Start Over Date 1942

101. 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...

102. 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...

103. 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...

104. Glass Container Manufacturers Institute "PSA" (01:03)

Date:
19XX
Main contributors:
Glass Container Manufacturers Institute
Summary:
A public service announcement from the Glass Container Manufacturers Institute in which an offscreen narrator describes the steps for how recycled glass is processed and formed into new products ov...

106. Arco & Sinclair "PSA" (01:01)

Date:
19XX
Main contributors:
Atlantic Richfield Company; Sinclair Oil
Summary:
A public service announcement from the Atlantic Richfield oil company (ARCO) announcing their acquisition of Sinclair Oil and phasing out of Sinclair's dinosaur logo. The ad features an animation o...

112. General Electric "Men Helping Man" (01:30)

Date:
19XX
Main contributors:
General Electric
Summary:
An advertisement for General Electric in which actor and Native American chief Dan George talks about the significance of Lake Tahoe to his people. An offscreen male narrator discusses how General ...

113. Bugles "Supermarket" (01:11)

Date:
19XX
Main contributors:
Bugles
Summary:
An advertisement for Bugles snack food in which a narrator describes the plot by potato chips to keep Bugles away from consumers in the supermarket.

114. American Cancer Society [unknown title] (00:59)

Date:
19XX
Main contributors:
American Cancer Society
Summary:
A public service announcement from the American Cancer Society in which a man buying cigarettes from a vending machine is juxtaposed with shots of casino games, rolling dice, and a horse race. The ...

115. American Cancer Society, New York Division "PSA" (00:59)

Date:
19XX
Main contributors:
American Cancer Society, New York Division
Summary:
A public service announcement from the American Cancer Society in which a woman takes a shower while an offscreen female narrator urges viewers to give themselves a monthly breast self-examination....

116. 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...

117. 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...

118. South Chile (20:44)

Date:
1942
Summary:
This travel film shows the country, scenery, agriculture and people of Patagonia.

119. Picturesque Patzcuaro (11:19)

Date:
1942
Summary:
Shows Lake Patzcuaro in Mexico and the life of the Tarascan Indians who live on its shores. Portrays their daily activities, such as fishing, and their market day at Patzcuaro. Then pictures a fi...

120. Wooden face of Totonicapan (09:50)

Date:
1942
Summary:
Shows a workman producing one of the wooden masks used in religious festivals in Guatemala. Then pictures a religious procession at Solosa, with its effigies of Christ, and a special worship servi...

127. The development of communication (10:54)

Date:
1942
Main contributors:
Erpi Classroom Films Inc.
Summary:
Traces the development of modern methods of communication, including the telegraph, telephone, wireless, and radio. Depicts Morse developing the telegraph by combining the earlier inventions of Vo...

128. 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...

130. 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.

131. Elkhart Boy Scout Troop activities (05:27)

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 video of the Elkhart Boy Scout troop marching in Bloomington, at official events, and ...

132. Emily Sue (05:30)

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 movie of young children playing in gardens and the river.

133. 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...

134. 10 - Friends (03:42)

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. This film has no sound and shows clips of the Jay family and friends boating at a lake shore, work...

138. 501 So. Woodlawn, Bloomington, Ind (04:45)

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. This film has no sound; shows residential and campus life in Bloomington.

139. Class of '37; Detroit Relatives at Lake and Bontragers and babe (05:01)

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 movies shows family and friends at the beach, eating and playing outside, and boating o...

140. 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. 6 - Westminster Inn (04:14)

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 of family and friends playing, cooking, and eating together.

142. [Boy Scouts in Washington, D.C.] (16:39)

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 Boy Scout troop at train station and in Washington, D.C.

143. Elkhart High year book etc. (04:36)

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 students looking at yearbooks, groups at an amusement park and picnic, beac...

144. [Ellen Jay] (04:36)

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. This silent film shows two young children playing outside and around a campfire with a woman.

146. Washington in war time (09:46)

Alternative title:
Washington in wartime; Washington in war times
Date:
1942
Main contributors:
Castle, Eugene W.
Summary:
A review of life in our nation's capital operating under the stress of war. Reports on the sudden increase in the city's population during wartime. Shows President Roosevelt and Secretary of State ...

148. Know your enemy--Japan! (14:47)

Date:
1942
Main contributors:
Knox, Gordon, 1906-1992
Summary:
"Produced in cooperation with the Institute of Pacific Relations, this film answers such vital questions as: How large in the Japanese Empire? Is Japan self-sufficient in food? What is Japan's nava...

149. Winning your wings (18:32)

Date:
1942
Main contributors:
Stewart, James, 1908-1997
Summary:
Starring Lt. James Stewart, this WWII recruitment film shows jobs, training and education provided to men between the ages of 18 and 26 who enlist in the U.S. Army Air Forces.

150. View of the Soviet world. (11:59)

Alternative title:
Report from Moscow
Date:
1942
Main contributors:
Caldwell, Erskine, 1903-1987
Summary:
Erskine Caldwell, American novelist and reporter, interviewed before leaving Moscow, briefly tells of the civilian defense work he witnessed. Scenes showing how the Russians are carrying out their ...