Start Over Date 1950

201. 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...

202. Newspaper story (16:45)

Date:
1950
Main contributors:
See Other Contributors
Summary:
Follows the newspaper story of a little girl rescued by some Boy Scouts from the time the reporter learns of it until the completed paper is sold on the street. Explains the work of the staff memb...

203. Norwegian children : farming on a fiord (11:15)

Date:
1950
Main contributors:
Encyclopaedia Britanica Films Inc.; Bryn J. Hovde
Summary:
Shows Inger and Halvard as they help their parents with the farm work. They and their mother bring the cattle down from the summer pasture in the mountains, they visit the village across the fiord...

204. Oliver Wendell Holmes (17:41)

Date:
1950
Main contributors:
Emerson Film Corporation; Mentor L. Williams
Summary:
Dramatizes the versatility of Oliver Wendell Holmes's successes, including his accomplishments in the field of medicine and his activities as a man of letters and lecturer. Portrays events related...

205. 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.

206. 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...

207. Pale Horseman (21:41)

Date:
1950
Summary:
Shows the relation between the aftermath of war and the "pale horseman," epidemic disease. Discusses the plight of 100,000,000 displaced persons soon after World War II and the activities of UNRRA.