Science & Technology-Biology

13 DVD Box Set

Disc 1: Physical Education & Healthy Eating PE Films (1943-1954)

Brief Synopsis of DVD: This historic films collection follows the origins of America's obsession with beauty and physique.  The proper diet, lots of exercise, and sleep were touted as the keys to a happy and successful life.  This DVD includes some amazingly progressive films focused on teaching how to plan balanced meals and a good exercise routine...the fundamental practices of a healthy lifestyle.  Looking good never looked so good. 

Title #1: Exercise

Production Date:1949

Running Time: 10 minutes

Brief Description: Ernie, Gene, and Hal are members of the gymnastics club and achieve great happiness as a result of there regular exercise regiment. 

Title #2: Fun That Builds Good Health

Production Date: 1950's

Running Time: 10 minutes

Brief Description: Young Jimmy  learns that winning is fun and good for your health. 

Title #3: Getting Ready Physically

Production Date: 1951

Running Time: 11 minutes

Brief Description: How young men should go about planning their physical development. 

Title #4: Good Sportsman

Production Date:1950

Running Time: 10 minutes

Brief Description: Teaches young boys hot to play games fairly and follow the rules.

Title #5: They Grow Up So Fast

Production Date: 1950s

Running Time: 25 minutes

Brief Description: A mother worries about her sons lack of exercise and lobbies the school to hire a gym teacher.  

Title #6: Eat For Health

Production Date: 1954

Running Time: 11 minutes

Brief Description: Ralph spoils his dinner by eating a candy bar.  He gets a good lesson in a balances diet and nutrition. 

Title #7: Foundation Foods

Production Date: 1951

Running Time: 10 minutes

Brief Description: Planning balanced meals with "Body Building" or "Foundation Food," both names for the original seven food groups chart, is promoted as key to healthy living and a happy life. 

Title #8: Good Eating

Production Date: 1951

Running Time: 10 minutes

Brief Description: Bill gets a stomach ache because he is always eating on the go.  "Its fun to eat food with the family.  Especially when there is good food on the table."

Title #9: It's All In Knowing How

Production Date: 1954

Running Time: 13 minutes

Brief Description: Bob is depressed because he has a poor diet and is not getting enough sleep.

Title #10: Wartime Nutrition

Production Date: 1943

Running Time: 11 minutes

Brief Description: How to maintain good nutrition with limited food resources due to wartime scarcities. 

Disc 2: Eyes Vision & Optometry Films (1930s)

Brief Synopsis of DVD: This is the only DVD compilation about historic vision and sight films. Get this two film collection from the 1930s! Awesome scientific piece of biological history. Running time 17 minutes.

Title #1: Here's Looking

Production Date: 1939

Running Time: 9 minutes

Brief Description: This quirky film shows how man's vision differs from that of animals and how modern cars are designed to reduce blind spots in our line of sight while driving.

Title #2: How You See it

Production Date: 1936

Running Time: 8 minutes

Brief Description: Persistence of vision makes motion pictures possible. Learn more about this subject in this film, which contains some very original animation.

Disc 3: Health & Biology of the Human Body Films (1930s - 1950s)

Brief Synopsis of DVD: "The most miraculous power-station known to us is the heart."  The heart along with the eyes, ears, larynx, and the dozens of other organs make up an even more miraculous creations, the Human Body.  This DVD brings together some of the most interesting human body and biology films from the past for unique look at science education from the 30's to the 50's.  Many of the films have beautiful animation and I must warn you that some of the films are can be a little gruesome at time.  

Title #1: Heart & Circulation

Production Date: 1937

Running Time: 10 minutes

Brief Description: Gory film about the circulatory system in which they dissect a live turtle and show how its heart continues to beat even when it had been removed from the body. 

Title #2: The Heart

Production Date: 1950

Running Time: 10 minutes

Brief Description:  Unusual film about the heart and heart diseases.  More gory pictures of dissected hearts.

Title #3: How The Eye Functions

Production Date: 1941

Running Time: 11 minutes

Brief Description: Animated film about how the eye works. 

Title #4: Eyes Care

Production Date: 1941

Running Time: 10 minutes

Brief Description: Fascinating educational film about eye care, how the eye works and eye diseases. 

Title #5: How The Ear Functions

Production Date: 1940

Running Time: 11 minutes

Brief Description: Very detailed and informative educational film about how the ear functions.

Title #6: Your Body During Adolescence

Production Date: 1955

Running Time: 11 minutes

Brief Description: Covers puberty and the changes to the body as well as the seven circulatory systems with a focus on sexual reproduction.

Title #7: Human Reproduction

Production Date: 1947

Running Time: 19 minutes

Brief Description: Sex education film with great animation all about the physiology and anamoty of human reproduction. 

Title #8: The Larynx And The Voice

Production Date: 1950s

Running Time: 20 minutes

Brief Description: Educational film explaining how the larynx works in conjunction with the rest of your body to produce your voice.  

Disc 4: Dentist & Dentistry Films (1930's - 1960's)

Brief Synopsis of DVD: This is a strong compilation of dental care films from the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s & 1960s. The two feature films are extremely funny with high audience appeal and the classic toothpaste commercial montage shows the art of dental marketing from the masters - Crest.

Title #1: About Faces

Production Date: 1941

Running Time: 11 minutes

Brief Description: This hilarious film is aimed at getting Americans to go to the dentist more during the start of World War II. It follows a young man with bad oral hygiene as he encounters the problems of having "bad teeth." Really good movie that's still entertaining today. 

Title #2: Told by a Tooth

Production Date: 1939

Running Time: 11 minutes

Brief Description: This awesome animated tooth teaches children all the proper techniques for brushing, cleaning and caring for the teeth. Viewers have found this movie hilarious time and again!

Title #3: Montage of Classic Toothpaste Commercials

Production Date: 1950s & 60s

Running Time: 6 minutes

Brief Description: This awesome barrage of corny, classic toothpaste commercials (mostly from Crest) are as fun to watch now as they were back then. They should bring these commercials back!

Disc 5: Water Cycle, Watershed & Hydrology Films (1940s)

Brief Synopsis of DVD: Water is such an integral part of our day-to-day life and survival, yet it is often overlooked. This DVD is a special educational compilation of four valuable water films and movies from the 1940s and 50s. These are great films and the information still holds up today in terms of scientific relevance and classroom learning. You can't find this DVD anywhere else because we designed it ourselves! Running time approximately 53 minutes.

Title #1: The Adventures of Junior Raindrop

Production Date: 1948

Running Time: 8 minutes

Brief Description: This film aims to show the benefits of good watershed management. It features a young raindrop named Junior, personified as the narrator of this film, who falls to Earth and becomes a "delinquent hoodlum" due to bad water management. The raindrop joins a "gang" of other raindrops and they cause all sorts of trouble. What a funny movie - show this one to the kids to get them laughing and learning!

Title #2: City Water Supply

Production Date: 1941

Running Time: 10 minutes

Brief Description: This Encyclopedia Brittanica film talks about both the general scientific importance of water to living things and also shows the ins and outs of New York City's water-supply system. This movie includes footage and info about city water-supplies, aqueducts, water tunnels, lakes and watersheds.

Title #3: Water

Production Date: 1953

Running Time: 10 minutes

Brief Description: This John Kieran film shows how valuable water is to life all around the world...a unique scientific film from the 1950s.

Title #4: Pipeline to the Clouds

Production Date: 1951  

Running Time: 25 minutes

Brief Description: This is a very good film that delves into how water is used, processed and delivered to our taps in American communities. A good mix of scientific explanation of water sources and hands-on "what can we do to make a difference" answers makes this a well-rounded educational film.

Disc 6: Experiments In The Revival Of Organisms Film (1940)

Brief Synopsis of DVD: This film documents some early Russian scientific experiments with the resuscitation of animals. Dr. S.S. Bryukhonenko at the Institute of Experimental Physiology and Therapy, Voronezh, U.S.S.R.  The footage is bizarre to say the least. 

Title #1:Experiment in the Revival of Organisms

Production Date: 1940

Running Time: 19 minutes

Brief Description: This film documents some early Russian scientific experiments with the resuscitation of animals, mostly dogs, by Dr. S.S. Bryukhonenko at the Institute of Experimental Physiology and Therapy, Voronezh, U.S.S.R.

Disc 7: Blood & Cardiovascular System Films (1950s)

Brief Synopsis of DVD: This compilation features films about blood, the circulatory system and the heart.  These vintage films are full of bizarre experiments based on quirky science.  

Title #1: Precipitins

Production Date: 1930

Running Time: 8 minutes

Brief Description:  A bizarre silent film that does experiments comparing the blood of of rabbits and sheep the blood of humans.

Title #2: Heart and Circulation

Production Date: 1937   

Running Time: 10 minutes

Brief Description: A vivid film about the importance of the heart to human body that uses real footage of animal and human hearts as well as animation, to educate the audience.  Contains graphic footage of open chest cavities and pumping hearts. 

Title #3: The Heart

Production Date: 1950

Running Time: 10 minutes

Brief Description: A stylish film that explores the workings of the heart and how humans can protect their heart from disease and failure.  Is full of interesting tips, like warming up before running, and focuses on not putting too much strain on the heart with sudden activities.   

Disc 8: Skin Care Tips & Facial Product Promos (1940s-1950s)

Brief Synopsis of DVD: Produced by Encyclopedia Britanica Films Inc. in Collaboration with Francis Eugene Senear, M.D. Head, Department of Dermatology, University of Illinois.

Title #1: Care of Skin

Running Time: 10 minutes

Brief Description:  Intended to scare young audiences into washing their faces, this film shows some really gruesome skin diseases along with the proper ways to wash the body.

Title #2: Abolene Cream Commercial

Running Time: 30 seconds

Brief Description: Compare the warm cream of Abolene to the cold cream competitor with this film promo flashback from the early days of cosmetic advertising.

Title #3: Ponds

Running Time: 20 seconds

Brief Description: This is a vintage Ponds Commercial promoting a skin care product.

Disc 9: Human Growth Film (1920s)

Brief Synopsis of DVD: This DVD features a unconscionable human growth study in which two twins are studied to find the effects of physical activity on human grow and development.  

Title #1: Growth study of Johnny and Jimmy

Production Date: 1920s

Running Time: 38 minutes

Brief Description:   Jimmy and Johnny, twins, are use to study the effects of physical activity on human growth and development.  One twin is allowed to play and gets lots of physical activity such as swimming and moving huge building blocks, while the other twin is kept bed ridden.  This study lacked every ethical and moral standard, while yielding predictable results, but nonetheless provides an excellent glimpse into the minds of the scientific community of the time.

Disc 10: Photosynthesis Film (1946)

Brief Synopsis of DVD: Photosynthesis is pretty much the most important biological process that takes place on this planet, because almost everything living depends on photosynthesis to survive. Gift of Green is a vintage science film dealing with the process of photosynthesis. Now, this digitized film is available on DVD for the first time ever!

Title #1: Gift of Green

Production Date: 1946   

Running Time: 16 minutes

Brief Description: This is a vintage science class film featuring animation that shows the process of photosynthesis. Highly recommended and well-made for its era! Written and Directed by Davud Flaherty. Narration by David Allen.  Technical Advisor Dr William J. Robbins, director of the New York Botanical Garden.

Disc 11: Menstruation Films (1950's)

Brief Synopsis of DVD: These campy classic feminine hygiene films discuss the menstrual cycle, having your first period and the female reproductive system.  Common physical and emotional symptoms such as pms, cramps and bleeding and the proper application of tampons and feminine napkins are covered at length. 

Title #1: Molly Grows Up

Production Date: 1953

Running Time: 14 minutes

Brief Description: A rather sexist film, Molly Grows Up, presents the basics of the menstrual cycle to a young girl.  Classroom lessons and advice from family teach the young teenage girl what to expect and how to manage her menstruations.  The film was sponsored by the Personal Products Corporation, which delicately plugs its line of feminine products in the film.

Title #2: Naturally A Girl

Production Date: 1973

Running Time: 10 minutes

Brief Description: Interviews with teenagers and concise graphics explain the female reproductive system and the menstrual cycle.  The film asks and answers the following questions among others: "What happens to the menstrual flow when it leaves the body?" "How often should you change feminine napkins?" "How do you dispose of feminine napkins?" "Does every girl cramps during her period?" and "Does everyone know when you are menstruating?"  The film was sponsored by the Personal Products Corporation, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson. 

Disc 12: Stomach Ulcer Film (1957)

Brief Synopsis of DVD: This is a DVD edition of a classic 1957 stomach ulcer film produced to spread information about the unfortunate, painful medical condition. The film was produced by the University of Oklahoma – get it now on DVD!

Title #1: Ulcer at Work

Production Date: 1957

Running Time: 23 minutes

Brief Description: Steve Hall, an executive at his firm, is having trouble with his work and home life relationships because he has a horrible pain in his side.  Steve's boss forces him to go see a doctor who diagnoses him with an ulcer.  Oddly enough the wife is partially blamed for causing the ulcer. Presented by the Oklahoma State Dept. of Health.

Disc 13: Pond Ecology & Marine Biology Film (1952)

Brief Synopsis of DVD: A plethora of pond animals are shown, heard and handled in this vintage pond ecosystem environment film. It’s a good educational biology film to use in curriculum development to give a custom first-hand touch of retro science footage.

Title #1: Spring Comes To A Pond

Production Date: 1952

Running Time: 12 minutes

Brief Description: This film explores the ecosystem surrounding a pond in the Northeastern United States. One of the most outstanding features of this vintage film is the wonderful soundtrack of real animal sounds. A lot of animals and discussed and filmed in this movie. Photographed by Henery Briggs & William Parsons And Narration by Peter Allen.