PUBLIC DOMAIN MOVIE FROM 1951 TO 1955

Big Delivery Wagon, The - 1951 Shows transportation system necessary to move agricultural crops from farm to factory, where they are made into Heinz food products, especially ketchup. Sponsor: H.J. Heinz & Company Producer: Fairbanks (Jerry) Productions Audio/Visual: Sd, C Run Time: 11:45 File Size: 36.722     Independent Radio Station - 1951 Military training film on a New York radio station, WMCA, owned by the Nathan Straus family, showing its ownership, management and activities. Good view of radio in the era when most stations were locally owned and operated. Sponsor: U.S. Army Producer: Mitchell Film Associates Audio/Visual: Sd, B&W Run Time: 18:02 File Size: 58.331     Subject: Narcotics - 1951 Produced for police orientation and training, this film presents drug addiction not simply as a crime but as a deepseated social problem. With dramatized sequences of addicts in shooting galleries and excellent footage of pre-renewal downtown Los Angeles, a neighborhood now lost. Produced and directed by renowned filmmakers Denis and Terry Sanders, who wrote this film with Jay Sandrich. Sponsor: Anti-Narcotic League of America Producer: Sanders (Dennis and Terry) Audio/Visual: Sd, C Run Time: 21:01 File Size: 66.477     Terrible Truth, The - 1951 Early (and sensational) film on marijuana use as a route to heroin addiction. Sponsor: N/A Producer: Davis (Sid) Productions Audio/Visual: Sd, C Run Time: 10:03 File Size: 30.929     Amateur film: Texas Farm Family - 1952 Scenes from the daily life of a Texas farm family. Sponsor: N/A Producer: Unknown Audio/Visual: Si, C Run Time: 10:55 File Size: 35.349     Bully, The - 1952 Chick, a young teenage boy, is large for his age and aggressive with others. Sponsor: N/A Producer: Centron Productions Audio/Visual: Sd, B&W Run Time: 10:22 File Size: 32.778     Mental Health: Keeping Mentally Fit - 1952 The four steps in acquiring, maintaining and improving mental health: express emotions naturally, respect yourself, respect others, and solve problems as they arise. Sponsor: N/A Producer: Encyclopaedia Britannica Films Audio/Visual: Sd, C Run Time: 12:04 File Size: 39.946     Our Community - 1952 Illustrates the interdependence of people in a community by showing shared community functions and services. Sponsor: N/A Producer: Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Inc. Audio/Visual: Sd, B&W Run Time: 10:55 File Size: 35.960     Spring Comes to a Pond - 1952 Uses indigenous sounds as a background for closeups of life around a New England pond during the spring. Sponsor: N/A Producer: D.P.M. Productions, Inc. Audio/Visual: Sd, C Run Time: 11:47 File Size: 39.433     Physical Aspects of Puberty - 1953 Animated explanation of primary and secondary sex characteristics in adolescent boys and girls. Sponsor: N/A Producer: Crawley Films Audio/Visual: Sd, B&W Run Time: 16:48 File Size: 56.695     Who Are the People of America? - 1953 Explains how the United States came to be a diversely populated nation. Sponsor: N/A Producer: Coronet Instructional Films Audio/Visual: Sd, B&W Run Time: 10:06 File Size: 32.208     At This Moment (Part I) - 1954 Importance of railroads to 1950s America. Directed by Haford Kerbawy. Sponsor: Westinghouse Air Brake Company Producer: Handy (Jam) Organization Audio/Visual: Sd, C Run Time: 13:16 File Size: 48.715     Eat for Health - 1954 Ralph learns the five food groups, helping him to eat a balanced diet, and has more fun because of his better health. Sponsor: N/A Producer: Encyclopaedia Britannica Films Audio/Visual: Sd, B&W Run Time: 10:23 File Size: 32.379     Making Films That Teach - 1954 Made to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, this film shows the steps in the process of producing educational films, including scripting, shooting, editing and capturing of sound. Sponsor: Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Inc. Producer: Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Inc Audio/Visual: Sd, B&W/C Run Time: 18:01 File Size: 56.175     Show 'Em the Road (Part I) - 1954 Southern California teenagers join the Mobilgas "Safety and Economy" competition, driving from the Los Angeles area to the Inland Empire, the desert, to Las Vegas, Nevada and Hoover Dam, then back home again. Producers and Directors: Sid Davis and Arthur L. Swerdloff. Sponsor: General Petroleum Corporation Producer: Davis (Sid) Productions Audio/Visual: Sd, C Run Time: 13:13 File Size: 43.445     Show 'Em the Road (Part II) - 1954 Southern California teenagers join the Mobilgas "Safety and Economy" competition, driving from the Los Angeles area to the Inland Empire, the desert, to Las Vegas, Nevada and Hoover Dam, then back home again. Producers and Directors: Sid Davis and Arthur L. Swerdloff. Sponsor: General Petroleum Corporation Producer: Davis (Sid) Productions Audio/Visual: Sd, C Run Time: 12:52 File Size: 41.757     Darkness Before the Dawn: The "Pride of Judea" Story - 1955 How the "Pride of Judea" organization, located in New York City, assists "at-risk" Jewish teenage boys. Producer: Arnold Panken. Associate Producer: Walter Stuart. Writer: Harold Lea. Director: Herbert Shoble. Director of Photography: Richard Shore. Narrator: Wally Duguet. Sponsor: Schermer (P.S.) & Co., Inc. Producer: Pankan (Arnold) Audio/Visual: Sd, C Run Time: 21:14 File Size: 69.566     Days of Our Years - 1955 Disturbing and sometimes maudlin trilogy of accidents and their effects on railroad workers and their families, shot with virtuosity in working-class Los Angeles. Sponsor: Union Pacific Railroad Producer: Dudley Pictures Corporation Audio/Visual: Sd, C Run Time: 19:33 File Size: 63.134     Magic Bond, The (Part I) - 1955 The Veterans of Foreign Wars as a fraternal and social organization, with emphasis on their projects that benefit community life and cohesion. Directed by Robert Altman before he ceased making industrial films in Kansas City. Sponsor: Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Producer: Calvin Company Audio/Visual: Sd, B&W Run Time: 14:13 File Size: 44.786     Magic Bond, The (Part II) - 1955 The Veterans of Foreign Wars as a fraternal and social organization, with emphasis on their projects that benefit community life and cohesion. Directed by Robert Altman before he ceased making industrial films in Kansas City. Sponsor: Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Producer: Calvin Company Audio/Visual: Sd, B&W Run Time: 12:48 File Size: 41.443     Miracle on the Delaware - 1955 Mid-Fifties slices of life and landscape in Philadelphia and surrounding towns. With excellent color footage of downtown scenes, neighborhoods, the Mummers Parade, Levittown, factories in Camden, New Jersey, and many other subjects that can no longer be seen. Producer and Director: Cal Jones. Cinematographer: Ralph Lopatin. Writer and Narrator: Dick McCutchen. Sponsor: N/A Producer: WPTZ Motion Picture Unit Audio/Visual: Sd, C Run Time: 09:31 File Size: 31.208     Pathe News: Goodman Lumber Fire - 1955 Newsreel featuring a conflagration at the famous San Francisco lumberyard. Sponsor: N/A Producer: Warner Pathé News Audio/Visual: Sd, B&W Run Time: 05:43 File Size: 18.740