18201. Farmer At War (10:55)

Date:
1943
Main contributors:
Office of War Information, Bureau of Motion Pictures; The War Activities Committee of the Motion Picture Industry
Summary:
Shows how Pennsylvania Dutch communities of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania solved farming problems caused by the war. Emphasizes that the population is largely of German ancestry. Extra physical ef...

18202. Film Communique [second issue] (20:05)

Date:
1943
Main contributors:
The Signal Corps : produced by; Combat film units of Army Airforces, United States Navy
Summary:
Second issue of the Film Communique series. Includes two short segments: A Day With the A-36's Follows through a day with the A-36 a lightweight attack bomber - adapted from the P-51 Mustang. Show...

18203. Film Communique [third issue] (20:20)

Date:
1943
Main contributors:
The Signal Corps : produced by ; Combat film units of Army Airforces, United States Navy
Summary:
Third issue of the Film Communique series. Composed of five short segments: Hitting the Beach features the LST tank landing craft, shows the unloading of supplies on a captured beachhead. Conclude...

18204. Film Communique: Fourth Issue (20:25)

Date:
1943
Main contributors:
The Signal Corps : produced by; Combat film units of Marines, Army Airforces, United States Navy
Summary:
Addressed to "the men and women of American Industry," the Film Communique series reports on military accomplishments to an audience of domestic workers producing materials for war. Composed of thr...

18207. I.U. Goes to War (20:19)

Date:
1943
Main contributors:
Indiana U Audio-Visual Center
Summary:
[film] Filmed principally on the campus of Indiana University, this film depicts the activities of various organizations and classes as they contribute to the war effort. Shows President Wells meet...

18208. Indiana University Goes to War (20:31)

Date:
1943
Summary:
Filmed principally on the campus of Indiana University, this film depicts the activities of various organizations and classes as they contribute to the war effort. Shows President Wells meeting wi...

18209. It's the brain that counts (18:35)

Date:
1943
Summary:
Based on the writings of Bertha Rachel Palmer, the film tells the story of a young man injured after drinking too much. The doctor who is treating him explains the effect alcohol has on his body.

18210. Life Line (17:21)

Date:
1943
Main contributors:
The Signal Corps : produced by
Summary:
Reports on the capture of Munda and Rendova in the Solomon Islands. The role of medical instruments and supplies as a kind of weapon in these battles is emphasized, as well as their primary role i...

18211. Negro colleges in war time (08:28)

Alternative title:
Negro colleges in wartime
Date:
1943
Main contributors:
United States. Office of War Information. Domestic Branch. Bureau of Motion Pictures
Summary:
Presents the wartime activities of four African American colleges--Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, Prairie View College in Texas, Howard University in Washington, D.C., and Hampton Institute in Virg...

18213. Our enemy-- the Japanese (20:53)

Alternative title:
Enemy Japan
Date:
1943
Main contributors:
See Other Contributors
Summary:
"Stridently anti-Japanese film that attempts to convey an understanding of Japanese life and philosophy so that the U.S. may more readily defeat its enemy. Depicts the Japanese as "primitive, murde...

18214. Pacific Canada (10:36)

Date:
1943
Main contributors:
Erpi Classroom Films Inc.; J. Russell Smith
Summary:
Orients Pacific Canada with the rest of the Dominion and the United States. Traces routes of discovery and exploration, and portrays the settling of the region, with emphasis on the part played by...

18215. Pan American Bazaar (09:27)

Date:
1943
Summary:
Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs film reporting on a marketplace of goods from Latin American nations held at Macy's Department store in New York City's Herald Square. Promoting more than comm...

18216. Paratroops (09:00)

Date:
1943
Main contributors:
United States. Office of War Information. Domestic Branch. Bureau of Motion Pictures
Summary:
"A quick overview of the weeks spent in learning to jump, tumble, and fall, in practice jumping from a tower and from a dummy plane, in packing the parachute one's life depends on, in learning to j...

18217. Receiving radio messages (principles of radio - part two) (10:48)

Date:
1943
Main contributors:
Erpi Classroom Films Inc.; Wilbur L. Beauchamp, Ph.D., The University of Chicago Physical Sciences Series
Summary:
Through animated drawings, presents the basic principles of radio reception. Explains the function of the variable condenser and emphasizes mutual inductance, self inductance, and resonance. Reveal...

18218. Reconditioning a Mower, part 1 (cutter bar) (21:10)

Date:
1943
Summary:
Shows how to check, recondition, and repair the cutter and adjust the knife clips and bar mechanism; how to remove and replace worn sections in the sickle and sharpen the sickle section; how to rep...

18219. Removing defective rivets (14:29)

Date:
1943
Summary:
Shows how an inspector marks defective rivets, drills the heads of flush-type and brazier head rivets, and removes the shank and head after drilling.

18221. Right of way (07:35)

Date:
1943
Main contributors:
Eastman, Joseph B. (Joseph Bartlett), 1882-1944
Summary:
Follows a troop train, a freight train, and a truck rushing to deliver men and supplies to a ship convoy in 1943. Explains the reasons for transportation delays and the shortage of goods in wartime...

18222. Road to Berlin (19:04)

Date:
1943
Summary:
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 shi...

18223. Road to Berlin (18:48)

Date:
1943
Main contributors:
United States. Army. Signal Corps.
Summary:
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 shi...

18224. Sharpening a shell end mill (16:46)

Date:
1943
Summary:
How to select the correct arbor; mount the work head; adjust the work head for clearance settings; and set up for sharpening the outside diameter, corner, and face.

18225. Sound recording and reproduction (sound on film) (11:03)

Date:
1943
Main contributors:
Erpi Classroom Films, Inc.
Summary:
Through animated drawings explains the principles of recording and reproducing sound on film. Through demonstrations reveals the functions of the microphone and the light valve and shows how the mo...

18226. Suggestion box (09:04)

Date:
1943
Main contributors:
Indiana University, Bloomington. Audio-Visual Center
Summary:
Explains how seemingly minor ideas can improve wartime production. Encourages workers to provide resourceful suggestions that, if tested and approved, can be circulated to factories around the coun...

18227. Summer on the farm (12:22)

Date:
1943
Summary:
Pictures a northern English farm around haymaking time, stressing the interdependence of city and country life. Vegetables and milk go to the city markets and wool goes to the factories. From the ...

18228. Take A Letter, Please (21:29)

Date:
1943
Main contributors:
United States Navy, Bureau of Aeronautics; United States Navy, Division of Personnel Supervision and Management
Summary:
U.S. Navy training film intended to improve dictation technique through humorous demonstration of common faults. After a series of vignettes where inept and ineffective styles of dictation to a ste...

18229. Target lights (17:36)

Alternative title:
Message to air raid wardens
Date:
1943
Main contributors:
United States. Office of Civilian Defense
Summary:
"This film is an illustrated narrative of the method of preparing any home for a "black-out". It illustrates the vital importance to every family of knowing what to do and just how to do it. No det...

18230. The gardens of victory (08:00)

Date:
1943
Main contributors:
Associated Sales Co.
Summary:
Shows the wartime need for vegetable gardens in every American community.

18231. The high plain (20:21)

Date:
1943
Summary:
Tells the story of the typical great agricultural estate in the highest farming land in the world--Bolivia. A landlord, whose family has owned his land for three hundred years, controls the labor ...

18232. The Main Dish (14:51)

Date:
1943
Main contributors:
National Film Board of Canada
Summary:
States "food is a weapon of war," showing that women must learn to use the less desirable cuts of beef during wartime rationing. "A wartime film showing conservation needs and food planning in rega...

18235. The thousand days (21:16)

Date:
1943
Main contributors:
Norrish, B. E. (Bernard Easterbrook), 1885-1961
Summary:
Describes the Canadian effort in World War II including news footage of Churchill addressing the Canadian Parliament, the building of the Alaska-Canada Highway, and Canadian tank and aircraft produ...

18236. The winged scourge (malaria) (10:34)

Date:
1943
Summary:
Shows various methods of combatting and eliminating the anopheles mosquito. Animated cartoon featuring the Seven Dwarfs.

18237. These are the men (12:16)

Date:
1943
Summary:
Takes Leni Riefenstahl's footage from the Nuremberg speeches of the Nazi Leaders and superimposes English "translations" over a set of orations in English "in which Hitler, Goebbels, Göring, Streic...

18238. They deliver the goods (16:29)

Date:
1943
Summary:
How our fighting equipment gets through to our fighting men in quantity and on time. The mountains of supplies for combat loaded at ports of embarkation are unloaded under combat conditions and und...

18239. Troop train (11:01)

Date:
1943
Main contributors:
United States. Office of War Information. Domestic Branch. Bureau of Motion Pictures
Summary:
Shows the movement across the country in 1943 of the 201st Armored Division.

18240. U.S. news review. Issue no. 4 (17:26)

Date:
1943
Main contributors:
United States. Office of War Information. Domestic Branch. Bureau of Motion Pictures
Summary:
This newsreel covers six subjects. "The Raiders of Timor": recounts how Australian troops were forced to hide in the mountains on the island of Timor when the Japanese military conquered the island...

18241. War on wheels (21:37)

Date:
1943
Summary:
The story of an American truck convoy ambushed by German tanks and rescued by a group of United States medium tanks. Graphically illustrates the importance of war production during World War II. Bi...

18242. Water : friend or enemy (09:49)

Date:
1943
Summary:
Stresses the importance of pure water; illustrates correct measures in keeping spring and well water from being contaminated; and suggests boiling of water as a final precaution. Animated cartoon.

18243. Wealth of the Andes (16:36)

Date:
1943
Summary:
Pictures a train trip to the Cero de Pasco mining district deep in the Peruvian Andes. Shows that copper and lead constitute the "wealth of the Andes". Discusses the construction problems that made...

18244. What to do in a gas attack (15:03)

Date:
1943
Main contributors:
Price, Sherman
Summary:
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.

18245. When work is done (09:04)

Date:
1943
Main contributors:
United States. Office of War Information. Domestic Branch. Bureau of Motion Pictures
Summary:
Tells how Sylacauga, Alabama, a small town crowded with war plant workers, solved its housing and recreation problems.

18246. Wings up (21:33)

Alternative title:
Sustineo alas
Date:
1943
Main contributors:
United States. Army Air Forces. Motion Picture Unit, 1st
Summary:
The story of the twelve weeks of discipline, concentrated study and hard work leading to graduation from the Officers' Candidate School of the U.S. Army Air Forces and the rank of second lieutenant.

18247. You can't eat tobacco (13:52)

Date:
1943
Summary:
Deals with the evils of the one-crop system throughout the tobacco country of the South; then illustrates some of the ways in which the impoverished tobacco farmer can improve his lot by devoting s...

18248. Michigan Wolverines vs. Ohio State Buckeyes (2:36:25)

Date:
November 21, 1942
Main contributors:
Frederick, Frank; Michigan Wolverines (Football team); Ohio State Buckeyes (Football team)
Summary:
Michigan Wolverines - 7; Ohio State Buckeyes - 21. Ohio State wins BigTen football championship [AI-Generated Summary] The Michigan Wolverines faced off against the Ohio State Buckeyes in a high-...

18249. World Series 1942: New York Yankees vs. St. Louis Cardinals (1:48:04)

Date:
September 30, 1942
Main contributors:
Allen, Mel, 1913-1996; New York Yankees (Baseball team); St. Louis Cardinals (Baseball team)
Summary:
Game One of World Series. New York Yankees – 7; St. Louis Cardinals – 4 Red Ruffing loses his no-hitter as Terry Moore singles with two out @ St. Louis - Mel Allen (MBS) - World Series Game 1 - In...

18250. American League All-Stars vs Military All-Stars (2:26:35)

Date:
July 7, 1942
Main contributors:
Feller, Bob, 1918-2010
Summary:
Military All-Stars take on American League All-Stars. Final score: American League All-Stars - 5; Military All-Stars 0, played at Cleveland Studio in Cleveland, Ohio. [AI-Generated Summary] Played...

18251. 1942 All-Star Baseball Game: American League vs National League (2:35:07)

Date:
July 6, 1942
Main contributors:
Britt, Jim, 1910-1980; Allen, Mel, 1913-1996; Elson, Bob, 1904-1981
Summary:
1942 All-Star Baseball Game: American League - 3; National League - 1; Game played at the Polo Grounds in New York City, New York; Disc 1 1. Pre Game 2. First Inning 3. Second Inning 4. Third Inn...

18252. Baseball during World War II (26:08)

Date:
March 24, 1942
Main contributors:
Batchelor, Sr., Edward Armistead ; Cushing, George William, 1888-1968; Bengy, Malcolm
Summary:
A discussion on whether or not Major League Baseball should be discontinued until after World War II. "In Our Opinion" - Should Pro Baseball Be Discontinued During the War - Bud Guest announcer a...

18254. [Dahomey and Brazil, 1942-1950] (1:38:30)

Date:
1942
Main contributors:
See Other Contributors
Summary:
Brazilian folk music from Brazil and Dahomey. Descriptive information presented here may come from original collection documentation. Please note collections of historical content may contain mater...

18256. A letter from Bataan (14:21)

Date:
1942
Main contributors:
Shane, Maxwell, 1905-1983
Summary:
A Hollywood short aiding the war effort, emphasizing the need for preparedness and conservation of materials, i.e. rubber, metal, shellac. An American soldier writes home from Bataan, and while his...

18257. A new fire bomb (08:46)

Date:
1942
Main contributors:
United States. Office of Civilian Defense
Summary:
Describes and provides information about methods of defense regarding a recently developed type of German explosive fire bomb. In dramatic reenactments, wardens and civilians are warned to keep awa...

18258. An Air Raid Warden's Report (11:37)

Date:
1942
Summary:
Shows the importance of accuracy in the information a warden collects at the scene of disaster and the exact manner in which he should transmit information to the control.

18259. Basketball fundamentals (14:30)

Date:
1942
Main contributors:
See Other Contributors
Summary:
Presents basic fundamentals of basketball. Coach Branch McCracken and the Indiana University basketball team demonstrate, in regular and slow-motion photography, ways of shooting, passing, dribblin...

18260. Blues and boogie (08:48)

Date:
1942
Summary:
Musical performance revue that includes three separate songs in this order: Some of these days, Caldonia, and Is you is, or is you ain't my baby?

18261. Colombia : crossroads of the Americas (26:45)

Date:
1942
Summary:
Introduces life in Colombia from a geographic, social, and economic viewpoint. Presents family life in the home of one of Bogota's foremost families, and a garden party attended by notables of poli...

18263. Countersinking, counterboring, and spot facing (19:44)

Date:
1942
Main contributors:
United States. Office of Education
Summary:
Demonstrates how to drill holes in steel and cast iron, countersink holes in steel, counterbore holes in cast iron, and spot face holes in cast iron.

18264. Day Is New (10:23)

Date:
1942
Main contributors:
Aqustin P. Delgado; Sheldon Dick
Summary:
Pictures a day in the life of the people of Mexico City from dawn to dark.

18265. Fundamentals of end cutting tools (12:03)

Date:
1942
Main contributors:
United States. Office of Education
Summary:
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.

18266. Fundamentals of filing (12:41)

Date:
1942
Summary:
Shows the selection of the right file for the right job; the various kinds of files and the type of work that each does best; the use of single-cut files to obtain a fine finish on soft steel; the ...

18267. Hidden Weapons (10:31)

Date:
1942
Main contributors:
United States. Department of Agriculture; Wilding Picture Productions, Inc.

18268. High Over The Borders (19:35)

Date:
1942
Main contributors:
New York Zoological Society; National Film Board of Canada
Summary:
In their routes of migration, birds "mock the man-made lines by which nations separate themselves," as the narrator states in this film intended to foster goodwill between the nations of the Americ...

18269. Hill Town of Guatemala (10:25)

Date:
1942
Summary:
The fascinating life of several small towns perched on the slopes of an extinct volcanic mountain. | The fascinating life of several small towns perched on the slopes of an extinct volcanic mountain.

18271. Home on the range (10:54)

Date:
1942
Summary:
Describes the productive power of ranchers and their role in supplying America's war effort during World War II. Portrays ranch life and western range country. Shows waterholes, windmills and wat...

18272. Japanese relocation (09:49)

Date:
1942
Summary:
Immediately following Pearl Harbor, one of the critical problems facing the United States was what to do with the 100,000 people of Japanese descent living up and down the Pacific Coast. The immedi...

18273. Japs bomb U.S.A.! (10:23)

Date:
1942
Summary:
"Newsreel pictures of the attack of Dec. 7, 1941, on Pearl Harbor. Closes with America's ringing answer to the enemy challenge." (War Films Bulletin of the Extension Division Indiana University, Fe...

18274. 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...

18275. Middle East (07:10)

Date:
1942
Main contributors:
British Ministry of Information
Summary:
Using maps and animated diagrams, the importance of the Middle East in the world strategy of the Allied nations during World War II is shown. Austere images and narration inform the viewer of the s...

18276. Monuments of Ancient Mexico (35:12)

Date:
1942
Main contributors:
United States. Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs
Summary:
"The title of this film is self-explanatory. It is especially adapted for students of archaeology and anthropology" (A List of U.S. War Information Films, Office of War Information, Bureau of Motio...

18277. Monuments of Ancient Mexico (35:55)

Date:
1942
Summary:
Shows the monuments, pyramids, and other evidences of Mexico's ancient civilizations; explains these archaeological discoveries; and reconstructs, through drawings, the ancient cities and villages.

18278. Orchids and Other Flora of Tropical America (10:43)

Date:
1942
Main contributors:
United States. Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs; The National Geographic Society
Summary:
Described as a film portraying "twenty types of orchids and other flora of South and Central America and the conditions under which they grow" (U.S. Government Films, U.S. Office of Education, 1954...

18279. Out of the frying pan into the firing line (03:26)

Date:
1942
Main contributors:
Sharpsteen, Ben
Summary:
"Minnie is about to pour her bacon grease over Pluto's dinner bowl as a treat, but a radio announcement reminds them that the glycerine which can be extracted from cooking fats is important to prod...

18280. Pan-American Bazaar (08:54)

Date:
1942
Main contributors:
United States. Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs; R.H. Macy and Company, Inc.
Summary:
A Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs film reporting on a marketplace of goods from Latin American nations held at Macy's Department store in New York City's Herald Square. Promoting more than co...

18281. Patagonian Playground (09:33)

Date:
1942
Main contributors:
United States. Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs
Summary:
Using color photography, this travelogue transports viewers in the U.S. to the exotic locale of Nahuel Huapi National Park, in the Argentine Andes. Showing the stifling mid-summer heat of Buenos Ai...

18282. 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...

18283. Radio dynamics (04:20)

Date:
1942
Summary:
Visualizes Color-keyed moods, recurrent themes, contrapuntal melodies, and various rhythmic patterns through the animation of Oskar Fischinger. Presents an interplay of shapes, Colors, and movement...

18284. Ready on the home front (23:56)

Date:
1942
Main contributors:
Constable, J. M.
Summary:
Presents the general aims of the civilian defense program during World War II. Describes the training and duties of the air raid warden. Closes with a proclamation by Governor Schricker.

18285. Reaming with straight hand reamers (20:25)

Date:
1942
Summary:
Shows types of reamers; how to check the size of reamers; and how to ream straight holes with straight-fluted helical-fluted, and adjustable-blade reamers.

18286. Report from Russia (08:10)

Date:
1942
Summary:
Tells of the energy, the courage, and the efforts of the Russians behind the front lines in World War II. Shows the holding and striking power of Russia.

18287. Roads south (18:19)

Date:
1942
Summary:
The seventh in a series of a film about the Americas, this film shows the water, rail, motor, and air transportation routes of Latin America, tracing their development from early Spanish exploratio...

18289. Rules of the Nautical Road: The Halifax Incident (26:04)

Date:
1942
Main contributors:
United States Navy, Bureau of Aeronautics; Walt Disney Productions; University of Washington Naval R.O.T.C. : technical direction
Summary:
Part of a series of martime navigation instructional films titled Rules of the Nautical Road. Animation produced by Walt Disney studios.

18290. Salvage (07:15)

Date:
1942
Summary:
A message from Donald M. Nelson, chairman of the War Production Board, urging Americans to save metals, rubber, and greases for the World War II effort.

18291. Scraping flat surfaces (13:54)

Date:
1942
Summary:
Shows how surface plates are used to check the flatness of surfaces, types of scrapers, how to remove high spots, and how to determine when a surface is scraped flat.

18292. Scraping flat surfaces (13:20)

Date:
1942
Main contributors:
United States. Office of Education
Summary:
Shows how surface plates are used to check the flatness of surfaces, types of scrapers, how to remove high spots, and how to determine when a surface is scraped flat.

18293. South Chile (20:44)

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

18294. Sundays in the Valley of Mexico (11:01)

Date:
1942
Main contributors:
United States. Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs; Ralph E. Gray, A.C.L. : photographed and produced by
Summary:
A colorful travelogue of modern, urban life in Mexico City. "Shows scenes typical of modern Mexico, such as the tall buildings and wide boulevards of Mexico City. The canal leading to Xochimilco, w...

18296. Testing the I.Q. (16:18)

Date:
1942
Summary:
Demonstrates the administration of the revised Stanford-Binet intelligence test and the calculation of the I.Q. Gives a brief explanation of principles, and shows the administration of form L to a ...

18297. Thanks for the boogie ride (03:07)

Date:
1942
Main contributors:
Minoco Productions, Inc.; Gene Krupa and His Orchestra; Walter O. Gutlohn, Inc.
Summary:
Gene Krupa and His Orchestra perform "Thanks for the Boogie Ride."

18298. The Airplane Changes Our World Map (10:48)

Date:
1942
Main contributors:
ERPI Classroom Films, Inc.; Encyclopaedia Britannica
Summary:
Traces the history of mapmaking and representation of the globe on two-dimensional surfaces. Considers early problems of distortion in map projection, and reviews the projections of Mercator, Mollw...

18299. The changing face of India (12:04)

Date:
1942
Summary:
Discusses the impact of Western social customs and scientific advance on Indian life in villages and cities. Shows department stores, night clubs, and factories in an industrialized India built up...

18300. 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...