15201. Keeping Your Car Fit (11:18)

Date:
1945
Summary:
Explains why a weekly checkup on tires, battery, engine oil, and radiator is necessary; why tires should be crisscrossed; why a car should be lubricated regularly and the engine oil and gear lubricants changed; why the oil filter elements should be replaced regularly; and why the cooling system should be inspected periodically.

15202. Kitchen come true (18:04)

Date:
1945
Summary:
Shows a Canadian farm family working together planning how to modernize their kitchen with new appliances and step-saving arrangements. Pictures the kitchen before and after their work on it.

15203. Matt Mann's swimming techniques for girls (10:44)

Date:
1945
Summary:
Matt Mann applies his teaching principles with a group of girls. The crawl, breast stroke, back stroke, and butterfly stroke are demonstrated in both regular and slow motion photography.

15204. Mermaid's paradise (09:56)

Date:
1945
Summary:
A study of aqua-sports using underwater photography. Including swimming, synchronized diving,

15205. Molding a horizontal cored part (21:54)

Date:
1945
Summary:
Use of a horizontal core, a split pattern, chaplets, and chaplet supports; how to gate a mold for rapid pouring of a thin casting; and how to clean a casting.

15206. Molding with a loose pattern (floor) (24:04)

Date:
1945
Summary:
Shows the difference between bench and floor molding, how to face a deep pattern, ram a drag and walk it off, clamp a mold, locate sprues and risers, and tuck the crossbars of a large cope.

15207. Molding with a three part flask (34:59)

Date:
1945
Summary:
Shows how to use a deep follow board; the technique of facing, ramming, and venting a deep green sand core; how to use a cheek in a three-part flask; and the purpose and method of step-gating.

15208. My Japan (16:19)

Date:
1945
Main contributors:
United States. War Finance Division
Summary:
Presented as an authentic message from the Japanese people to the American people, this film is actually a fake newsreel designed to counter any views the American moviegoer might have had about the Japanese being a backwards nation. The film employs a white American in yellowface as the Japanese narrator who describes the modern, technological Japan capable of withstanding the American military's attacks. Uses captured feature films and documentaries from the Japanese, including a short sequence from the 1937 German/Japanese co-production "The Daughter of the Samurai" in a brief clip with the actress Setsuko Hara. The film concludes with a plea to buy U.S. war bonds.

15209. Now the peace (21:06)

Date:
1945
Summary:
Presents a factual summary of the basic United Nations Organization program for world security in 1945. Clarifies the structure, analyzes the plans, and shows how, by joint action to solve relief, food, and money problems, the world can be rid of conditions that breed war.