The story of a school fire, the panic that developed and the loss of life that occurred. Discusses the obligation of teachers, school administrators and parents to provide fireproof buildings and all other safety devices necessary to prevent fires.
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Portrays the menace foreign plant and animal pests present to U S Agriculture and Public Health. Shows how tourists unwittingly bring serious foreign pests into the United States in innocent looking items. Depicts Inspections carried on to stop these invasions.
Available on the Your Government – Friend or Foe DVD
An odd film about gender and Church doctrine involving pipe cleaner people – one of which is Asian.
Available on the Creepy Christian Cinema DVD…
THE POTHEADS IN LET’S GET NICE (5 minutes, black and white, 1969. Made by Alfonso Sanchez, aged 18.) Some of the hallucinatory effects of marijuana-smoking are imaginatively conveyed through trick photography. Time seems to stand still and the world stands on end when one is under the influence of this drug (thanks Dwight Swanson for finding this blurb)
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Have over 22,000 films. Will travel. For more than a decade, we’ve been rescuing old 16mm school films from dumpsters and obscurity and showing them to folks like you.
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Films that illustrate the subtley of good salesmanship while trying to make a buck or two. Films include – Who Killed the Sale?, Tough Customer, Goodwill Ambassadors, Kirby Sales Pitch Film (featuring Don Ameche), Atlantic Imperial Gasoline Promo Film and The Butcher, the Baker and the Ice Cream Maker. 
Through the flicker of dim projector bulbs and the warble of optical soundtracks a blueprint for better living in the Atomic Age was spelled out in no uncertain terms. Now just as you remember them, Fantoma presents these collections of sex education & drug prevention. In case you haven’t learned your lesson, get another dose of drug hysteria and the bird & bees with such films: Drugs Are Like That, Stranger Danger: (Red Light, Green Light), Alcohol is Dynamite, Parent To Child About Sex, Drug Effects, Sally, Focus On LSD, Girls Beware, Keep Off the Grass, Sudden Birth & Innocent Party. 
The A/V Geeks present films made during the late 1970s push for the nation to adopt the metric system of measurement. Gee, it seem so easy to learn compared to the English system. Hmmm, wonder why it was dropped in the 1980s? Films include – Metric America, the rarely seen Schoolhouse Rock metric system shorts and much more!