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Shows the telephone center and the bedside telephone service in a U.S. Army hospital. Discusses the beneficial effects on the soldiers of receiving telephone calls from home and advises families at home how to handle these important calls.
Dramatizes the conservation of war materials by residents of a typical town. Explains how the war effort is helped by sharing rides and collecting tin cans and other salvage. Explains the organization of civilian defense units and shows a neighborhood meeting.
Explains what war gas is, how it is used by the enemy, and how simple household items, such as bicarbonate of soda and bleaching solution, may be used to prevent casualties.
Using dramatized events and newsreels, this film shows the organizing done during World War II to ship war supplies to the military. Shows the work of the Army Transportation Corps in providing ship convoys, as well as the work done by supply depots.
Shows how to check brake pedal travel; how to examine the brake lining; how to adjust the brake shoes; and how to inspect and adjust the hydraulic brake fluid system.
Shows how the Army Air Forces during World War II flew wounded men from Pacific battle areas to hospitals and home towns in the United States. Uses a mix of actuality footage and fictional reenactments to follow a soldier from being wounded in action, cared for by medics on the battlefield, undergoing surgery in a mobile hospital near the front lines, recuperating in Guam, being shipped back to the United States, and convalescing in hospital near the soldier's home town.
Presents two films. Welcome soldier! outlines the various government plans created to help Canadian World War II veterans return to civilian life in the workplace and at home. In the companion film, John Buckley, the labour representative on the Ontario Social Security and Rehabilitation Committee, chairs a discussion among service men and women on the difficulties faced by veterans returning to the work force.
Discusses radius, threading, sheer-cut finishing, round-nosed finishing, and side-facing tools. Demonstrates the correct setting of the tools and the type of cut each makes.
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 pledge of "All for Victory!" including efforts in huge metallurgical plants, the oil industry, the rapid harvest, nurses drilling, and Red Cross work.
Young America Films, Lillian Malcove Ormos, Laszlo Ormos
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Surveys the various sources of power, including hand, machine, animal, wind, water, steam, coal, petroleum, explosive, and atomic. Explains how man utilizes stored-up energy in a number of different ways.
Highlights events in the life of Mohandas K. Gandhi between 1930 and 1948 and recounts his role in the struggle to free India from British colonialism. Treats his philosophy of passive resistance and non-violence, and depicts the conflicts between British and Indians, and Hindus and Moslems before and after British withdrawal. The events of the campaign of civil disobedience and the series of conferences and incarcerations of Gandhi are reviewed. The views of British officials during this period are also presented. The partition of India and the establishment of dominion status for India and Pakistan are explained. Gandhi's pleas for unity and brotherhood during his last days and his assassination in 1948 are presented. Concluding scenes present his funeral pyre and an eulogy to Gandhi.
Dramatizes episodes in the lives of four people to show that they need help with a hearing problem. Urges those with a hearing loss to seek professional help and reviews the agencies of the community which can offer such assistance. Stresses the fact that many hearing loss victims can lead normal lives with a proper hearing aid.
Edward R. Feil, Edward G. Feil, Ken Feil, Naomi Feil
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Home movie of the Feil family visiting a lake, possibly as part of family camp. Shows Eddie wading and splashing in the lake as Naomi holds baby Kenny so he can play in the water. Ed, Kenny, and Eddie then help another family build a sandcastle.
Edward R. Feil, Naomi Feil, Vicki Rubin, Beth Rubin
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Home movie showing a day trip to Burton, Ohio. Vicki, Beth, Naomi, and Gusty (the family housekeeper) eat ice cream cones in a car before driving to a flea market in Burton. Along the way, the car passes an Amish buggy.
Home movie of Ed Feil and a group of friends skiing in winter. The group hits the slopes at nighttime, then warms up by the fire inside a ski lodge. Also shows the group skiing at Boyne Mountain in Michigan.
Home movie documenting the massive crowds at Cleveland Stadium attending the 1954 World Series (New York Giants vs. Cleveland Indians). Exclusively shows the area outside the stadium and surrounding streets. Shows vendors selling pennants, programs, and souvenirs featuring Chief Wahoo. Ends with a close-up of a newspaper headline: "Giants sweep it, 7-4".
Edward R. Feil, Edward G. Feil, Naomi Feil, Ken Feil, Julius Weil, Helen Kahn Weil, Vicki Rubin, Beth Rubin, George Feil, Harold S. Feil
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Home movie documenting the week of Ken Feil's birth. Begins with a pregnant Naomi and baby Eddie greeting her parents, Julius and Helen Weil, at the airport. Helen stays while Julius departs for an unknown location. The next scene takes place after Ken's birth - it shows Naomi and Helen looking into the hospital nursery at a sleeping Ken. Afterwards, the baby is examined and bottle fed by doctors. George Feil, Harold Feil, and others visit the hospital. Then, Vicki and Beth see the baby at home. A maid prepares food while Eddie sits in Naomi's lap and feeds her.
Home movie of Eddie Feil at Hebrew school. Shows a group of young children in a classroom learning about kiddush and watching a puppet show put on by Naomi. The boys in the class wear yarmulkes. Eddie and another boy are then lifted up in chairs by the adults, possibly as a birthday celebration. Eddie then passes out brownies to his classmates.
Edward R. Feil, Vicki Rubin, Beth Rubin, Betsy Feil, Leslie Feil, Ellen Feil, Amy Feil, Naomi Feil, Stanley M. Feil, David Hellerstein, Daniel Hellerstein, Beth Hellerstein, Herman Hellerstein, Mary Feil Hellerstein, Nellie Feil, Jonathan Hellerstein, Susan Hellerstein
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Home movie of a birthday party for Leslie Feil at the Harold Feil home. The girls do gymnastics tricks and mug for the camera in the living room while Leslie inspects her wrapped presents. Naomi then performs a puppet show for the children with a napkin from behind a chair. Harold's brother Stanley is also present, possibly to celebrate his birthday, which also falls in August. Ends with Leslie opening her presents while surrounded by her cousins.
Edward R. Feil, Edward G. Feil, Ken Feil, Naomi Feil
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Home movie of the Feil family on a trip to King's Island amusement park. Shows the family riding rides, meeting Hannan Barbera characters, playing arcade games, seeing a variety show with singers and dancers and animal performers. A small parade goes through the park near the Eiffel Tower. The family watches a dolphin show before going to the top of the Eiffel Tower and looking out over the park. Shows fireworks being set off as the park closes for the day.
Home movie of Ed Feil and his ski club friends building "Hut Two" - a small ski hut - throughout the autumn and early winter. Shows men and women mixing cement, laying cinder blocks, putting up a fence, carrying lumber, and painting the hut.
Helen speaking at a podium during an awards ceremony at the Cleveland Sheraton. There are several banquet tables on both sides of the podium and a banner that reads "Senior Citizens". This footage is featured in Opa 75th B-day (barcode 40000003364017).
Shows Beth boarding a plane to go to New York. Naomi and Kenny walk her to her seat and Beth kisses them both goodbye. They then watch the plane take off.
