From The Archive

Twenty-four Hours of Progress (1950)

Expansive institutional film on the key role that oil companies have played in enabling American technological progress, maintaining high living standards, and guarding national security. Equates free enterprise with freedom and democracy. Most of the film consists of diverse images of oil industry at work and of Americans using oil products. Produced by Louis deRochemont.

This film is available on the Power Behind the Nation DVD-R

From The Archive

Art For Beginners: Fun With Lines (1972)

Kids are doing different arsty-crafty things with no narration and a hip soundtrack. Pipe cleaners, string art, etc. Then kids talk about what they can do with lines and art. The song “Lines are Fun” is sung.

This film is available on the A/V Geeks Greatest Hits DVD-R

From The Archive

Young NASA

Great films from NASA’s early Apollo missions. Films include: America in Space – First Five Years, Project Apollo, Apollo 8, Flight of Apollo 15, Spaceborne, Apollo 12.

From The Archive

Schoolhouse Shock

Is a school just a place for learning or is it a constant drain
on our tax dollars? Or is it an antiquated death trap? Or maybe it’s haunted?
Join us for an evening of films dealing with school buildings and how to make
students, parents and civic leaders feel guilty about their use and abuse. Films
include: Doing Things For Ourselves In School, Electric Heating Goes To School
, Taking Care of Your School Building and Our Obligations.

From The Archive

Oops!

A spectacle of carelessness, clumsiness and injury. And yes, it is
funny when it happens to someone else. Films included: Danger Is Your Companion,
Down and Out, Careers In Emergency Medicine and Anyone At All.

From The Archive

Without A Leg To Stand On

Three films about people with physical handicaps. Steadfast Tin Soldier – the classic Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale. Gravity Is My Enemy – a quadriplegic artist talks about his work and his life. Boy On A Skateboard – a young boy with no legs copes with his life in a mill town.