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Chinese Orchid Tree ***Blossoms only in Hollywood
Get The Big Picture
(Film is Warped) DO NOT USE -- This film is based on the second principle of the Smith System of No-Accident Driving. The film discusses the dual nature of vision or seeing: clear central eyesight and peripheral or fringe vision and points out the need to develop the Big Picture by continually moving the eyes so that the central vision roves into the fringe areas. This is essential in driving to allow space to maneuver defensively. Very similar (and alludes to) "Keep Your Eyes Moving" which follows it in the Expert Driving series. Very good film footage of mid-1960s traffic (Chicago skyline and neighborhoods/suburbs, including Evanston) and highway traffic. Alludes to the outdated safe-distance formula: one car length for every ten miles per hour of speed. Originally ON PREVIEW CASSETTE #210812
Sense Into Dollars
Careers in retail selling. Wesley Greer Presents "Sense into Dollars", a business film about sales. (TRANSFERRED TO PREVIEW CASSETTE #97859)
Local TV News Segments
PREVIEW CASSETTE # 201871 Short segments from local news broadcasts, probably shot in the late 1960s/early 1970s. After-the-scene at car accidents, fires, questions about marijuana use, etc.
Mr. And Mrs. America
A WWII War Bonds propaganda film addressed to "Mr. and Mrs. America", with love from the United States Treasury Department. Buy bonds to support our troops and to secure our freedoms.
Decorating Easter Eggs
How-to demonstration with new product. Easter Eggs, holidays.
Behind the Scenes of "The Reivers"
Behind the scenes of the making of the movie "The Reivers", with Steve McQueen, Mitch Vogel. Some footage from Oxford, Mississippi.
The Smoker
Old black-and-white comedy about a smoker (smoking).
1970s - PSA - Peace Corps
Various shots of Dr. Gail Egan (young Caucasian American woman) of the Peace Corps inoculating (vaccinating) cattle in Kenya, Africa. Title card reading "The Peace Corps: You can be proud of it. You can be part of it."
Our Children
ON PREVIEW CASSETTE #98464 President Harry S. Truman introduces this film about the effects of war on European children. This is a film to make Americans sympathetic to the plight of the children of our former enemies, at a time when food shortages produced crisis of famine the world over. Gruesome war and battle footage. This truly is a remarkable film, almost pacifist in tone. Starvation, refugees.
Down And Out
Film uses fast-moving sequence of falls, trips, and slips to emphasize importance of avoiding falls which rank second only to vehicle accidents as source of fatalities and disabling injuries. Includes enactments of variety of factors involved in falls: objects on floors and stairs, slippery and irregular surfaces, caryring objects, running, over-reaching, improvisations, platforms, ladders, etc. This 1960s film remains topical because of its utilization of a single actor who simulates a wide range of trips, slips, and falls indoors, and who is dressed in jumpsuit-type work clothes which do not date the film.
Danger Is Your Companion
This post-war film encourages participation in first aid classes as a primary means of instilling safety consciouness relative to the "10,000,000 accidents/100,000 fatalities" occuring annually in industrial farm, home, & traffic settings. Very good "period" footage of vehicles and clothing of the postwar period. Very typical of the "frantic appeal" appproach to safety of that era, with bold titles/contrived graphics. The birth of the culture of fear. Narrated by Dwight Weist, directed by Joe Weil.
Safety Attitudes
DO NOT RUN THROUGH ELMO. HAS TORN PERFS. This animated NSC film, wholly charicature, examines attitudes and their direct bearing on accidents. Reviews several unsafe attitudes which are typified by statements such as "It can't happen to me..."; "When your number's up, your number's up...". While these unsafe attitudes can lead to accidents, they can be changed to safe attitudes if we take the trouble to examine the hows and whys. This film is wholly animated and as a result is not apt to change over the years and does not lend itself to any historical content. The artists is the same who illustrates the NSC publication "Safe Driver and Safe Worker."
Rescue Breathing
ON PREVIEW CASSETTE 97559 I, 00:00:00 Film was produced under the monitoring of several medical groups in the Buffalo, NY area and is perhaps the first (certainly one of the first) films demonstrating mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. Much footage is devoted to Oximeter demonstration of effectiveness of mouth-to-mouth technique vs. manual method. Film also depics common accidents resulting in respiratory arrest. Essentials which are depicted remain essentially unchanged to date with the notable exception of using thumb and fingers to keep victim's jaw in upward thrust position. The dress and grooming is typical of the 1950s. The completely noncommittal poses of two children who are witness to the resuscitory efforts of parents and physicians are noteworthy--must have been members of the producer's family...
Day & Night Blooming
Night Cereus
Day Night Blooming
Close-up Cereus
Day Night Blooming
Night Cereus with moon
Day Night Blooming
Night Cereus
Day Night Blooming
Blue Sky Cereus ***
Day Night Blooming
Single blossomed Cereus
Day Night Blossoms
Cereus in tree ***blue sky