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Life In Hot, Wet Lands – The Congo Basin (1949)

admin — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 15:10:37 +0000

Shows how life is influenced by climate. Attention is focused on a village in the Congo Basin on the shores of the Ubangi River.

Circus Animals (1947)

admin — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 14:19:53 +0000

COLE BROS. CIRCUS scenes. Shows the life of circus elephants,
camels, ponies, horses & several other animals behind the scenes.
Includes how they travel, their training, their general
characteristics, &, as in the case of the elephants, how they help
w/ the work.

00:26:19:00 B/W 1947
MS Elephants getting off train.

00:27:07:00 B/W 1947
MS Pony getting off train.

00:27:22:00 B/W 1947
MS Show horses getting off train.

00:27:29:00 B/W 1947
MS 13 elephants walking down suburban street.

00:26:56:00 B/W 1947
MS Procession down street includes oxen, camels, llamas, zebra

00:27:58:00 B/W 1947
MS Jumbo the Elephant unloading tents from wagon, unrolling tent.

00:28:45:00 B/W 1947
MS 2 elephants pulling wagon.

00:29:06:00 B/W 1947
MS Elephant eating hay.

00:29:33:00 B/W 1947
CU Elephants drinking water.

00:30:07:00 B/W 1947
MS Trainer putting show blanket on elephant.

00:30:55:00 B/W 1947
MS Trainer putting show blankets on camels.

00:31:42:00 B/W 1947
CU Camels drinking, eating hay.

00:32:06:00 B/W 1947
MS Ponies eating hay.

00:32:22:00 B/W 1947
MS Children watching horses eat.

00:32:26:00 B/W 1947
MS Trainers teaching horses to dance & rear.

00:32:45:00 B/W 1947
CU Palomino being washed by trainer.

00:33:08:00 B/W 1947
MS Horse being brushed & dressed for show.

00:33:37:00 B/W 1947
MS Man brushing dog.

00:34:02:00 B/W 1947
MS Policeman clown walking dog.

00:34:12:00 B/W 1947
MS Seal gets on horse.

00:34:31:00 B/W 1947
AV Elephants filing into big top followed by other animals.

00:34:40:00 B/W 1947
MS Elephant lifts girl onto its back w/ its trunk.

Growing Girls (1949)

admin — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 14:13:41 +0000

British puberty film for girls.
A charmingly straightforward discussion, primarily for a young female audience. Occasionally dated discussion of activities and management of menses. Approved activities include washing hair, bathing, bicycling. Narration includes numerous warnings to “avoid chill, “ suggests avoiding swimming and getting wet feet.

Live action scenes of young girl just beginning her menstrual cycle: choosing correct size and purchasing pads in plain brown wrappers and sanitary belt at chemist’s shop (or drugstore.) Scene of good nutrition uses basic in camera special effects: foods “appear” and girl is surprised.
Several scenes of swimming at a lake, with a concrete embankment. Mostly juveniles, one early scene with adult and young adult woman, to show body differences. Scenes of large groups of adolescent children, mostly female. Some scenes of school, “tea” shows girls in uniform standing around doorway, all with large white mugs, and playing field hockey.

Animation of menstrual cycle and gestation is about half the film.

keywords
adolescent, menses, menstruation, puberty, school, athletics, swimming, hygiene, eating, girls, 1940 1950s, b&w, girls,

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Your Family Budget (1949)

admin — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 13:49:46 +0000

Explains the purpose, importance and operation of the family budget, and outlines a planned budget and methods of preparation.

Battle Of Yorktown, The (1958)

admin — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 06:00:00 +0000

Describes events leading up to this battle of the American revolution and shows the battle itself. Stresses Washington’s leadership and France’s contribution to victory.

Watch Mr Wizard

admin — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 18:33:12 +0000

A promotional film for the TV show Watch Mr Wizard (starring Don Herbert as Mr Wizard) sponsored by the Cereal Institute.

Information Machine, The (1958)

admin — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 05:31:04 +0000

Applies graphic sensitivity to medium in cartoon form, and traces the history of storing and analyzing information from the days of the cavemen to today’s age of electronic brains.

In Our Hands, Part 2: What We Have (1950)

admin — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 05:27:43 +0000

Strengths of the American free enterprise system and how it meets the needs of its citizens.

It Takes All Kinds (1950)

admin — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 03:13:31 +0000

Analysis of personality cited as an important step in choosing the right partner for marriage. Emphasis is placed on choosing marriage partners with care and on accepting the other for what he or she is. Correlated with the textbook ‘MARRIAGE FOR MODERNS’ by Bowman.

As Boys Grow (1957)

admin — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 16:21:11 +0000

Sex education film aimed at teenage boys, with the coach as authority figure and teacher.

Sex education film geared for teenage boys. Deals with sexual organs, masturbation, wet dreams, and other male issues. The coach is the authority figure and teacher.

Prior to the period of frankness that began in the mid-1960s, relatively few sex education films were actually produced in the United States. Most of these films concentrated on the physiology of sex and reproduction and were replete with animated “plumbing” diagrams. It was unusual to show children speaking relatively freely about sexuality, and because of the necessity of educating girls about menstruation, more addressed girls than boys. As Boys Grow, produced in the relatively liberal San Francisco Bay Area, presents regular boys asking regular questions and contains frank discussion of such topics as nocturnal emissions.
Unlike Molly Grows Up, staged in the midst of the nuclear family, As Boys Grow shows sex education for boys as a team effort supervised by a fatherly coach figure. Although it might not seem unusual today, the achievement of this film seems to me to be the way that it naturalizes sexuality and creates an open atmosphere where all questions, no matter how misguided, draw serious adult attention. The gym was safe territory for sexual discussions and the coach a noncontroversial facilitator. And the boys seem to speak very openly:
“Say, you know something?”
“No, what?”
“I had a wet dream last night.”
“Wet dream? What’s that?”
“Oh, you know, when sperm comes out of your penis.”
“Sperm?”
“Yeah. Sort of a sticky stuff….”
Apparently the gym is a safer place for sexual discussion than within the family, and we get a strong sense that Fifties men were supposed to learn about sex in and around the gym while Fifties women worked it out with their mothers. One boy, in fact, says his father “never says much about anything” relating to sex. One might read this film as a tacit admission that the family can’t take care of all its members’ needs Ñ that children sometimes need to go beyond their parents for grounding in certain complex areas. This admission would make the film a radical statement for the Fifties.
As Boys Grow also differs from other sex ed films (and most strongly from those directed at girls) by admitting specifically that sex is linked with pleasure. It speaks explicitly of sexual excitement, of erections and the “hard penis”; and addresses male masturbation without mystery. While girls’ films (like Molly Grows Up) focus on menstruation to the exclusion of sexual pleasure and speak of coping with the physical preconditions of gender rather than coming to terms with desire, As Boys Grow admits the existence of pleasure and its gratification. Following the liberal line that was emerging at the time, Coach states “Sometimes you hear that masturbation affects your mind or your manhood. It isn’t true. For kids your age, it’s just…something normal.”
If you believe in symbolism, the girls get to act out a little at the end of he movie. Two of the boys ask two girls out on a swimming date. Standing on the dock, one boy pushes a girl into the water. The second girl pushes the boy in after the first girl, stands triumphantly on the dock for just a moment, and then jumps in herself

Private Snafu: The Home Front

admin — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 18:51:55 +0000

Private Snafu imagines the good times his family is having back home while he’s stationed in the Arctic. Technical Fairy First Class shows that even his family is helping with the war effort – his dad building tanks, his mom planting a Victory Garden, Grandpa riveting battleships, and his girl joining the WAC’s and even the family’s horse is pitching in.

[Swimming Sperm]

admin — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 16:54:05 +0000

Microscopic footage of mammalian swimming sperm.