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Reports on Washington D.C. in wartime as the "center of the battle for liberty." Shows President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Cordell Hull receiving visiting heads of state, including Winston Churchill. Reports on the sudden increase in the…

A recuitment film for the British Air Training Corps, which trained teenage boys for a career in the U.K. air force. The short starts with a group of boys fighting about the model of airplane they see landing on an airstrip, and then moves to an…

This film explains what war gas is, how it is used by the enemy, and how simple household items, such as bicarbonate of soda and bleaching solution, may be used to prevent casualties. It is explained that gas may not destroy cities the same way bombs…

A Columbia short subject presentation, distributed for classroom exhibition by Teaching Film Custodians. Presents Stanley Brown, Donald Grayson, and others in a program of Stephen Foster songs: Oh Susanna, Beautiful Dreamer, Jeanie with the Light…

The correlation of cleanliness and popularity to good citizenship appears in a multitude of social guidance films. This example taken at 3 minutes and 3 seconds into More Dates for Kay would not be out of place in other mental hygiene films.

The background characters in More Dates for Kay, exemplified by this still at 4 minutes and 38 seconds, reflected the segregated life in the United States at the time.

Portrays the story of a little girl's letter from the time she writes her grandmother until its final delivery on a rural route, and the return journey of a parcel post package. Includes the work of clerks in the post office, the sorting of mail in a…

Coach Branch McCracken and the Indiana University basketball team demonstrate in regular and slow-motion photography the fundamental skills involved in shooting, passing, dribbling, and defensive and offensive footwork. Coach McCracken appears…

Depicts both the prosperity and problems of an American town in wartime. Emphasizes the need to plan for the post-war future to assure continued health and improvements to assure a good life for returning veterans. "Life in an American town of…

A review of the history of jazz in Indiana from the beginnings of ragtime at the turn of the century, through the big-band era of the thirties, to the flourishing of bebop following World War II, and up to the new forms of today. Musicians and jazz…