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106. Indiana School of the Sky: How Does It Look To You / Art: Puppetry: Part 4 (29:37)

Date:
December 16, 1900s to February 25, 1948
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Department of Radio and Television.
Summary:
The Indiana School of the Sky radio program of the Indiana University Department of Radio and Television began broadcasting educational radio programs in 1947 and continued through the early 1960s....

109. Indiana School of the Sky: Science III: Plants, Animals, & Rocks (14:25)

Date:
19XX
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Department of Radio and Television.
Summary:
The Indiana School of the Sky radio program of the Indiana University Department of Radio and Television began broadcasting educational radio programs in 1947 and continued through the early 1960s....

111. John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company [unknown title] (01:01)

Date:
19XX
Main contributors:
John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company
Summary:
An advertisement for John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company featuring a blind man who describes his experience working as an administrative director at the company. An offscreen male narrator d...

112. K-9, untitled, undated (1:35:49)

Date:
19XX
Main contributors:
Wells, Herman B
Summary:
The Herman B Wells papers includes materials pertaining to Wells' family and personal finances, his activities in the banking profession, his work in Germany for the United States government after ...

113. Knudsen Ice Cream "Ice Cream Parlor (30 second)" (00:31)

Date:
19XX
Main contributors:
Knudsen
Summary:
An advertisement for Knudsen Ice Cream in which a man waits in a long line at a specialty ice cream parlor, and a narrator says that Knudsen has the same taste and added convenience of being availa...

114. Knudsen ice cream : childhood (01:01)

Date:
19XX
Main contributors:
Knudsen
Summary:
An advertisement for Knudsen Ice Cream in which a narrator describes the product in nostalgic terms over scenes of children playing.

115. Knudsen ice cream : ice cream parlor (01:01)

Date:
19XX
Main contributors:
Knudsen
Summary:
An advertisement for Knudsen Ice Cream in which a man waits in a long line at a specialty ice cream parlor, and a narrator says that Knudsen has the same taste and added convenience of being availa...

116. Knudsen ice cream : it tastes hand packed (01:00)

Date:
19XX
Main contributors:
Knudsen
Summary:
An advertisement for Knudsen Ice Cream in which a boy runs to the grocery store to buy the product quickly, and shows the carton to a line of people waiting for ice cream from a specialty parlor.

120. Letters; Wells' Resignation as President (1:35:44)

Date:
19XX
Main contributors:
Wells, Herman B
Summary:
The Herman B Wells papers includes materials pertaining to Wells' family and personal finances, his activities in the banking profession, his work in Germany for the United States government after ...

128. National Clearinghouse for Drug Abuse Information "PSA" (01:01)

Date:
19XX
Main contributors:
National Clearinghouse for Drug Abuse Information
Summary:
A public service announcement from the National Clearinghouse for Drug Abuse Information in which an offscreen chorus sings a modified version of the children's rhyme "Ten Little Indians" over scen...

130. New York City Department of Health "Starve a Rat Today" (01:00)

Date:
19XX
Main contributors:
New York City Department of Health
Summary:
A public service announcement from the New York City Department of Health in which a rat is shown burrowing its way underneath a scene of children playing outside as ominous music plays. An offscre...

131. O' Canada (15:58)

Date:
194X
Main contributors:
Markley L. Pepper
Summary:
An amateur film documents popular travel destination spots across Canada, including: Niagara Falls, Waterton Lakes National Park, Jasper National Park, Columbia Ice Fields, Athabasca Falls, Banff, ...

132. Objective... Security (20:00)

Date:
194X
Main contributors:
Marine Corps Photographic Service for Motion Pictures and Special Events Division; US Treasury Department

133. Olympia Beer "Water" (01:03)

Date:
19XX
Main contributors:
Olympia Brewing Company
Summary:
An advertisement for Olympia Beer in which a narrator discusses the water in Tumwater, Washington, which makes the product taste the way it does.

136. Opportunities Industrialization Center [unknown title] (02:01)

Date:
19XX
Main contributors:
Opportunities Industrialization Center
Summary:
A public service announcement for the Opportunities Industrialization Center's (OIC) adult education programs in which a Black man from New York recounts his difficulties finding and sustaining a j...

139. Relatives Greensburg and ??? (04:07)

Date:
1939 to 1946
Main contributors:
Jay, Hilda L., 1921-; Jay, John, 1918-2008
Summary:
These films are part of the John and Hilda Jay family papers. They likely date between 1939-1946. Silent home movie shows a woman riding a bike, farm scenes with sheep, gardening, etc.

141. Round the World Trip 1939 : Part 3 – USA and Canada (51:57)

Date:
19XX
Main contributors:
Richard Leslie Gair (1892-1970)
Summary:
McRobbie-Gair Family Home Movies Collection: Following the European leg of their trip, the Gairs then sailed from Southampton to New York on the Queen Mary but there is no footage of this trip as M...

145. Sealtest : double strawberry ice cream (00:20)

Date:
19XX
Main contributors:
Sealtest
Summary:
An advertisement for Sealtest Double Strawberry ice cream in which animated children play like they are in the army and move to find the product.

148. Sealtest : old fashioned peach (00:22)

Date:
19XX
Main contributors:
Sealtest
Summary:
An advertisement for Sealtest Old Fashioned Peach ice cream in which two narrators discuss the product over an animation of a peach.

149. Semper Paratus (06:12)

Date:
194X
Main contributors:
The Office of War Information Bureau of Motion Pictures

151. Shell "We're Trying to Make Things Better" (01:02)

Date:
19XX
Main contributors:
Shell
Summary:
An advertisement for Shell Oil in which a researcher stands in a body of water and demonstrates some of the company's methods for oil spill containment and clean-up. The researcher and an offscreen...

152. Stag Beer "Operation Payback" (00:29)

Date:
19XX
Main contributors:
Carling Brewing Company
Summary:
A public service announcement from Stag beer in which a group of elderly women collect and crush aluminum cans, while an offscreen male narrator describes how the company will pay one-half cent per...

153. Statement in Defense of the Goddess lecture (1:34:38)

Date:
19XX
Main contributors:
Kaufman, Gloria J., 1929-2004
Summary:
Gloria Kaufman lectures on goddess worship. Date and location unknown. Kaufman's lecture begins two minutes into first side, following a fragment of a lecture by Madeline Pabis on the fear of lesbi...

155. Study of Government (14:40)

Date:
19XX
Main contributors:
Indiana U Instructional Support Services
Summary:
[motion picture] Orients students to the opportunities and experiences for the study of government at a typical college or university. Emphasizes that government cannot be taken for granted and tha...

157. The European Experience (Edited version) (29:25)

Date:
19XX
Summary:
Examines what has happened in Europe to check the threat of a menancing population growth. Traces the growth of population in Europe from the Middle Ages and suggests that the small-family concept,...

159. The Passing Parade: Boston Ice King (13:29)

Date:
1937 to 1951
Main contributors:
Nesbitt, John, 1910-1960
Summary:
[AI-Generated Summary] This epidsode features storyteller John Nesbitt recounting the life of Frederic Tudor, an ambitious 19th-century Bostonian known as the "Ice King" for his fanatical quest to ...

161. The Passing Parade: First Man to Climb the Matterhorn (13:32)

Date:
1937 to 1951
Main contributors:
Nesbitt, John, 1910-1960
Summary:
[AI-Generated Summary] Narrated by John Nesbitt, this transcript recounts the high-stakes obsession of Edward Whymper, a 20-year-old landscape painter who transitioned from depicting the Matterhorn...

162. The Passing Parade: Paul Bunyan, Kemp Morgan & Storm-a-long (13:21)

Date:
1937 to 1951
Main contributors:
Nesbitt, John, 1910-1960
Summary:
[AI-Generated Summary] In this episode of The Passing Parade, storyteller John Nesbitt explores the American tradition of the "tall story" by recounting the legendary exploits of various folk hero...

163. The Passing Parade: The First Conquest of the Matterhorn (13:32)

Date:
1937 to 1951
Main contributors:
Nesbitt, John, 1910-1960
Summary:
John Nesbitt's Passing Parade---U.S. Pat. Off. & Walter Hunt [AI-Generated Summary] This episode of The Passing Parade, narrated by John Nesbitt, recounts the dramatic and tragic first successful ...

168. The World at War (43:15)

Date:
194X
Main contributors:
The Office of War Information Bureau of Motion Pictures; Samuel Spewack

169. U.S. Department of the Interior "Write Clean Water" (01:00)

Date:
19XX
Main contributors:
U.S. Department of the Interior
Summary:
A public service announcement from the U.S. Department of the Interior in which audio of children singing about going to the beach overlays a scene of a deserted beach covered with trash, dead fish...

170. University of Toronto "Pollution Probe" (01:00)

Date:
19XX
Main contributors:
University of Toronto
Summary:
A public service announcement from the University of Toronto featuring a silent scroll of text discussing the problem of noise pollution and urging the viewer to contact the university's Pollution ...

171. V-62 Independence (1:04:10)

Date:
19XX
Main contributors:
U.S. Park Service Department of the Interior
Summary:
Source material used for the Agency for Instructional Technology series Geography in U.S. history : illuminating the geographic dimensions of our nation's development.

172. Various Military Parades and School Sporting Events (20:47)

Date:
19XX
Main contributors:
Richard Leslie Gair (1892-1970)
Summary:
McRobbie-Gair Family Home Movies Collection: This home movie contains mainly footage of a large military parade in Melbourne, Australia. It is most likely of an ANZAC day parade. ANZAC day is one o...

174. Weapon of War (18:56)

Date:
194X
Main contributors:
United States of America War Office; Army Pictorial Services Signal Corps

175. Wedding picnic [illegible] G.E. Bond, Emily Sue (04:43)

Date:
1939 to 1946
Main contributors:
Jay, John, 1918-2008; Jay, Hilda L., 1921-
Summary:
These films are part of the John and Hilda Jay family papers. They likely date between 1939-1946. Silent home video of the family taking wedding portraits, strolling the National Mall in Washingt...

177. Wellmet House (29:30)

Date:
19XX
Summary:
Explains that Wellmet House attempts to rehabilitate the mentally ill not by gaining conforming behavior but by helping them relate to other people in natural and unstructured ways. Points out that...