From The Archive

Benefits of Looking Ahead (1950)

Points out importance of planning for future. Nick, a teen boy, observes this approach in some friends and notices how much more successful they appear to be. He applies it to himself and notices a change for the better in his own life.

From The Archive

Carnivorous Plants (1955)

On the surface, this film may seem like an average biology film, but like most of films from the Moody Institute of Science, there is an ulterior motive. The film’s host Irwin Moon had an interest in science as a child and later incorporated that interest into his life as a pastor. He would tour the country giving his “Sermons of Science”” where the marvels of science provide the visible evidence of a Divine plan of creation. His work with GIs during World War II showed him the impact that training films had on the troops. Moon partnered with the Moody Bible Institute to form the Moody Institute of Science – a company that made basic science films with a religious hook at the end. While revealing the complexity of nature, their films would end with Moon saying that this complexity was part of God’s plan rather than evolution. Moody Institute of Science films were marketed to churches and also to public schools where today even the mention of the word “God”” sparks a conflagration of protests and court cases.

This film is available on the Educational Archives: Religion DVD

From The Archive

Those Naughty Boys

What are little boys made of? Fidgety hands, evil minds
and little legs that will run away if given the chance. Films included: Trick
or Treat, Cheating, Other People’s Property, The Bike, and The Game.

From The Archive

Atomic Beach Blast Bingo

All about THE BOMB and how to survive an attack.
Films include: Duck and Cover, For The Next 60 Seconds, Nuclear War: A Guide
To Armageddon, Radioactive Fallout And Shelter, Operation Ivy

From The Archive

AV Geeks Greatest Hits

Some films from the AV Geeks archive that have really
catchy/annoying songs. Great to singalong! Films include: Fun With Lines,
Crash Bang Boom, Malakapaladoo Skip Two, Drugs Are Like That, Shake Hands with
Danger, Telezonia and VD is for Everybody.

From The Archive

What Now, Skipper?

Continuing the constant challenge to bring you educational film entertainment in the strangest of places (which have included a moving schoolbus and a sausage factory!), AV Geeks and Alamo Drafthouse challenge you to watch boat safety films on an actual boat! This DVD is a document of the films that we showed including Water Safety – An Introduction, Suddenly Without Warning!, It’s Not Where You’re Going, It’s How You Get There and Back, Suddenly In Command, Right to Live: Who Decides? and Morality For Youth