details end up right on Hitler's desk and the ship is attacked.
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Private Snafu vs. Malaria Mike | 1944
Private Snafu learns about the dangers of malaria.
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Red Nightmare | 1962
A man who has taken his freedom for granted wakes up one morning to find out that the Communists have taken over America.
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Refreshing Look | 1954
Produced by the Vendo corporation, the refreshing looks show us how modern design influences the way 1950's Coca-Cola machines were designed and built.
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Rhapsody of Steel | 1959
Rhapsody of Steel was produced by John Sutherland for US Steel and tells the story of the earliest history of steel and how it shaped civilization. At the time of production it cost $300,000 making it the most expensive animated short ever made. The film was narrated by Gary Merrill and the music was composed by Oscar winning composer Dimitri Tiomkin.
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Ring of Steel | 1941
Narrated by Spencer Tracy. Short that describes the history of the Armed forces in America to prepare soldiers and the American people for the second world war.
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Roads to Romance – Coral Gables Florida | 1950
Travelogue, made for theatrical showing, promoting tourism in Coral Gables, Florida. Shows colorful parrots, the University of Miami, and a visit to the beach.
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Safeguarding Military Information | 1942
Documentary short depicting the dangers of inadvertent dispersal of secret military information, showing the unintended and disastrous results of careless conversation and improper maintenance of secret records.
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Scenes from the New York World’s Fair | 1940
Produced by the Ford Motor Company this short covers the expanse of the 1939-1940 worlds fair and some of the major exhibits.
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Snafu – A Lecture on Camouflage | 1944
Using Snafu as an example, Techanical Fairy First Class teaches the methods of effective camouflage.
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Snafu – Fighting Tools | 1943
Pvt. Snafu suffers the consequences of not keeping his equipment and weapons properly maintained.
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Snafu – Goldbrick, The | 1943
A fairy encourages Snafu to duck out of his training regime for his own reasons.
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Snafu – Hot Spot | 1945
As the Devil watches Pvt. Snafu and his unit stationed in Iran, he talks about the hazards of working in the heat.
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Snafu – In The Aleutians | 1945
A humorous look at the Aleutian Islands and their strategic value.
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Snafu – It’s Murder She Says | 1945
Pvt. Snafu learns about the dangers of malarial mosquitoes!
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Snafu – Operation Snafu | 1945
Snafu goes undercover to get secret plans from inside enemy lines.
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Snafu – Operation Snafu | 1945
Snafu goes undercover to get secret plans from inside enemy lines.
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Snafuperman! | 1944
Snafu learns the importance of doing his homework.
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Soundie – Cow Cow Boogie | NA
Cow Cow Boogie performed Dorothy Dandridge
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Soundie – Hut Sut Song | 1940
The Hut-Sut Song (a Swedish Serenade) is a novelty song from the 1940s with nonsense lyrics. The song was written in 1941 by Leo V. Killion, Ted McMichael and Jack Owens. The first and most popular recording was by Horace Heidt and His Musical Knights. The popularity of the song is lampooned in this soundie by the King's Men (who also performed on Fibber McGee and Molly), who play young men living in a boarding house and are endlessly singing the song while getting dressed, eating dinner, playing cards, etc., until the exasperated proprietor finally has them removed to an insane asylum.
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Soundie – Lullaby of Broadway | 1941
A group of college kids badly lip sync Lullaby of Broadway
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Soundie – What the Country Needs | 194x
Soundie who's message seems to be romance will triumph over fascism and war. I'm not sure, it's hard to tell.
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Step Saving Kitchen, A | 1949
The USDA demonstrates a U-Shaped kitchen developed by the the housing staff of the bureau of human nutrition and home economics.
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Streamlines | 1936
Chevrolet short about what makes streamlined objects more efficient.
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Superman | 1941
This is the very first animated Superman feature, one of seventeen produced by Paramount's doomed animation studio. Presbyterian minister, Bud Collyer, who originally did Clark Kent / Superman's voice for the radio program continued to do the voices for the animated version. Narrated by Burt Lancaster.
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Superman – Arctic Giant | 1942
An expedition unearths a frozen Tyrannosaurus in the Siberian tundra and brings it back to the America. This being a Superman cartoon things do not go well after that. The refrigeration unit that contains the dinosaur malfunctions and the creature breaks free creating havoc in Metropolis.
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Superman – Billion Dollar Limited | 1942
Superman must stop a gang of train robbers who use a super powered car to steal a train shipment of gold.
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Superman – Bulleteers | 1942
A gang using a rocket is terrorizing Metropolis. Unless their demands are met they will destroy the city.
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Superman – Destruction Inc. | 1942
Superman versus saboteurs at the Metropolis Munitions Plant.
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Superman – Electric Earthquake | 1942
A Native American scientist believes that Metropolis belongs to his people, and demands that the the city be vacated, or else he will destroy the city with his electronic earthquake machine.
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Superman – Eleventh Hour | 1942
Every night at the ELEVENTH HOUR, Superman engages in another act of sabotage against the Imperial Japanese Navy in Yokohama. But now the enemy has kidnapped intrepid girl reporter Lois Lane & will execute her the very next time the Man of Steel strikes...
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Superman – Japoteurs | 1942
Made in 1942 this was one of the first Superman cartoons that addresses Superman's role the war effort. A gigantic new bomber has been naturally Lois Lane stows away on the test flight little does she know that Japanese spies are also set to destroy the new plane.
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Superman – Jungle Drums | 1943
Intrepid girl reporter Lois Lane uncovers a dastardly Nazi plot in darkest Africa. But when she falls into the clutches of the villains & jungle drums pound out the revelry attending her imminent immolation.
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Superman – Magnetic Telescope | 1942
When police interfere with a reckless scientist's experiment, it creates a deadly meteor shower only Superman can stop.
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Superman – Mechanical Monsters | 1941
A mad scientist unleashes robots to rob banks and loot museums. Superman saves the day. Animation by Steve Muffati and George Germanetti. Music by Sammy Timberg. Produced in 1941 for Paramout Pictures. This was also the inspiration for Kerry Conran's flying robots in ''Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow''
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Superman – Secret Agent | 1943
Superman battles saboteurs determined to stop a lady double agent from getting important documents to Washington D.C.
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Superman – Showdown | 1942
A crook dressed as Superman commits a series of robberies. The real Superman must work fast to counter the bad publicity.
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Superman – Terror on the Midway | 1942
After a Gorilla is accidentally released from a traveling circus. It's up to Superman to capture and or save the animals.
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Superman – The Mummy Strikes | 1943
While investigating an egyptologist's mysterious death, Superman must battle dangerous mummies.
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Superman – The Underground World | 1943
Lois Lane and an explorer set out on an expedition through an underground cavern and discover a race of hawk-men. When these creatures prepare a ritual sacrifice for the adventurous pair, Superman comes to the rescue.
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Superman – Volcano | 1942
Superman must protect a small city from being destroyed by a volcano
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Supervising Women Workers | 1944
Guide for those supervising women in the workforce.
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Three Cities | 1943
Three Cities show how America mobilized during the second world war told through different projects in three different cities: One Seafaring, Portsmouth Virginia One Manufacturing, Detroit Michigian One Rural, Cache Valley Utah
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To New Horizons | 1940
Definitive document of pre-World War II futuristic utopian thinking, as envisioned by General Motors. Documents the "Futurama" exhibit in GM's "Highways and Horizons" pavilion at the World's Fair, which looks ahead to the "wonder world of 1960."
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Town, The | 1945
Shows life during wartime in an American town (Madison, Indiana). Directed by Josef von Sternberg.
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Wartime Nutrition | 1943
Wartime work of public welfare agencies in the field of nutrition.
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Way Station in Space | 1960
This educational film explains how Earth-orbiting space platforms and lunar bases ("way stations") will serve a key role in the exploration of our solar system.
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Welcome to Britain, A | 1943
A film presented by the British War Office for newly arrived World War II American soldiers, informing them of British ways.
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What Make us Tick | 1952
Made by the New York Stock Exchange and Produced by John Sutherland, "What Makes Us Tick" follows John Q. Public's choices he has for investment, and how shares are created, and sold to investors.
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What Makes a Battle | 1944
Strategy and successes of the Marshall Islands battle in World War II.
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Why Play Leap Frog? | 1950
One of the animated series from the Extension Department of Harding College, and produced by John Sutherland, Why Play Leap Frog illustrates how the cost of production, overhead, the processing of raw materials, and labor combine to create the overall cost of a product.
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Why We Fight: I | 1943
Why We Fight: I - Prelude to War: Examines the difference between democratic and fascist states, and covers the Japanese conquest of Manchuria and the Italian conquest of Ethiopia.
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Why We Fight: Part 2 | 1943
Why We Fight: 2 - The Nazis Strike: Hitler rises. Imposes Nazi dictatorship on Germany. Goose-steps into Rhineland and Austria. Threatens war unless given Czechoslovakia. Appeasers oblige. Hitler invades Poland. Curtain rises on the tragedy of the century—World War II.
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Why We Fight: Part 3 | 1943
Why We Fight: 3 - Divide and Conquer : Hitler occupies Denmark and Norway, outflanks Maginot Line, drives British Army into North Sea, forces surrender of France.
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Why We Fight: Part 4 | 1943
Why We Fight: 4 - The Battle of Britain : Showing the gallant and victorious defense of Britain by Royal Air Force, at a time when shattered but unbeaten British were only people fighting Nazis.
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Why We Fight: Part 5 | 1943
Why We Fight: 5 - The Battle of Russia Part 1: History of Russia; people, size, resources, wars. Death struggle against Nazi armies at gates of Moscow and Leningrad. At Stalingrad, Nazis put through meat grinder.
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Why We Fight: Part 6 | 1943
Why We Fight: 6 - The Battle of Russia Part 2: History of Russia; people, size, resources, wars. Death struggle against Nazi armies at gates of Moscow and Leningrad. At Stalingrad, Nazis put through meat grinder.
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Why We Fight: Part 7 | 1943
Why We Fight: 7 - The Battle of China: Japan's warlords commit total effort to conquest of China. Once conquered, Japan would use China's manpower for the conquest of all Asia.
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Why We Fight: Part 8 | 1943
Why We Fight: 8 - War Come to America: Dealt with who, what, where, why, and how we came to be the U.S.A.—the oldest major democratic republic still living under its original constitution. But the heart of the film dealt with the depth and variety of emotions with which Americans reacted to the traumatic events in Europe and Asia. How our convictions slowly changed from total non-involvement to total commitment as we realized that loss of freedom anywhere increased the danger to our own freedom. This last film of the series was, and still is, one of the most graphic visual histories of the United States ever made.
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Willie Whopper – Air Race | 1933
Willie is a young lad who tells of his many outlandish adventures, which are then depicted on-screen. His fantastic accounts are in fact, outright lies, or "whoppers". His stories are usually preceded by his memorable catchphrase, "Say, did I ever tell ya this one?" The character's first-produced film was The Air Race (1933), in which Willie tells of how he entered in and won the 1933 National Air Race—even receiving a kiss from Amelia Earhart in the end. The short reflects Iwerks' own fascination with aviation. One scene even involves a plane crashing into a "Fireworks" stand which, afterwards is reduced in spelling to "I WERKS" (the animator Ub Iwerks' last name)
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Winning Against Odds | 194x
Produced by the Caterpillar Tractor Co. Winning Against Odds illustrates how Caterpillar trains physically disabled worker for war armament production.
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Winning Your Wings | 1942
Inspirational short film designed to encourage recruits for the American Army Air Forces. Directed by John Huston and Starring Lt. Jimmy Stewart
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Working Dollars | 1956
Mr. Finchly has just gotten a 60 dollar raise and wants to figure out the best way to invest it. Produced by John Sutherland for the New York Stock Exchange
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