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Films Used (Your Source Material)We have selected various scenes from the following public domain movies to provide source material for this contest. These are links to the entire films. For this contest you can only use the footage that we provide you on the miniDV tape.
Shows the work of different library personnel.
Thoughtfully made advertising sales promo film extolling 1950s
suburbanites as citizens and consumers.
Distinctive sales training film on the hierarchy of human needs,
starring a young John Forsythe.
Frightening civil defense procedure film aimed at Cold War-era
elementary school students.
Astonishing sitcom-style sponsored film encouraging increased consumption
of electricity by an ever-increasing number of appliances. The plot
pits a starry-eyed teenage girl against a geek whose main interests
happen to be engineering and time study.
This Cold War-era cartoon uses humor to tout the dangers of Communism
and the benefits of capitalism.
Sings the praises of the American profit system, arguing that profits,
although much smaller than generally believed, make possible a continuing
stream of technological advances and new and better products which
contribute to the rising living standards. With Prof. Clifton L.
Ganus of Harding College, Searcy, Ark.
A young boy in red shirt and blue jeans wanders through the countryside
and catches a fish. Poetic documentary-style evocation of a child's
awareness of his environment. Producer: Dale Johnson. With: "Ralph"
(Boy). In Ektachrome.
Delinquent raindrop explains the need for good watershed management.
Why we must preserve
Simultaneously promotes conservation, the fur industry, hunting
and fishing.
Plea for sustainable land and resource use.
News release reflecting innovations and happenings from the petroleum
industry. Includes a sequence on "fishing" for a lost
drill bit, soothing an infant with baby oil, how LP gas serves us
in the home and on the job, how a "Citadel" service station
operator serves his community, and a research program at Louisiana
State University that investigates (and finds no) effects on oysters
from nearby oil drilling.
The magic of industrial chemistry and its effects on our immediate
environment. Shows new products such as nylon stockings and transparent
raincoats, and also how chemists are finding ways of controlling
pollution from factory chimneys and vehicle exhausts. Ends with
a call to young men to join this dynamic profession. Though World
War II is not explicitly mentioned, the strategic importance of
chemistry weaves a covert thread through this short film.
Auto manufacturing as an expression (and motivator) of
Docudrama, shot Cinema-Verite style, which follows a junkie on
his never-ending quest for money, and ultimately, his fix.
Essentially a summary of work analysis films which were taken by
Frank B. Gilbreth between 1910 and 1924 showing a number of industrial
operations from which the motion study technique was developed.
Essentially a summary of work analysis films which were taken by
Frank B. Gilbreth between 1910 and 1924 showing a number of industrial
operations from which the motion study technique was developed.
The Regional Planning Association of America's plea for community
chaotic cities and urban sprawl. Directors: Ralph Steiner and Willard
Van Dyke. Script: Henwar Rodakiewicz, from an outline by Pare Lorentz.
Commentary written by Lewis Mumford. Narrator: Morris Carnovsky.
Photography: Ralph Steiner, Willard Van Dyke, Jules V.D. Bucher,
Edward Anhalt, Roger Barlow and Rudolph Bretz. Editor: Theodore
Lawrence. Music: Aaron Copland.
Remarkable, surreal industrial film promoting "Atarax,"
a tranquilizer, and asserting how "ataraxic medicines"
can help us all to achieve the relaxed state we long for. Created
by Coni Johnston, Mel London, Joseph Cole, Bert Spielvogel, Tracy
Ward (a pseudonym for Virginia Bell) and by Rune Hagman, Delores
Phox, Jeanne Sharp, Dick Brophy, M. Opelle, Herb Hagens.
This disturbing film records the successful experiments in the
resuscitation of life to dead animals (dogs), as conducted by Dr.
S.S. Bryukhonenko at the Institute of Experimental Physiology and
Therapy, Voronezh, U.S.S.R. Director: D.I. Yashin. Camera: E.V.
Kashina. Narrator: Professor Walter B. Cannon. Introduced by Professor
J.B.S. Haldane.
The definitive Populuxe film on 1950s automotive, industrial, interior
and architectural design.
The definitive Populuxe film on 1950s automotive, industrial, interior
and architectural design.
The definitive Populuxe film on 1950s automotive, industrial, interior
and architectural design.
Marriage training film dramatizing a partnership too fraught with
conflicts to survive. Produced as part of a post-World War II initiative
to make marriages more sustainable in the face of postwar dislocation.
An unusually literate, neo-realist film produced by a talented group
of documentarians. A series of films based on the textbook "Marriage
for Moderns," by Henry A. Bowman. Director: Willard Van Dyke.
Writer: H. Partnow (pseudonym for blacklisted screenwriter Millard
Lampell). Cameraman: Peter Glushanok. Editor:
Romp through the futuristic landscape of the Seattle World's Fair,
centered in the Bell System pavilion.
Set at the 1956 General Motors Motorama, this is one of the key
Populuxe films of the 1950s, showing futuristic dream cars and Frigidaire's
"Kitchen of the Future."
How architecture, furniture and transportation have been designed
to help Americans relax.
Our Shrinking World (1946)
Desert Venture (Part I) ca. 1958
American Frontier (Part I) 1953
Destination Earth 1956
Down the Gasoline Trail 1935
Inside Story of Modern Gasoline, The ca 1946
Mighty Columbia River, The 1947
No Time for Ugliness (Part I) 1965
American Thrift (Part I) 1962
American Thrift (Part II) 1962
Consuming Women (Women as Consumers) Ca. 1967
From Dawn to Sunset (Part I) 1937
Front Line, The 1965
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Librarian,
The (1947)
In
the Suburbs (1957)
Things
People Want, The (1948)
Atomic
Alert (Elementary version) (1951)
Young
Man's Fancy (Part I) (1952)
Make
Mine Freedom (1948)
Why
Kill the Goose: The Profit System (1955)
Journey
through a Day ( ca. 1967)
Adventures
of Junior Raindrop, The (1948)
Heritage
of Splendor (1963)
To
Conserve Our Heritage (Part I) (1940)
Look
to the Land (1953)
Progress
Parade (ca. 1960)
Test
Tube Tale (1941)
Triumph
of 
Day
In The Death Of Donny B. (ca. 1969)
Original
Films Of Frank B Gilbreth (Part I 1910-1924)
Stay
Safe, Stay Strong: The Facts About Nuclear Weapons( 1960)
City,
The (Part I)(1939)
Relaxed
Wife, The (1957)
Experiments
in the Revival of Organisms (1940)
American
Look (Part I)(1958)
American
Look (Part II)(1958)
American
Look (Part III)(1958)
This
Charming Couple (1950)
Century
21 Calling (1964)
Design
for Dreaming (1956)
Let
Yourself Go (1940)
How
developments in transportation and communication are hastening globalization.
"This
is a story of a venture by American capital in a strange and ancient
land," says the narrator. Shows the search and extraction of
oil in 
Humanistic
film showing the effects of an oil discovery on Williston, North
Dakota and the surrounding region.
In
this corporate-sponsored cartoon, Martian dissidents learn that
oil and competition are the two things that make 
Cartoon
showing what happens to a drop of gasoline from the time it flows
into the gas tank to when it is exploded in the engine cylinder.
This "fantastic voyage" through a glisteningly clean Chevrolet
engine is an excellent example of the soft-sell industrial, where
the product that's promoted is hardly ever mentioned by name.
Combination
animation/live-action film showing how gasoline is refined and used.
With striking images of gas stations, auto travel, and automobiles.
Hydroelectric
power, shipping, irrigation and salmon fishing.
Shows
that cities' approaches are marred by billboards and neon signs.
Intimates that a demanding citizenry can have these unsightly signs
removed.
Expansive
tribute to the "Woman American," her thrifty purchasing
habits, and the American system of mass production.
Expansive
tribute to the "Woman American," her thrifty purchasing
habits, and the American system of mass production.
Strange,
highly generalized portrait of the American woman consumer.
This
classic example of "capitalist realism" depicts a day
in the life of Chevrolet workers in the 
How
to be an effective supermarket checker.