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1. "It's only the beginning" (10:15)

Date:
1951
Summary:
Describes the importance of industrial research in satisfying consumer needs and meeting competition. Shows through animation the large expenditure of time and money that has gone into the develop...

2. "It's the humidity" (13:04)

Date:
1962
Summary:
Uses common everyday examples of the effects of humidity to introduce and explain this idea. Shows Kay, an attractive teenager, and her adventures with a violin, a stuck drawer, and drying off at t...

3. 16mm Sound Service Test Film (08:20)

Date:
1949
Summary:
Determines, with proper use and interpretation, the cause of poor sound if it lies in faulty 16mm motion picture projection equipment. Includes the following technical test sections: sound focusin...

4. 23 Skidoo (08:28)

Date:
1964
Summary:
"This short black-and-white film shows eerie scenes of a downtown without people. The effect is disturbing. The camera shoots familiar urban scenes, without a soul in sight: streets empty, building...

5. [Grissom AFB air show] (01:34)

Date:
unknown
Summary:
This film shows people parachuting through the sky, and a helicopter flying about. The footage was possibly shot at the Grissom Air Force Base air show, year unknown.

6. [Herman B Wells - Campaign for Indiana] (03:42)

Date:
1985
Summary:
Indiana University President Herman B Wells urging people to become members of the campaign committee to support Indiana University. He explains that the support of great universities are the most ...

7. [Hopscotch House carnival] (06:18)

Date:
unknown
Summary:
A young man and person in a lion costume walk around a carnival, enjoying the rides, interacting with a clown, before being united with a young woman looking for them. Deggeler Amusement Company a...

11. A day of Thanksgiving (12:34)

Date:
1951
Main contributors:
Centron Corporation
Summary:
Tells the story of a typical American family, and how they use Thanksgiving Day as the occasion to review the freedoms and privileges which they enjoy in their everyday living under the American wa...

13. A few ounces a day (06:39)

Date:
1941
Main contributors:
Alexander, Donald, 1913-1993
Summary:
This film uses diagrams to illustrate the importance of salvaging common everyday items in an effort to reuse important raw materials for building ships. The film asserts that one day's salvage by ...

14. A kitchen cavalcade (14:26)

Date:
1956
Summary:
Shows many of the kitchen appliances of tomorrow. Takes the viewer inside the experimental laboratories of General Motors to see such advanced aids to cooking as an automatic recipe viewer, heatle...

15. A Lincoln field trip (11:05)

Date:
1951
Summary:
Visits New Salem, Vandalia, Springfield, and other Lincoln sites and monuments in Illinois. The film ends with a view of the Lincoln Tomb.

19. A million times a day (12:02)

Date:
1949
Summary:
Describes the vast telephone network, equipment and personnel involved in the completion of a long distance call. Shows how telephone lines and cables run all over the United States, through desert...