THE INSTITUTE

Channel 6 · 200 tapes · 59 hours

Industrial and sponsored film from the Prelinger Archives. Companies explaining themselves to employees, shareholders, and an imagined future.

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What is on THE INSTITUTE

• Beef Rings the Bell (1960)
• Let Us Break Bread Together (1954)
• Brink of Disaster (1972)
• American Frontier (1953)
• Circus Day in Our Town (1949)
• Alcohol and the Human Body (1949)
• Don't Be a Sucker (1947)
• The March of Progress (1945)
• A Child Went Forth (1942)
• Gift of Green (1946)
• Japanese Relocation (1943)
• Library Organization (1951)
• Fitting Faces (1940)
• Good Sportsmanship (1950)
• The Librarian (1947)
• The Great Train Robbery (1903)
• A Lost World (1948)
• The News Magazine of the Screen (Vol. 4, Issue 3) (1953)
• Home movie: 010112 001: 1950s road trip Las Vegas and desert southwest
• To the Fair (1964)
• Our Shrinking World (1946)
• Living Stereo (1958)
• A Revolutionary New Triumph in Tape! (1958)
• Developing Responsibility (1949)
• A Case of Spring Fever (1940)
• Caught Mapping (1940)
• The Army Nurse (1945)
• A is for Atom (1953)
• The Home Economics Story (1951)
• The Passenger Train (Second Edition) (1955)
• Young Man's Fancy (1952)
• Man and His Culture (1954)
• Mainline U.S.A (1957)
• Miracles From Agriculture (1960)
• Act Your Age (1949)
• Magic in the Air (1955)
• Coffee House Rendezvous (1969)
• The Industrial Revolution (1942)
• Miracle on the Delaware (1953)
• The Big Train (1950)
• Poverty in Rural America (1965)
• Science in Action: Antibiotics (1950)
• Experiments in the Revival of Organisms (1940)
• A Look at Capitalism (1955)
• Our Enemy: The Japanese (1943)
• The All-American Soap Box Derby (1936)
• Human Growth (1947)
• When the Circuit Breaks: America's Energy Crisis (1975)
• Are You Popular? (1947)
• A Date With Your Family (1950)
• What to Do on a Date (1950)
• Behind the Cup: The Story of Hills Bros. Coffee (1930)
• Working Dollars (1957)
• Junior Rodeo Daredevils (1949)
• Chrysler's New One Hundred Million Dollar Look! (aka Chrysler 1955 New Car Movie) (1955)
• The Inside Story of Modern Gasoline (1946)
• Who Shall Reap? (1969)
• White Wonder (1958)
• Keeping Clean and Neat (1956)
• Surf Riders (1960)
• [Surfing]
• The Five Mile Dream (1958)
• The Selling Wizard (1954)
• A Family Affair (1952)
• Wheels of Tragedy (1963)
• [Untitled: Anywhere But Here] (1970)
• Tornado (1955)
• Six Murderous Beliefs (1955)
• Nightmare for the Bold (1959)
• The Child Molester (1964)
• Fashions on the Ice and Snow (1940)
• Industrial Breakthrough (1958)
• Shades of Gray (1948)
• Alice in Wonderland (1952)
• Here Comes the Circus (1942)
• The Human Brain (1955)
• Coral Wonderland
• Radar Secrets (1940)
• Carnegie Hall: New York Philharmonic Young People's Concerts
• Printed Poison
• Seabiscuit
• Astronauts Walk in Space (1965)
• Overcoming Fear (1950)
• Moon Travel
• An Answer (1962)
• That Junior Miss Spirit (1970)
• American Cowboy (1950)
• What Is Money? (1947)
• Steel: A Symphony of Industry (1936)
• Coney Island (1940)
• Hear and Now (1958)
• The Sound and the Story (1956)
• The Challenge of Ideas (1961)
• The Story of a City: New York (1947)
• Banks and Credit (1948)
• Spain in Revolt (R2) (1930)
• Behind the Lens: A Camera Goes to College (1940)
• Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer (1948)
• Cities: How They Grow (Second Edition) (1952)
• Chevrolet Leader News (Vol. 3, No. 4) (1937)
• The City (1939)
• The New Girl in the Office (1960)
• American Maker (1960)
• San Francisco World's Fair (The News Parade) (1939)
• Master Hands (1936)
• Color Harmony (1938)
• Threads of Technology (1970)
• When Work Is Done (1943)
• Vista Stock Shots: Entertainment (1962)
• RFD Greenwich Village (1969)
• The 6th Chair (1949)
• The Story of Television (1956)
• Aluminum on the March (1956)
• How the Eye Functions (1941)
• Look at Pontiac for 1954! (1953)
• Work Pays America (1937)
• The Diesel Story (1952)
• Molly Grows Up (1953)
• [Gould can 5253: Dawson Mine Disaster] (1913)
• Tomorrow Television (1945)
• Driving Tips, Part 1 (1958)
• [Early 1970s Television Commercials] (1970)
• America For Me (1950)
• Beautiful State of Mind: Massachusetts (1970)
• Opportunities Unlimited (1950)
• The Far Sound (1973)
• [Home Movies: Summers collection: New Orleans to San Francisco, ca. 1941] (1941)
• The Coveted East Indies (1938)
• The World of Tomorrow (1939)
• Highlights of the 1936 Olympics (Berlin) (1936)
• Freedom Highway (1956)
• Impact '66 (1966)
• Facts on Friction (1934)
• Perversion for Profit (1964)
• Sinclair at the World's Fair (1965)
• Natural Resources of Oregon (1970)
• Atom Bomb Effects (1959)
• [Miscellaneous Color Shots]
• Atomic Bomb Blast Effects (1959)
• Someone's In the Kitchen (1960)
• Is Your Daughter Safe? [erotica]
• An American Girl (1950)
• Gags and Gals (Musical Shorts program)
• The Great Swindle (1948)
• Summer of '63 (1963)
• Wonderful World (1959)
• [Soundies: Variety Girls (Burlesque)] (1948)
• Red Haired Riot (Burlesque, & Other Burlesque Strippers) [Program 1]
• In the Suburbs (1957)
• The Big City (1950)
• [Television commercials: Toothpaste, hair care, deodorant] (1960)
• As Boys Grow (1957)
• Garden Wise (1950)
• Dating: Do's and Don'ts (1949)
• Get Going (1936)
• Spinning Levers (1936)
• The Dropout (1962)
• You and Your Friends (1946)
• The Fourth Kingdom (1942)
• Data Processing Division (1970)
• The Incredible Machine (1968)
• Black Widow Spider: Her Life Cycle and Her Enemies (1960)
• Halloween Party (1953)
• So, You're Going to High School (1950)
• The Greater Goal: Human Dividends from American Industry (1953)
• New Hampshire Sketches
• Communism (1966)
• Duck and Cover (1951)
• On Guard! The Story of SAGE (1956)
• New Stars in Stereo: Newsmakers in Sound for (1959)
• Refreshment on the Job (1951)
• What a Wonderful World It Would Be (1965)
• Fruits and Flowers (1920)
• Distant Drummer: A Movable Scene
• Narcotics: Pit of Despair (1967)
• Fashion Horizons (1940)
• Little Smokey: The True Story of America's Forest Fire Preventin' Bear (1953)
• Skyline New York (1956)
• Flying "A" Free Trips to Paris (aka Paris Sweepstakes) (1962)
• Free and Easy (1940)
• Taking the Air (1941)
• Coffee (1923)
• Hydraulics (1936)
• No Ghosts (1935)
• Beware of Mental-itis! (1937)
• The Damaging Effects of the Atomic Bomb Compared to Conventional Bombs (1954)
• Camera Thrills of the War (1940)
• Good Health Practices (Part 1) (1953)
• Bird Circus (1951)
• Building the Golden Gate Bridge
• Computer Calculator for Math and Science (1970)
• Network Broadcasting (1934)
• Original Films of Frank B. Gilbreth (1945)
• Seduction of the Innocent (1966)
• The "Your Name Here" Story (Outtakes) (1964)
• Oklahoma: Heartland USA (1953)
• It's All in Knowing How (1954)
• Shotgun (1970)
• Roscoe's Rules (1960)
• Wild at the Wheel (1970)

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