41. Cal[ifornia] 75 (25:06)

Date:
1975
Main contributors:
Edward R. Feil, Naomi Feil, Edward G. Feil, Ken Feil
Summary:
Travelogue documenting the family’s trip to California. The boys and Naomi pose in front of a funhouse mirror, visit the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, and visiting the beach. The family takes the Universal Studios tour, posing with sets, and playing with various props. They also see a stunt performance and an animal show. Next is Disneyland, where the boys interact with costumed characters and go on rides. The family sees a can-can show in Frontierland and film the interior of the Pirates of the Caribbean ride. Shows footage of a car driving through the city at night, then on a plane ride home.

42. Central Australia and Elsewhere in Australia (1:11:00)

Date:
19uu
Main contributors:
Richard Leslie Gair (1892-1970)
Summary:
Warning: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people should note that this film may contain images of deceased persons. This home movie contains material mainly from three visits the Gair family made in Australia to Mildura and the Murray Valley in the State of Victoria in 1940, and central Australia in 1950 and possibly 1957 to the State of South Australia and the Northern Territory, especially central Australia. It contains sequences of travel with a prominent Australian tour company, Bonds Tours, utilizing an elongated, rugged car for travel. There is significant footage from Mt. Buffalo National Park in Victoria and Alice Springs and the West MacDonnell National Park in the Northern Territory. Notable locations within Mt. Buffalo National Park include wonderful shots of Pulpit Rock and Wilkinson’s Lookout, Lake Catani, the Leviathan, Manfield’s Lookout, Bent’s Lookout, and Reed’s Lookout. Shots in South Australia include Parachilna Gorge and the Flinders Ranges, with a stop at the Ancorichina Hostel nearby, as well as William Creek. A wonderful sequence of camera tilts reveals the various Kodak posters for Mt. Buffalo National Park. In the Northern Territory locations include Alice Springs (known locally as “The Alice”), the Fink Gorge National Park and West MacDonnell National Park, and the Hermannsberg Lutheran mission, an Aboriginal mission in the Ljirapinta Ward of the MacDonnell Shire. A majority of the final segment includes many profile and group shots of Aboriginal people at a mission possibly sponsored by the “Australian Board of Missions, Church of England, Alice Springs,” which was printed on a nearby car. Footage consists of color film stock with particularly beautiful title cards inserted for many new locations and sites.

43. Changes (Physiological Changes) (22:29)

Date:
1975
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 14 from the series Self Incorporated, a 15-program television/film series. Self Incorporated is designed to stimulate classroom discussion of critical issues and problems of early adolescence. It aims at helping 11- to 13-year-olds cope with the physical, social, and emotional changes they are experiencing. Self Incorporated was created under the management of the Agency for Instructional Television through the resources of a consortium of 42 state and provincial educational and broadcasting agencies, with additional assistance from Exxon Corporation.

44. Citizens for Clean Air "PSA" (00:59)

Date:
19uu
Main contributors:
Citizens for Clean Air
Summary:
A public service announcement from the Citizens for Clean Air in which the close-up and audio of a man breathing overlays shots of cars, planes, factory chimneys, and other sources of air pollution. An offscreen male narrator describes the many kinds of pollutants in the air we breathe and urges the viewer to write to the organization's address. Submitted for the Clio Awards.

45. Coca-Cola : waves (01:05)

Date:
1975
Main contributors:
Coca-Cola
Summary:
An advertisement for Coca-Cola in which a surfer walks along a beach of crashing ocean waves. A series of kaleidoscopic close-ups show the waves crashing, as a psychedelic soundtrack plays and an offscreen chorus sings a jingle. One of the winners of the 1975 Clio Awards.

46. Colt 45 "Hotel" (00:30)

Date:
1975
Main contributors:
Colt 45
Summary:
An advertisement for Colt 45 malt liquor in which actor Billy Van sits unreactively outside of a hotel building front that collapses directly over him (a reference to a stunt in Buster Keaton's film Steamboat Bill, Jr.). A second man approaches from the hotel rubble and serves Van a tray of Colt 45 cans. One of the winners of the 1975 Clio Awards.

47. Commerce Union Bank [unknown title] (01:03)

Date:
1959/1976
Main contributors:
Commerce Union Bank
Summary:
An advertisement for Commerce Union Bank in which a boy who is being chauffeured to the bank trades vehicles with a boy who rode on his bike. Submitted for Clio Awards category Banks.

48. Connection | Measure and Metrics | Communication (1:02:43)

Date:
1975
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
From the series Wordsmith. This popular series is based on contemporary concepts of vocabulary and linguistic theory. Each program centers on a themes like food, size, or communication. But from then on, anything goes--word cells cavort about to instruct and entertain, animated characters get their words in edgewise, word lore of all kinds lights up the nooks and crannies of the English language. Designed to arouse students curiosity about words and to sharpen their awareness of language, the series includes standard vocabulary development and incorporates terms from specialized vocabularies, foreign languages, and slang. Bob Smith, wordsmith and author of the teacher's guide, has taught English, philosophy, psychology, education, Latin, and mathematics at levels from the seventh grade to post graduate study. His television work began in 1962. Mr. Smith holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Chicago, and three advanced degrees in philosophy and linguistics from Gonzaga University and the University of Michigan.

49. Count Pushkin Vodka "Trans-Siberian Express" (02:19)

Date:
1975
Main contributors:
Count Pushkin
Summary:
An animated advertisement for Count Pushkin vodka dramatizing the route of a trans-Siberian train carrying nobles in tsarist Russia to a banquet in Vladivostok. An offscreen male narrator describes the punishing nature of the journey and how the nobles celebrate with Count Pushkin vodka at their final destination. One of the winners of the 1975 Clio Awards.

50. Country Pale "Aqua Ballet" (00:46)

Date:
1975
Main contributors:
Country Pale
Summary:
A French advertisement for Country Pale beer in which a dinner scene at a restaurant suddenly transforms into a Busby Berkeley-style musical number (including water ballet in a large pool) when one of the patrons drinks the product. One of the winners of the 1975 Clio Awards.

51. Crespi "Pollution" (01:04)

Date:
1975
Main contributors:
Crespi
Summary:
An advertisement for Crespi presenting multiple shots of factory chimneys releasing pollution combined with the audio of sirens and explosions. A playground of small children is shown near the factories as the ominous sounds continue in the background. A child looks at the camera in freeze-frame as a Spanish-language title card asks, "Heredaran el aire puro? [Will they inherit clean air?]" One of the winners of the 1975 Clio Awards.

52. Crocker-Anglo National Bank [unknown title 1] (00:25)

Date:
1959/1976
Main contributors:
Crocker-Anglo National Bank
Summary:
An advertisement for Crocker-Anglo National Bank in which a man tells his co-worker that a bank teller is interested in him and the other man says that all of the bank's representatives treat customers the same way. Submitted for Clio Awards category Banks.

53. Cross country high (14:35)

Date:
1975
Summary:
Explores the problem that young people have with alcoholism. Stimulates consideration of self-reliance, decision-making, and resistance to peer pressure as part of developing the resolve to live free of dependence on alcohol or other drugs.

54. Cutting (22:27)

Date:
1975
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
From the series Wordsmith. This popular series is based on contemporary concepts of vocabulary and linguistic theory. Each program centers on a themes like food, size, or communication. But from then on, anything goes--word cells cavort about to instruct and entertain, animated characters get their words in edgewise, word lore of all kinds lights up the nooks and crannies of the English language. Designed to arouse students curiosity about words and to sharpen their awareness of language, the series includes standard vocabulary development and incorporates terms from specialized vocabularies, foreign languages, and slang. Bob Smith, wordsmith and author of the teacher's guide, has taught English, philosophy, psychology, education, Latin, and mathematics at levels from the seventh grade to post graduate study. His television work began in 1962. Mr. Smith holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Chicago, and three advanced degrees in philosophy and linguistics from Gonzaga University and the University of Michigan.

55. Dairy Queen : family road trip (01:02)

Date:
19uu
Main contributors:
Dairy Queen
Summary:
An advertisement for Dairy Queen ice cream in which a family takes a road trip and the parents forget their son at the Dairy Queen, and they travel back to find him enjoying a sundae.

56. Dairy Queen : mailman (01:01)

Date:
19uu
Main contributors:
Dairy Queen
Summary:
An advertisement for Dairy Queen ice cream in which a mailman takes a break to eat a banana split and laughs as a dog tries to perform tricks in order to eat some of the ice cream.

57. Dairy Queen : teen idol (01:01)

Date:
19uu
Main contributors:
Dairy Queen
Summary:
An advertisement for Dairy Queen ice cream in which a Monkees-esque teen idol runs from a group of fans and travels to the Dairy Queen and feels refreshed.

58. David's case: an example (33:44)

Date:
1975
Main contributors:
Ben Strout (Photographer)
Summary:
Demonstrates the following procedural steps in reviewing problems between school officials and parents with regard to students: appointing the case conference committee, sharing information, initiation of individual educational plan, placement review, and revised program. Indicates that the appointment of the case conference committee is determined by the child's problems and shows the committee specialist sharing information pertaining to David's behavior patterns. Discusses a program that will remedy David's academic and social problems. | Intended audience: professional. Summary: Explains the five steps of the case conference procedure, and illustrates with a sample case. Accompanies Case Conference: a simulation and source book. [Summary from original catalog card.]

59. Decora "Stains" (00:47)

Date:
1975
Main contributors:
Decora
Summary:
An advertisement for Decora acrylic paper in which a wall is shown repeatedly splashed with various stain-causing materials, such as ketchup, dirt, paint, and chocolate. An offscreen narrator describes the product over shots of a hand wiping away the stains from the wall with a small pad. One of the winners of the 1975 Clio Awards.

60. Del Monte Catsup "Catsup Moon" (00:31)

Date:
1975
Main contributors:
Del Monte Foods
Summary:
An advertisement for Del Monte Catsup in which an offscreen male voice tries to convince a young boy to trade him his bottle of the product as the boy goes about preparing a hamburger to eat. One of the winners of the 1975 Clio Awards.