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- A malfunctioning time machine at a ski resort takes a man back to 1986 with his two friends and nephew, where they must relive a fateful night and not change anything to make sure the nephew is born.
- Dramatization of the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens. The movie begins with the volcano's awakening on March 20, 1980 and ends with its eruption on May 18.
- Johnny Lingo, one of the sharpest traders in the south pacific islands decides to bargain for a wife, and offers a record price of eight cows for Mahana, a plain girl who shuns contact. This causes quite a sensation on the island. A year later Johnny and his wife return for the first time since the marriage, and all find that something miraculous has occurred to Mahana. Johnny explains that by paying eight cows he proved that she was worth more to him than any other woman on the island. He gave her a great gift, that of self-worth.
- Asking to leave a school bus, Cliff, a young teenager, collapses and dies in the snow near the roadside. His math teacher is asked to notify the parents and then write a short obituary. This task is difficult, for although he was Cliff's favorite teacher and had the most interaction of any at the school, he barely knew him. In unraveling the mystery of the untimely death, he finds that Cliff was shy, lonely, and ostracized, being slowly reduced to nothing, a zero (cipher). He vows to not let this happen to others.
- This educational cartoon series tells a classic, well known fairy tale and then compares it to two similar lesser known fairy tales from different parts of the world.
- Educational short showing how you should never show any emotions at the dinner table.
- An introduction to Walt Whitman, American poet, essayist, and journalist. A world poet-a latter-day successor to Homer, Virgil, Dante, and Shakespeare.
- This short explores the early planning innovations and the subsequent mistakes that resulted in developing urban sprawl, suburbia, and gentrification in modern day US cities as well as the effects it had on its populace and industry.
- Educational film that shows, in the form of a "report from outer space," how the ways of mankind, and specially the contrast between the USA and more "primitive" cultures, might appear to visitors from another planet.
- Susan needs glasses. We don't mean like, "Oh, it's hard for her to read a small font in a dark room." No, Susan appears to be legally blind. Somehow she has made it to eight years old without walking in front of a cement truck or mistaking a wolverine for her teddy bear. There's a decent chance Susan is actually a large naked mole rat. But fortunately she realizes she needs glasses, not when a concerned adult intervenes, but when she reads (somehow) a children's book about magical glasses. Thrill as Susan tries to mend all the social bridges she burned by finding a pair of glasses that don't make her look like naked mole rat Elton John.
- Marty Malone smokes pot and cuts his mouth on a Pepsi bottle. Then he starts on heroin and ends up in rehab.
- Filmed on the farm of Gerald "Red" Markham, near Whitewater, Wisconsin, and narrated by Red's son Dale. He notes that Spring is a busy time of the year on a farm, but especially on a dairy farm that has many acres to be cultivated, fertilized, and planted in field corn as well as sweet corn. There are also trips to town, meetings of the LaGrange Four-H club, and a birthday party.
- film attempts to analyze the Anti-Western sentiment in China from the American perspective during the Cold War.
- A pine tree longs to be used for something.
- A family goes to the local fair to compete with their livestock & produce.
- Children hold hands and sing through several sketches.
- A look into the lives of a seventh-grade boy and girl as they go through their morning and evening routines...and why not keeping clean and neat brands them as losers!
- Shows family life on a modern farm in winter. Describes the care and feeding of livestock kept on a farm in winter. Here, farm life continues at a vigorous pace, in spite of restrictions of inclement weather, as a farm family complete the work of harvest and prepare for the renewal of the growing cycle in spring. The story is told in first person by the grandfather, at Gerald "Red" Markham's farm near the town of Whitewater, Walworth County, Wisconsin. He tries to get the "snow buggy" working, brings in a veterinarian to treat a sick calf, etc. Tom Smith made four films in this series. Farm Family in Autumn, Farm Family in Spring, Farm Family in Summer, and Farm Family in Winter, all available to see in the Academic Film Archive of North America collection on the Internet Archive.
- "The House Fly" is a 1958 educational short film documenting the house fly.
- Short social guidance film teaches children that anger is a natural emotion and shows some of the negative reactions to it. It then teaches how to work out anger in positive, active ways without hurting others or making them angry.
- Film shows the proper conduct and behavior that is expected in a modern office setting, and also gives examples of behavior that is not acceptable.
- The Pickle Family Jugglers share the essentials of juggling, including: Three Elements That Separate Juggling From Playing Catch, Throwing To The Imaginary Spot, and Keeping It Away From The Monkey In The Middle. An old-school optical printer (no digital effects!) reveals the mystery and danger of the Back-To-Back Triangle performed at the Pickle Family Circus.
- Contrary to most of the uninformed and silly reviews on this documentary, this movie "The Truck Farmer" is a serious educational piece intended to inform audiences of the 1950's where their food came from, how it's grown, by whom, and how it gets to their supermarkets and tables on the cold months when growing is impossible in Northern areas of the country. Yes, the film is stiff and dated by "modern" standards - kind of like how an episode of "Dragnet" might look to today's audience. This is quite typical of such documentaries. No, there's not a lot of clever dialog, stunts, special effects, or a laugh track, but this was intended as education designed to reach people where there were and to clue them on to things they likely never troubled themselves to think of. Unfortunately, consumers of today are likely even less informed on where their daily food comes from than audiences of the '50's were. The folks making the jokes about this documentary have missed the point. Categorize this one with "Hemp for Victory" and other informative shorts in the style of 60 years ago.
- Old-timer Billy Slater organizes a rodeo for kids.
- Classroom training film that promotes the benefits of "healthy" eating for children.
- This vintage short (produced by Encyclopedia Britannica Films) follows a seemingly typical American family and their German Sheppard as they prepare for Halloween activities.
- Film version of one of Cervantes' one-act stage "interludes" (short, comic plays performed between the acts of a full-length drama).
- A boy in Minnesota builds a toy boat and, after writing his name and address on the craft, sends the small vessel on its journey to the Gulf of Mexico. Along the way, the boat's travels are aided by a Chippewa youth who rescues it from a tangle of reeds, through farmland tended by the descendants of Scandinavians and into the Deep South where a young African-American shows it to a white boy, a former playmate, rekindling their old friendship through a common interest.
- George, a teenaged boy who has never been on a date before, wants to ask out Mildred, who is also much taller than he is. Not sure of how to proceed, he asks his swimming coach for advice.
- Documentary concerning Baltimore's efforts at urban renewal with an emphasis on improving housing in the city's slums.
- This 1969 film tells the tale of a young boy who discovers a pair of magic sneakers that allows him to create thunder and kick a ball really far.
- A Cold War-era propaganda film aimed at elementary school students that gives examples of what steps to take in the case of atomic attack.
- This film examines the process of holography, types of holograms, and the uses of the hologram for artistic and scientific purposes, as demonstrated by Tung H. Jeong, PhD (Lake Forest College).
- As part of Encyclopedia Britannica Films' Social Studies offering they produced a collection of regional films. This 25-minute film is the examination of the factors that are responsible for the Midwest's success as America's breadbasket and manufacturing center. The film was shot in 1968, a time when most automobiles manufactured for domestic use were made in the Midwest with Midwestern parts. Iron ore was mined in Minnesota's Mesabi Range and shipped across the Great Lakes to steel mills in Michigan. The car's speedometer was put together in Wisconsin, a plant in Ohio made the tires. All was shipped to the final assembly lines in Michigan. Along with this the film follows an Illinois farmer who grows the corn to fatten beef for market. At the same time with all this prosperity, we see overcrowded cities, poverty and the rising cost of farming.
- A young family goes to a nearby duck pond to use their toy sail boat.
- A young mountain girl becomes tired of her chores and goes in search of 'The valley of happiness', a wondrous place spoken of many times by her grandfather.
- First part of a three-part documentary in which George Bernard Shaw compares his characterization of Julius Caesar, and his treatment of the Caesar and Cleopatra story, with Shakespeare's.
- This film shows experiments which illustrate the way in which light normally moves, how it bends and is refracted, how a prism separates white light into its component colors, and various applications of lasers.
- This educational short shows how alcohol is produced and its effect on the human body.
- Illustrates techniques for emergency treatment of choking victims. Techniques are shown for adults, children, infants, self, and unconscious victims.